books about: sportswriter     books:       The Crowd Sounds Happy: A Story of Love, Madness, and Baseball8 reviews Nicholas Dawidoff Pantheon, 2008 A Grand Slam in the "Growing Up with Baseball" genre Among my all time favorites in the personal memoir about growing up with baseball are those of Doris Kearns Goodwin and Wilfrid Sheed. Nicholas DaWidoff's recent entry in this category has topped them all. It's not the usual "fathers playing catch with sons" story, for Dawidoff's parents were divorced and his father, suffering from mental illness, was an unsettling and sometimes looming ...             Bloody Confused!: A Clueless American Sportswriter Seeks Solace in English Soccer11 reviews Chuck Culpepper Broadway, 2008 Great insight into EPL Fandom I thought this was a great book to read. Even though i've been following the EPL for several years, this book brought a bird's eye view of the weekly grind of being a professional sports fan. Great bar stories as well! I also found it helpful to get a few tips on watching the EPL in person as an American traveler. I've always assumed you could just show up to a match that had seats ...             The Franchise Babe: A Novel12 reviews Dan Jenkins Doubleday, 2008 Fun,Truth,Sex&Laughter on the LPGAtour...Pure Jenkins Joy One more very funny,suitably sexist,terrifically politically incorrect, bit of DeadSolidPerfection...on the LPGA tour. Cynical Sportswriter finds enlightenment via TeenGolfGoddess & her mom, with the richly portrayed wacked characters,real tour insight,golf historiography,& drop your putter one-liners we expect from Dan Jenkins. Not the outragously rich bawdy banquet of earlier works,but ...             The Sportswriter106 reviews Richard Ford Vintage, 1995 sports for the mind Last night I finished reading Richard Ford's The Sportswriter. I read it a couple years after reading Independence Day. Although I didn't love Independence Day, I was curious to get back to the main character of both books, Frank Bascombe, and see what he had done earlier in his life. I think reviewers who don't like Frank Bascombe might have missed the point of the book. In my opinion, ...             Browns Scrapbook: A Fond Look Back at Five Decades of Football, from a Legendary Cleveland Sportswriter8 reviews Chuck Heaton Gray & Co., Publishers, 2007 Those Were The Days Chuck Heaton covered the Cleveland Browns from their beginnings in 1946 in the upstart All-America Football Conference through 1993 for The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer. These were years when local print journalism dominated team coverage and columnists mostly painted portraits of the stars, while not looking to upstage the story by injecting themselves into the debate. And it was a time when ...             A Few Seconds of Panic: A 5-Foot-8, 170-Pound, 43-Year-Old Sportswriter Plays in the NFL18 reviews Stefan Fatsis Penguin Press HC, The, 2008 Much more than a sports book (but a great sports book!) A Few Seconds of Panic is a fast-paced mix of all-American male fantasy, fear, guilty pleasure and gentle stab of "might have been" - while offering more laughs per page than any sports book in years. While the plot involves Fatsis improving his kicking to the point of non-embarrassment as part of the Denver Broncos, the deeper stories revolve around issues of belonging and achieving, of men ...             Beyond the Sports Huddle: Mona on Minnesota1 review Dave Mona Voyageur Press, 2008 Great Storytelling Reading Beyond the Sports Huddle: Mona on Minnesota is like listening to a good speaker. Author Dave Mona is a natural storyteller. The stories he tells span three decades of Minnesota sports history. Dave describes growing up in south Minneapolis, becoming a sports card collector and attending games at the old Nicollet Park. In a later section he shares stories about his experiences in ...             Two Years in St. Andrews: At Home on the 18th Hole13 reviews George Peper Simon & Schuster, 2006 If you love Golf you'll love this Book. This has to be one of the "Gems" of Golf Travel books. From start of finish I found this book well written, humorous, sophisticated and wonderfully self-effacing. I would like to meet George Peper; I'm sure we would get along very well. Maybe a game on the Old Course would do the trick. This is a fabulously entertaining tale of George and his wife's move to St. Andrews from an important ...             Rose Bowl Dreams: A Memoir of Faith, Family, and Football8 reviews Adam Jones Thomas Dunne Books, 2008 Can I get an Amen? Where else can you mix Shakespeare and football, Bloody Caesars and longnecks, playbooks and hymnals? Adam Jones weaves a lyrical tapestry out of what is essentially many large men fighting over a pigskin, and you don't even notice when the action moves from the kitchen to the stadium to the church and back again. That God is a pretty funny guy, too.             The Boys of Summer39 reviews Kahn Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006 The Book That Made Me A Baseball Fan Never really a dedicated sports fan, but a voracious and eclectic reader familiar with its reputation, I approached THE BOYS OF SUMMER fully expecting an excellent book about the Brooklyn Dodgers, but unprepared for what I found. Less a team history than a memoir of the best of times and the worst of times, author Roger Kahn, a former sportswriter for the late NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, has ...             