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THE IMMORTAL BOBBY Bobby Jones and the Golden Age of Golf
If Bobby Jones did not exist, the mythmaking sportswriters of the Golden Age of Sports might have had to invent him. And in a sense, perhaps they did. Just beginning to realize their power to create idols on a scale never before imagined, the writers of the 1920s stood in awe of Jones in a way that left Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey,Bill Tilden, Red Grange, and the other great athletes of the era behind. As talented and popular as these others were, they were in it for the money, while Jones, who played as an amateur and never accepted a winner’s purse, was not....
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GOLF & TENNIS
Great Athletes: Golf and Tennis is part of Salem Press’s greatly expanded and redesigned Great Athletes series, which also includes self-contained volumes on baseball, basketball, boxing and soccer, football, Olympic sports, and racing and individual sports. The full 13-volume series presents articles on the lives, sports careers, and unique achievements of 1,470 outstanding competitors and champions in the world of sports. These athletes—many ofwhom have achieved world renown—represent more than 75 different nations and territories and more than 80 different sports. Their stories are told in succinct, 1,000-word-long profiles accessible in tone and style to readers in grades 7 and up. The 13 Great Athletes volumes, which include a cumulative index volume, are built on...
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TOONAMINT of Champions
WAYMON POODLE IS A TELLER at the TrustTrust bank branch inside the Publix grocery store on Confederate Victory Parkway in Mullet Luv, Georgia, and no other human being on earth loves more than he does the Masters, the golf course on which it’s played, the wonderful sport of golf in general, and the iniquitous allure of what goes on behind the gates of ootsie-tootsie private golf clubs. No one. Not even Jack Nicklaus.
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BASEBALLGOLF
Ted Williams said it best: “If you can’t hit Major League stuff, you’ll never make it (in the Bigs). That’s why many dads quit baseball and start playing golf.”1 He nailed me like a fastball in his .400 red spot. Yeah, sure, I played baseball. I played from Midget Leagues through high school to American Legion ball, but I wasn’t very good. You’ve heard it before, “good glove, no stick.” I played every position except first base and catcher. When I pitched, the grounds crew would run out and rake the warning track between innings. While playing briefly for the U.S. Army, my ridin’ the pine as...
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Das große Buch vom GOLF
Die Autoren bedanken sich bei folgenden Mitwirkenden, die bei der Zusammenstellung des Buches geholfen haben: Ronel Nel von der Gary Player Group für ihre fortwährende unschätzbare Mithilfe; Dennis Bruyns von Compleat Golfer für seine Kenntnisse in der Geschichte des Golfs und seine Auswahl der ~Denkwürdigen Augenblicke~; Bernard Mostert für seine Mithilfe, besonders bei dem Kapilei Ausrüstung; Arne Cederval, dessen guter Schwung und der angenehme Umgang mit ihm die Außenaufnahmen zu einem Vergnügen machten; Andrew Lanning, Peter Milne und John Cummock von Touchline Photos für ihre Mithilfe bei der Auswahl der besten Aktionfotos der Welt; den Fotografen Kelly Walsh und Hettie Zamman, deren Professionalität und Geduld die Zusammenarbeit zu einem Vergnügen machte; Mark...
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THE POETICS OF GOLF
I’ve written poems and played golf for almost as long as I can remember and have enjoyed the ongoing struggle to master both activities. Through my practice I’ve discovered many similarities between poetry and golf, with the primary unifying principle being that they both pose “problems to be solved.” Indeed, the solution to a specific swing problem that may have vexed me for some time often becomes clear to me in a dream, as if a great golf teacher were giving his or her lesson directly to me (in fact, they often do!). Likewise, images, ideas, or phrases for poems sometimes come to me in a dream all in...
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The Golf Course Locator
Have you ever needed to find a public golf course, immediately? Ever wished you could hold those critical out-oftown business meetings on the links, if only you knew where they were? Or have you even just wanted to get away and find a game between meetings, while on the road? The Golf Course Locator is the book youve been waiting for. Featuring greens from coast to coast, sorted by City & State, proximity to both airports and the nation’s leading companies and law firms, this book will help you zonein on the perfect course to meet your needs. This essential travel-resource even enables you to keep track of your best scores...
