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Reading "Everything They had: Sports Writing From David Halberstam". This is a collection of newspaper columns and magazine articles on various sports, written by David Halberstam over a span of 50 years, and selected for book publication by Glenn Stout.
I've loved his baseball book "Summer of '49" for years, admired as his political and history work ("The Best and the Brightest", "The Fifties", "The Coldest Winter"), and didn't know that he had written so widely about sport other than baseball.
The organization of the book is by sport and theme, and all of the stories are short and stand-alone, so it is perfect for dipping into at random. Everything I've read so far is excellent - "The Basket-Case State" and "He Got a Shot in the NBA, and It Went In" about basketball, and "Homage to Patagonia" about fishing and watching "the Gigantes of New York play the Cuervos of Baltimore".
It's a great loss that we will have nothing new from him; he died in 2007.
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