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Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
354 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book is as unconventional and wide-ranging as the author's remarkable career, in which he has chronicled the heroes and the characters of just about every sport in nearly every medium. He joined Sports Illustrated in 1962, fresh out of Princeton. They called him "the Kid," and he made his reputation with dumb luck discovering fellow Princetonian Bill Bradley and a Canadian teenager named Bobby Orr. These were the Mad Men-like 1960s, and he recounts...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
302 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
For more than fifty years, as both editor of and contributor for The New Yorker, Roger Angell has honed a reputation as a master of the autobiographic essay-sharp-witted, plucky, and at once nostalgic and unsentimental. In Let Me Finish, Angell reflects on a remarkable life (while admitting to not really remembering the essentials) and on its influences large and small-from growing up in Prohibition-era New York, to his boyhood romance with baseball,...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
xiv, 266 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The colorful, sentimental, funny, affectionate, cantankerous memoir by the most colorful, funniest, most cantankerous- and probably the most revered- sportswriter of the last fifty years. Dan Jenkins is accepted as one of the greatest (if not the greatest) golf writer of all time, wrote beloved bestselling novels and abused more corporate expense accounts than anyone who ever lived. It's a touching, laugh-out-loud tribute to the romanticism of old-time...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xii, 241 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"An empowering, unabashedly bold memoir by the Atlantic journalist and former ESPN SportsCenter co-anchor about overcoming a legacy of pain and forging a new path, no matter how uphill life's battles might be"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
viii, 328 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A bittersweet memoir of the author's 1970s childhood nostalgically shares observations of his family life as it was shaped by influences ranging from the Steve Miller Band and Saturday morning cartoons to Bic pens and Schwinn Sting-Ray bikes.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
326 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A respected sportswriter for the "Boston Globe" traces his early love of sports, experiences as a dedicated fan, and human observations behind pivotal sports moments. --Publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
Triumph Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xvii, 280 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"During his nearly 50 years of sportswriting, including 28 at Sports Illustrated, readers of Dr. Z came to expect a certain alchemical, trademark blend: words which were caustic and wry, at times self-deprecating or even puzzling, but always devilishly smart with arresting honesty. A complex package, that's the Doctor. The one-time sparring partner of Ernest Hemingway, Paul Zimmerman is one of the modern era's groundbreaking football minds, a man...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xviii, 190 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kate Fagan and her father forged their relationship on the basketball court, bonded by sweaty high fives and a dedication to the New York Knicks. But as Kate got older, her love of the sport and her closeness with her father grew complicated. The formerly inseparable pair drifted apart. The lessons that her father instilled in her about the game, and all her memories of sharing the court with him over the years, were a distant memory. When Chris...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"The moving story of a bond between sportswriter and fan that was forged in a shared love of basketball and grew over several decades into an extraordinary friendship that sees both through the trials of their later years"--
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A lively and colorful account of the 1969 NBA Finals--one of the greatest upsets in basketball history--through the eyes of future sports writing legend Leigh Montville, who was covering the coast-to-coast event as a brand-new twenty-four-year-old reporter for The Boston Globe"--
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Dave Kindred is among the greatest living chroniclers of sports. He has covered dozens of Super Bowls, developed a personal relationship with Muhammad Ali, and traveled the country following some of the greatest stars and teams in all of sports. But as he looks back on his life, it's a girls' high school basketball team, the Lady Potters of Morton, Illinois, that stands apart from the rest. In this moving and intimate story, Kindred writes about...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xii, 297 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Emmy Award-winning broadcaster Chris Myers reflects on his illustrious career as one of the most trusted and renowned journalists in sports. Myers has witnessed and participated in his fair share of historic events: on the field when the earthquake struck the 1989 World Series; on the air throughout the tragic aftermath of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing; on the sidelines during the Patriots' stunning comeback at Super Bowl LI; and a contentious...