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Inside the half-century since its beginning, as Athletics Illustrated grew from a attempting start-up to America's preeminent activities magazine, a very important factor has continued to be constant: the dedication to great storytelling. That part of the magazine's mission has always been easy to define: Identify the most powerful sports stories of our own time and obtain the best writers available to tell them. This book brings together a lineup of writing expertise worth the Hall of Fame and the classic stories they produced for Athletics Illustrated over the past 50 years. Many of the authors whose work is gathered here are longtime favorites of SI visitors (Frank Deford, Rick Reilly, Steve Rushin, Gary Smith). Others are ex - SI staffers or contributors who still left the fold, however, not before making an indelible symbol on SI's background (Dan Jenkins, Rick Telander, Tag Kram, Roy Blount Jr., William Mack). A couple of celebrated journalists (A. J. Liebling, Jimmy Breslin, George Plimpton), screenwriters (Budd Schulberg and Kenny Moore), renowned novelists (Thomas McGuane, Pete Dexter, Wallace Stegner, Don DeLillo), and even a couple of Nobel Award winners in books (William Faulkner and John Steinbeck). The stories themselves are a reflection of our own times. One of them level are accounts of a few of the most memorable athletic feats of our own era (Secretariat's Belmont success, the Thrilla in Manila, and Bobby Thomson's Shot Heard 'Round the World). Information of the towering athletic characters of our own time (Expenses Russell and Wilt Chamberlain, Ted Williams and Johnny Unitas). Good guys (Yogi Berra and Harry Caray) and bad guys (Sonny Liston and Mike Tyson). The fast (Roger Bannister) and the faurious (Dick Butkus). The ridiculous (Howard Cosell) and the sublime (Josh Gibson). As well as the stories that simply touch our hearts and inspire us (Frank Deford's masterpiece on light-heavyweight champ Billy Conn).This is actually the absolute best of the world's best activities magazine - and it just doesn't get any much better than that.
