Sometimes They Even Shook Your Hand

John Schulian was a sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and Philadelphia Daily News before moving to Hollywood, where he was, among other things, the co-creator of Xena: Warrior Princess. In 2016 he was awarded the PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing. He is the editor of the Library of America anthologies Football: Great Writing about the National Sport and, with George Kimball, At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing. He is the author of Sometimes They Even Shook Your Hand: Portraits of Champions Who Walked Among Us and, most recently, the novel A Better Goodbye.Charles P. Pierce (b. 1953) has written about sports and politics for numerous publications, including Esquire, Grantland, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, and Sports Illustrated. He is the author of Sports Guy (200) and Moving the Chains: Tom Brady and the Pursuit of Everything (2006).