Bill Bradley was the prototypical gentleman jock. Due to his pinpoint shooting on the basketball court, his Princeton address and his Rhodes scholarship, Bradley was venerated in profiles by the likes of John McPhee. (Full disclosure: "Dollar Bill" was an acquaintance of my parents. We worked on his political campaigns, and he even ate dinner at our house once when I was 15. I should have had him sign the casserole dish.) Like Bouton, Bradley wrote a diary over the course of a season

—Jon Reiner