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Sometimes They Even Shook Your Hand: Portraits of Champions Who Walked Among Us(English)

Sometimes They Even Shook Your Hand: Portraits of Champions Who Walked Among Us(English)

          
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John Schulian, a much-honored sportswriter for nearly forty years, takes us back to a time when our greatest athletes stood before us as human beings, not remote gods. In this compelling collection, Schulian paints prose portraits to remind fans of what today’s cloistered stars won’t share with them.   Here, Willie Mays remembers how to smile in dreaded retirement; Muhammad Ali muses about a world that was once his. For every moment of triumph-Joe Montana in the Super Bowl, Marvelous Marvin Hagler over Thomas Hearns-there is another filled with the heartache that Pete Maravich felt when he hung up his basketball shoes.   The result is a book guaranteed to stir memories for the generation that was-and to leave subsequent generations wishing they had it so good.

Table of Contents:
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     


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780803237766
  • Publisher: Bison Original
  • Publisher Imprint: Bison
  • Depth: 25
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 21 mm
  • Weight: 408 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0803237766
  • Publisher Date: 01 Oct 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Portraits of Champions Who Walked Among Us
  • Width: 140 mm


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