"Sometimes sports mirrors society, sometimes it allows us to

understand the larger society a little better. But mostly, it is a world

of entertainment of talented and driven young men and women who do

certain things with both skill and passion."

—David Halberstam

David Halberstam was a distinguished journalist and historian of American politics. He was also a sports writer. Everything They Had

brings together for the first time his articles from newspapers and

magazines, a wide-ranging collection edited by Glenn Stout, selected

over the full scope of Halberstam's five decades as one of America's

most honored journalists. These are dazzling portraits of some of the

most compelling sports figures of our era, the superstars of popular

sports like basketball, football, and baseball, but also fishing,

soccer, and rowing, and the amateur athletes who play for the love of

the game.

In "My Dinner with Theodore," Halberstam recounts his...