Grantland Issue 4 by Bill Simmons


Grantland Issue 4
Title : Grantland Issue 4
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ISBN : 1938073177
ISBN-10 : 9781938073175
Language : English
Format Type : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 368
Publication : First published October 9, 2012

Grantland Quarterly is a collaboration between McSweeney's and Bill Simmons's new web magazine Grantland. It will feature the best sports writing from the website, delivered in a full-color book featuring original artwork and a host of print exclusives—including original fiction, new writing from editor-in-chief Bill Simmons, posters and pull-out sections, old-school baseball cards and mini-booklets, and a cover that looks and feels like you're holding a basketball. Like its namesake website,

Grantland Issue 4 Reviews

  • Ricky Carrigan

    And so the Year of Grantland continues. Vol.4 is another fine collection of essays on sports, and pop culture. This one seems to have slightly more of the latter, including the highly enjoyable piece “The Inquisition of Mr. Marvel”, by Alex Pappademas. Other highlights include the usual great pieces by Simmons, and Klosterman, as well as Andy Greenwald’s “The Sunset of Television’s Gilded Age”, and the illuminating and thoughtful essay “Vernacular Problems”, by Rembert Browne.

  • Kyle

    I read Grantland almost every day so you would think it would be crazy to spend money on these Quarterlys. Yet each time one arrives in the mail I find it full of great articles that I missed. Oddly enough for a what is mostly a sports blog the articles I enjoy the most tend to be the ones least related to sports. This issue had great stuff about Stan Lee, the Beastie Boys, why everyone hates Creed and Nickelback, 50 Shades of Gray and Dick Clark. I also enjoyed the article about Elgin Baylor playing pickup games against Wilt Chamberlain.

    In fact, the only articles that aren't quite as enjoyable are the ones that discuss then-current events. A Bill Simmons reaction piece to the San Antonio Spurs crushing the LA Clippers focusing on how dominant they are looks silly months later when you know OK City beatdown the Spurs later in the playoffs.

    But yea, keep these bad boys coming.