The 5 Best Sports Stories Ever Written
It’s tough for me to share this publicly, but for as long as I can remember, I’ve been obsessed with sports journalism. I know, I’m not proud of it & I get it if you want to cut off ties now. But, if you want to stick around… it’s raining & I’m in an old-school mood. I want to share a list of the greatest sports pieces to ever appear in a magazine (or newspaper). Some old, some more recent, all of them are old school by the very nature of the fact that they’re written articles created by humans. They don’t do that anymore unfortunately.One Line TLDR: This NYT op-ed from 2012 takes the American themes famously ingrained in our national pastime and offers a beautifully fresh & personal twist. Why I Love it: Yes, author Colum McCann agrees, baseball is American. Not just in the apple pie and Chevy way, but a game that means just as much (if not more) to so many immigrants, many of whom play in the MLB themselves. It’s a masterful lesson on challenging long-held wisdom, the role of identity in journalism, and how to make readers reconsider an old story (in this case, baseball belonging to stereotypical Americans) through a new lens.
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