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Stars and stats from the world of sports
2002
Overview
With a chapter breakdown that includes prophets, fallen angels, saints, saviors and gods, the book wanders through sports history with sizzling prose, loads of photographs and, for effect, plenty of Renaissance religious paintings. The subject alone is intriguing, but ESPN gathered up some of the most excellent disciples of writing. Hunter Thompson takes the introduction, bringing his usual scathing prose and a great story about Richard Nixon. Robert Lipsyte promulgates the prophets, while Peter Carlson, in perhaps the book's finest chapter, presents the defrocked: Ty Cobb, Pete Rose, Bob Knight, Billy Martin and, of course, O.J. Simpson. Ralph Wiley raises the saviors, such as Babe Ruth, Tiger Woods, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson; and George Plimpton reveres the gods: Vince Lombardi, Ted Williams, Bill Russell, Jim Brown and a few other, lesser deities.
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Tribune Publishing Company, LLC
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