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Fit for GOLF
Several years ago someone told me that once you hit thirty-five you have to work harder just to keep playing golf at the same level. I want to play until I’m fifty-five, and I don’t want to be one of those guys just barely clinging to the PGA Tour. I want to keep getting better and I want to win. So when I turned thirty-five, I hired Boris Kuzmic as my personal trainer and started working out. I liked Boris’s background as both a professional golfer and fitness expert, and with the workout plan he designed for me, my torso strength and flexibility improved and my clubhead speed increased,...
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Football’s New York Giants
I was born and grew up in Brooklyn, so of course I was a Dodgers fan (still am) and a Giants football fan (again, still am). My two sons came along and joined me in the excitement of watching Giants football, though to tell the truth, my older son, born in Boston, also has a strong attachment to the Patriots. Super Bowl XLII was something of a challenge for him but not for the rest of the family. When my sons went off on their own, Sunday afternoons and occasional Monday nights were “holy times,” with me watching the games by myself, praying, twisting and turning with...
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THE PERFECT SEASON How Penn State Came to Stop a Hurricane and Win a National Football Championship
I REMEMBER FEELING LIKE SOMEBODY HAD HIT ME over the head with a blunt object. My mouth was wide open. I was stunned into silence. It was the night before the Fiesta Bowl, January 2, 987. Hours before we went out to break heads in the game for the national championship, Penn State’s players and coaches broke bread with Miami’s players and coaches at a barbeque given by bowl organizers. College football, after all, is about sportsmanship. Or so we thought. John Bruno, our punter and team crack-up, had just finished what we thought was a hilarious parody of Miami coach Jimmy Johnson and his stiff, sprayed-up hair. No...
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The work of professional football
My initial inspiration for writing this book stems from my experiences as a young professional and then semi-professional footballer from the early 1980s to mid- 1990s. As an eager young apprentice-professional I was told that I had an opportunity that I should not waste; most boys of my age would not be offered the chance to make it in the professional game. What could be better than to play football for a living; to do something you love? If I played well there was the chance to earn good money; to be outside in the fresh air every day; to be the envy of schoolmates. I heard...
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Football Goes East Business, culture and the people’s game in China, Japan and South Korea
Observers of the ‘beautiful game’ know that football too often does not deserve the name as its participants regularly fail to follow the rules of fair play that Pierre Bourdieu poignantly outlined for the discipline of sociology. As all players and supporters of football know, the rules of fairness are often tested to their extreme, not just a few times beyond the limits of reason. Physical attacks that are meant to hurt and risk the consequences of harm or injury violate the very idea of game playing....
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Fantasy Football FOR DUMmIES
In 1999, I was exactly where you may be right now. I decided to give the whole “fantasy football” thing a try, even though I had no idea how to play. Back then, the online version of the game was just starting to take off, and Yahoo! just began offering its free league services. I did a bit of research and talked to a few buddies about strategy, but I mainly learned the game through trial and error(s). I had no definitive resource guide to help me get off to a good start in my fantasy football career....
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Nutrition and Football The FIFA/FMARC Consensus on Sports Nutrition
In 1993, a small group of experts gathered at FIFA house in Zurich, Switzerland, to discuss the role of nutrition in the performance of soccer players. Their discussions, under the guidance of Professors Clyde Williams and Bjorn Ekblom, represented the state of knowledge in the field at that time, and their recommendations were widely applied throughout the game. Indeed, the suggestion that players would benefit from better access to fluids during matches led to a change in the rules relating to the provision of drinks during games. One recurring theme throughout those discussions was the limited information specific to the game of soccer—in many cases, extrapolation had...
