Glory Days
Glory Days

Author: L. Jon Wertheim

Publisher: Mariner Books

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 1328637247

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A rollicking guided tour of one extraordinary summer, when some of the most pivotal and freakishly coincidental stories all collided and changed the way we think about modern sports The summer of 1984 was a watershed moment in the birth of modern sports when the nation watched Michael Jordan grow from college basketball player to professional athlete and star. That summer also saw ESPN's rise to media dominance as the country's premier sports network and the first modern, commercialized, profitable Olympics. Magic Johnson and Larry Bird's rivalry raged, Martina Navratilova and John McEnroe reigned in tennis, and Hulk Hogan and Vince McMahon made pro wrestling a business, while Donald Trump pierced the national consciousness as a pro football team owner. It was an awakening in the sports world, a moment when sports began to morph into the market-savvy, sensationalized, moneyed, controversial, and wildly popular arena we know today. In the tradition of Bill Bryson's One Summer: America, 1927, L. Jon Wertheim captures these 90 seminal days against the backdrop of the nostalgia-soaked 1980s, to show that this was the year we collectively traded in our ratty Converses for a pair of sleek, heavily branded, ingeniously marketed Nikes. This was the year that sports went big-time.

Glory Days Press Sports Biographies: Alexander Ovechkin
Glory Days Press Sports Biographies: Alexander Ovechkin

Author: Andrea Alexander

Publisher: Mascot Books

Published: 2016-12-13

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781631776021

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Alexander Ovechkin is one of the biggest names in the NHL. Drafted by the Washington Capitals in 2004, he has continually set franchise and NHL records every year. Read more about his hockey story and his domination on the ice since he was a child in Russia.

From Glory Days
From Glory Days

Author: Kurt A. David

Publisher: Tanas & Associates, LLC.

Published: 2008-03-01

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 9780615180526

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Chronicles of twenty professional athletes from Detroit, many who have Hall of Fame or Championship status. These athletes share their personal stories of struggle and their success as they trasitioning back into a normal life.

Asbury Park's Glory Days
Asbury Park's Glory Days

Author: Helen-Chantal Pike

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2005-04-19

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9780813540870

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Winner of the 2005 New Jersey Author Award for Scholarly Non-Fiction from the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Long before Bruce Springsteen picked up a guitar; before Danny DeVito drove a taxi; before Jack Nicholson flew over the cuckoo's nest, Asbury Park was a seashore Shangri-La filled with shimmering odes to civic greatness, world-renowned baby parades, temples of retail, and atmospheric movie palaces. It was a magnet for tourists, a summer vacation mecca-to some degree New Jersey's own Coney Island. In Asbury Park's Glory Days, award-winning author Helen-Chantal Pike chronicles the city's heyday-the ninety-year period between 1890 and 1980. Pike illuminates the historical conditions contributing to the town's cycle of booms and recessions. She investigates the factors that influenced these peaks, such as location, lodging, dining, nightlife, merchandising, and immigration, and how and why millions of people spent their leisure time within this one-square-mile boundary on the northern coast of the state. Pike also includes an epilogue describing recent attempts to resurrect this once-vibrant city.

Glory Days
Glory Days

Author: Janus Adams

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13:

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With 450 years of triumph against terrible odds and a rich heritage born of civilizations thousands of years old, here is African-American history as it is rarely seen: through the lens of its victories. In 365 thought-provoking daily entries, Glory Days takes the life and breadth of African-American history to entertain and enlighten, inform and inspire. For personal enjoyment and for reference, for parents and for educators, this is history that reaches out across a world of experience and ethnicity to inspire further inquiry, from the arrival of African explorer Estavanico in 1539 to the rise of Myrlie Evers as head of the NAACP in 1995; from the reign of the first Egyptian queen, Hatsepshut, in 1500 B.C. to the 1992 election of Nelson Mandela as president of South Africa.

Glory Days
Glory Days

Author: Maury Dean

Publisher:

Published: 2021-07-31

Total Pages: 1300

ISBN-13: 9780972624961

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Glory Days is a memoir and retrospective of Maury Dean's thousand distance races from two to thirty miles. Maury traces, with 'Stat-Man' Ed Melnik, the history and BEST TIMES of the Greatest Runners of the last 50 years in New York's tri-state area, plus Maury's boyhood Michigan. They cover magic memories, training techniques, excellent running clubs, and weekend warrior road adventures also throughout the USA, including Alaska. Glory Days also features its first third as a fascinating History of Distance Running in America--starring great Olympians from Bill Rodgers, Frank Shorter, Meb Keflizighi, to Joan Benoit and Paula Radcliffe--plus great running clubs.-, starring, perhaps, you. Then former English Prof Dean takes the glory back to your Local 5K, and possibly YOUR best races.

Glory Days
Glory Days

Author: Dave Marsh

Publisher: Random House Incorporated

Published: 1988-07-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780517673386

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Presents a review of The Boss's life, career, and music during the five years that witnessed his rise to international fame

Glory Days Press Sports Biographies
Glory Days Press Sports Biographies

Author: Andrea Alexander

Publisher: Mascot Books

Published: 2017-08

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781631776014

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John Wall is one of the biggest names in the NBA. Since being selected as the first overall draft pick in 2010, he has broken franchise records, been named to the Eastern Conference All-Star Team, and helped improve the Washington Wizards' team record. Read more about his story and how he became one of Washington's favorite basketball players.

Buckeye Glory Days
Buckeye Glory Days

Author: Eric Kaelin

Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9781582616810

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While there certainly have been many books published on Ohio State football over the years, never before has there been a book published that lets fans actually hear the games as they happened. Author captures these great moments in Ohio State football history with the radio calls from the games on this 75-minute compact disc/book combination. Buckeye fans can listen back to the actual radio call of Howard Hopalong Cassidy's 88-yard interception return against Wisconsin in 1954; Jim Otis's touchdown run to make it 50-14 over Michigan in 1968; OSU's victory over Arizona State in the 1997 Rose Bowl; highlights from the 2002 national championship season, and many, many others. As an added bonus, the book/CD also includes some of the only known audio of the infamous 1950 Snow Bowl, helping make it a must for all Ohio State football fans.

Glory Days
Glory Days

Author: Holland Cowger

Publisher: Outskirts Press

Published: 2014-12-31

Total Pages: 610

ISBN-13: 9781432799083

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A career in baseball, or life in the Marines. 1969. Small town Middle America. Will Brady has always dreamed of playing baseball for the Cincinnati Reds like his idol, Pete Rose. But when he graduates high school, his father has other plans for him. Being a proud war vet himself, he demands Will enlist in the Marines and serve in Vietnam like his older brother, Jim. While the conflict at home threatens to tear his family apart, Will's baseball team is not only the worst in the league, but is suffering from deep budget cuts. Things go from bad to worse when an African American boy joins the squad, dividing the boys by their views on segregation. Glory Days explores the struggle for racial equality that is just as relevant today as it was in the Civil Rights Era within the microcosm of a high school baseball team. It also honor our brave soldiers by illustrating the horrors of combat. At its heart, Glory Days is a story about chasing your dreams, loving your family, and accepting people for who they are.