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Cargando... The Best American Sports Writing 2007por David Maraniss (Editor), Glenn Stout (Series Editor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I await each year's addition to this series with a passion I rarely extend to sports itself. This particular volume is transcendant, if only for two of the most Baroque stories connecting team sports with the rest of popular culture, specifically movies. I leave it to the reader to guess -- better to read -- all that may be involved in Derek Zumsteg's droll "Bugs Bunny, greatest banned player ever", though it does analyze the immortal hare's efforts in a 1946 contest between the Gas House Gorillas and the New York Teatotallers. The other gem is John Klima's "Deal of the century", which profiles Paul Pettit, the first of baseball's bonus babies. In it we find that one of the middle-men in his signing was Frederick Stephani, none other than the German-born director of the original FLASH GORDON films (of fond memory). Pull that one out when your stuck next to a dullard at a dinner-party! Wait, do LT people go to dinner-parties? Well, the facts remain, and you can read them in this fine collection. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
For fans of sports and just plain great writing, this absorbing collection, featuring twenty-eight of the finest pieces from the past year, has something for everyone. Guest editor David Maraniss, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, has assembled a fresh crop of the people and stories that dominated the sports world in 2006. Michael Lewis gives a behind-the-scenes look at the legendary football coach Bill Parcells. Bob Hohler delves in the murky waters of modern amateur basketball, where teams blatantly dole out cash to players and shoe companies set their sights on prospects as young as twelve. William Rhoden traces the fate of an unknown filly injured on the racetrack. Jeff MacGregor describes the unforgettable Friars Club roast of boxing's provocative promoter Don King. Daniel Coyle follows a forty-year-old Slovene soldier who might be the world’s best ultra-endurance athlete. L. Jon Wertheim tells of a young pro-basketball player who found himself wrestling the shoe bomber Richard Reid to the ground during a transatlantic flight. And Derek Zumsteg provides a hilarious and utterly original in-depth account of the baseball career of Bugs Bunny, "the greatest banned player ever.” These pieces and many more go beyond the spotlight, revealing the people and issues that make sports so relevant and important to all of us. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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