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|| SportsShooter.com: News Item: Posted 2002-12-24
Review: 'The Best American Sports Writing 2002'
What Photographers Should Be Reading
By Jim McNay, Brooks Institute of Photography
Yes, sports fans, it's another winner, a hit, a smash, and buffo at the box office!
This volume continues the excellent series started 10 years ago by editor Glenn Stout. He collects story possibilities for the volume all year long, then lets the current guest editor make the final selects. The result is not just good sports writing, it's just good writing about sports.
And while it's unusual to have the preface of such a collection mentioned as a piece of excellent work itself, this book has it. Sports Illustrated's seasoned inside-the-back-cover columnist Rick Reilly has put together a top ten list of writing tips that are worth the price of the book.
If photographers and other journalists want some inside stuff on how to make one's prose if not sing, then at least hum a few bars in tune this is a must. Reilly provides not tips, but insight. Tear it out, pin it up next to the computer.
And a special doff of the Sports Shooter gimme cap has to go to fellow West Coaster Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times. Plaschke's weekend
features alone have readers around the state pulling the sports section out of the weight lifters edition on Sunday. He's become one of those guys about whom readers ask, "What did he write about today?"
The story titled "Her Blue Haven" is one even Dodger haters from others parts of the country will find moving. His report about Ms. Sara Morris, a wheelchair-confined baseball expert and writing whiz is special. That a big time writer at a major publication could get beyond his biases and judgments to go meet Morris in Anderson, Texas is a story in itself. Plaschke didn't have to do this. He did and we're the richer for it.
Like the Series, the Master's, the Final Four, every addition to this Best American Sports Writing collection is worth making an annual event.
Related Links:
Book: The Best American Sports Writing 2002
Jim McNay's Member Page
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