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John Lardner Reader
A Press Box Legend's Classic Sportswriting
Av John Lardner, John Schulian
Häftad, 2010
252 kr
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This collection marks the return to print of John Lardner, one of America’s press box giants, a classic stylist whose wry humor and tireless reporting helped elevate sportswriting to art. The brilliant W. C. Heinz called Lardner “the best of us.” This book shows why. Lardner applied his singular …
Sometimes They Even Shook Your Hand
Portraits of Champions Who Walked Among Us
Häftad, 2011
252 kr
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John Schulian, a much-honored sportswriter for nearly forty years, takes us back to a time when our greatest athletes stood before us as human beings, not remote gods. In this compelling collection, Schulian paints prose portraits to remind fans of what today’s cloistered stars won’t share with …
Twilight of the Long-ball Gods
Dispatches from the Disappearing Heart of Baseball
Häftad, 2005
172 kr
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A report from the true heart of baseball, this anthology leaves behind the bad boys and big names of the major leagues to take readers to the places where the spirit of America's game resides. These are a veteran sportswriter's dispatches from the bush leagues and the sandlot, his tributes to the …
At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing
Av Various, John Schulian m. fl.
E-bok, 2012
410 kr
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Named a best book of 2011 by the San Francisco Chronicle, At the Fights is a gritty and glittering anthology of the very best writing about boxing. Here are Jack London on the immortal Jack Johnson; Richard Wright on Joe Louis’s historic victory over Max Schmeling; A. J. Liebling’s brilliantly …
Football: Great Writing About the National Sport
A Special Publication of The Library of America
Av Various, John Schulian
E-bok, 2014
225 kr
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An All-Pro line-up of writers including Red Smith, Frank Deford, Jimmy Breslin, George Plimpton, Richard Price, Charles Pierce, Michael Lewis, and Roy Blount Jr tackle our most popular pastime: Since football’s meteoric rise in the mid-twentieth century, the standout writers on the sport have gone …
Great American Sports Page
A Century of Classic Columns from Ring Lardner to Sally Jenkins
Inbunden, 2019
325 kr
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A first-of-its-kind celebration of the newspaper scribes who made sportswriting a glorious popular art, and immortalized America's greatest games and athletes Spanning nearly a century, The Great American Sports Page presents essential columns from more than three dozen masters of the press-box …
Great American Sports Page: A Century of Classic Columns from Ring Lardner to Sally Jenkins
A Library of America Special Publication
E-bok, 2019
362 kr
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A first-of-its-kind celebration of the newspaper scribes who made sportswriting a glorious popular art, and immortalized America''s greatest games and athletes Spanning nearly a century, The Great American Sports Page presents essential columns from more than three dozen masters of the press-box …
Hurt Business
A Century of the Greatest Writing on Boxing
Av George Kimball, John Schulian
Häftad, 2013
254 kr
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From Jack London to Joyce Carol Oates, The Hurt Business is the ultimate boxing book covering a century of the greatest fighter and the writers who have followed 'the sweet science'.Beginning with Jack London's account of the 1910 championship bout between Jack Johnson and James Jeffries (for which …
Hurt Business
A Century of the Greatest Writing on Boxing
Av George Kimball, John Schulian
E-bok, 2013
216 kr
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From Jack London to Joyce Carol Oates, The Hurt Business is the ultimate boxing book covering a century of the greatest fighter and the writers who have followed 'the sweet science'.Beginning with Jack London's account of the 1910 championship bout between Jack Johnson and James Jeffries (for which …