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FROM BOOT MONEY TO BOSMAN: FOOTBALL, SOCIETY AND THE LAW
In 1998, the income of English football clubs was in the region of £700 million. Since 1990, clubs have spent £600 million in upgrading grounds. The net asset value of the 92 clubs is around £200 million, rising to over £1 billion if the players in whose contracts the clubs invest are regarded as assets. The current Premier League TV deal alone is worth £670 million over five years (Szymanski and Kuypers, 2000, p 1). The first football club to be listed on the stock market was Tottenham Hotspur, back in 1983, when Irving Scholar was chairman....
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Policing Football Social Interaction and Negotiated Disorder
If you were to ask just about any British male what is significant about 3pm on Saturday afternoons outside of summer, you would probably get the same one-word answer: football.1 A good portion of the female population would also say the same thing, and just about anyone who lives in Britain, even if he or she does not follow football, could probably name at least three major domestic clubs and maybe also the current league champions.
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FOOTBALL AND PHILOSOPHY
One event dominates the consciousness of America every year in early February. The two weeks leading up to the Super Bowl are filled with interviews, stories of football greatness, predictions, and, unfortunately, the occasional scandal. On Super Bowl Sunday fans gather around television sets at the local bar or in their living room to watch two teams play for the Lombardi Trophy. Those who aren’t fans of the game and don’t watch it much during the regular season often tune in to the Super Bowl (or at least the high-priced commercials that have become a part of the spectacle)....
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Marketing and Football An international perspective
The context of international professional football largely evolved during the 1990s. In the past ten years or so, football has moved from being a national culture to real internationalization. This has created a huge business with several dimensions, and thus football has become a unique example of merchandising in sport – the only similar case perhaps being the Olympics, which are also universal but occur less frequently.
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RUNNIN’ WITH THE BIG DOGS The Long, Twisted History of the Texas-OU Rivalry
This is the story of an event that exploits violence and promotes extravagantly irresponsible and destructive behavior among the persons who attend it. Thousands upon thousands of football fans from two states, their brains united into a single altered state, arrive annually at the Cotton Bowl stadium, bellowing exhortations for the spillage of blood. The Texas- Oklahoma game, which now has been conducted one hundred times, and all that surrounds it, has arisen into the manliest of spectacles and is genuinely about as politically incorrect as you can get. You’ll find audiences more genteel and reserved at cockfights. This game encourages the forces of overindulgence and leaves behind an eventual trail...
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PASSING GAME Benny Friedman and the Transformation of Football
Football wasn’t always a game dominated by strong-armed quarterbacks flinging the ball sixty yards downfield. In its beginnings football was mostly a messy affair in which brave men with altogether insufficient protective equipment would carry the melon-shaped ball into an angry thicket of defenders and scratch and plod and push for yardage. Rarely was football real estate acquired by way of the forward pass. The ball was so large that most players couldn’t grip and throw it; the best they could do was hold it in their palm and heave it. That’s why photographs of quarterbacks posing as if to pass in those early days evoked the image...
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The Football Manager: A History
This clear and accessible book is the first in-depth history of the role of the football manager in British football, tracing a path from Victorian-era amateurism to the highly paid motivational specialists and media personalities of the twenty-first century. Using original source materials, the book traces the changing character and function of the football manager, covering: the origins of football management – club secretaries and early pioneers the impact of post-war social change – the advent of the football business television and the new commercialism contemporary football – specialisation...
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Football Traumatology Current Concepts: from Prevention to Treatment
Every child has a dream: to play football and become a famous footballer. When I was 10 years old, my father was used to bring me to San Siro stadium on sunday afternoons to watch the Inter team playing. The great Inter was growing up. Sarti, Burnich, Facchetti.. . it was an absolute and sudden love. Twenty years later I was climbing that prestigious stadium through the stairs from the locker rooms wearing the shirt of Como team to play a football match of the first league Italian championship against Inter. Fifteen years later, I was sitting as a chief physician on the bench of the Moratti's Inter...
