The Last Folk Hero

The Last Folk Hero
Author: Jeff Pearlman
Publsiher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 774
Release: 2022-10-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780358438717

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New York Times Bestseller • The ultimate gift for sports lovers By the author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definitive biography of mythic multi-sport star Bo Jackson. “A legendary tome on a legendary athlete." —Chris Herring, author of Blood in the Garden From the mid-1980s into the early 1990s, the greatest athlete of all time streaked across American sports and popular culture. Stadiums struggled to contain him. Clocks failed to capture his speed. His strength was legendary. His power unmatched. Video game makers turned him into an invincible character—and they were dead-on. He climbed (and walked across) walls, splintered baseball bats over his knee, turned oncoming tacklers into ground meat. He became the first person to simultaneously star in two major professional sports, and overtook Michael Jordan as America’s most recognizable pitchman. He was on our televisions, in our magazines, plastered across billboards. He was half man, half myth. Then, almost overnight, he was gone. He was Bo Jackson. Drawing on an astonishing 720 original interviews, New York Times bestselling sportswriter Jeff Pearlman captures as never before the elusive truth about Jackson, Auburn University’s transcendent Heisman Trophy winner, superstar of both the NFL and Major League Baseball and ubiquitous “Bo Knows” Nike pitchman. Did Bo really jump over a parked Volkswagen? (Yes.) Did he actually run a 4.13 40? (Yes.) During the 1991 flight that nearly killed every member of the Chicago White Sox, was he in the cockpit trying to help? (Oddly, yes. Or no. Or … maybe.) Bo Jackson isn’t Jim Thorpe. He’s not Deion Sanders, either. No, Bo Jackson is Paul Bunyan. The Last Folk Hero is the true tale of Bo Jackson that only “master storyteller” (NPR.org) Jeff Pearlman could tell.

The Last Folk Hero

The Last Folk Hero
Author: Andrew Dietz
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN: UOM:39015047303576

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Summary of Jeff Pearlman s The Last Folk Hero

Summary of Jeff Pearlman s The Last Folk Hero
Author: Milkyway Media
Publsiher: Milkyway Media
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2023-06-06
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 9182736450XXX

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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jeff Pearlman's The Last Folk Hero In The Last Folk Hero (2022), sportswriter Jeff Pearlman explores the extraordinary career and enigmatic persona of Bo Jackson, the iconic athlete who excelled in both pro football and baseball after starring at Auburn University, where he won the Heisman Trophy. Pearlman delves into Jackson’s upbringing, his college years, and his meteoric rise to fame, as well as the end of his pro sports career and its aftermath. Pearlman paints a nuanced portrait, showcasing both his good and bad sides.

Bo Knows Bo

Bo Knows Bo
Author: Bo Jackson,Dick Schaap
Publsiher: Doubleday Books
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1990
Genre: African American baseball players
ISBN: 0385416202

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Gunslinger

Gunslinger
Author: Jeff Pearlman
Publsiher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 469
Release: 2016-10-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780544453678

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“Over two decades, Brett Favre was as compelling a figure as any in the National Football League. He alone was 'Must-See TV.' In Gunslinger, Jeff Pearlman provides an extraordinary look at every facet of the life of a man who performed on sport's grandest stage and who had one helluva time along the way.”—Al Michaels In Gunslinger, Jeff Pearlman tells Brett Favre’s story for the first time, charting his unparalleled journey from a rough rural childhood and lackluster high school football career to landing the last scholarship at Southern Mississippi, to a car accident that nearly took his life, and eventually to the NFL and Green Bay, where he restored the Packers to greatness and inspired a fan base as passionate as any in the game. Yet he struggled with demons: addiction, infidelity, the loss of his father, and a fraught, painfully prolonged exit from the game he loved, a game he couldn’t bear to leave. Gritty and revelatory, Gunslinger is a big sports biography of the highest order, a fascinating portrait of the man with the rocket arm whose life has been one of triumph, fame, tragedy, embarrassment, and—ultimately—redemption. “The compelling, complete story of his legend, and his faults.”—Chicago Tribune

The Rocket That Fell to Earth

The Rocket That Fell to Earth
Author: Jeff Pearlman
Publsiher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2009-03-24
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780061886720

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“Pearlman’s book develops a stark, unsparing picture of Clemens’s life that surpasses anything that’s come before.” —Boston Globe New York Times bestselling author Jeff Pearlman reconstructs pitcher Roger Clemens's life—from his Ohio childhood to the mounds of Fenway Park and Yankee Stadium—to reveal a flawed and troubled man whose rage for baseball immortality took him to superhuman heights before he crashed down to earth. A fearless, hard-nosed Texan with a 98-mph fastball and a propensity to throw at the heads of opposing hitters, Roger “the Rocket” Clemens won 354 games, an unprecedented seven Cy Young Awards, and two World Series trophies over the course of twenty-four seasons. But the statistics and hoopla obscured a far darker story—one of playoff chokes, womanizing (including a long-term affair with a teenage country singer), violent explosions, steroid and human growth hormone use. . . and an especially dark secret that Clemens spent a lifetime trying to hide: a family tragedy involving drugs and, ultimately, death.

Three Ring Circus

Three Ring Circus
Author: Jeff Pearlman
Publsiher: Houghton Mifflin
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2020
Genre: Basketball players
ISBN: 9781328530004

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From 1996 through 2004, Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal combined-- and collided-- to help bring the Lakers three straight championships and restore the franchise as a powerhouse. From public sniping and sparring, to physical altercations and the repeated threats of trade, it was warfare. The eight years of infighting and hostility were by turns mediated and encouraged by coach Phil Jackson. Pearlman shows how the Shaq-Kobe duo resulted in one of the most enduring, and ever-evolving, teams in NBA history. -- adapted from jacket

Catcher

Catcher
Author: Peter Morris
Publsiher: Government Institutes
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2009-04-16
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1615780033

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Today the baseball catcher is a familiar but uninspiring figure. Decked out in the so-called tools of ignorance, he stolidly goes about his duty without attracting much attention. But it wasn't always that way, as Peter Morris shows in this lively and original study. In baseball's early days, catchers stood a safe distance back of the batter. Then the introduction of the curveball in the 1870s led them to move up directly behind home plate, even though they still wore no gloves or protective equipment. Extraordinary courage became the catcher's most notable requirement, but the new positioning also demanded that the catcher have lightning-fast reflexes, great hands, and a cannon for a throwing arm. With so great a range of needed skills, a special mystique came to surround the position, and it began to seem that a good catcher could single-handedly make the difference between winning and losing.