Table of Contents
2010 Fall
Sports & Games
Introductory
Voices in Time
The Player
- David Grann Suits Up For the Game: 2005 / San Diego
- Ringside: c. 1174 / Sicily
- Russian Roulette: 1832 / Northern Caucasus
- Norman Maclean Learns From the Master: 1928 / Chicago
- Great Balls of Fire : c. 1580 / Delhi
- Eric Nesterenko Prefers the Pure Kind: 1971 / Chicago
- We Who Are About to Die Salute You : c. 300 / Rome
- Darcy Frey Looks at the Recruits: 1991 / Coney Island
- Namesake: 29 BC / Japan
- Amateur Sportsman : 1507 / Urbino
- Pulling Heartstrings : 1986 / New Jersey
- Shooting Gallery: c. 190 / Rome
- Philip Roth on the Game Changer : 1903 / United States
- Roger Bannister Picks Up the Pace: 1954 / Oxford
- Leo Tolstoy at the Races: c. 1875 / St. Petersburg
- Courtyard Fight: c. 215 / China
- Endgames: 1621 / Oxford
- Damon Runyon Chases the Action : 1933 / New York City
- Immortality: 1896 / England
- Hakeem Olajuwon Gives Up Handball: c. 1978 / Lagos
- Against Oblivion: c. 2050 BC / Nippur
- Vladimir Nabokov Watches a Prodigy: c. 1930 / Berlin
- People Will Look: 1885 / United States
- Leaving It On the Field: c. 1000 / Turkestan
- Taste for Blood: 1893 / Cove Neck, NY
- Chrétien de Troyes Stages a Tournament : c. 500 / Wallingford
- A League of Their Own: c. 1943 / United States
- P. G. Wodehouse Meets His Match: 1923 / Marvis Bay
- Pregame Ritual: 1998 / Uruguay
- Beryl Markham With Long Odds: c. 1920 / Nairobi
- Title Nine: c. 700 BC / Sparta
- Crowns of Victory: c. 458 BC / Thebes
- George Plimpton Takes Dictation: 1970 / Atlanta
The Game
- Andre Agassi Watches the Replay: 2006 / Queens
- Passing Time: c. 430 BC / Athens
- Honoré de Balzac in the Gambling Den: 1830 / Paris
- Practically the Majors: c. 1952 / Pittsburgh
- Homo Ludens: c. 1657 / Paris
- Making Moves: 1992 / New York City
- Antidote to War: 1896 / Paris
- William Faulkner Waits for the Derby: 1955 / Churchill Downs
- Surf’s Up: 1849 / Tahiti
- Vince Lombardi Goes to the Reel: 1962 / Green Bay
- Race Car: 1903 / Detroit
- A Good Defense: 1944 / Yugoslavia
- A Curious Game Indeed: 1865 / Wonderland
- On Safari: 1887 / India
- Lawful Recreation: 1618 / Lancashire
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Loses His Cool : 1977 / Milwaukee
- To Fish, To Live: 1653 / Staffordshire
- Lucian Asks, Why Sports?: c. 590 BC / Athens
- Thrill of the Game: 1996 / United States
- Ovid as Sportswriter: c. 1300 BC / Boeotia
- Cow Skin: 1891 / Kashmir
- The Playing Fields: 1897 / London
- Gary Paulsen Goes with the Dogs : 1983 / Anchorage
- Team Colors: c. 109 / Rome
- Playing Ball and Base: 1846 / Brooklyn
- National Pastime: 1911 / San Diego
- Rigged Game: 1959 / Washington, DC
The Fan
- John McPhee Among the Silent Majority: 2007 / Oakmont, PA
- Best Seats in the House: c. 1615 / Wu-ling
- A. J. Liebling Outside the Ropes: 1951 / New York City
- A Game Catches On: c. 1910 / Philippines
- George Catlin Watches Lacrosse: 1834 / Oklahoma
- Town Meeting: 1963 / Martins Ferry, OH
- Conversion: c. 383 / Rome
- To No End Save Beauty: 1921 / Rutherford, NJ
- Entourage: c. 1280 / Khanbaliq
- A Matter of Time: 1987 / Wembley
- José Raúl Capablanca Discovers His Genius: 1893 / Havana
- Good-Luck Charm: 1951 / Brooklyn
- The Drug of Folly: c. 100 / Alexandria
- Animal Kingdom: 1894 / Baltimore
- Blood Sport: 1969 / Mexico
- Color Barrier: 1884 / Richmond
- But Willie Mays Appears Instead: 1958 / San Francisco
- Underdog: 212 BC / Olympia
- A Pair of Fierce Bulls: 1854 / Yokohama
- Ernest Hemingway Takes It All In : 1925 / Pamplona
- Low Overhead: 27 / Fidenae
- Mark Twain Cheers a Boat Race: 1883 / New Orleans
- John Steinbeck Can't Write About Sports: 1965 / New York City
- Last Words: 1939 / New York City
Departments
Essays
- Skate Fever: by Jay Griffiths
- The Comeback Kid : by Terry McDonell
- The Great Game : by Caroline Alexander
- The Best of It : by Beth Raymer
- Wordplay : by Simon Maxwell Apter
Conversations
- John Northbrooke & Rev. Steve Strickland: God Never Invented Games
- Yogi Berra & Charles Barkley: Do As I Say
- Bacchylides & Johan Huizinga: Winner Takes All
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