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The agent : my 40-year career making deals and changing the game / Leigh Steinberg with Michael Arkush ; [foreword by Warren Moon].
- Title
- The agent : my 40-year career making deals and changing the game / Leigh Steinberg with Michael Arkush ; [foreword by Warren Moon].
- Author
- Steinberg, Leigh.
- Publication
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2014.
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- Additional Authors
- Arkush, Michael.
- Description
- xv, 302 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "Leigh Steinberg is renowned as one of the greatest sports agents in history, representing such All-Pro clients as Troy Aikman, Bruce Smith, and Ben Roethlisberger. Over one particular seven-year stretch, Steinberg represented the top NFL Draft pick an unheard of six times. Director Cameron Crowe credits Steinberg as a primary inspiration for the titular character in Jerry Maguire, even hiring Steinberg as a consultant on the film. Lightyears ahead of his contemporaries, he expanded his players' reach into entertainment. Already the bestselling author of a business book on negotiation, the original superagent is now taking readers behind the closed doors of professional sports, recounting priceless stories, like how he negotiated a $26.5 million package for Steve Young--the biggest ever at the time--and how he passed on the chance to represent Peyton Manning. Beginning with his early days as a student leader at Berkeley, Steinberg details his illustrious rise into pro sports fame, his decades of industry dominance, and how he overcame a series of high-profile struggles to regain his sobriety and launch his comeback. This riveting story takes readers inside the inner circle of top-notch agents and players through the visionary career of Leigh Steinberg, the pre-eminent superagent of our time"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Autobiography
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Like father, like son -- Berkeley -- Bart -- Fitting the profile -- Reaching for the moon -- Client maintenance -- The franchise quarterbacks -- Triumphs and trials -- Troy and Jerry -- Leading the draft -- Free at last -- Ticking time bomb -- Big daddy and big deals -- Show me the money -- The wrong choices -- The beginning of the end -- The end -- A new beginning.
- ISBN
- 9781250030429 (hbk.)
- 1250030420 (hbk.)
- 9781250030436 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2013031041
- OCLC
- 844728155
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library