In a world where books are often overlooked and coffee table-sized books waste real estate, this one gets the medium right. Mostly.
Ultimately, it's about the pictures.
When you have a "best of" sports book that measures 13.5" by 11" and 256 pages in this day and age of rampantly available top 10 lists and Internet click-here-for-malware slideshows, the pictures better be the kind of vivid, large prints you don't want to put down.
Which is why it's so frustrating that it misses the boat on one too-often overlooked aspect of historical sports photography -- the captions.