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The perfect gift for anybody who has ever swung a club or marveled
at the skill of touring professionals on television, The Greatest
Golf Stories Ever Told is a compulsively readable collection of
some of the most entertaining and insightful stories on the subject
of golf. Contributions include some well-known works from renowned
writers of the genre, such as Dan Jenkins, Herbert Warren Wind, and
John Updike, as well as some rare, lesser-known gems from George
Plimpton, Bud Shrake, and the great F. Scott Fitzgerald. The thirty
stories in this fascinating collection will lead you from tee to
green, avoiding the bunkers while illustrating in vivid
detail--through true and fictional tales--all the humor, drama,
excitement, and emotion the game of golf is so richly steeped in.
"Every once in a while, a book publisher comes up with a great
concept for a series of books that deserve more than superficial
recognition. Such a series is The Greatest (fill in the blank)
Stories Ever Told, anthologies that should win places on many
bedside tables. On the long winter nights that lie ahead, such
stories make great reading." -The Lexington County Chronicle "THE
GREATEST BOXING STORIES EVER TOLD assembles some of the best
writing available on the sweet science and illuminates boxing in
all its literal and symbolic glory. Each piece in this varied
collection connects with the sort of powerful punch one can only
expect from the world's greatest writers." -Boxing Digest In THE
GREATEST BOXING STORIES EVER TOLD, editor Jeff Silverman delivers a
knockout collection of not only the best writing ever penned on the
subject of "the sweet science," but also stories that relate to the
larger human issues the brutal sport has come to embody. Whether
the story be about the triumph of a heroic champion, a tragic death
in the ring, the shady tactics of fight promoters, or victories
against seemingly impossible odds, each story in this varied
collection connects powerfully with the reader. THE GREATEST BOXING
STORIES EVER TOLD is the perfect gift for fight fans and non-fight
fans alike, and with its allstar lineup of "contenders" throwing
"haymakers" and "uppercuts" in every round, it stands as the
definitive volume of short stories on this enduring pugilistic
pastime.
Before multimillion-dollar salaries, luxury boxes, and player
strikes became synonymous with professional sports, there existed
the belief in playing simply for the love of the game. Nothing
captures that spirit better than these twenty classic pieces about
America's favorite pastime.
Collected here are the writings of Ring Lardner, Zane Grey, the
Giants' immortal Christy Mathewson, Grover Cleveland Alexander,
Finley Peter Dunne (who for a time was America's most popular
humorist after Mark Twain), Burt Standish (creator of that
all-American hero, Frank Merriwell), and many more. Baseball's
golden era may have long since passed, but in the pages of At the
Old Ballgame, you can still sit in the bleachers for a nickel.
Relive the golden era of baseball with timeless classics from:
Albert G. Spalding
Henry Chadwick
Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Grantland Rice
Sol White
Brig. Gen. Fredrick Funston
Zane Grey
Candy Cummings
Alfred H. Spink
Burt L. Standish
Lester Chadwick
Finley Peter Dunne
Christy Mathewson
Damon Runyon
Grover Cleveland Alexander
Gerald Beaumont
Ring Lardner
Hugh Fullerton
Ralph D. Blanpied
Charles E. Van Loan
P.G. Wodehouse
Recapture the golden era of golf with these amazing, historic
tales.
The perfect gift for anybody who has ever swung a club or marveled
at the skill of touring professionals on television, The Greatest
Golf Stories Ever Told is a compulsively readable collection of
some of the most entertaining and insightful reading on the subject
of golf.
Contributions include some well-known works from renowned writers
of the genre, such as Dan Jenkins, Herbert Warren Wind, and John
Updike, as well as some rare, lesser-known gems from Gary McCord,
Bud Shrake, and the great F. Scott Fitzgerald. The thirty stories
in this fascinating collection will lead you from tee to green,
avoiding the bunkers while illustrating in vivid detail - through
true and fictional tales - all the humor, drama, excitement, and
emotion the game of golf is so richly steeped in.
Before multimillion-dollar salaries, luxury boxes, and player
strikes became synonymous with professional sports, there existed
the belief in playing simply "for the love of the game." Nothing
captures that spirit better than these twenty classic pieces about
America's favorite pastime. Collected here are the writings of Ring
Lardner, Zane Grey, the Giants' immortal Christy Mathewson, Grover
Cleveland Alexander, Finley Peter Dunne (who for a time was
America's most popular humorist after Mark Twain), Burt Standish
(creator of that all-American hero, Frank Merriwell), and many
more. Baseball's golden era may have long since passed, but in the
pages of Great American Baseball Stories, you can still sit in the
bleachers for a nickel. Relive the golden era of baseball with
timeless classics from: Albert G. Spalding Henry Chadwick Ernest
Lawrence Thayer Grantland Rice Sol White Brig. Gen. Fredrick
Funston Zane Grey Candy Cummings Alfred H. Spink Burt L. Standish
Lester Chadwick Finley Peter Dunne Christy Mathewson Damon Runyon
Grover Cleveland Alexander Gerald Beaumont Ring Lardner Hugh
Fullerton Ralph D. Blanpied Charles E. Van Loan P.G. Wodehouse
At a 1931 barnstorming exhibition game in Tennessee, a
seventeen-year-old pitcher for the Chattanooga Lookouts struck out
Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig back to back. Her name was Jackie
Mitchell--"organized baseball's first girl pitcher." On September
9, 1965, Sandy Koufax made baseball history by pitching his fourth
perfect game. In July 1970, a stripper rushed onto the field at
Riverfront Stadium to kiss Johnny Bench, temporarily disrupting a
game attended by President Nixon and his family. These are just
some of the great, quirky, and comic moments in the annals of
baseball recorded in THE GREATEST BASEBALL STORIES EVER TOLD. Here
also are profiles of such legendary figures as Joe DiMaggio, Pete
Rose, and Yogi Berra, essays that explore the complexities and
pleasures of the game, even an excerpt from the movie" Bull Durham.
"This is the perfect book for anyone who has ever played so much as
a game of catch.
Contributors include:
John Updike
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Abbott & Costello
Ring Lardner
Bill Barich
Zane Grey
David James Duncan
Al Stump
Pete Hamill
P.G. Wodehouse
Damon Runyan
Roy Blount, Jr.
Richard Ben Cramer
Gay Talese
A. Bartlett Giamatti
and many more
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