― MikeyG (MikeyG), Friday, 13 August 2004 14:32 (nineteen years ago) link
Thought this was very good:
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The first Knicks title was slightly before I became a fan; the second one just as I started watching. (I was a Buffalo fan--they played a few games in Toronto every season.) I remember watching Frazier, and the mystique that surrounded him.
The book doesn't quite present the story in linear fashion--it's broken up with tangents, and reflections on the game today--so it took me about 50 pages to settle in. After that, great. What a group of personalities.
― clemenza, Sunday, 13 April 2014 04:35 (ten years ago) link
Another basketball book--you'd swear I'm a big fan.
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My favourite player in high school, just before I tuned out in the late '70s (I remember his great couple of years with the Jazz; no recollection of his stint with the Celtics.) Sad story. Wonder how much he'd thrive in the three-point game--the book suggests he was made for it.
― clemenza, Thursday, 25 May 2017 23:44 (six years ago) link
Great thread! Never seen it before. I keep hearing about Robert Peterson's Only the Ball Was White: A History of Legendary Black Players and All-Black Professional Teams, really want to read that. David Maraniss's Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World is a marvel of multi-dimensional lucidity, although the subtitle is off: more like the way the world was changing the Olympics. May read his bios of Lombardi and Clemente, def his latest, about Detroit. Ditto The Red Smith Reader----good?
― dow, Monday, 29 May 2017 18:11 (six years ago) link
I've only read one football book in my life (about the Bears near-perfect season), but I just started Seventeen and Oh: Miami, 1972, and the NFL's Only Perfect Season. I can tell right away that I'm going to like it.
― clemenza, Monday, 31 July 2023 03:00 (eight months ago) link
I lied--I've read three now. There was also Jeff Pearlman's book on the USFL.
Anyway, good book. The number of players from that '72 Dolphins team who suffered from dementia or Alzheimer's later in life is disturbing. From just after they won the Super Bowl:
Ten miles away, in Little Havana, fifteen-year-old Gloria Estefan, who'd been watching and cheering with her family, heard the same thing. "I remember going outside and lying on the roof of my mother's Monte Carlo and staring up at the stars and hearing the city exploding and horn-honking and celebration."
― clemenza, Sunday, 24 September 2023 19:16 (seven months ago) link
Ball Four -Jim Bouton― scott seward (scott seward)
Seconded. And if you are a fan of boxing...
My View From the Corner: A Life in Boxing, Angelo Dundee & Bert Sugar
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 24 September 2023 20:03 (seven months ago) link
Lots of Ball Four talk here:
Baseball Books
― clemenza, Sunday, 24 September 2023 20:10 (seven months ago) link