John Schulian

Sometimes They Even Shook Your Hand

Portraits of Champions Who Walked Among Us

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Produktbeschreibung

"Profiles of one-of-a-kind athletes from decades past"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Nebraska Medical Center
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 142mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780803237766
• ISBN-10: 0803237766
• Artikelnr.: 33390426

Autorenporträt

John Schulian's work has been included in Best American Sports Writing and Sports Illustrated's Fifty Years of Great Writing. His many books include The John Lardner Reader and Twilight of the Long-Ball Gods: Dispatches from the Disappearing Heart of Baseball, both available in Bison Books editions. William Nack is the author of Secretariat: The Making of a Champion and Ruffian: A Racetrack Romance.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by William Nack     
Acknowledgments  
Introduction  
   
Part 1. Hundred-Yard Warriors
Chuck Bednarik: Concrete Charlie   
Walter Payton: The Poetry of Silence     
Terry Bradshaw: A Country Boy Can Survive
Bear Bryant: A Win, and a Coach, for All Time  
Dan Hampton: A World of Hurt 
John Matuszak: Me and the Tooz     
John Matuszak: The Other Side of the Story     
John Riggins: Runaway  
Dan Marino: A Kid Among Legends    
Joe Montana: Easy to Underestimate, Hard to Beat     
Gary Fencik: Boola! Boola!   
 
Part 2. Legends of the Box Score
Willie Mays: Out of the Past 
Stan Musial: The Man, Forever
Reggie Jackson: The Ego Is a Lonely Hunter     
Pete Rose: Pete Belongs in Cooperstown   
Nolan Ryan: On Second Thought
Johnny Bench: Old Too Young  
Earl Weaver: The Earl of Baltimore 
Gene Mauch: The Toughest Loss of All     
Dick Allen: More a Ghost Than a Legend   
Frank Robinson: Hard Game, Hard Man
Brooks Robinson: Honored To Be a Hero    
Ernie Banks: Mr. Cub Remembers     
Bill Veeck: "Bionic Man I'm Not"   
Carl Yastrzemski: Family Tradition 
Bill Lee: Spaceman     
Mark Fidrych: Bird with a Broken Wing    
Steve Bilko: The Slugging Seraph   
George Brett: Lipstick on a .407 Batting Average     
Willie Stargell: The Pirates' Patriarch  
Fernando Valenzuela: And a Rookie Shall Lead Them    
Jim Palmer: Good-bye Doesn't Come Easy   
Oscar Charleston: A One-Way Ticket to Obscurity
 
Part 3. Hoops and Horses and Everything in Between
Pete Maravich: The Pistol's Parting Shot 
Julius Erving: Sky King
Larry Bird: The Ultimate Celtic    
Big House Gaines: No Way to Treat a Legend     
Al McGuire: Sunday's Jester  
Ben Wilson: Only the Good Die Young
Wayne Gretzky: Borderline Case     
Jimmy Connors: Blue Collar at a Tea Dance
John Carlos: The Olympic Ideal     
Johnny Kelley: The Elder     
Ron Turcotte: Rider Down     
Buddy Delp: The Happy Anarchist    
Bill Shoemaker: A Million for the Shoe   
 
Part 4. Arts and Letters
Red Smith: The Write Stuff   
W. C. Heinz: The Professional
A. J. Liebling: Joe    
Mark Kram: Poet and Provocateur    
F. X. Toole: One Tough Baby  
 
Part 5. Sweet Scientists
Marvelous Marvin Hagler: The Proud Warrior     
Sugar Ray Robinson: He Gave Style a Name 
Joe Louis: Larger Than Life or Death     
Tony Zale: Raise Your Glass to a Teetotaler    
Paddy Flood: One of a Kind   
Sugar Ray Leonard: The One-Eyed Man
Ray Arcel: A Touch of Class  
Roberto Duran: A Man of Stone
Roberto Duran: He Cramped His Own Style  
Larry Holmes: His Time and No One Else's 
Muhammad Ali: No Garden Party
Muhammad Ali: Marching Off to Slaughter  
Muhammad Ali: Ali! Ali! Ali! 
 
Source Acknowledgments