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(0)Jeff Pearlman
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"Gunslinger tells Brett Favre&#x;s story for the first time, drawing on more than five hundred interviews, including many from the people closest to Favre. Jeff Pearlman charts an unparalleled journey from his rough rural childhood and lackluster high school football career to landing the last scholarship at Southern Mississippi to a car accident that nearly took his life. Favre clawed back, getting drafted into the NFL by the Atlanta Falcons, then...
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Language
English
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Description
Drawing on 720 original interviews, a New York Times best-selling sportswriter captures as never before the elusive truth about the greatest athlete of all time who took the world by storm from the mid-1980s into the early 1990s--and then, almost overnight, disappeared.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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From Jeff Pearlman—the New York Times best-selling author of Three Ring Circus—comes the rollicking, outrageous story of the USFL, full of larger-than-life characters and you-can't-make-this-up stories featuring some of the biggest celebrities and buffoons in the game.
The United States Football League—known fondly to millions of sports fans as the USFL—did not merely challenge the NFL, but cause its owners...
The United States Football League—known fondly to millions of sports fans as the USFL—did not merely challenge the NFL, but cause its owners...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of the Lakers dynasty from 1996 through 2004, when Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal combined-and collided-to help bring the Lakers three straight championships and restore the franchise as a powerhouse"-- Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Gotham Books
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
xiii, 482 pages : illustrations (mostly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Drawing from more than 250 interviews to take the first full measure of the Lakers' epic Showtime era, this spectacular account of one of America's greatest sports sagas is jam-packed with colorful characters, vicious rivalries and 1980s-style excess.