The Top of His Game: The Best Sportswriting of W. C. Heinz: A Library of America Special Publication

by W.C. Heinz

Book Overview

Bill Littlefield (NPR's Only a Game ) presents the second installment in the Library of America series devoted to classic American sportswriters, a defintive collector's edition of the pathbreaking writer who invented the long-form sports story. Like his friend and admirer Red Smith, W. C. Heinz (1915-2008) was one of the most distinctive and influential sportswriters of the last century. Though he began his career as a newspaper reporter, Heinz soon...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159853372X
• ISBN13: 9781598533729
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Library of America
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 5.7" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher