Author: SCHULMAN, LESTER M.
Title: The Random House Book of Sports Stories
Description: New York, New York: Random House, 1990. First Printing. Hard Cover. Illustrated by Thomas B. Allen. 246 pages: 7.75 x 10.25 in.: 2.6: KB#006921: Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "Picked for their variety and their literary quality, they (the stories) range from Ring Lardner's hilarious yarn about a girl-struck rookie pitcher to Bruce Brooks's gripping account of racism on a high school basketball court to Gerald Kersh's tragicomic saga of a match between wrestlers born forty years apart. Some of the finest authors of the twentieth century - including Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Updike, James Thurber, and William Saroyan - are represented here, writing about sports as various as karate, football, boxing, skiing, hunting, and horse racing. ". Fine in Fine Dust Jacket .

Keywords: Sports Children Fiction American Biography & Autobiography: : Sports Sports & Recreation: : General