Author: Bo Jackson
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN: 9780385416207
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Biography of a ball player.
Bo Jackson, Pro Sports Superstar
Author: Thomas R. Raber
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 9780822504870
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
A biography of the popular athlete who plays both professional baseball and professional football.
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 9780822504870
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
A biography of the popular athlete who plays both professional baseball and professional football.
Sports Great Bo Jackson
Author: Ron Knapp
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780894902819
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
This book tells the story of how Bo Jackson, who grew up in a poor and tough neighborhood, managed to become the first athlete to play professional football and baseball on a superstar level.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780894902819
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
This book tells the story of how Bo Jackson, who grew up in a poor and tough neighborhood, managed to become the first athlete to play professional football and baseball on a superstar level.
Bo Knows Bo
Author: Bo Jackson
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN: 9780385416207
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Biography of a ball player.
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN: 9780385416207
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Biography of a ball player.
The Last Folk Hero
Author: Jeff Pearlman
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0358438713
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
New York Times Bestseller • The ultimate gift for sports lovers By the author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definitive biography of mythic multi-sport star Bo Jackson. “A legendary tome on a legendary athlete." —Chris Herring, author of Blood in the Garden From the mid-1980s into the early 1990s, the greatest athlete of all time streaked across American sports and popular culture. Stadiums struggled to contain him. Clocks failed to capture his speed. His strength was legendary. His power unmatched. Video game makers turned him into an invincible character—and they were dead-on. He climbed (and walked across) walls, splintered baseball bats over his knee, turned oncoming tacklers into ground meat. He became the first person to simultaneously star in two major professional sports, and overtook Michael Jordan as America’s most recognizable pitchman. He was on our televisions, in our magazines, plastered across billboards. He was half man, half myth. Then, almost overnight, he was gone. He was Bo Jackson. Drawing on an astonishing 720 original interviews, New York Times bestselling sportswriter Jeff Pearlman captures as never before the elusive truth about Jackson, Auburn University’s transcendent Heisman Trophy winner, superstar of both the NFL and Major League Baseball and ubiquitous “Bo Knows” Nike pitchman. Did Bo really jump over a parked Volkswagen? (Yes.) Did he actually run a 4.13 40? (Yes.) During the 1991 flight that nearly killed every member of the Chicago White Sox, was he in the cockpit trying to help? (Oddly, yes. Or no. Or … maybe.) Bo Jackson isn’t Jim Thorpe. He’s not Deion Sanders, either. No, Bo Jackson is Paul Bunyan. The Last Folk Hero is the true tale of Bo Jackson that only “master storyteller” (NPR.org) Jeff Pearlman could tell.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0358438713
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
New York Times Bestseller • The ultimate gift for sports lovers By the author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definitive biography of mythic multi-sport star Bo Jackson. “A legendary tome on a legendary athlete." —Chris Herring, author of Blood in the Garden From the mid-1980s into the early 1990s, the greatest athlete of all time streaked across American sports and popular culture. Stadiums struggled to contain him. Clocks failed to capture his speed. His strength was legendary. His power unmatched. Video game makers turned him into an invincible character—and they were dead-on. He climbed (and walked across) walls, splintered baseball bats over his knee, turned oncoming tacklers into ground meat. He became the first person to simultaneously star in two major professional sports, and overtook Michael Jordan as America’s most recognizable pitchman. He was on our televisions, in our magazines, plastered across billboards. He was half man, half myth. Then, almost overnight, he was gone. He was Bo Jackson. Drawing on an astonishing 720 original interviews, New York Times bestselling sportswriter Jeff Pearlman captures as never before the elusive truth about Jackson, Auburn University’s transcendent Heisman Trophy winner, superstar of both the NFL and Major League Baseball and ubiquitous “Bo Knows” Nike pitchman. Did Bo really jump over a parked Volkswagen? (Yes.) Did he actually run a 4.13 40? (Yes.) During the 1991 flight that nearly killed every member of the Chicago White Sox, was he in the cockpit trying to help? (Oddly, yes. Or no. Or … maybe.) Bo Jackson isn’t Jim Thorpe. He’s not Deion Sanders, either. No, Bo Jackson is Paul Bunyan. The Last Folk Hero is the true tale of Bo Jackson that only “master storyteller” (NPR.org) Jeff Pearlman could tell.
Bo Jackson
Author: Ellen E. White
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 9780590440752
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Traces the baseball and football player's career from his boyhood in Alabama, through his years as a schoolboy and college star, and his decision to try a career in both sports, to his present remarkable position.
