William "Bill" Littlefield is the host of National Public Radio's Only A Game

Only A Game

Only A Game is a weekly sports program distributed by National Public Radio and hosted by Bill Littlefield. The show is produced at WBUR in Boston and airs on 210 affiliate stations around the country every Saturday...

 program, covering mainstream and offbeat United States

Sports in the United States

Sports in the United States is an important part of American culture. The four most popular team sports are ones that developed in North America: American football, baseball, basketball and ice hockey...

 and international sports. Littlefield joined NPR in 1984.

He also writes a bi-monthly column in The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe is an American daily newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston Globe has been owned by The New York Times Company since 1993...

in which he reviews sports books.

In addition to penning his own books, Littlefield served as the guest editor of the 1998 edition of The Best American Sports Writing

The Best American Sports Writing

The Best Sports Writing is a yearly anthology of magazine articles on the subject of sports published in the United States. It was started in 1991 as part of The Best American Series published by Houghton Mifflin...

.

Books

• Prospect (1989)
• Champions: Stories of Ten Remarkable Athletes (1993)
• "Baseball Days" (1993)
• The Circus in the Woods (2002)
• "Fall Classics" (2003)
• Only a Game (2007)