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The Best Of Frank Deford
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Author : Frank Deford
language : en
Publisher: Triumph Books
Release Date : 2013-05-01
The Best Of Frank Deford written by Frank Deford and has been published by Triumph Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Whether Frank Deford is the voice you hear on National Public Radio's Morning Edition or the name you see in the Newsweek byline, you are sure to be highly entertained with the irreverent musings of this much-acclaimed sports mind. Deford possesses a witty and poignant take on the world of athletics that has earned him a wealth of fans, from the most ardent sports enthusiast to the greenest novice. In this best of the best compilation, Deford creates insightful, richly, drawn yarns on the human drama and the occasional high comedy of athletic competition. The Best of Frank Deford relates not only the specific and the spectacular events that make up great sports writing, but reflects through sports the larger world of American culture. This is a grand collection of his most vivid caricatures, colorful anecdotes, and out-of-left-field observations on the often humbling and humorous nature of sport. The Best of Frank Deford is a treasure of Deford's best writing and will make an instant fan of any reader.
The World S Tallest Midget
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Author : Frank Deford
language : en
Publisher: Little Brown
Release Date : 1988-06-01
The World S Tallest Midget written by Frank Deford and has been published by Little Brown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-06-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
The sportswriter offers a collection of his memorable "Sports Illustrated" articles from the past fifteen years, capturing all the drama inherent in sports and offering profiles of legendary sports figures
Over Time
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Author : Frank Deford
language : en
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Release Date : 2012-05-01
Over Time written by Frank Deford and has been published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A New York Times bestseller: The “entertaining” memoir by the legendary American sportswriter (Chicago Tribune). Frank Deford joined Sports Illustrated in 1962, and over the following decades became one of the most beloved figures in sports journalism—renowned for everything from his NPR commentaries to his status as a Lite Beer All Star. From the Mad Men-like days of SI in the sixties, to the early NBA, to Deford’s visit to apartheid South Africa with Arthur Ashe, Over Time is packed with intriguing people and stories. Interwoven through his personal history, Deford lovingly traces the entire arc of American sportswriting from the lurid early days of the Police Gazette, through Grantland Rice and Red Smith and on up to ESPN, in a “wildly entertaining” memoir (Booklist, starred review). “Equal doses of self-deprecating humor and anecdotal history of American sports journalism.” —Chicago Tribune “Insightful remembrances of stars like Wilt Chamberlain and Billie Jean King . . . [Deford is] sports writing’s Sinatra.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Endearing . . . imparts a sense of a life well lived and fully enjoyed.” —The New York Times
Alex
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Author : Frank Deford
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2015-02-24
Alex written by Frank Deford and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A father’s moving memoir of cystic fibrosis “captures a brave child’s legacy as well as the continuing fight against the genetic disease” (The New York Times). In 1971 a girl named Alex was born with cystic fibrosis, a degenerative genetic lung disease. Although health-care innovations have improved the life span of CF patients tremendously over the last four decades, the illness remains fatal. Given only two years to live by her doctors, the imaginative, excitable, and curious little girl battled through painful and frustrating physical-therapy sessions twice daily, as well as regular hospitalizations, bringing joy to the lives of everyone she touched. Despite her setbacks, brave Alex was determined to live life like a typical girl—going to school, playing with her friends, traveling with her family. Ultimately, however, she succumbed to the disease in 1980 at the age of eight. Award-winning author Frank Deford, celebrated primarily as a sportswriter, was also a budding novelist and biographer at the time of his daughter’s birth. Deford kept a journal of Alex’s courageous stand against the disease, documenting his family’s struggle to cope with and celebrate the daily fight she faced. This book is the result of that journal. Alex relives the events of those eight years: moments as heartwarming as when Alex recorded herself saying “I love you” so her brother could listen to her whenever he wanted, and as heartrending as the young girl’s tragic, dawning realization of her own very tenuous mortality, and her parents’ difficulty in trying to explain why. Though Alex is a sad story, it is also one of hope; her greatest wish was that someday a cure would be found. Deford has written a phenomenal memoir about an extraordinary little girl.
The Entitled
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Author : Frank Deford
language : en
Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark
Release Date : 2007
The Entitled written by Frank Deford and has been published by Sourcebooks Landmark this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Fiction categories.
Sportswriter, screenwriter, and author Deford scores another hit with this novel of athletes behaving badly.
Bliss Remembered
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Author : Frank Deford
language : en
Publisher: ABRAMS
Release Date : 2011-07-26
Bliss Remembered written by Frank Deford and has been published by ABRAMS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-26 with Fiction categories.
An “entertaining and thought provoking” WWII-era novel of love, war, and sports, told with “a superb sense of character and period” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, American swimmer Sydney Stringfellow finds herself falling in love with Horst Gerhardt, a dashing young German. When the rising tide of global conflict tears them apart, Sydney returns to America, where she finds love again—in the arms of Jimmy Branch, an American man who takes her hand in marriage before shipping off to fight in World War II. And that is when Horst reappears in Sydney’s life, drawing her into a dilemma of passion, betrayal, and espionage. With Bliss, Remembered, the celebrated Frank Deford has produced “a work of enthralling historical fiction” that ranks with the best of his novels, including Everybody’s All American, which Sports Illustrated ranked as one of the twenty-five best sports books of all time (Library Journal, starred review).
Over Time
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Author : Frank Deford
language : en
Publisher: Grove Press
Release Date : 2013-04-30
Over Time written by Frank Deford and has been published by Grove Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A history of American sportswriting by the Emmy Award-winning Sports Illustrated writer traces the lurid early days of the Police Gazette through the current state of ESPN, providing coverage of such personal topics as his stint with the National Sports Daily, his visit to apartheid South Africa with Arthur Ashe and his recent 1,500th commentary on NPR's Morning Edition.
The Old Ball Game
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Author : Frank Deford
language : en
Publisher: Grove Press
Release Date : 2006-03-02
The Old Ball Game written by Frank Deford and has been published by Grove Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-02 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Focusing on the unusual friendship between John McGraw and Christy Mathewson, "The Old Ball Game" is a masterful chronicle of the early days of baseball from America's most beloved sportswriter. Illustrations throughout.
The Heart Of A Champion
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Author : Frank Deford
language : en
Publisher: Creative Publishing International
Release Date : 2002
The Heart Of A Champion written by Frank Deford and has been published by Creative Publishing International this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Presents the inspirational stories of great athletes and sports champions from the past seventy-five years who have been featured on Wheaties boxes.
Great Men Die Twice
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Author : Mark Kram
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2015-06-23
Great Men Die Twice written by Mark Kram and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-23 with Sports & Recreation categories.
A collection of classic essays by legendary sports journalist Mark Kram, Great Men Die Twice covers Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, George Best, Cool Papa Bell, and other memorable subjects. Imagine Mad Men set not in the advertising world but at 1960s Sports Illustrated, a place where the finest sports staff of any generation was attended by an open bar and almost unlimited expense account. This was the world Mark Kram lived and wrote in, along with his peers including Frank Deford, Dan Jenkins and other major talents. A high school graduate with a gift for revealing the hearts of his subjects, Kram would become one of the greatest sports writers of all time, covering the famed rivalry between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, Negro League baseball star Cool Papa Bell, doomed soccer legend George Best, Olympic gold medal sprinter Edwin Moses, and others. The New York Times obituary of Kram in June, 2002 saluted his work in SportsIllustrated by calling him one of its "most lyrical writers of the 1960s and 1970s." Great Men Die Twice selects his best work with a moving introduction by his son, Mark Kram Jr., the PEN/ESPN Award-winning author of Like Any Normal Day.