Lost in the Lights : Sports, Dreams, and Life /

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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, &...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hemphill, Paul, 1936-2009
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2003.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sports stories, American.
Manners and customs.
Recits de sports americains.
Southern States.
États-Unis (Sud) > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Southern States > Social life and customs.
Southern States > Fiction.
Fiction.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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