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title: "Beyond the Game: The Collected Sportswriting of Gary Smith"
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# Beyond the Game: The Collected Sportswriting of Gary Smith

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- **What is this?** Beyond the Game: The Collected Sportswriting of Gary Smith by gary smith
- **How much does it cost?** 201 Lei with free shipping
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Beyond the Game: The Collected Sportswriting of Gary Smith

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## Customer Reviews

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    I consider him great. I found the book engaging and mesmerizing
  

*by C***S on Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2014*

Radio with Cuba Gooding was the first movie I watched the full credits for to find out the source of the movie/screenplay. Discovering that Gary Smith had written the inspirational story, I had to see more of his writings and was near knocked off my feet. Example: how many people find the boxer Mike Tyson a sympathetic character? After some of his ring antics, how could I? Gary Smith, a senior editor of Sports Illustrated, spent time with him and I began to walk a mile in his shoes. When a writer can do that, make me pause and put on another's shoes, I consider him great. I found the book engaging and mesmerizing. I am not a big sports person, but Smith made me appreciate that world and its people. I have since recommended the book to my high school sports people and got back very good reviews from them. I used it in readalouds. Likewise, good reviews.

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    Great Long Form Writing
  

*by O***S on Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2014*

Gary Smith is a wonderful long form sports writers, perhaps the best at S.I. since the days of Dan Jenkins and Bud Shrake.  I enjoyed revisiting this collection which appeared first in S.I., but I must admit that after a while the stories started to sound alike.  Smith always goes for the emotional reversal, the unexpected turn.  That's okay when you are reading him four times a year, but back to back to back in a volume on a nightly basis takes a little of the luster off.  Even in writing that, I feel a little picky and too hard on such a talent.  These are first-rate and are light years ahead of much of the current sports writing.

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    Gems from Gary Smith
  

*by D***D on Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2014*

Gary Smith has always set the standard for great sports writing.This book exemplifies his genius.Doesn't matter which sport he covers,he manages to make the story about the person not the sport.No one turns a word better than Smith.By the time you are finished with the narrative,you will know all there is to know about the subject at hand.It reads like fiction but it's all real life.Wish the book had been longer because I can't get enough of his craft.Superb !!!

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