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Title: The Greatest Golf Stories Ever Told by Jeff Silverman ISBN: 1-58574-367-4 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fore!
Comment: Thank goodness -- a golf book that doesn't try to cure my slice or promise me I'll hit longer. I found the stories in this anthology aimed, instead, for the head and the heart, and that's where the best part of the game is generally played. It's a perfect gift for any golfer.
Rating: 5
Summary: Golf tales as smart as they are fun
Comment: There is much to recommend here -- wonderful writing and wonderful stories throughout -- but there's one alone that's worth the entire green fee. It's a breathtaking account, written by a POW who became a noted golf writer, of a group of British and American flyers shot down and captured by the Nazis in World War II who actually set up a golf course and played the game in a German POW camp. It's an unbelievably stirring testament either to the sturdiness of the human spirit or the obsessive mania of us golfers. You'll want to read it again and again.
Rating: 5
Summary: An ace of an anthology
Comment: I don't know what it is about golf, but the sport has certainly teed off on some terrific writing, and this book has found alot of it -- some old friends and some real surprises. Its contents range from the past to the present and includes journalism, memoirs and fiction. Who knew that Rube Goldberg and AA Milne wrote about golf? The selections by them are priceless. There are hilarious stories from Dan Jenkins, Bud Shrake, Gary McCord (he actually writes as funny as he comments on the air), and P.G. Wodehouse, plus the best golf short story I've ever read -- "Mr. Frisbie" by Ring Lardner. There's a lyrical essay by John Updike, and a bittersweet selection about how much other than golf a woman has to think about on the course by the great '20s champion Glenna Collett Vare. There are also stories about memorable tournaments (including an unforgettable look at the satellite tours), great golfers (Nicklaus, Palmer, etc.), and great golfing rascals (Titanic Thompson). And, my favorite of all, there's a terriffic piece -- from the 1800s -- that shows how little the crazy mind of the golfer has changed, and the guy who wrote it later became prime minister of England. That's the kind of unexpected treat that makes every story in this book worth savoring. Unless, of course, you're lucky enough to be out on the course actually playing the game.
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Title: The Greatest Game Ever Played: Harry Vardon, Francis Ouimet, and the Birth of Modern Golf by Mark Frost ISBN: 0786869208 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 06 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Who's Your Caddy? : Looping for the Great, Near Great, and Reprobates of Golf by RICK REILLY ISBN: 0385488858 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Somewhere in Ireland, A Village is Missing an Idiot by David Feherty ISBN: 1590710096 Publisher: Rugged Land Pub. Date: 19 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Golf's Greatest Moments: An Illustrated History by the Game's Finest Writers by Robert Sidorsky ISBN: 0810946319 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 12 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: First Off the Tee: Presidential Hackers, Duffers, and Cheaters from Taft to Bush by Don Van Natta Jr. ISBN: 1586480081 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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