Tag: fiction
group name: sportsbooksrcool
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April 16, 2008 06:03 PM EDT --
It would not have been a far-fetched scenario.
Bill Veeck, returning from World War II, buys the Philadelphia Athletics from Connie Mack. Baseball's biggest maverick then stocks . . . more
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May 03, 2008 07:47 PM EDT --
Some golfers hate to review their round after hacking their way around the course. It's just too painful to recall, and those duffers are content to sit at the clubhouse bar and muse about . . . more
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May 03, 2008 07:37 PM EDT --
The Red Sox may have glamour stars like Manny Ramirez, David Ortiz and Dice-K, but I like guys like Mike Lowell. Players like Lowell are truly the heart and soul of the squad.
Lowell's . . . more
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May 17, 2008 10:36 PM EDT --
In today's multimedia, Internet-driven, YouTube culture, John Montague's private life would have been made public within days of his splashy debut in Hollywood -- and his story may have ended . . . more
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June 11, 2008 07:44 PM EDT --
I have to admit that I rooted for the New York Yankees during the late 1960s and early 1970s, which took a little bit of courage. After all, the haughty dynasty that rang up 29 pennants and 21 World Series . . . more
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September 01, 2008 11:21 PM EDT --
What sports books have y'all been reading? I have recently finished "Urban's Way" by Buddy Martin, about UF football coach Urban Meyer, and "Gorgeous George," by John Capouya, . . . more
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August 14, 2008 02:29 AM EDT --
A BOOK TRANSCENDANT
DEADLY DECEPTION by Jack Engelhard
Remove the dustcover from this hardbound book (sorry...I can't abide snakes) and it is a medium blue....the same color as my . . . more
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June 04, 2008 08:26 PM EDT --
If you want to be a fly on the wall in an athletic setting, just read the work of John Feinstein. He has been providing that view for more than two decades.
Feinstein has taken us to the locker . . . more
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June 25, 2008 10:16 PM EDT --
Here is a book that has something for everyone: athletic competition and controversy, outstanding performances, a whiff of scandal and plenty of Cold War intrigue.
No, it's not a spy novel . . . more
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August 26, 2008 02:30 AM EDT --
One of the more delightful honors that now and then come my way is the invitation from one of my writer friends to read a new manuscript they are preparing for publication.
Author Jeff Howe gave me . . . more
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August 09, 2008 09:02 PM EDT --
"Love trumps journalism every time," suggests golf writer Jack Brannon. "Anybody with sense knows that."
It certainly makes sense to a guy like Brannon, the smart-alecky, perceptive, . . . more
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August 10, 2008 06:40 PM EDT --
What I always have admired about David Halberstam was his ability to write about diverse subjects and still hold my interest. He wrote 21 books and many more essays and articles during his career, covering . . . more
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August 19, 2008 08:22 PM EDT --
Wendell Scott was about to realize his dream.
After competing on the Southern stock car circuit for more than a decade, Scott was in the lead on the final lap in a 1963 race in Jacksonville, . . . more
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September 03, 2008 08:56 PM EDT --
George Wagner was a journeyman pro wrestler in the early 1940s, but he hit upon a formula that went against all convention and made him a huge star.
He transformed himself from a "babyface" . . . more
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