Gods at play : an eyewitness account of great moments in American sports /

"A beautifully observed narrative of American sport: character, grit, tragedy, unremarked heroism, and, always, the illuminating story behind the story. As a columnist for the Cincinnati Enquirer, Washington Post, and Time magazine, Tom Callahan witnessed an extraordinary number of defining mom...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Callahan, Tom (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : In the confusion
  • The Empire State Building, the redwood trees
  • Whatever Clemente had to do, wherever he had to do it
  • Black men scare white men more than Black men scare Black men
  • I can define a gerund. Can you?
  • Blind mother, dead father; or, blind father, dead mother?
  • Down like Arthur and 4 across like Ashe
  • Hard, sad, used : it was a convention of hitchhikers
  • How did Secretariat work this morning? : the trees swayed
  • Joe Montana. Joe Montana. Joe Montana. Who is he?
  • Thomas! : a voice from the past! Bob Cousy!
  • Epilogue : Regular monkeys.