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Book Synopsis Sports Best Short Stories by : Paul D. Staudohar
Download or read book Sports Best Short Stories written by Paul D. Staudohar and published by Lawrence Hill Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of short stories about sports from such authors as E. Annie Proulx, P.G. Wodehouse, Ellery Queen, Jeffrey Archer, and Joyce Carol Oates.
Download or read book Athletic Shorts written by Chris Crutcher and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These six powerful short stories chronicle bits of the lives of characters, major and minor, who have walked the rugged terrain of Chris Crutcher's earlier works. They also introduce some new and unforgettable personalities who may well be heard from again in future books. As with all Crutcher's work, these are stories about athletes, and yet they are not sport stories. They are tales of love and death, bigotry and heroism, of real people doing their best even when that best isn't very good. Crutcher's straightforward style and total honesty have earned him an admiring audience and made readers of many nonreaders.
Book Synopsis Baseball's Best Short Stories by : Paul D. Staudohar
Download or read book Baseball's Best Short Stories written by Paul D. Staudohar and published by Lawrence Hill Books. This book was released on 1997-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology brings together 28 exceptional short stories about the great game of baseball. Written over several decades by some of America's famous writers, many of the stories are about the game itself; others use baseball as a backdrop for timeless themes, such as morality, greed, and love. All of them pay tribute to a game that has merged with America's national identity.
Book Synopsis The Norton Book of Sports by : George Plimpton
Download or read book The Norton Book of Sports written by George Plimpton and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories and other writings centering around sports for each season.
Download or read book Mannequin and Wife written by Jen Fawkes and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Phillip H. McMath Award for prose. In Mannequin and Wife, the debut story collection from Jen Fawkes, sharp and imaginative tales trip seamlessly across borderlands, navigating comedy and tragedy, psychological and magical realism, the mundane and the marvelous. Readers of these adventurous fictions will encounter a flock of stenographers, the strongest woman alive, a taxidermist with anger issues, an Elephant Girl, a fairy on her lunch break, and a married couple who live with a department store mannequin. Elsewhere, an American actor impersonates a code-breaking Britisher during World War II. A mother awaiting her son’s return discovers his personal ad soliciting the services of a cannibal (and fears the worst). A criminal mastermind’s protégé plots the destruction of Mount Rushmore from within an extinct volcano. A man buys a drive-in theater and transforms it into a carnival sideshow. And an attorney puzzles over how to leave someone his deceased client’s heart. Fawkes’s award-winning stories examine the vagaries of human relationships—mother and child, husband and wife, mentor and protégé—to tease out the startling complications that arise from our entanglements with those we loathe and those we love.
Book Synopsis And Nobody Got Hurt! by : Len Berman
Download or read book And Nobody Got Hurt! written by Len Berman and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Olympian who sacrificed a medal to save a competitor, a professional soccer player who was bribed out of retirement with pizza, a runaway pig who disrupted the start of a baseball game -- truth is stranger than fiction, especially in sports! In this sequel to his first compilation of sports bloopers and unbelievable stories, And Nobody Got Hurt", Today Show regular and Emmy Award-winning sportscaster Len Berman shares more of the funniest and most amazing stories in the history of sports, including favorite moments from his popular Spanning the World segments on NBC-TV.
Book Synopsis The Greatest Sports Stories Never Told by : Bruce M. Nash
Download or read book The Greatest Sports Stories Never Told written by Bruce M. Nash and published by Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 34 sports stories that may be beyond belief but have been forgotten.
Book Synopsis The Best American Short Stories of the Century by : John Updike
Download or read book The Best American Short Stories of the Century written by John Updike and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including one new story and an Index by author of every story that has ever appeared in the series, this new volume offers a "spectacular tapestry of fictional achievement" ("Entertainment Weekly").
Book Synopsis Sports Illustrated: Going Deep by : Gary Smith
Download or read book Sports Illustrated: Going Deep written by Gary Smith and published by Sports Illustrated. This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents twenty of the author's articles previously published in Sports Illustrated magazine, including reflections on the careers of Mia Hamm, Muhammad Ali, and Tiger Woods.
Book Synopsis The Cost of These Dreams by : Wright Thompson
Download or read book The Cost of These Dreams written by Wright Thompson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant New York Times bestseller! From one of America's most beloved sportswriters and the bestselling author of Pappyland, a collection of true stories about the dream of greatness and its cost in the world of sports. "Wright Thompson's stories are so full of rich characters, bad actors, heroes, drama, suffering, courage, conflict, and vivid detail that I sometimes thinks he's working my side of the street - the world of fiction." - John Grisham There is only one Wright Thompson. He is, as they say, famous if you know who he is: his work includes the most read articles in the history of ESPN (and it's not even close) and has been anthologized in the Best American Sports Writing series ten times, and he counts John Grisham and Richard Ford among his ardent admirers (see back of book). But to say his pieces are about sports, while true as far as it goes, is like saying Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove is a book about a cattle drive. Wright Thompson figures people out. He jimmies the lock to the furnaces inside the people he profiles and does an analysis of the fuel that fires their ambition. Whether it be Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods or Pat Riley or Urban Meyer, he strips the away the self-serving myths and fantasies to reveal his characters in full. There are fascinating common denominators: it may not be the case that every single great performer or coach had a complex relationship with his father, but it can sure seem that way. And there is much marvelous local knowledge: about specific sports, and times and places, and people. Ludicrously entertaining and often powerfully moving, The Cost of These Dreams is an ode to the reporter's art, and a celebration of true greatness and the high price that it exacts.
