Bob Hunter

Saint Woody

The History and Fanaticism of Ohio State Football

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Saint Woody is a Bill Bryson–style look at Ohio State football and the spiritual fanaticism that surrounds it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9781496233097
• ISBN-10: 1496233093
• Artikelnr.: 63431333

Autorenporträt

Bob Hunter has been a sportswriter at the Columbus Dispatch for the last thirty-four years and covered Woody Hayes’s final two years of coaching (1977–1978) as a football beat writer. In 2009 he was voted best sports columnist in Ohio by the Associated Press. The coauthor of The Buckeyes: A Story of Ohio State Football (1982) and author of Chic: The Extraordinary Rise of Ohio State Football and the Tragic Schoolboy Athlete Who Made It Happen (2008) and Buckeye Basketball (1981), he lives in Westerville, Ohio.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Religion?
Chapter 2: Genesis
Chapter 3: The Martyr
Chapter 4: The Prophet
Chapter 5: The Messiah
Chapter 6: The Shrine
Chapter 7: The Graveyard
Chapter 8: The Wizard
Chapter 9: The Greatest Game Ever
Chapter 10: The Greatest Coach Ever?
Chapter 11: The Snowiest Game Ever
Chapter 12: The Trailblazer
Chapter 13: Saint Woody
Chapter 14: The Rivalry
Chapter 15: The Cogs
Chapter 16: The Hero
Chapter 17: Brother Earle
Chapter 18: The Season
Chapter 19: The Survivor
Chapter 20: Satans
Chapter 21: The Forgotten
Chapter 22: The Beloved
Chapter 23: Fallen Heroes
Chapter 24: The Benefactors
Chapter 25: The Rituals
Chapter 26: The Secret
Chapter 27: Gospel Writers
Chapter 28: A Season from God
Chapter 29: The Greatest Games
Chapter 30: Former Saint Tress
Chapter 31: The Flock
Bibliography
Index
About the Author