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The Last Folk Hero

Jeff Pearlman
The Last Folk Hero Book PDF

Author : Jeff Pearlman
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780358438717

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New York Times Bestseller • The ultimate gift for sports lovers By the author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definitive biography of mythic multi-sport star Bo Jackson. “A legendary tome on a legendary athlete." —Chris Herring, author of Blood in the Garden From the mid-1980s into the early 1990s, the greatest athlete of all time streaked across American sports and popular culture. Stadiums struggled to contain him. Clocks failed to capture his speed. His strength was legendary. His power unmatched. Video game makers turned him into an invincible character—and they were dead-on. He climbed (and walked across) walls, splintered baseball bats over his knee, turned oncoming tacklers into ground meat. He became the first person to simultaneously star in two major professional sports, and overtook Michael Jordan as America’s most recognizable pitchman. He was on our televisions, in our magazines, plastered across billboards. He was half man, half myth. Then, almost overnight, he was gone. He was Bo Jackson. Drawing on an astonishing 720 original interviews, New York Times bestselling sportswriter Jeff Pearlman captures as never before the elusive truth about Jackson, Auburn University’s transcendent Heisman Trophy winner, superstar of both the NFL and Major League Baseball and ubiquitous “Bo Knows” Nike pitchman. Did Bo really jump over a parked Volkswagen? (Yes.) Did he actually run a 4.13 40? (Yes.) During the 1991 flight that nearly killed every member of the Chicago White Sox, was he in the cockpit trying to help? (Oddly, yes. Or no. Or … maybe.) Bo Jackson isn’t Jim Thorpe. He’s not Deion Sanders, either. No, Bo Jackson is Paul Bunyan. The Last Folk Hero is the true tale of Bo Jackson that only “master storyteller” (NPR.org) Jeff Pearlman could tell.

The Last Folk Hero

Andrew Dietz
The Last Folk Hero Book PDF

Author : Andrew Dietz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : African American art
ISBN : UOM:39015047303576

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Sweetness

Jeff Pearlman
Sweetness Book PDF

Author : Jeff Pearlman
Publisher : Avery
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781592407378

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Sweetness by Jeff Pearlman Pdf

Traces the life and career of the late Chicago Bears star, from his early athletic triumphs that helped bridge racial gaps in his segregated Mississippi childhood community through the tragic illness that ended his life.

Bo Knows Bo

Bo Jackson,Dick Schaap
Bo Knows Bo Book PDF

Author : Bo Jackson,Dick Schaap
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : African American baseball players
ISBN : 0385416202

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Bo Knows Bo by Bo Jackson,Dick Schaap Pdf

Biography of a ball player.

Folk Heroes and Heroines around the World, 2nd Edition

Graham Seal,Kim Kennedy White
Folk Heroes and Heroines around the World 2nd Edition Book PDF

Author : Graham Seal,Kim Kennedy White
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781440838613

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Folk Heroes and Heroines around the World, 2nd Edition by Graham Seal,Kim Kennedy White Pdf

This comprehensive collection of folk hero tales builds on the success of the first edition by providing readers with expanded contextual information on story characters from the Americas to Zanzibar. • Supplies entries on folk tale characters worldwide that identify related heroes and heroines and provide additional contextual information • Features a geographical organization that enables readers to research a specific region's folk characters • Provides an alphabetical index as well as an index of heroic character types to facilitate cross-cultural and historical comparisons • Includes sidebars with passages from the folk tales, popular culture, and other items of interest

The Rocket That Fell to Earth

Jeff Pearlman
The Rocket That Fell to Earth Book PDF

Author : Jeff Pearlman
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780061886720

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The Rocket That Fell to Earth by Jeff Pearlman Pdf

“Pearlman’s book develops a stark, unsparing picture of Clemens’s life that surpasses anything that’s come before.” —Boston Globe New York Times bestselling author Jeff Pearlman reconstructs pitcher Roger Clemens's life—from his Ohio childhood to the mounds of Fenway Park and Yankee Stadium—to reveal a flawed and troubled man whose rage for baseball immortality took him to superhuman heights before he crashed down to earth. A fearless, hard-nosed Texan with a 98-mph fastball and a propensity to throw at the heads of opposing hitters, Roger “the Rocket” Clemens won 354 games, an unprecedented seven Cy Young Awards, and two World Series trophies over the course of twenty-four seasons. But the statistics and hoopla obscured a far darker story—one of playoff chokes, womanizing (including a long-term affair with a teenage country singer), violent explosions, steroid and human growth hormone use. . . and an especially dark secret that Clemens spent a lifetime trying to hide: a family tragedy involving drugs and, ultimately, death.

