Introduction / Mike Lupica
Running for their lives / Gary Smith
Phat chants / Bill Plaschke
Fatal errors / Mark Zeigler
Eli experiment / Michael Lewis
Dreams, steroids, death : a ballplayer's downfall / Mark Fainaru-Wada
How to catch fish in Vermont / Pam Belluck
Seeing snook / Thomas McGuane
Making contact / Ira Berkow
Wound and the bow / David Shields
Five-second delay can't mute old voice / Richard Sandomir
Lion in late, late autumn / Pat Jordan
Biggest fish story ever told / David DiBenedetto
Field of broken dreams / Andrew Miller
Duel in the sun / John Brant
Great day for Arab Women / Linda Robertson
Barrage of bullets drowned out cries of comrades / Steve Coll
Outside looking in / L. Jon Wertheim
Man who made good / Wright Thompson
More than skin deep / Travis Haney
Duke of Dunbar / Michael Hall
Pride of Peabody / Michael Bamberger
Man in the ice / Chris Jones
Rayna's second season / Kevin Van Valkenburg
Alive and kicking / Katy Vine
Why we must listen / Michael Rosenberg
Sportsmen of the year / Tom Verducci
Spectacular, but sad / Bill Reynolds
Notable sports writing of 2004.