The Extreme Game: An Extreme Sports Anthology

As Wimmer has done in the past with The Fairway Game and The Homerun Game, he again must have taken a year off to read every possible account of those who have found the thrill of extreme sports. I am not one who would participate in most of the extreme games in this outstanding anthology, and now I do not have to. Dick Wimmer has taken me to the games! His choice of 21 supremely well chosen reflections of everything from the heights of Everest and K2 to the chilling accounts of icey mountain climbing and ice bicycling. Bruce Lee and Tony Hawk in the same book! I especially liked his choice of David Ferrell'spiece on Base Jumping "...a kind of Russian roulette played with shadows and distance and time." This book is definitely a Christmas gift for my friends -- and anyone who knows anyone involved in the thrill of extreme games or those like me who can find simpler ways to break a leg!

I liked this a lot. It's the best of a series of excellent sports anthologies by Dick Wimmer, who always has an eye out not only for good stories but top-of-the-line sports writing.