Powerful stories about the way sports can bring together fathers and sons, to work out their differences and express their love for each other.
Fathers & Sons & Sports presents a powerful lineup of real-world stories about fathers and sons playing one-on-one in the game of life, written by such great sportswriters and authors as Henry Aaron, as told to Cal Fussman – Michael J. Agovino – Buzz Bissinger – Jeff Bradley – John Ed Bradley – James Brown – Darcy Frey – Tom Friend – Bill Geist – Mike Golic – Donald Hall – Paul Hoffman – Mark Kriegel – Norman Maclean – John Buffalo Mailer – Ron Reagan – Peter Richmond – Jeremy Schaap – Lew Schneider – Dan Shaughnessy – Paul Solotaroff – John Jeremiah Sullivan – Wright Thompson – Steve Wulf The unforgettable accounts here include the stories of a professional football player passing on his father’ s secrets to his own sons, a severely disabled boy discovering joy on a surfboard, a wealthy NFL player taking his coddled children back to the mean streets that made him, and a major league manager who must face the hard fact that nothing, not even unconditional love, can save his son. Anyone who has ever been a father or a son will see himself in these moving snapshots of family life at its most emotional. Whether the stories take place on a diamond, a court, a gridiron, a fairway, or a chessboard, they’re all about the same subject: fatherhood, one of the world’s most intriguing sports.Author: Mike Lupica
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Group
Published: 05/26/2009
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.34w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9781933060705
Language: English
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