Reviews for The Only Game in Town: Sportswriting from The New Yorker

The average rating for The Only Game in Town: Sportswriting from The New Yorker based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-08-16 00:00:00 Roy Brown Good New Yorker articles are like black holes: when you get sucked into one you cease to exist in time and space...for about 25 minutes. A compilation of the best sports articles from the New Yorker is just a bigger black hole, in a good way. There are 512 pages in this collection, and I read it slowly, over the course of a few months, picking it up and putting it down at leisure. Of every five articles, one was just pretty good, three were great, and one was so incredibly consuming that I briefly considered becoming, for example, an extreme skier, or a matador, (or a stud horse). If you enjoy sports and the New Yorker this is absolutely a worthwhile read.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-11-27 00:00:00 Stephen Rashid In the engaging fashion typical of The New Yorker, the selection of articles makes the reader care about sports and figures in them that he or she may not have encountered before, placing the moment in time in historical context.