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You're welcome, Cleveland : how I helped Lebron James win a championship and save a city
- Title
- You're welcome, Cleveland : how I helped Lebron James win a championship and save a city / Scott Raab.
- Author
- Raab, Scott, 1952-
- Publication
- New York : Harper, 2017.
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- Description
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- Summary
- "Scott Raab's big-hearted companion to his darkly comic "sports-jeremiad-slash-memoir" The Whore of Akron follows the first two years of LeBron James's return to Cleveland, where everybody just loves a good story of forgiveness--especially when you fulfill your promise and bring home an NBA Championship, the first major title for a Cleveland team since 1964. "If I had a chance to return to Cleveland, and those fans welcomed me back, that'd be a great story." --LeBron James in 2010, days after "The Decision" In 2010, when LeBron James announced to the world that he was leaving for Miami, he broke the collective heart of his native city and destroyed the hopes of an entire tortured generation. As LeBron headed south, unofficial spokesman Scott Raab sent him off with a middle-finger salute of his own--a deliciously obscene aria of sports fandom, Jewishness, and weight gain that became infamous as The Whore of Akron. Four years--and two NBA championships later--LeBron came home to the Rust Belt faithful who had vilified him mercilessly, none more so than Raab. You're Welcome, Cleveland is the story of both LeBron's and Scott's redemption as they pursue the one thing they crave more than anything in life--an NBA title for the city that made them men. LeBron is back. So is Scott Raab. It's a great story. You're Welcome, Cleveland"--
- "An apologetic, hopeful, and homeward-bound sequel to Raab's memoir THE WHORE OF AKRON. The story of Lebron James's return to Cleveland, and of Cleveland's balance on the brink of a transcendent, championship-studded future with co-stars Johnny Football, Kevin Love, David Blatt, and the author's ailing mother"--
- Subject
- Note
- Sequel to: The whore of Akron.
- Call Number
- JFD 17-2575
- ISBN
- 9780062396860
- 0062396862
- LCCN
- 2017006459
- OCLC
- 2017006459
- Author
- Raab, Scott, 1952- author.
- Title
- You're welcome, Cleveland : how I helped Lebron James win a championship and save a city / Scott Raab.
- Publisher
- New York : Harper, 2017.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Continues
- Raab, Scott, 1952- Whore of Akron.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 17-2575