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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New York, NY :
W.W. Norton & Company,
2020.
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| 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.