And to Think I Got in Free! - Couverture souple

Taylor, Jim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1550174991 ISBN 13 : 9781550174991

Editeur : Harbour Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

In this fascinating collection Canada's most entertaining sportswriter revisits the glories of a career following sporting events and personalities that spanned five decades. Name any memorable event--from Canada-Russia 1972 to Rick Hansen's Man in Motion tour--or any famous name from Wayne Gretzky to Muhammad Ali to the San Diego Chicken, and Jim Taylor was there giving his insightful, witty and often sceptical take on the subject.

As Taylor writes, when sport makes instant millionaires out of kids who can hit a ball or a puck with a stick or stuff a leather balloon through a fishnet, what's not to laugh?

Here are tales of good guys and jerks, journeymen and giants playing games for a living with the world peering into the fishbowl and bigger, stronger, faster challengers coming at them every year.

Here too are the true originals, such as boxing legend Archie The Mongoose Moore, whose storied career defied age and logic; Sam Snead, the barefoot hillbilly who learned to play golf by hitting rocks with a stick and went on to win 135 tournaments; Willie O'Ree, the black New Brunswicker who broke the NHL's colour bar; tragic Percy Williams, the pint-sized sprinter who won double gold at the Amsterdam Olympics and later shot himself; and plenty of lesser-known heroes like the local legend Joe Johnson, who introduced a generation of BC kids to the love of soccer.

Both a retrospective of memorable goings-on in the sports world of the last fifty years and a first-rate read, And to Think I Got in Free! stands as proof that in the right hands sports writing can be great writing.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jim Taylor has produced some 7,500 sports columns, three times as many radio shows and fifteen books. His passion has earned him membership in the CFL and BC Sports Halls of Fame and a lifetime achievement award from Sports Media Canada. He is the co-author of Goin' Deep: The Life and Times of a CFL Quarterback with Matt Dunigan and Hello, Sweetheart? Gimmie Rewrite!: My Life in the Wonderful World of Sports. He lives in Shawnigan Lake, BC.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harbour Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1550174991
• ISBN 13: 9781550174991
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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