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Football, Violence and Social Identity
This edited collection is about football fan association and behaviour; more specifically, it is about football fan violence. It explores the interrelations of participatory and aggressive behaviour, social identity, and the politics of public order and control, within a football context. In contradistinction to Steve Redhead’s (1986) stretched claim, it is not the ‘final football book’ on fan violence or supporter culture generally. Rather, as its various contributors demonstrate, it is part of a series of academic texts exploring football fan culture and experience. In keeping with the overriding theme of these inquiries, our principal concern is with football-related violence. However, its cross-cultural and interdisciplinary themes provide the collection with...
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Understanding Football Hooliganism A Comparison of Six Western European Football Clubs
Football hooliganism periodically generates widespread political and public anxiety in a variety of European and non-European countries. In spite of the efforts made and resources invested over the past decades, football hooliganism is still perceived by politicians, policymakers, media and other actors as a disturbing social problem. Issues such as how to understand or explain hooligan behaviour continue to challenge social scientists, while at the same time instant answers and solutions are demanded from wider, non-academic audiences....
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Football in the New Media Age
Football in the new media age can often appear ubiquitous. The month of October 2003 saw football related stories dominate much of the mainstream UK news and current affairs agenda. The stories of alleged sexual and criminal misdemeanours involving young, wealthy professional football stars merged with poor behaviour by players on the pitch. While the failure of the Manchester United and England player Rio Ferdinand to turn up for a drugs test resulted in his subsequent omission from the England national squad on the eve of a major international fixture. This ‘crisis’ was then escalated by the threat by the England national team to withdraw from the game...
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ALL AMERICAN: Why I Believe in Football, God, and the War in Iraq
There were so many incredibly talented and giving people who helped to make this book possible. First and foremost among them is Terry Golway. Without Terry’s help and assistance from the very beginning, I could not have maintained the stamina and discipline necessary to complete this book. Like so many of the great teachers and coaches I have had in my life, Terry guided me with care and kindness throughout the writing process and enabled me to convey my thoughts and experiences with clear purpose and meaningful direction. More than anyone else, Terry made this book a reality....
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PIGSKIN The Early Years of Pro Football
Ti! Ihis book is about professional football long before Super Bowls, Monday Night Football, and megabuck contracts for players. It tells what the game was like and what players and fans thought about it, beginning more than 100 years ago, when the first pros appeared, and continuing up to the time when televised football was becoming a national passion. The tipping point was the National Football League's 1958 championship game, when a crewcut quarterback named Johnny Unitas engineered a thrilling victory for the Baltimore Colts over the New York Giants in the first sudden-death overtime in a title game. An estimated 30 million television viewers saw that game, a harbinger of...
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Football For Dummies
Congratulations! You’ve got a copy of Football For Dummies in your hands. This book has been written specially for people who want to know all they can about the greatest and most popular sport on the planet: association football. Football For Dummies aims to satisfy your curiosity, help you to understand the basics of how to play the game, arm you with knowledge so you can enjoy watching it to the full and show you that you have a whole world of football to be explore. There’s a reason football has taken off all around the globe, after all!...
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Managing Football: An International Perspective
Football is often referred to as the ‘‘global game’’ and is all-pervasive across most parts of the world. Indeed, countless people play the game, talk about it, and generally organise their leisure time around it. Alongside this, football has progressed from being a ritual and a celebration to become an amateur sport, a professional sport, and now, increasingly, a commercial sport. This means that football in many countries now faces a distinctive set of challenges. In particular, this includes reconciling the history and traditions of the game with the commercial opportunities and problems posed by the twenty-first century....
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TWO STEPS TO A PERFECT GOLF SWING
One of the best things about my nearly eighty years in golf is seeing a young pro come along who understands the golf swing the way I do. Shawn Humphries is just such a golf professional, and I’ve been impressed with him from the first time we met. When Shawn was the director of my golf school at the Four Seasons resort in Dallas from 1998 to 2001, I watched him on many occasions and noticed how he teaches the game in a way that is easy for novice golfers to understand and imitate, right from the start. I appreciate that because having given lessons for more than...
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