I wore Babe Ruth's hat : field notes from a life in sports /
David W. Zang played junior high school basketball in a drained swimming pool. He wore a rubber suit to bed to make weight for a wrestling meet. He kept a log as an obsessive runner (not a jogger). In short, he soldiered through the life of an ordinary athlete. Whether pondering his long-unbuilt rep...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2015]
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Colección: | Sport and society.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Learning fundamentals
- Chip Hilton's sports cult
- The half-court snuff of Donnie Rose
- Dennis Kubeck ruins it for everyone
- Dark edges
- Failing to meet Jackie Robinson
- Beware!! Dangerous jocks ahead
- I wore babe Ruth's hat (and Poe's head)
- Look away, look away
- A long run toward mediocrity
- Wishful thinking
- A million answers short of heaven
- Impossible dreams
- Why Cal Ripken touched us
- To an athlete dying.