Sometimes They Even Shook Your Hand: Portraits of Champions Who Walked Among Us
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| 505 | 8 | |a Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; 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; 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 | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Reggie Jackson: The Ego Is a Lonely HunterPete 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 | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Willie Stargell: The Pirates' PatriarchFernando 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 andEverything 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 | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Buddy Delp: The Happy AnarchistBill 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; He Cramped His Own Style | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Larry Holmes: His Time and No One Else'sMuhammad Ali: No Garden Party; Marching Off to Slaughter; Ali! Ali! Ali!; Source Acknowledgments | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 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 u | |
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| spelling | Schulian, John Verfasser aut Sometimes They Even Shook Your Hand Portraits of Champions Who Walked Among Us Lincoln UNP - Bison Original 2011 1 online resource (341 pages) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Print version record Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; 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; 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 HunterPete 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' PatriarchFernando 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 andEverything 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 AnarchistBill 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; He Cramped His Own Style Larry Holmes: His Time and No One Else'sMuhammad Ali: No Garden Party; Marching Off to Slaughter; Ali! Ali! Ali!; Source Acknowledgments 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 u Sports and recreation / Essays BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports bisacsh Athletes fast Sports fast Geschichte Athletes United States Biography Sports United States History USA (DE-588)4006804-3 Biografie gnd-content Nack, William Sonstige oth Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Schulian, John Sometimes They Even Shook Your Hand : Portraits of Champions Who Walked Among Us http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=447377 Aggregator Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Schulian, John Sometimes They Even Shook Your Hand Portraits of Champions Who Walked Among Us Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; 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; 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 HunterPete 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' PatriarchFernando 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 andEverything 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 AnarchistBill 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; He Cramped His Own Style Larry Holmes: His Time and No One Else'sMuhammad Ali: No Garden Party; Marching Off to Slaughter; Ali! Ali! Ali!; Source Acknowledgments 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 u Sports and recreation / Essays BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports bisacsh Athletes fast Sports fast Geschichte Athletes United States Biography Sports United States History |
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