It is widely remembered as the year the Brooklyn Dodgers finally won the World Series, but 1955 was so much more than that. It was a fascinating year in sports: a year the world was introduced to Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell and Arnold Palmer; a year Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle established their Hall of Fame credentials; a year old pros Rocky Marciano and Otto Graham ended splendid careers as champions; a year Rocket Richard lost an NHL scoring title and sparked a riot; and a year Pancho Gonzales, the world's top tennis player, couldn't find a match.

Fifty years later, 1955 in Sport celebrates that remarkable year in an anthology of the finest writing and photographs from that era that originally appeared in SPORT magazine. In addition to the athletes mentioned above, the book focuses on the champion Dodgers. Each SPORT essay will have a preface and an epilogue to give the article historical context.

Dave Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize winning sports columnist of The New York Times and author of 22 books, including two bestsellers with John Madden: One Knee Equals Two Feet and Everything Else You Need to Know about Football; and All Madden: Hey, I'm Talking Football. He has authored more than 350 magazine articles and his writing has been included in several anthologies. In addition to his 1981 Pulitzer Prize, Anderson has won numerous writing awards, including the 1994 Associated Press Sports Red Smith Award for distinguished sports column writing, and in 1990 was inducted into the National Sports Writers and Sportscasters Hall of Fame.

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