The Only Game in Town by David Remnick

The Only Game in Town by David Remnick

For more than eighty years, The New Yorker has been home to some of the toughest, wisest, funniest, and most moving sportswriting around. The Only Game in Town is a classic collection from a magazine with a deep bench, including such authors as Roger Angell, John Updike, Don DeLillo, and John McPhee. Hall of Famer Ring Lardner is here, bemoaning the lowering of standards for baseball achievement-in 1930. John Cheever pens a story about a boy's troubled relationship with his father and the national pastime. From Lance Armstrong to bullfighter Sidney Franklin, from the Chinese Olympics to the U.S. Open, the greatest plays and players, past and present, are all covered in The Only Game in Town. At The New Yorker, it's not whether you win or lose-it's how you write about the game.

The New Yorker's editor is David Remnick. He is the author of Resurrection and King of the World: Muhammed Ali and the Birth of an American Hero, as well as Lenin's Tomb, which won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1994. With his wife and three children, he lives in New York City.