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TABLE OF CONTENTS
170 The Black and White Truth About Basketball — Jeff Greenfield
Bold speculation on racial style
172 Hughes the Greatest!
The fighting Hughes twins, of course! Cuter than two buttons — Jon Bradshaw
174 The Boss of the Racquets
Victorious Vic Niederhoffer, squash king
RISK
178 How To Be a Racing Car Driver — Tony Hogg
A high-speed educational guide
180 The Toughest Sport — Dave Anderson
182 What is it? Complete with quantitative analysis
184 The Center Must Hold — Gerald Astor
Jim Langer of the Dolphins, against the world
ETERNAL BOYHOOD
188 The Locker-Room Kid — Mark Medoff
Athletic emotion, recollected in middle age, almost
190 The Sports of Childhood — Illustrated by Wayne McLoughlin
From stickball to chicken, with nostalgia and terror
192 Forty-two Seconds Over Cambridge — Philip Nobile
The wildest college football game ever played
196 The Sissy — Alexander Theroux
An essay much too painful for losers to read
198 My Press-Box Memoirs — Red Smith
The old sportswriter fesses up, and up
202 The Winter Blade
Fashion for the sharpest and the coolest
Where to buy it: page 263
240 Class — James Brady
Who has it, who doesn’t—sportswise, of course
12 Arnold Gingrich — Starring a guest fiddler
14 Sound and Fury
20 Timothy Crouse: Washington — Driving Congressman Mike Harrington nuts
25 The Esquire Gala Celebrity Arm-Wrestling Tourney
28 Robert Alan Arthur: Hanging Out — Irwin Shaw, gridiron and typewriter
31 Backstage with Esquire
48 Roger Kahn: Sports — Jack Scott and the politics of sports
60 Special Esquire Advisory — The well-groomed jock
70 Alexander Cockburn: Crime — Only bad people kill their parents
82 Richard Joseph: Travel Notes — Sports for the Mexican traveler
90 Jean Stafford: Books — Judy, Barbra, Bogie, agh, and so forth
98 Nora Ephron: Media — How to write a newsmag cover story (easy)
Poetry: page 262