The Unfortunates2 reviews B. S. Johnson New Directions, 2008 A Great Experiment B.S. Johnson's The Unfortunates is a remarkable book. The novel is broken into 27 pamphlet-sized sections. Except for the first and last sections, the remaining 25 sections are intended to be read in random order. The Unfortunates tells the story of a sportswriter who travels to a town to report on a soccer match only to discover he's been to the town several times before to visit an old ...             Red Zone9 reviews Mike Lupica Putnam Adult, 2003 the best $25 I've ever spent Everyone has done something that they subconsciously know they will regret later. Well, in Mike Lupica's Redzone, Jack Molloy knows that feeling intimately. He has recently sold half of the shares he owns in his family's football team to a self-righteous entrepreneur. With the sell having a negative effect on him in every aspect of his life he commits himself to obtaining his previously owned ...             Far Afield: A Sportswriting Odyssey4 reviews S. L. Price The Lyons Press, 2007 A great, fun, fast read! I don't even watch professional sports (other than tennis) and I loved reading this book!             No Cheering in the Press Box3 reviews Henry Holt & Co, 1995 Tales of Dempsey, Jones, Rockne, Ruth In the early 1970s, Jerome Holtzman interviewed 44 fellow sportswriters from the previous generation. He asked each to talk about his experiences covering sports. 18 of those reminiscences were published as NCITPB in 1973. Holtzman published a new edition, with 6 additional interviews, in 1995. The interviews were oral (ala Lawrence Ritter's The Glory of Their Times); reading them is akin to ...             Guys, Dolls, and Curveballs: Runyon on Baseball Da Capo Press, 2005 Guys, Dolls, and Curveballs is a delightful collection of ballpark dispatches from one of the game's most unique chroniclers?Damon Runyon, the legendary reporter and creator of such mythic gangster icons as Nathan Detroit and the Lemon Drop Kid. Best known as the bard of Broadway for turning two-bit hustlers and deadbeat horseplayers of Jazz Age New York City into literary legend, Runyon was first and foremost a newspaperman. After arriving in ...             Of Wee Sweetie Mice and Men4 reviews Colin Bateman Arcade Publishing, 1997 Black humour with a heart. A wonderful sequel to Divorcing Jack, still with the same black humour, but a little bit more sentimentality thrown in. It has you laughing, it has you crying, and you will enjoy every second of it. My favourite Bateman book by far.             Matt Christopher's All-Star Lineup (Sportswriter for Kids #1)3 reviews Matt Christopher Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 1997 This is an excellent book! THE BOOK THAT I READ WAS THE RETURN OF THE HOME RUN KID . THIS BOOK IS ABOUT ABOUT A BOY WHO WAS LABLED THE HOME RUN KID CAUSE HE HIT A LOT OF HOME RUNS AND NOW HE IS BACK . HE WAS OUT CAUSE OF AN INJURY AND PLUS AFTER HE WAS WELL THE SEASON ENDED CAUSE BASEBALL SEASON WAS OVER. IN THIS BOOK THE BOY DIDN'T GET OFF TO A GOOD START BUT LATER ON HE WAS HITTING HOME RUNS LEFT , RIGHT ,AND MIDDLE ...             One Last Read: The Collected Works of the World's Slowest Sportswriter2 reviews Ray Didinger Temple University Press, 2007 Fantastic Collection This is a must read for Philadelphia sports fans but also for anyone who appreciates well written articles and thoughtful opinions. Mr Didinger is in the writer's wing of the Pro Football Hall of Fame for a reason. And because it is a collection of articles throughout the years it is something one could stop and start several times without missing a beat.             Best Seat in the House: A Father, a Daughter, a Journey Through Sports5 reviews Christine Brennan Scribner, 2006 Dad, Title IX, and a world of sports In a world where male dominance in most sports is generally welcome and accepted, stories of women who defy the odds, dodge the criticism, and rise to success are indeed a rarity. The story of Christine Brennan is no exception. A successful writer for USA Today and The Washington Post, Brennan's ascension to a career in sports journalism and broadcasting, which was usually only reserved for ...             The Sweet Season: A Sportswriter Rediscovers Football, Family, and a Bit of Faith at Minnesota's St. John's ...25 reviews Austin Murphy Harper Paperbacks, 2002 A reminder of all that should be good in football. If you're as tired as I am of the NFL schlock, of having to take the time to remind the high school kids you coach every season that taunting and trash talking are not a part of the game, then you will absolutely love this book. Mr. Murphy is funny-- so funny, in fact, that several times I laughed so hard I couldn't even read the passage in question out loud to my wife and had to hand her the ...              search for books 170-pound, 43-year-old, 5-foot-8, all-star, american, baseball, cheering, christopher, cleveland, clueless, collected, confused, curveballs, daughter, football, franchise, legendary, madness, minnesota, odyssey, rediscovers, scrapbook, seconds, slowest, sportswriter, sportswriting, sweetie, through, unfortunates, university books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen sporting goods: Sigg Lifestyle Loop Top Water Bottle (1.0-Liters) we recommend sports for the mind home  impressum - about us