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In the early 1900s editor Maxwell Perkins told anyone who would listen that Chicago sports columnist Ring Lardner was the most talented writer he knew – high praise, given that Perkins’s stable included Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe. Sports writing can reach a very high level indeed.<\/p>\n
The Sports Illustrated list of 100 best sports books<\/a> shows this. In recommending Roger Kahn\u2019s 1971 book about the Brooklyn Dodgers, \u201cThe Boys of Summer\u201d, the reviewer explains why this book isn\u2019t just about men in funny clothes running around a field:<\/p>\n \u201cA baseball book the same way Moby Dick is a fishing book, this account of the early-’50s Brooklyn Dodgers is, by turns, a novelistic tale of conflict and change, a tribute, a civic history, a piece of nostalgia and, finally, a tragedy, as the franchise’s 1958 move to Los\u00a0Angeles takes the soul of Brooklyn with it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The audiobook version of \u201cThe Boys of Summer<\/a>\u201d is available here at Audiobooks Now – listen for yourself and see why it’s so highly praised!<\/p>\n Likewise, Ken Dryden\u2019s \u2018The Game\u2019 isn\u2019t just about ice hockey. It\u2019s \u201ca well-crafted account of his career combined with a meditation on hockey’s special place in Canadian culture.\u201d \u00a0Anyone who has spent time in Canada knows that hockey isn\u2019t just a sport.<\/p>\n All this week we\u2019ll be looking at sports books \u2013 factual and fiction, men and women, those who want to play and those who are happy just to watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the early 1900s editor Maxwell Perkins told anyone who would listen that Chicago sports columnist Ring Lardner was the most talented writer he knew – high praise, given that Perkins’s stable included Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe. Sports writing can reach a very high level indeed. The Sports Illustrated list of 100 best sports … Continue reading “Sports Audiobooks”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-themes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}