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Glory Days - The Summer of 1984 and the 90 Days That Changed Sports and Culture Forever (Hardcover)
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Glory Days - The Summer of 1984 and the 90 Days That Changed Sports and Culture Forever (Hardcover)
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A rollicking guided tour of one extraordinary summer, when some of
the most pivotal and freakishly coincidental stories all collided
and changed the way we think about modern sports The summer of 1984
was a watershed moment in the birth of modern sports when the
nation watched Michael Jordan grow from college basketball player
to professional athlete and star. That summer also saw ESPN’s
rise to media dominance as the country’s premier sports
network and the first modern, commercialized, profitable
Olympics. Magic Johnson and Larry Bird’s rivalry raged,
Martina Navratilova and John McEnroe reigned in tennis, and Hulk
Hogan and Vince McMahon made pro wrestling a business, while Donald
Trump pierced the national consciousness as a pro football team
owner. It was an awakening in the sports world, a moment when
sports began to morph into the market-savvy, sensationalized,
moneyed, controversial, and wildly popular arena we know today.
 In the tradition of Bill Bryson’s One Summer: America,
1927, L. Jon Wertheim captures these 90 seminal
days against the backdrop of the nostalgia-soaked 1980s, to
show that this was the year we collectively traded in
our ratty Converses for a pair of sleek, heavily branded,
ingeniously marketed Nikes. This was the year that sports
went big-time. Â
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Imprint: |
Mariner Books
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
August 2021 |
Authors: |
L. Jon Wertheim
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 33mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
336 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-328-63724-6 |
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LSN: |
1-328-63724-7 |
Barcode: |
9781328637246 |
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