Lost in the lights : sports, dreams, and life /
A veteran journalist's collection of sportswriting on the blue-collar South. Sport mirrors life. Or, in Paul Hemphill's opinion, 'Sport is life.' The 15 pieces in this compelling collection are arranged along the timeline for an aspiring athlete's dream: 'The Dawning, &...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
©2003.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- The dawning. White bread and baseball ; Big night, big city ; "I gotta let the kid go" ; Marty Malloy, 2b ; The kid and the third baseman
- The striving. Saturday night at Dixie Speedway ; The great Wallenda ; The boys of Stalag Thirteen ; It's a mad, mad, mad whirl ; We were champions, once
- The gloaming. Mister Cobb ; The Billy Ray Hunsinger Show ; On the bus ; Whatever happened to what's-his-name? ; Yesterday's hero.