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Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A contributing writer to Sports Illustrated for more than fifty years, and a longtime correspondent on Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, these days Deford is perhaps best known for his ... commentaries on NPR's Morning Edition. Since 1980, Deford has recorded 1,600 of them, and in [this book] he brings together the very best, creating a ... wide-ranging look at athletes and the world of sports"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
This book is as unconventional and wide-ranging as the author's remarkable career, in which he has chronicled the heroes and the characters of just about every sport in nearly every medium. He joined Sports Illustrated in 1962, fresh out of Princeton. They called him "the Kid," and he made his reputation with dumb luck discovering fellow Princetonian Bill Bradley and a Canadian teenager named Bobby Orr. These were the Mad Men-like 1960s, and he recounts...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Howie Traveler finally gets a shot at baseball stardom when he is offered a job as manager of the Cleveland Indians, but soon learns his lofty dreams of mastering America's favorite pastime are unrealistic as he deals with his superstar outfielder.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Focusing on the unusual friendship between John McGraw and Christy Mathewson, "The Old Ball Game" is a masterful chronicle of the early days of baseball from America's most beloved sportswriter. Illustrations throughout.
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