Part One Understanding Poetry＆Sports

40-Love&Roger McGough

My Knicks Are Going to Beat Your Spurs&Catherine Bowman

Schusssssssss&Martin Steingesser

Basketball at 65&Robert W.Hamblin

On the Death of the Evansville University Basketball Team in a Plane Crash,December 13,1977&Robert W.Hamblin

Matina:Last Wimbledon&Robert W.Hamblin

The Runner&Walt Whitman

Runner（An Excerpt）&W.H.Auden

The Iliad（Excerpts）&Homer

To an Athlete Dying Young&A.E.Housman

Casey at the Bat&Ernest Lawrence Thayer

Casey's Revenge&Grantland Rice

Game Called（1948 Version）&Grantland Rice

The Standing Broad Jump&Richard Frost

Baseball and Writing&Marianne Moore

The Opening Game&Ernest Hemingway

Dedicated to F.W&Ernest Hemingway

The Fish&Elizabeth Bishop

To an Athlete Turned Poet&Peter Meinke

Ex-Basketball Player&John Updike

The Sometime Sportsman Greets the Spring&John Updike

The Zen of Racquetball&David Allan Evans

Pole Vaulter&David Allan Evans

The Performance&James Dickey

The Death of the Race Car Driver&Norman Dubie

Defending Walt Whitman&Sherman Alexie

Narrative:Ali（An Excerpt）&Elizabeth Alexander

The Sprinters&Lillian Morrison

The Sidewalk Racer or on the Skateboard&Lillian Morrison

Eton Manor&Carol Ann Duffy

An Ode to Football&Musa Okwonga

Part Two Understanding Short Stories＆Sports

Winter Dreams（An Excerpt）&F.Scott Fitzgerald

Lynx-Hunting&Stephen Crane

A Piece of Steak（Excerpts）&Jack London

The Battler&Ernest Hemingway

The Eighty-Yard Run&Irwin Shaw

Death［of Paret］&Norman Mailer

The Pro&John Updike

The National Pastime&John Cheever

Champion（Excerpts）&Ring Lardner

I Want to Know Why（Excerpts）&Sherwood Anderson

The Ordeal by Golf（Excepts）&P.G.Wodehouse

Part Three Understanding Non-fiction＆Sports

The Moose（From The Wilderness Hunter）&Theodore Roosevelt

How the Great Football Game Was Played&Richard Harding Davis

McGraw,Mack,McCarthy and Others（From The Tumult and the Shouting）&Grantland Rice

Lou Gehrig—An American Hero&Paul Gallico

Farewell to Baseball Address&Lou Gehrig

The Decline of Sport&E.B.White

His Name Is Muhammad（From Cosell）&Howard Cosell

The Smaller the Ball,the Better the Book:A Game Theory of Literature&George Plimpton

Paper Lion&George Plimpton

Winning and Losing&Bob Cousy,John Devaney

Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu&John Updike

Fathers Playing Catch with Sons&Donald Hall

What Shakespeare Knew about Baseball&Earl L.Dachslager

Instant Replay（An Excerpt）&Jerry Kramer,Dick Schaap

Days of Grace（An Excerpt）&Arthur Ashe,Arnold Rampersad

Into Thin Air（An Excerpt）&Jon Krakauer

What I Talk about When I Talk about Running（An Excerpt）&Haruki Murakami

Why I Run（An Excerpt）&Roger Robinson

Fever Pitch（An Excerpt）&Nick Hornby

The Rapture of the Athletes Assumed into Heaven&Don DeLillo

Game 6（An Excerpt）&Don DeLillo

Born to Run（An Excerpt）&Christopher McDougall

The Fight（An Excerpt）&Norman Mailer

Soccer in Sun and Shadow（Excerpts）&Eduardo Galeano

The Game（An Excerpt）&Kenneth Wayne Dryden

Part Four Understanding Novels＆Sports

The Champion（From Ben-Hur:A Tale of the Christ）&Lew Wallace

A Busher's Letter Home（From You Know Me,Al）&Ring Lardner

The Great Gatsby（Excerpts）&F.Scott Fitzgerald

The Sun Also Rises（Excerpts）&Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea（Excerpts）&Ernest Hemingway

The Catcher in the Rye（Excerpts）&J.D.Salinger

Rabbit,Run（An Excerpt）&John Updike

The Front Runner（An Excerpt）&Patricia Nell Warren

Friday Night Lights（An Excerpt）&H.G.Bissinger

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner（An Excerpt）&Allan Sillitoe

Goodbye,Columbus（Excerpts）&Philip Roth

The Great American Novel（An Excerpt）&Philip Roth

American Pastoral（An Excerpt）&Philip Roth

The Blind Side（Excerpts）&Michael Lewis

Once a Runner（An Excerpt）&John L.Parker Jr.

The Sportswriter（Excerpts）&Richard Ford

Underworld（Excerpts）&Don DeLillo

Shoeless Joe（An Excerpt）&W.P.Kinsella

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