Only Game in Town: Sportswriting from the New Yorker A debut collection of gritty

A debut collection of gritty

brutalized

most extreme

becomes an unexpected armchair detective

This story

Only Game in Town: Sportswriting from the New Yorker A debut collection of grittyFor 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