Donald McRae 'triple' still on as A Man's World makes shortlist of six for William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2015
Donald McRae's chance to become the first triple winner of William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award remains intact after the shortlist for 27th edition of the richest and longest-running prize for sportswriting was revealed. The author and Guardian journalist, who has twice won the prize for books with boxing at their heart, returns to the subject with A Man's World , his biography of the US boxer Emile Griffith, who became a world champion while fighting deep-seated prejudices on two counts, not only as a black man but because he was gay at a time when the American Medical Association still regarded homosexuality as a psychiatric disorder. McRae -- who ghosted Steven Gerrard's bestselling autobiography My Story -- won previously in 1996 with Dark Trade: Lost in Boxing and in 2002 for In Black and White: The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens. The only other double winner of the William Hill prize is Duncan Hamilton. Three football books are among the