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 9780590440752
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Traces the baseball and football player's career from his boyhood in Alabama, through his years as a schoolboy and college star, and his decision to try a career in both sports, to his present remarkable position.
Bo Jackson
Author: Bill Gutman
Publisher: Archway Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780671733636
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Biography of the African American who's impressive achievements in both baseball and football remain of great interest to young sports fans.African American.
Publisher: Archway Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780671733636
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Biography of the African American who's impressive achievements in both baseball and football remain of great interest to young sports fans.African American.
Bigger Than the Game
Author: Michael Weinreb
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1592406378
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A mesmerizing look at sports in the 1980s - when athletes became superstars, mavericks replaced heroes, and sports moved to the forefront of American culture. In the 1980s America sent to the White House an actor and ex-jock who fervently believed in the power of personal mythology, and Americans turned to sports to find their heroes. There was Bo Jackson, the man so strong he could break a baseball bat over his knee, the man whose athletic talents ran so deep that he starred in two sports while becoming a marketing pioneer. There was Jim McMahon, the Punky QB leading his Chicago Bears to Super Bowl glory while tending to his shades, his faux-hawk, and his can of beer. There was Brian Bosworth, terrorizing quarterbacks and averring that the NCAA stood for National Communists Against Athletes. And there was Len Bias, the best college basketball player in America and future of America's best pro team, off to celebrate his selection as the number two pick in the NBA Draft and the power and money that would soon be his. In Bigger Than the Game, award-winning author Michael Weinreb explores the era when athletes evolved from humble and honest to brash and branded. Weinreb explains how these players lived their lives in America's living room, thanks to a new outfit called ESPN and the 24- hour news cycle that came of age in the (apostrophe?) 80s. They starred in music videos and in ad campaigns that promised they could do anything. They spurned their coaches, defied expectations, and were loved for it. In an era of "Just Say No," they said yes to just about everything. An enthralling portrait of a fascinating period and its larger-than- life personalities, Bigger Than the Game recounts how excess, media, and the lust for fame changed American sports forever.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1592406378
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A mesmerizing look at sports in the 1980s - when athletes became superstars, mavericks replaced heroes, and sports moved to the forefront of American culture. In the 1980s America sent to the White House an actor and ex-jock who fervently believed in the power of personal mythology, and Americans turned to sports to find their heroes. There was Bo Jackson, the man so strong he could break a baseball bat over his knee, the man whose athletic talents ran so deep that he starred in two sports while becoming a marketing pioneer. There was Jim McMahon, the Punky QB leading his Chicago Bears to Super Bowl glory while tending to his shades, his faux-hawk, and his can of beer. There was Brian Bosworth, terrorizing quarterbacks and averring that the NCAA stood for National Communists Against Athletes. And there was Len Bias, the best college basketball player in America and future of America's best pro team, off to celebrate his selection as the number two pick in the NBA Draft and the power and money that would soon be his. In Bigger Than the Game, award-winning author Michael Weinreb explores the era when athletes evolved from humble and honest to brash and branded. Weinreb explains how these players lived their lives in America's living room, thanks to a new outfit called ESPN and the 24- hour news cycle that came of age in the (apostrophe?) 80s. They starred in music videos and in ad campaigns that promised they could do anything. They spurned their coaches, defied expectations, and were loved for it. In an era of "Just Say No," they said yes to just about everything. An enthralling portrait of a fascinating period and its larger-than- life personalities, Bigger Than the Game recounts how excess, media, and the lust for fame changed American sports forever.
Bo Jackson
Author: John Rolfe
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
A biography of the star athlete who plays both professional baseball and football.
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
A biography of the star athlete who plays both professional baseball and football.
Sweetness
Author: Jeff Pearlman
Publisher: Avery
ISBN: 1592407374
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The definitive biography of Chicago Bears and Hall of Fame superstar Walter Payton. Based on meticulous research and interviews with nearly 700 contacts, an unforgettable portrait that describes a man who lived his life just like he played the game: at full speed.
Publisher: Avery
ISBN: 1592407374
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The definitive biography of Chicago Bears and Hall of Fame superstar Walter Payton. Based on meticulous research and interviews with nearly 700 contacts, an unforgettable portrait that describes a man who lived his life just like he played the game: at full speed.
Bo Jackson
Author: Thomas R. Raber
Publisher: First Avenue Editions
ISBN: 9780822595854
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
A biography of the popular athlete who plays both professional baseball and professional football.
Publisher: First Avenue Editions
ISBN: 9780822595854
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
A biography of the popular athlete who plays both professional baseball and professional football.