The Best Seats in the House: An Uncensored Oral History of Sports Illustrated

A landmark work—and candy for sports fans everywhere—The Best Seats in the House is a riveting, uncensored oral history of Sports Illustrated, the magazine where legendary athletes collided with freewheeling writers and photographers, and where editors led a Mad Men lifestyle, all of it a cauldron of excess, ego, money, and scandal that turned sports into an American phenomenon.

For half a century Sports Illustrated was the driving force that shaped fame and power in the sporting world. For ...