Gunslinger

Jeff Pearlman
Gunslinger Book PDF

Author : Jeff Pearlman
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780544453678

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Gunslinger by Jeff Pearlman Pdf

“Over two decades, Brett Favre was as compelling a figure as any in the National Football League. He alone was 'Must-See TV.' In Gunslinger, Jeff Pearlman provides an extraordinary look at every facet of the life of a man who performed on sport's grandest stage and who had one helluva time along the way.”—Al Michaels In Gunslinger, Jeff Pearlman tells Brett Favre’s story for the first time, charting his unparalleled journey from a rough rural childhood and lackluster high school football career to landing the last scholarship at Southern Mississippi, to a car accident that nearly took his life, and eventually to the NFL and Green Bay, where he restored the Packers to greatness and inspired a fan base as passionate as any in the game. Yet he struggled with demons: addiction, infidelity, the loss of his father, and a fraught, painfully prolonged exit from the game he loved, a game he couldn’t bear to leave. Gritty and revelatory, Gunslinger is a big sports biography of the highest order, a fascinating portrait of the man with the rocket arm whose life has been one of triumph, fame, tragedy, embarrassment, and—ultimately—redemption. “The compelling, complete story of his legend, and his faults.”—Chicago Tribune

Encyclopedia of Folk Heroes

Graham Seal
Encyclopedia of Folk Heroes Book PDF

Author : Graham Seal
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781576072165

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Encyclopedia of Folk Heroes by Graham Seal Pdf

Entries describe the origins and deeds of folk heroes as they have existed in folktales, songs, oral tradition, and other folklore genres.

Love Me, Hate Me

Jeff Pearlman
Love Me Hate Me Book PDF

Author : Jeff Pearlman
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780061747052

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Love Me, Hate Me by Jeff Pearlman Pdf

From acclaimed sports writer and bestselling author Jeff Pearlman, a searing and insightful look into the life and career of Barry Bonds, one of the most celebrated, contradictory and controversial sports figures of our time No player in the history of baseball has left such an indelible mark on the game as Barry Bonds. In his twenty-year career, Bonds has amassed an unprecedented 7 Most Valuable Player awards, 8 Gold Gloves, and more than 700 home runs (and counting), an impressive assortment of feats that has earned him the consideration as one of the greatest players the game has ever seen. Equally deserved, however, is his reputation as an insufferable braggart, whose mythical home runs are rivaled only by his legendary ego. From his staggering ability and fabled pedigree (father Bobby played outfield for the Giants; cousin Reggie and godfather Willie are both Hall of Famers), to his well-documented run-ins with teammates and his alleged steroid abuse, Bonds inspires a like amount of passion from both sides of the fence. For many, Bonds belongs beside Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron in baseball’s holy trinity; for others, he embodies all that is wrong with the modern athlete: aloof; arrogant; alienated. Drawing on extensive interviews with Bonds himself, members of his family, former and current managers, teammates, opponents, trainers, outspoken critics, and unapologetic supporters alike, Pearlman reveals, for the first time, a wonderfully nuanced portrait of a prodigiously talented—and immensely flawed—American icon, whose controversial run at baseball immortality forever changed the way we look at our sports heroes.

Boys Will Be Boys

Jeff Pearlman
Boys Will Be Boys Book PDF

Author : Jeff Pearlman
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780061982385

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Boys Will Be Boys by Jeff Pearlman Pdf

New York Times bestseller From celebrated sports writer Jeff Pearlman, author of The Bad Guys Won, a rollicking, completely unabashed account of the glory days of the legendary Dallas Cowboys They were called America's Team. Led by Emmitt Smith, the charismatic Deion "Prime Time" Sanders, Hall of Famers Troy Aikman and Michael Irvin—and lorded over by swashbuckling, power-hungry owner Jerry Jones and his two hard-living coaches, Jimmy Johnson and Barry Switzer—the Cowboys seemed indomitable on the football field throughout the 1990s. Off the field the 'Boys were a dysfunctional circus, fueled by ego, sex, drugs, and jaw-dropping excess. What they achieved on game day was astonishing; what they did the rest of the week was unbelievable. Boys Will Be Boys is the story of the Dallas Cowboys in their prime—a team of wild-partying, out-of-control glory-hounds that won three Super Bowls in four years and earned their rightful place in sports lore as the most beloved and despised dynasty in NFL history.

Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero

Michael DeForge
Sticks Angelica Folk Hero Book PDF

Author : Michael DeForge
Publisher : Drawn and Quarterly
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1770462708

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Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero by Michael DeForge Pdf

A Johnson has his Boswell and every Sticks Angelica has her Michael DeForge Sticks Angelica is, in her own words, “49 years old. Former: Olympian, poet, scholar, sculptor, minister, activist, Governor General, entrepreneur, line cook, headmistress, Mountie, columnist, libertarian, cellist.” After a high-profile family scandal, Sticks escapes to the woods to live in what would be relative isolation were it not for the many animals that surround and inevitably annoy her. Sticks is an arrogant self-obsessed force who wills herself on the flora and fauna. There is a rabbit named Oatmeal who harbors an unrequited love for her, a pair of kissing geese, a cross-dressing moose absurdly named Lisa Hanawalt. When a reporter named, ahem, Michael DeForge shows up to interview Sticks for his biography on her, she quickly slugs him and buries him up to his neck, immobilizing him. Instead, Sticks narrates her way through the forest, recalling formative incidents from her storied past in what becomes a strange sort of autobiography. Deforge’s witty dialogue and deadpan narration create a bizarre, yet eerily familiar world. Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero plays with autobiography, biography, and hagiography to look at how we build our own sense of self and how others carry on the roles we create for them in our own personal dramas.

Ted Williams

Leigh Montville
Ted Williams Book PDF

Author : Leigh Montville
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385507493

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Ted Williams by Leigh Montville Pdf

The Kid. The Splendid Splinter. Teddy Ballgame. One of the greatest figures of his generation, and arguably the greatest baseball hitter of all time. But what made Ted Williams a legend – and a lightning rod for controversy in life and in death? Still a gangly teenager when he stepped into a Boston Red Sox uniform in 1939, Williams’s boisterous personality and penchant for towering home runs earned him adoring admirers and venomous critics. In 1941, the entire country followed Williams's stunning .406 season, a record that has not been touched in over six decades. Then at the pinnacle of his prime, Williams left Boston to train and serve as a fighter pilot in World War II, missing three full years of baseball, making his achievements all the more remarkable. Ted Willams's personal life was equally colorful. His attraction to women (and their attraction to him) was a constant. He was married and divorced three times and he fathered two daughters and a son. He was one of corporate America's first modern spokesmen, and he remained, nearly into his eighties, a fiercely devoted fisherman. With his son, John Henry Williams, he devoted his final years to the sports memorabilia business, even as illness overtook him. And in death, controversy and public outcry followed Williams and the disagreements between his children over the decision to have his body preserved for future resuscitation in a cryonics facility--a fate, many argue, Williams never wanted. With unmatched verve and passion, and drawing upon hundreds of interviews, acclaimed best-selling author Leigh Montville brings to life Ted Williams's superb triumphs, lonely tragedies, and intensely colorful personality, in a biography that is fitting of an American hero and legend.

Finn McCoul

Brian Gleeson
Finn McCoul Book PDF

Author : Brian Gleeson
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 159679223X

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Finn McCoul by Brian Gleeson Pdf

Retells the Irish folktale in which the gaint Finn McCoul and his very clever wife defeat the brutish giant Cuculin.

God's Coach

Skip Bayless
God s Coach Book PDF

Author : Skip Bayless
Publisher : Diversion Books
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781626811621

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God's Coach by Skip Bayless Pdf

“No football fan will want to miss this one.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY “A searing character study…a breathless, can’t-put-it-down read.” —LOS ANGELES TIMES “As savvy, dirt-dishing expose.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS From nationally-acclaimed journalist and ESPN commentator Skip Bayless, the newly updated eBook edition of the classic bestseller GOD'S COACH. First published in 1990, this unforgettable expose tears the metallic blue shine off the legendary star, revealing the truth about ‘America’s Team’ and its beloved head coach Tom Landry, whose much-regaled Christian charity extended to strangers everywhere, yet stopped short of the team who labored under him. From the hangover that led Jerry Jones to buy the team, to the wild ride of the Staubach era, Bayless strips away the image of the team created by the most powerful PR machine in sports, revealed by insiders willing to break their silence. Packed with unparalleled insight into one of the most storied franchises in the history of sports, GOD'S COACH is a compelling revelation about a corrupt football franchise that dared call itself America’s Team. Skip Bayless appears daily as the host of ESPN’s First Take; his commentary appears regularly on ESPN.com. A former columnist for the Dallas Morning News, DALLAS TIMES HERALD, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, and SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, and sportswriter for the LOS ANGELES TIMES and MIAMI HERALD. In addition to GOD'S COACH, he is the author of THE BOYS and HELL-BENT.

John Henry

Brad Kessler
John Henry Book PDF

Author : Brad Kessler
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 1591977649

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John Henry by Brad Kessler Pdf

This is a larger-than-life tale about the African American hero who was born with a hammer in his hand. Join John Henry on a scenic journey from cotton country to the wilderness, where he finds men of all colors working together to build a great railroad. In no time, John Henry becomes king of the railroad camps by driving more steel than any man alive. And, in an exciting contest that pits man against machine, he single-handedly out-performs a new-fangled steam drill. This rousing tale delivers an inspirational message about pride and perseverance.