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The Greatest Hurdler In The World Makes His Escape From PerfectionThis piece originally appeared in the June, 1988 issue of Esquire, and is featured in the essential new anthology, Great Men Die Twice: The Selected Works of Mark Kram....

An NFL Safety's Zen Quest For The Perfect HitExcerpted from The Library of America's unflinching anthology, Football: Great Writing About the National Sport, edited by our old pal John Schulian . Reprinted here with permission of the author's son, Mark Kram Jr. ...

A Wink At A Homely GirlIf you don't have good dreams, Bagel, you've got nightmares....

Great Men Die Twice: Muhammad Ali In Decline

Originally published in the June 1989 issue of Esquire. Republished here with the permission of the late author's son, Mark Kram Jr., a wonderful storyteller in his own right. His postscript follows. For a contemporary, but very different, glimpse of Ali, check out Davis Miller's story about his day...

When Emile Got His Irish Up

Mark Kram writing in SI back in 1966:...

Waterfront Rowdies Brawl for Divisional High Ground

Here's a little taste of Mark Kram writing about the Red Sox and Orioles on the Fourth of July back in 1974:...

All the Marbles

Dig Mark Kram's 1974 SI story: "Ring of Bright Marbles":...

Forgive Some Sinner

With Father's Day coming up on Sunday we'll feature stories about Dads this week. This here is as good as it gets—Mark Kram Jr.'s piercing 2007 memoir piece on his father:...