Book Synopsis Gods at Play: An Eyewitness Account of Great Moments in American Sports by : Tom Callahan
Download or read book Gods at Play: An Eyewitness Account of Great Moments in American Sports written by Tom Callahan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully observed narrative of American sport: character, grit, tragedy, unremarked heroism, and, always, the illuminating story behind the story. As a columnist for Time magazine, among many other publications, Tom Callahan witnessed an extraordinary number of defining moments in American sport across four decades. He takes us from Roberto Clemente clinching his 3,000th, and final, regular-season hit in Pittsburgh; to ringside for the Muhammad Ali–George Foreman fight in Zaire; and to Arthur Ashe announcing, at a news conference, that he’d tested positive for HIV. There are also little-known private moments: Joe Morgan whispering thank you to a virtually blind Jackie Robinson on the field at the 1972 World Series, or Kareem Abdul-Jabbar saying he was more interested in being a good man than in being the greatest basketball player. Brimming with colorful vignettes and enlivened by Callahan’s eye for detail, Gods at Play offers surprising portraits of the most celebrated names in sports. Roger Rosenblatt calls Callahan “the most complete sportswriter in America. He knows the most and writes the best."
Book Synopsis Amazing But True Sports Stories by : Phyllis Hollander
Download or read book Amazing But True Sports Stories written by Phyllis Hollander and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 1986 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes unusual events from the history of sports such as baseball, football, boxing, basketball, and hockey.
Book Synopsis Sports Illustrated: Almanac 2007 by : Editors of Sports Illustrated
Download or read book Sports Illustrated: Almanac 2007 written by Editors of Sports Illustrated and published by Sports Illustrated. This book was released on 2006-11-28 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's No. 1 sports almanac since its introduction 16 years ago, the Sports Illustrated Almanac has got it all covered, from football to fencing, hockey to handball, and everything in between. Spanning 864 pages, the Sports Illustrated Almanac features essays by top Sports Illustrated writers, all-time stats and records, and ticketing and venue information for pro baseball, basketball, football and hockey.
Download or read book Sports Shorts written by Joseph Bruchac and published by Darby Creek ™. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of short, autobiographical stories has kids’ book authors telling tales of their own real-life athletic incidents. Some are funny, some are serious, and some put their own twist on the whole “sports” concept. Eight stories from both “boys” and “girls” include tales of dodgeball, wrestling, track, softball, and ballet. Kids will relate to the struggling non-jocks as well as the athletes who take the trophy home.
Book Synopsis Baseball's Best Short Stories by : Paul D. Staudohar
Download or read book Baseball's Best Short Stories written by Paul D. Staudohar and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time available in paperback, this superb collection of short stories chronicles more than a century of America's love affair with baseball. A variety of writers from different eras pay tribute to the game that has merged with our national identity. Contributors include Robert Penn Warren, T. Coraghessan Boyle, James Thurber, Ring Lardner, and Garrison Keillor. Line drawings.
Book Synopsis Football's Best Short Stories by : Paul D. Staudohar
Download or read book Football's Best Short Stories written by Paul D. Staudohar and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively anthology of 21 stories and one classic poem about football, fathers and sons tackle their issues, coaches and quarterbacks collide, and ordinary heroes emerge from the blitz.
Book Synopsis Always Stand in Against the Curve by : Willie Morris
Download or read book Always Stand in Against the Curve written by Willie Morris and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willie Morris's collection of sports stories, Always Stand In Against The Curve, is a book for those of us lucky enough to have shot baskets under a driveway or shagged fly balls in open fields until it was too dark to see the hoop or the ball against the sky. In Morris's soulful point of view, sports is about growing up in America, radio broadcasts of the Brooklyn Dodgers in a Mississippi country store, girls with double names, practical jokes, small town coaches, the hold the past has on us, about running effortlessly in the sun. The novella, "The Fumble," is a sports classic about high school football in the Deep South. Set in the 1950s it describes a confrontation of mythic proportions between a small town football team from the "Delta" and the omnipotent Central High Tigers of Jackson, Mississippi. Each of the six autobiographical essays in this book form chapters of a Great American boyhood, beginning with Morris's farewells to high school and to American legion baseball, a road trip to Notre Dame with "Bevo," the University of Texas longhorn steer mascot, Rhodes scholars playing basketball in England, a writers-and-artists softball game in East Hampton, New York, in which the author admits he is too old to run the bases, and finally a journey back to Austin, Texas, in search of the past. To Willie Morris, sports are a gentle center in the eye of the storm, a clean world of instinct and action where one can work out the bruises of living, where the rituals of youth teach valuable lessons about winning and losing, about heroes and disillusionment, about finding a way to face the world.
