Name: Beyond the Boys of Summer von Roger Kahn, PhD.,F-ABC
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Beyond the Boys of Summer Zusammenfassung

Beyond the Boys of Summer Roger Kahn, PhD.,F-ABC

Roger Kahn has spun everyday sports stories into gilded literature.
--San Diego Union Tribune

Kahn's fly-on-the-wall style brings to life players most of us knew only from their bubblegum cards.
--Dallas Morning News

From the greatest sportswriter of his generation, Beyond the Boys of Summer features the best of Roger Kahn's newspaper and magazine work, plus selected excerpts from his celebrated books.

Über Roger Kahn, PhD.,F-ABC

Roger Kahn is widely acclaimed as the greatest sportswriter of his generation. With 19 books to his credit, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED named his 1972 classic, THE BOYS OF SUMMER, the best baseball book of all time. Author of the recent bestseller OCTOBER MEN, Kahn was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for his book THE ERA.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Growing Up and Being Young

1. A Father, A Son, and Baseball in Brooklyn

2. Coming of Age

3. And Then There is Sex

4. The Dreams of the Young

5. Restless Youth: The Columbia Uprising

6. Kareem Arrives

Part 2: Living Your Life

7. The Babe: Father of the Home Run

8. The Homer Heard Round the World

9. Roger Maris: The Ordeal of His Success

10. Henry Aaron: A Success Story

11. The Great Cork Crime

Part 3: Willie, Mickey, Duke: The New York Center Fielders

12. The Say Hey Kid Up Close

13. The Mick on and off the Field

14. The Duke in a New Pasture

Part 4: Damn Good Hitters and Pitchers

15. Eddie Mathews, the Man on Third

16. Whitey, the Chairman of the Board

17. Joe D's Stormy Marriage

18. Catfish in the Big Apple

19. Pete Rose, the Hit Man

Part 5: The Gladiators Fight to Succeed

20. Dempsey: The Manassas Mauler Goes Down

21. Ali

22. Billy vs. Reggie

23. Steinbrenner: A Yankee Doodle Dandy

Part 6: Heroes off the Field

24. Jackie Robinson: Like No One Else

25. Roberto Clemente's Triumph and Tragedy

26. Remembering Ring

27. The Captain

Part 7: On Getting Old

28. The Young Writer Meets the Aged Poet

29. The Last Summer of Stan the Man

30. Past Their Prime

31. Even Sportswriters get Old

32. Carl Furillo, 1922-1989

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR005152015

ISBN 13

9780071481199

ISBN 10

0071481192

Titel

Beyond the Boys of Summer Roger Kahn, PhD.,F-ABC

Autor

Roger Kahn, PhD.,F-ABC

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

McGraw-Hill Education - Europe

Datum

20070116

Anzahl der Seiten

400

Preise

N/A

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