SHADOWS ON THE GREEN - Slovick, Lyle
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Walk in the shoes of people from golf's untold and "hidden" past, as SHADOWS ON THE GREEN brings us into their lives and reveals both the destructive and inspiring sides of human nature. The frailtiesand strengthsof men and women are represented equally, allowing us to empathize with their experiences - which were not so different from our own - and consider our own power to do good or bad in this world. These are told in the stories of people who suffered from drug addiction, alcoholism, physical violence, racism, and sexism, as well as stories of amputees, the blind, the aged, and survivors…mehr

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Walk in the shoes of people from golf's untold and "hidden" past, as SHADOWS ON THE GREEN brings us into their lives and reveals both the destructive and inspiring sides of human nature. The frailtiesand strengthsof men and women are represented equally, allowing us to empathize with their experiences - which were not so different from our own - and consider our own power to do good or bad in this world. These are told in the stories of people who suffered from drug addiction, alcoholism, physical violence, racism, and sexism, as well as stories of amputees, the blind, the aged, and survivors of horrific accidents. All found in golf not only a challenge, but a salvation and expression of their God-given gifts. Among the subjects in the book: ¿- Nathaniel Moore, the self-indulgent son of a rich industrialist was an Olympic golf champion in 1904, but also a morphine addict who died in a Chicago brothel, the victim of an opioid crisis as great as what we face today / - Eben Byers won the 1906 U.S. Amateur but died a gruesome and painful death, one of the many victims of a supposed patent medicine elixir in the 1920s that poisoned him with radium and ate away the bones in his jaw and head / - John Shippen, the first African America to play in the U.S. Open in 1896. Beyond societal pressures he also carried the burden of numerous family crises, beginning with his father's suicide, and estrangements from his wife and children, who valued education and thought his lowly profession meritless / - Lucy Barnes Brown, the winner of the 1895 U.S. Women's Amateur, who has connections to Pebble Beach, one of the most famous courses in the world. Her son was Franklin Roosevelt's friend and roommate at Harvard, and her granddaughter owned the land on which the remodeled fifth hole (designed by Jack Nicklaus) now occupies / - Marion Miley was one of the best amateur golfers in the country when she was brutally murdered in 1941 at the age of 27 / - Cyril Walker won the 1924 U.S. Open, beating the great Bobby Jones, but was a hopeless alcoholic who died in a jail cell / - The "Rabbit Wars" of St Andrews from 1801 to 1821 that threatened the existence of the oldest course in the world / - The book concludes with shorter, fun stories on quirky bits of golf history.
Autorenporträt
Lyle Slovick is a historian and writer, and author of "Trials and Triumphs of Golf's Greatest Champions: A Legacy of Hope," published by Rowan & Littlefield in 2016. From 2013-2018 he was a consultant for the United States Golf Association, working on a historical scoring database of all its championships that currently informs NBC Sports (and previously Fox Sports) and other media in their coverage of the U.S. Open. He also did research and writing for the USGA, including a three-part series on the history of women's golf in the United States, and another piece on the evolution of the first Curtis Cup competition in 1932. Lyle has a B.A. degree from Pacific Lutheran University (1982) and an M.A. degree from George Washington University (1993.) He spent 13 years working at GWU amongst the rare books and manuscripts in the Special Collections Department of the Gelman Library. The last eight of those years he served as Assistant University Archivist, where he oversaw more than 1,000 collections documenting the administrative and social history of GWU. He processed the papers of Janet G. Travell, personal physician to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson; and the papers of Drs. Walter Freeman and James Watts, pioneers in the surgical procedure known as lobotomy (featured in a 2008 documentary for PBS's American Experience series.) Lyle served as co-editor of the "GW Historical Encyclopedia," an on-line publication, contributing over 330 articles. His published articles include: "George Y. Coffin: A Schoolboy's Life in 19th Century Washington," in Washington History magazine (Fall/Winter 2006-07), along with numerous articles for Through the Green (the journal of the British Golf Collectors Society from 2012-2020.) Read more about Lyle and his books on his website and the book's Facebook page: https://lyleslovick.wixsite.com/lyleslovick/books; https://www.facebook.com/pg/Shadows-on-the-Green-Golfs-Scandals-Tragedies-and-Offbeat-Tales-103450914748896/posts/?ref=page_internal