{"product_id":"9781598537109","title":"The Top of His Game: The Best Sportswriting of W. C. Heinz: A Library of America Special Publicaton","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn those Vibrant Postwar Decades when print was king, W. C. Heinz was the byline to watch for. His profiles of the top athletes of his day-boxers, baseball players, gridiron legends, hockey stars, jockeys, and rodeo orders-are classics of the form, as immediate and affecting today a when first written. \"Heinz had it all.\" says David Maraniss, \"a deep understanding of human nature, a wonderful sense of humor, and a writing style so clean and clear that he makes the difficult seem easy, just the way a great athlete close.\" Jimmy Breslin named Heinz's \"Brownsville Bum\"-a brief life of Al \"Bummy\" Davis, Brooklyn street tough and onetime welter weight champion of the world-\"the greatest magazine sports story I've ever read, bar none.\" Here, in thirty-eight timeless pieces, chosen and introduced by Bill Littlefield, is an American master at the top of his game.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43419024588861,"sku":"9781598537109","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781598537109_p0.jpg?v=1785678573","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781598537109","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}