Fathers & Sons & Sports by Mike Lupica (9781933060705)

Description - Fathers & Sons & Sports by Mike Lupica

An unparallelled anthology on sports and fatherhood. For fathers, sons, and sports fans- the perfect gift for Father's Day, during sports seasons year-round.

Powerful stories about the way sports can bring together fathers and sons,to work out their differences and express their love for each other.

Fathers & Sons & Sports presents a powerful lineup of real-world stories about fathers and sons playing one-on-one in the game of life, written by such great sportswriters and authors as

Henry Aaron, as told to Cal Fussman . Michael J. Agovino . Buzz Bissinger . Jeff Bradley . John Ed Bradley . James Brown . Darcy Frey . Tom Friend . Bill Geist . Mike Golic . Donald Hall . Paul Hoffman . Mark Kriegel . Norman Maclean . John Buffalo Mailer . Ron Reagan . Peter Richmond . Jeremy Schaap . Lew Schneider . Dan Shaughnessy . Paul Solotaroff . John Jeremiah Sullivan . Wright Thompson . Steve Wulf

The unforgettable accounts here include the stories of a professional football player passing on his father' s secrets to his own sons, a severely disabled boy discovering joy on a surfboard, a wealthy NFL player taking his coddled children back to the mean streets that made him, and a major league manager who must face the hard fact that nothing, not even unconditional love, can save his son.

Anyone who has ever been a father or a son will see himself in these moving snapshots of family life at its most emotional. Whether the stories take place on a diamond, a court, a gridiron, a fairway, or a chessboard, they're all about the same subject- fatherhood, one of the world's most intriguing sports.

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