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And to Think I Got in Free! - Highlights from Fifty Years on the Sports Beat (Paperback, New)
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And to Think I Got in Free! - Highlights from Fifty Years on the Sports Beat (Paperback, New)
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Discovery Miles 3 670
You Save R53 (13%)
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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.
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