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English
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In this first volume of his Frank Bascombe trilogy, Bascombe is a sportswriter attempting to cope with his failed marriage and the death of his son. Unable to establish true connections with people, Bascombe drifts into and out of various relationships, but retains an introspective eye that allows him to transcend life's obstacles.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xii, 241 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"An empowering, unabashedly bold memoir by the Atlantic journalist and former ESPN SportsCenter co-anchor about overcoming a legacy of pain and forging a new path, no matter how uphill life's battles might be"--
Author
Language
English
Description
This is a book about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then went on to play for one of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded, the team that broke the color barrier with Jackie Robinson. It is a book by and about a sportswriter who grew up near Ebbets Field, and who had the good fortune in the 1950s to cover the Dodgers for the Herald Tribune. This is a book about what happened to Jackie, Carl Erskine,...
6) Road swing
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
245 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016].
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Examines the career of Mary Garber, who "was a sportswriter for fifty-six years and was the first woman to receive the Associated Press Sports Editors Red Smith Award, presented for major contributions in sports journalism. And now, every year the Association of Women in Sports Media presents the Mary Garber Pioneer Award in her honor to a role model for women in sports media"--Amazon.com.
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Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed New Yorker writer and editor, a compendium of writings that celebrate the view from the tenth decade of his richly lived life In February 2014, The New Yorker published an essay by Roger Angell called "This Old Man," a meditation on life at age ninety-three. With great humor and not an ounce of self-pity or sentimentality, Angell wrote about health, mind, and memory; reckoning with the past and a long list of friends and family...
Author
Publisher
Red Lightning Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
vii, 240 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Strike fast, strike hard-whether it's scoring a homerun or front-page news, Diane K. Shah, former sports columnist, knows how to grab the best story. In her memoir A Farewell to Arms, Legs, and Jockstraps, follow Diane's escapades, from interviews with a tipsy Mickey Mantle, to sneaking into off limits Republican galas, dining with Frank Sinatra, flying a plane with Dennis Quaid, and countless other adventures where she wields her tape recorder and...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
©2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 266 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; illustrations, portraits, photographs ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A colorful, sentimental, hilarious, and cantankerous memoir about his lifelong journey through the world of sports"-- Page [2] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 290 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The author remembers eight people who shaped his identity as a father, writer, and friend, from Jackie Robinson and Robert Frost to his athletic scholar son, who died at the age of twenty-three.
14) Let me finish
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English
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For more than fifty years, as both editor of and contributor for The New Yorker, Roger Angell has honed a reputation as a master of the autobiographic essay-sharp-witted, plucky, and at once nostalgic and unsentimental. In Let Me Finish, Angell reflects on a remarkable life (while admitting to not really remembering the essentials) and on its influences large and small-from growing up in Prohibition-era New York, to his boyhood romance with baseball,...
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English
Description
"On a creepy island where everyone has a strange obsession with the year 1994, a newcomer arrives, hoping to learn the truth about her son's death-but finds herself pulled deeper and deeper into the bizarrely insular community and their complicated rules..."--
Clifford Island. When Willow Stone finds these words written on the floor of her deceased son's bedroom, she's perplexed. She's never heard of it before, but soon learns it's a tiny island...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
224 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Iconic humorist Dan Jenkins brings his matchless sense of hilarity to this riotous send-up of professional golf. Forty-something sportswriter Jack Brannon is bored to tears with the men's tour. So he decides to check out Ginger Clayton, the hot, new franchise babe on the ladies' links. Things get interesting in a hurry, as it becomes clear somebody wants the gorgeous superstar disqualified for good.
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After the unexpected death of his wife, a sportswriter finds himself consumed with grief and completely unprepared to raise two boys. Determined to bring joy back into their lives, he takes a 'just say yes' approach to parenting. And as freedom reigns, chaos ensues.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
vi, 354 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book is as unconventional and wide-ranging as the author's remarkable career, in which he has chronicled the heroes and the characters of just about every sport in nearly every medium. He joined Sports Illustrated in 1962, fresh out of Princeton. They called him "the Kid," and he made his reputation with dumb luck discovering fellow Princetonian Bill Bradley and a Canadian teenager named Bobby Orr. These were the Mad Men-like 1960s, and he recounts...
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