Only Game in Town: Sportswriting from the New Yorker 68 percent of Americans have

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Only Game in Town: Sportswriting from the New Yorker 68 percent of Americans haveFor 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