Research Catalog

Title

The minority quarterback, and other lives in sports / Ira Berkow.

Author

Berkow, Ira.

Publication

Chicago : I.R. Dee, 2002.

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Description

xi, 307 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

In addition to his celebrated story of a white quarterback at an all-black college in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Berkow looks at a variety of sport's winners and losers, funny and tragic and inspiring, from the ballpark to the boxing ring.

Uniform Title

New York times.

Subject

• Minorities in sports > United States > Miscellanea
• Athletes > United States > Miscellanea

Genre/Form

Trivia and miscellanea

Note

• Reprints of columns and feature stories originally published in The New York times between 1981 and 2000.
• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Green diamonds (Fergie Jenkins's twist in the road -- Jack Lazorko doesn't pitch here anymore -- A world away from the series -- The strange tale of Eric S. -- The end of Gil McDougald's silent seasons -- Larry Doby emerges from the shadow -- The odd bond at second base -- Schottzie's owner is like none other -- He pitched and tied his shoes with one hand -- Trying to re-enter the zone) -- First and goal (The minority quarterback -- A life without blockers -- The "no-show" man -- The ghost was not a ghost -- The Heisman Trophy and obscurity -- Jason Watts had it all -- The miracle of young Tyler Hostetler).
• Pivotal plays (Draft day in the ghetto -- The senator with a jump shot -- At ninety-five, he could still ripple the net -- The referee was bribed -- The call of a lifetime -- When basketball is a matter of faith -- Soaring Jordan, in four parts) -- A kaleidoscope of sports (Age hasn't cooled the fire in Ali -- A champ disappears into thin air -- The LaMotta nuptials -- The G-man wonders where he is -- An olympic invitation comes sixty years late -- Wilma Rudolph : Black Cinderella -- The rides and falls of an emperor named Cordero -- The changing faces of Arthur Ashe -- Martina at the top -- Chuck Norris : the ninety-seven-pound weakling grows up -- The quad squad -- Woody Allen, from defense to offense -- The strongest man in the world).

ISBN

1566634229 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001047578

OCLC

• 47927703
• SCSB-12035613

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library