| Fathers & Sons & Sports: Great Writing by Buzz Bissinger, John Ed Bradley, Bill Geist, Donald Hall, Mark Kriegel, Norman Maclean, and others Contributor(s): Lupica, Mike (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1933060700 ISBN-13: 9781933060705 Publisher: Ballantine Group OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Essays - Family & Relationships | Parenting - Fatherhood - Sports & Recreation | Sociology Of Sports |
| Dewey: 796.097 |
| LCCN: 2009284680 |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 5.34" W x 8" (0.56 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Powerful stories about the way sports can bring together fathers and sons, to work out their differences and express their love for each other. Fathers & Sons & Sports presents a powerful lineup of real-world stories about fathers and sons playing one-on-one in the game of life, written by such great sportswriters and authors as Henry Aaron, as told to Cal Fussman - Michael J. Agovino - Buzz Bissinger - Jeff Bradley - John Ed Bradley - James Brown - Darcy Frey - Tom Friend - Bill Geist - Mike Golic - Donald Hall - Paul Hoffman - Mark Kriegel - Norman Maclean - John Buffalo Mailer - Ron Reagan - Peter Richmond - Jeremy Schaap - Lew Schneider - Dan Shaughnessy - Paul Solotaroff - John Jeremiah Sullivan - Wright Thompson - Steve Wulf The unforgettable accounts here include the stories of a professional football player passing on his father' s secrets to his own sons, a severely disabled boy discovering joy on a surfboard, a wealthy NFL player taking his coddled children back to the mean streets that made him, and a major league manager who must face the hard fact that nothing, not even unconditional love, can save his son. Anyone who has ever been a father or a son will see himself in these moving snapshots of family life at its most emotional. Whether the stories take place on a diamond, a court, a gridiron, a fairway, or a chessboard, they're all about the same subject: fatherhood, one of the world's most intriguing sports. |