My Turf: Horses, Boxers, Blood Money, and the Sporting Life (平装)

分類: 图书,进口原版书,Sports(运动),
品牌: William Nack
基本信息出版社:DA CAPO PR (2004年1月8日)平装:400页ISBN:0306812509条形码:9780306812507产品尺寸及重量:22.9 x 15.3 x 2.6 cm ; 527 gASIN:0306812509
商品描述内容简介William Nack has won the prestigious Eclipse Award-given annually for the best magazine piece on horseracing-an unprecedented six times. His only previous book, Secretariat: The Making of a Champion, has been eloquently described by Laura Hillenbrand, author of Seabiscuit, as the "gold standard" of horse books.Now, Nack's finest turf writing, coupled with an ample assortment of dead-on profiles and investigative stories across the world of sports, is brought together in My Turf. Nack serves up unforgettable portraits: from his celebrated account of the death of Secretariat to his homage to both Yankee Stadium and Saratoga, including one-of-a-kind profiles of boxers Sonny Liston and Rocky Marciano, jockeys Willie Shoemaker and Robbie Davis, baseball players Keith Hernandez and the schizophrenic Martin Bergen, basketball coach Rick Pitino, and the chess master Bobby Fischer.媒体推荐"Whether writing about boxers, body builders, horses, the guys who ride the horses, or the guys who kill the horses for a slice of the insurance money, Nack...is brilliant."-Boston Globe