SPORTSBOOKS REVIEWS
Breaking Ground, Urban Meyer, Big and Bright and more…
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For holiday reading, for reading
anytime, what follows is a batch of books that will
bring hours of insights and pleasure for any sports
fan.
Breaking Ground: How Jackie
Robinson Changed Brooklyn by Alan Lelchuk (Mandel
Vilar Press, $15.95, 117 pages, paper) is a look at
the man who broke baseball’s color line. Researched
and written by the acclaimed novelist and a native
of Brooklyn, the book offers personal insights
detailing how Jackie Robinson not only changed
baseball but also the Borough of Churches. We are
there back in the day with Lelchuk, a long-time
professor at Dartmouth College. The descriptions,
the details, the new awarenesses provided, makes
this a book to treasure. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Big and Bright by Gray Levy
(Taylor Trade, $27.95, 282 pages) is an inside look
at high school football in Texas. More than a game,
the Texas high school football experience on Friday
nights is a cultural global village. The book is a
must for fans of high school football and
recommended reading for others, too. BUY IT
In the same vein as the Gray Levy
book comes Woodlawn by Todd Gerelds (Howard Books,
$16.00, 190 pages, paper).
Above the Line by Urban Meyer with
Wayne Coffey (Penguin Press, $27.95, 262 pages) is
an up close and personal look at the lessons in
leadership and life from a championship season from
one of the coaching legends today. One of only two
coaches to win a national football championship at
two different schools, Meyer is offers up chapter
and verse in careful detail. A MUST
If Rugby interests you Rugby
Revealed by Gavin Hickie and Eilidh Donaldson is you
book. Published by Bloomsbury, very over priced at
twenty-five bucks, 240 pages, paper, the book
showcases ways to reach “your Rugby potential” from
as the book proclaims “from over 100 of the world’s
top players and coaches.”
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Now available
Written by acclaimed sports author and oral
historian Harvey Frommer, with an intro by
pro football Hall of Famer Frank Gifford,
When It Was Just a Game tells the
fascinating story of the ground-breaking
AFL–NFL World Championship Football game
played on January 15, 1967: Packers vs.
Chiefs. Filled with new insights, containing
commentary from the unpublished memoir of
Kansas City Chiefs coach Hank Stram,
featuring oral history from many who were at
the game—media, players, coaches, fans—the
book is mainly in the words of those who
lived it and saw it go on to become the
Super Bowl, the greatest sports attraction
the world has ever known. Archival
photographs and drawings help bring the
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You can reach
Harvey Frommer at:
Email: harvey.frommer@Dartmouth.EDU
About the Author:
Other Frommer sports related articles can be
found at:
Harvey
Frommer along with his wife, Myrna Katz Frommer are the authors of
five critically acclaimed oral/cultural histories, professors at Dartmouth
College, and travel writers who specialize in cultural history, food, wine, and Jewish history and heritage
in the United States, Europe, and the Caribbean.
This Article is Copyright
© 1995 - 2016 by Harvey Frommer.
All rights reserved worldwide.
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