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.