How Long to Read Sports Illustrated 50 Years of Great Writing

How Long Does it Take to Read Sports Illustrated 50 Years of Great Writing?

It takes the average reader 13 hours and 48 minutes to read Sports Illustrated 50 Years of Great Writing by Editors of Sports Illustrated

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In the half-century since its birth, as Sports Illustrated grew from a struggling start-up to America's preeminent sports magazine, one thing has remained constant: the commitment to great storytelling. That part of the magazine's mission has always been easy to define: Identify the most compelling sports stories of our time and get the best writers in the business to tell them. This book brings together a lineup of writing talent worthy of the Hall of Fame and the classic stories they produced for Sports Illustrated over the past 50 years. Many of the writers whose work is collected here are longtime favorites of SI readers (Frank Deford, Rick Reilly, Steve Rushin, Gary Smith). Others are former SI staffers or contributors who left the fold, but not before making an indelible mark on SI's history (Dan Jenkins, Rick Telander, Mark Kram, Roy Blount Jr., William Nack). There are celebrated journalists (A.J. Liebling, Jimmy Breslin, George Plimpton), screenwriters (Budd Schulberg and Kenny Moore), renowned novelists (Thomas McGuane, Pete Dexter, Wallace Stegner, Don DeLillo) and even a couple of Nobel Prize winners in literature (William Faulkner and John Steinbeck). The stories themselves are a mirror of our times. Included in this volume are accounts of some of the most memorable athletic feats of our era (Secretariat's Belmont victory, the Thrilla in Manila, and Bobby Thomson's shot heard round the world). Profiles of the towering athletic figures of our time (Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain, Ted Williams and Johnny Unitas). Good guys (Yogi Berra and Harry Caray) and bad guys (Sonny Liston and Mike Tyson). The fast (Roger Bannister) and the furious (Dick Butkus). The ridiculous (Howard Cosell) and the sublime (Josh Gibson). And the stories that simply touch our hearts and inspire us (Frank Deford's masterpiece on light heavyweight champ Billy Conn). This is the very best of the world's best sports magazine ¾ and it just doesn't get any better than that.

How long is Sports Illustrated 50 Years of Great Writing?

Sports Illustrated 50 Years of Great Writing by Editors of Sports Illustrated is 822 pages long, and a total of 207,144 words.

This makes it 277% the length of the average book. It also has 253% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Sports Illustrated 50 Years of Great Writing Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 18 hours and 51 minutes to read Sports Illustrated 50 Years of Great Writing aloud.

What Reading Level is Sports Illustrated 50 Years of Great Writing?

Sports Illustrated 50 Years of Great Writing is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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