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BGS: Leroy’s Revenge
Here’s a tough, griping story by Gary Cartwright. It appears in his fine collection Confessions of a Washed-Up Sportswriter:Including Various Digressions about Sex, Crime and Other Hobbies and was...
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Word to God
Our man Mariano is Lisa Miller’s cover story this week in New York magazine: Three months into his final season, Rivera’s hagiography is already being written. He has, for seventeen years, been the...
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BGS: The Passion of Dr. J
A treat from Mark Jacobson. Originally published in Esquire in 1984 and anthologized in Teenage Hipster in the Modern World, a stellar collection of Jacobson’s non-fiction. Reprinted here with the...
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Joe Blanton Would Be Proud
Pat Jordan’s latest for SB Nation Longform: I had the stuff. I just didn’t have the heart. Or, more precisely, I always had the stuff, which was why I never had the heart. I didn’t need it. Then, in...
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BGS: What Hockey Needs is More Violence
Ten years ago my cousin, known round these parts as edoubletrouble, gave me a thoughtful birthday gift: Dispatches from the Sporting Life, a collection of Mordecai Richler’s sports writing. It’s a...
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BGS: A Sportswriter Goes to War
Here’s my Introduction to Southwest Passage: The Yanks in the Pacific, available now. When he went off to cover the war in the Pacific in January 1943, John Lardner was twenty-nine years old and,...
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BGS: Battling Siki
More from John Lardner. Originally published in 1949 in the New Yorker and reprinted here with permission of Susan Lardner. “The Battling Siki” By John Lardner Hell’s Kitchen, the region west of Eighth...
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BGS: The Flower of America
For a taste of Lenny Shecter’s no-bullshit, take-no-prisoners style, check out this excerpt from “The Flower of America” chapter of his 1969 book of essays, The Jocks. By Leonard Shecter There are...
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Bronx Banter Interview: Stephen Rodrick
Stephen Rodrick is one of our finest magazine writers and this spring he published a compelling memoir about this father, The Magical Stranger. Check out book excerpts in the New York Times; Slate,...
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BGS: The Loser
Here’s a keeper from Gay Talese. Originally published in the March 1964 issue of Esquire. Reprinted here with the author’s permission. At the foot of a mountain in upstate New York, about 60 miles from...
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Banter Gold Standard: Tyrus
Originally published in the June 1915 issue of American Magazine and anthologized in the Library of America’s new collection of Ring Lardner’s stories. Reprinted here with permission. Sit down here a...
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Hut-Hut…Hike!
Yeah, the Yanks and Sox start their four-game series tonight but the NFL season also begins tonight for those of you who care about such a thing. Over at The Stacks, I’ve reprinted a couple of goodies...
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BGS: Great Men Die Twice
Another gem. Originally published in the June 1989 issue of Esquire. Republished here with the permission of the late author’s son, Mark Kram Jr., a wonderful storyteller in his own right. His...
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BGS: The Better Man
“The Better Man” By Juan Williams Originally published in the May 17, 1987, edition of The Washington Post Magazine. Republished here with the author’s permission. His postscript follows. For more on...
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Riding The Rap
Head on over to New York Magazine and check out Steve Fishman’s takeout piece on Alex Rodriguez: Since his character is part of the story, Rodriguez wanted me to talk to a character witness, and his...
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Dumb and Dumber
That’d be Tom Seaver and Pat Jordan. Head on over to Sports on Earth and check out Jordan’s nice, long profile on Seaver: We walked between the rows of vines, up and down the steep terraces in the hot...
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The Man in Me
Pat Jordan’s latest for Sports on Earth is a profile of Rays’ pitcher, Chris Archer: I met Chris Archer for dinner at the Outback Steakhouse on my first night in North Carolina. He showed up with a...
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BGS: All-Pro
Couple of W.C. Heinz gems for you. 1) John Schulian’s tribute to Heinz for Deadspin: I never realized how many Bill Heinz stories I love until I read The Top of His Game. Some I would have loved...
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BGS: Escape From New York
This piece was originally published in the Dec. 1995 issue of Esquire. It is reprinted here with the author’s permission. Escape From New York By Mark Kriegel It is early morning in Miami, still...
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BGS: An Interview with Roger Angell
You’ll enjoy this, Jared Haynes’ interview with Roger Angell. I came across this when I was at the baseball Hall of Fame doing research eight years ago. Found it in Angell’s file and think it’s just...
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