The Game Isn't Everything: The Reality Beyond the Arena - Couverture souple

Lowitt, Bruce

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1534981128 ISBN 13 : 9781534981126

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

Sports are more than competition. They’re about people who have lives away from it and after it, whose personal struggles, successes and failures we seldom hear about. In these pages you will discover Ara Parseghian: from Notre Dame coach to life and death in the family. Steve Howe: from the California fast lane to a drug-drenched baseball career; Georgetown’s John Thompson: his way or no way; Silky Sullivan: from trailing the field to the Kentucky Derby. World-class sailor Webb Chiles: alone in the Atlantic without a boat; DePaul basketball coach coach Joey Meyer; a life in his father’s shadow; Gene Stallings: Alabama’s football coach and his special son; Bill Walsh: from the 49ers sideline into the booth; Roger Maris: a baseball career defined by an asterisk. Glen Edwards: from Pittsburgh’s Steel Curtain to one of his own; Dock Ellis: a pitcher who loved the lows as well as the highs; Pete Maravich: the basketball legacy of the Pistol; Evel Knievel: the definitive daredevil; Leila Pallardy: the destructiveness of gymnastics; Mickey Hatcher: always good for a laugh; Sandy Amoros: after the catch; Jennifer Capriati: the evolution of a tennis phenom. Plus: Watching baseball on the radio; Teeing off in an explosion of color; The America’s Cup and the mystery of 42 meters; Life in the Last League; Daybreak at the racetrack; Olympic thunder out of the South Pacific, and more. This book is not meant to be read as you would a novel. Each chapter should be absorbed and savored on its own, each a moment in history of passion, pleasure or pain and its aftermath.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Bruce Lowitt was born in Brooklyn, New York. He joined The Associated Press in 1967, eventually becoming Pro Football Editor and, later, a national sports features writer covering Super Bowls, World Series, Olympic Games, NBA and college basketball and football championships, the Indianapolis 500 and U.S. Open Tennis. In 1986 he joined the St. Petersburg Times in the same role. He retired from fulltime writing in 2004. Lowitt has appeared on national and local television and radio sport-talk programs, and has written numerous magazine articles and for the Major League Baseball Players Association, and has co-authored several sports books for the youth market. His stories have appeared in A Century of Champions and The Sports Immortals and in The Fireside Book of Baseball and Best Sports Stories anthologies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1534981128
• ISBN 13: 9781534981126
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg