More Than a Game - The Best of Alf Van Hoose (Paperback)

The best work of one of Alabama's longest-serving and most beloved sports journalists.
Although he spent 43 years at the same job, Alf Van Hoose was not a man limited by the boundaries of his profession. As "Birmingham News" sports editor for 21 years and a columnist for a decade before that, Van Hoose helped define a city, a state, and a region largely known for sports. He was the writer of record for some of the biggest sporting events and personalities in the state of Alabama in the last half of the 20th Century. Wayne Hester, Van Hoose's successor as sports editor of "The News, " in 1990, said, "To many sports fans over the years, Alf Van Hoose has been "The Birmingham News."" But he was also much more than the "sports guy," as older generations of Alabama sports fans who read this book will remember and younger ones will learn. He was a man for all seasons, not just those where balls get kicked, hit, or thrown around.
A native of Cuba, Alabama, and a veteran of the Third Army campaigns in WWII (where he won both the Bronze and Silver Stars), Van Hoose became a sportswriter on "The News" in 1947. He remained in that role until retirement in 1990, with only short breaks to serve as a Vietnam war correspondent, and to reflect on the lessons learned while serving with George Patton. Van Hoose died in 1997 at the age of 76.
This volume contains 90 of Van Hoose's best columns, selected not only to showcase his characteristic style, but also because of the enduring importance and interest of the topics--football and baseball, of course, but also golf, high school heroics, auto racing, and Van Hoose's special favorites: Rickwood Field and its various tenants, especially the Birmingham Black Barons.
Published with the College of Communication and Information Science, The University of Alabama.

General

Imprint:	The University of Alabama Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2009
First published:	October 2009
Authors:	Alf Van Hoose
Editors:	Creg Stephenson • Edward Mullins
Foreword by:	Susanna Van Hoose Feld
Introduction by:	Creg Stephenson
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	200
ISBN-13:	978-0-8173-5511-1
Categories:	Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > From 1900 > Reportage & collected journalism Promotions
LSN:	0-8173-5511-1
Barcode:	9780817355111

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