Powerful stories about the way sports can bring together fathers and sons, to work out their differences and express their love for each other.

Fathers & Sons & Sports presents a powerful lineup of real-world stories about fathers and sons playing one-on-one in the game of life, written by such great sportswriters and authors as

Henry Aaron, as told to Cal Fussman * Michael J. Agovino * Buzz Bissinger * Jeff Bradley * John Ed Bradley * James Brown * Darcy Frey * Tom Friend * Bill Geist * Mike Golic * Donald Hall * Paul Hoffman * Mark Kriegel * Norman Maclean * John Buffalo Mailer * Ron Reagan * Peter Richmond * Jeremy Schaap * Lew Schneider * Dan Shaughnessy * Paul Solotaroff * John Jeremiah Sullivan * Wright Thompson * Steve Wulf

The unforgettable accounts here include the stories of a professional football player passing on his father’ s secrets to his own sons, a severely disabled boy discovering joy on a surfboard, a wealthy NFL player taking his coddled children back to the mean streets that made him, and a major league manager who must face the hard fact that nothing, not even unconditional love, can save his son.

Anyone who has ever been a father or a son will see himself in these moving snapshots of family life at its most emotional. Whether the stories take place on a diamond, a court, a gridiron, a fairway, or a chessboard, they’re all about the same subject: fatherhood, one of the world’s most intriguing sports.