Tag: non-fiction
group name: sportsbooksrcool
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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 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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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