Author: Sporting News
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Best Sports Stories, 1987
Author: Sporting News
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Monsters
Author: Rich Cohen
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374708959
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football is the New York Times bestselling gripping account of a once-in-a-lifetime team and their lone Super Bowl season. For Rich Cohen and millions of other fans, the 1985 Chicago Bears were more than a football team: they were the greatest football team ever—a gang of colorful nuts, dancing and pounding their way to victory. They won a Super Bowl and saved a city. It was not just that the Monsters of the Midway won, but how they did it. On offense, there was high-stepping running back Walter Payton and Punky QB Jim McMahon, who had a knack for pissing off Coach Mike Ditka as he made his way to the end zone. On defense, there was the 46: a revolutionary, quarterback-concussing scheme cooked up by Buddy Ryan and ruthlessly implemented by Hall of Famers such as Dan "Danimal" Hampton and "Samurai" Mike Singletary. On the sidelines, in the locker rooms, and in bars, there was the never-ending soap opera: the coach and the quarterback bickering on TV, Ditka and Ryan nearly coming to blows in the Orange Bowl, the players recording the "Super Bowl Shuffle" video the morning after the season's only loss. Cohen tracked down the coaches and players from this iconic team and asked them everything he has always wanted to know: What's it like to win? What's it like to lose? Do you really hate the guys on the other side? Were you ever scared? What do you think as you lie broken on the field? How do you go on after you have lived your dream but life has not ended? The result is Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football, a portrait not merely of a team but of a city and a game: its history, its future, its fallen men, its immortal heroes. But mostly it's about being a fan—about loving too much. This is a book about America at its most nonsensical, delirious, and joyful.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374708959
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football is the New York Times bestselling gripping account of a once-in-a-lifetime team and their lone Super Bowl season. For Rich Cohen and millions of other fans, the 1985 Chicago Bears were more than a football team: they were the greatest football team ever—a gang of colorful nuts, dancing and pounding their way to victory. They won a Super Bowl and saved a city. It was not just that the Monsters of the Midway won, but how they did it. On offense, there was high-stepping running back Walter Payton and Punky QB Jim McMahon, who had a knack for pissing off Coach Mike Ditka as he made his way to the end zone. On defense, there was the 46: a revolutionary, quarterback-concussing scheme cooked up by Buddy Ryan and ruthlessly implemented by Hall of Famers such as Dan "Danimal" Hampton and "Samurai" Mike Singletary. On the sidelines, in the locker rooms, and in bars, there was the never-ending soap opera: the coach and the quarterback bickering on TV, Ditka and Ryan nearly coming to blows in the Orange Bowl, the players recording the "Super Bowl Shuffle" video the morning after the season's only loss. Cohen tracked down the coaches and players from this iconic team and asked them everything he has always wanted to know: What's it like to win? What's it like to lose? Do you really hate the guys on the other side? Were you ever scared? What do you think as you lie broken on the field? How do you go on after you have lived your dream but life has not ended? The result is Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football, a portrait not merely of a team but of a city and a game: its history, its future, its fallen men, its immortal heroes. But mostly it's about being a fan—about loving too much. This is a book about America at its most nonsensical, delirious, and joyful.
Best Sports Stories 1989
Author: Tom (editor). Barnidge
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780892043330
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780892043330
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Best Sports Stories
Author: Sporting News
Publisher: Sporting News Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher: Sporting News Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract
Author: Bill James
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
This volume provides historical statistics & commentary on baseball.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
This volume provides historical statistics & commentary on baseball.
Best Sports Stories
Author: Irving T. Marsh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sports
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sports
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Best Sports Stories 1990
Author: Sporting News
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780892043538
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
An anthology of the best sports journalism and photography of 1989.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780892043538
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
An anthology of the best sports journalism and photography of 1989.
AB Bookman's Weekly
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
American Sportswriters and Writers on Sport
Author: Richard Orodenker
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Focuses on nineteenth-century sportswriters and certain writers born after 1930. Discusses the styles of sportswriting employed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes information on twentieth-century authors who crossed over from "serious" literature to sportswriting, as well as the history of sportswriting.
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Focuses on nineteenth-century sportswriters and certain writers born after 1930. Discusses the styles of sportswriting employed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes information on twentieth-century authors who crossed over from "serious" literature to sportswriting, as well as the history of sportswriting.
Sixteen Modern American Authors
Author: Jackson R. Bryer
Publisher: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Praise for the earlier edition: "Students of modern American literature have for some years turned to Fifteen Modern American Authors (1969) as an indispensable guide to significant scholarship and criticism about twentieth-century American writers. In its new form--Sixteenth Modern American Authors--it will continue to be indispensable. If it is not a desk-book for all Americanists, it is a book to be kept in the forefront of the bibliographical compartment of their brains."--American Studies
Publisher: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Praise for the earlier edition: "Students of modern American literature have for some years turned to Fifteen Modern American Authors (1969) as an indispensable guide to significant scholarship and criticism about twentieth-century American writers. In its new form--Sixteenth Modern American Authors--it will continue to be indispensable. If it is not a desk-book for all Americanists, it is a book to be kept in the forefront of the bibliographical compartment of their brains."--American Studies