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Sometimes They Even Shook Your Hand: Portraits of Champions Who Walked Among Us de John Schulian

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

Autor John Schulian Cuvânt înainte de William Nack
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2011
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780803237766
ISBN-10: 0803237766
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bison Original
Colecția Bison Books
Locul publicării:United States

Notă biografică

John Schulian’s work has been included in Best American Sports Writing and Sports Illustrated’s Fifty Years of Great Writing. His many books include The John Lardner Reader and Twilight of the Long-Ball Gods: Dispatches from the Disappearing Heart of Baseball, both available in Bison Books editions. William Nack is the author of Secretariat: The Making of a Champion and Ruffian: A Racetrack Romance.

Cuprins

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 
 
 

Recenzii

"These pieces, and Schulian's longer profiles written for other publications around that time—such as a fine portrait of the cerebral but hard-hitting Bears safety Gary Fencik, for GQ—have traveled well and together capture an era ever worth remembering."—Alan Moores, Booklist

"If today's center fielders and point guards seem like lesser figures than men like Maravich and Charleston, that's primarily because they are so much more heavily covered but also because so much of that coverage is needlessly cruel. Without falsely inflating them or hiding their weaknesses, Mr. Schulian made one generation of athletes worthy subjects of wonder. Had Hollywood not called, you suspect, he'd have done the same for another."—Tim Marchman, Wall Street Journal

"Whether discoursing on boxing, horse racing, tennis players or Olympic swimmers, John Schulian delivers tales replete with the elements that make fiction come alive. Readers of a certain age will experience a walk down memory lane and others will have the pleasure of meeting some of the greatest, most interesting and human sports figures they have never heard of."—Phyllis Hanlon, New York Journal of Books

"Like a pinch hitter who steps to the plate at a crucial point in the game, John Schulian rises magnificently to the occasion. . . . These essays are pungent and heartfelt and knowing. They come at you straight and strong."—Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune

"Whichever way you take the title, the book is full of fine writing. Schulian deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as some of his heroes, including the aforementioned Smith and Heinz. Thanks to University of Nebraska Press for collecting this work."—NPR's Only a Game

"Looking back through the years in sports reveals much about the culture and society in which we live. It's hard to imagine Babe Ruth getting away with his trysts in a TMZ society. Or Wilt Chamberlain saying whatever comes into his head on Twitter. This is why John Schulian's recent book, Sometimes They Even Shook Your Hand, is an intriguing look back at a time when athletes behaved a lot differently with their fan base."—Krystina Lucido, PressBox