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Summary: At the beginning of his career, a young man gives up his chance to become a successful novelist in order to work as a sportswriter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORFord, Richard
Summary: Frank Bascombe is a sportswriter attempting to cope with his failed marriage and the death of his son. Unable to establish true connections with people, Bascombe drifts into and out of various relationships, but retains an introspective eye that allows him to transcend life's obstacles.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FORGreen, Jerry.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Masters Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.332 GREDeford, Frank.
Summary: The eminent sportswriter traces his career from his early years at "Sports Illustrated" in the 1960s to the present, interweaving a narrative of the history of American sportswriting with his own personal story.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DEFORD, FRANK DEFRyan, Bob
Summary: A respected sportswriter for the "Boston Globe" traces his early love of sports, experiences as a dedicated fan, and human observations behind pivotal sports moments.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RYAN, BOB RYAFord, Richard
Summary: Like most people Frank Bascombe of New Jersey, a divorced realtor, has plans for the Fourth of July weekend: find a new home for a client, see his semi-girlfriend and take his son to a sports hall of fame. Instead, one disappointment follows another, but he takes them in his stride--philosophically. By the author of The Sportswriter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORCook, Kevin.
Summary: "In The Dad Report, award-wining sportswriter Kevin Cook weaves a tapestry of uplifting stories in which fathers and sons--from sport's superstars to Cook and his own ball-playing father--share the game"--provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Publishing 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 796.357 COOSummary: In this hilarious excursion into the battle of the sexes, Tracy plays Sam Craig, the down-to-earth sportswriter of the New York Chronicle. As Tess Harding, the paper's bright international columnist, Hepburn makes his life miserable. As soon as they start taking swipes at each other in their columns, there is little peace between them. In the office and in the bedroom the squabbling...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. and Warner Home Video 2000
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WOMCook, Kevin
Summary: "In The Dad Report, award-wining sportswriter Kevin Cook weaves a tapestry of uplifting stories in which fathers and sons--from sport's superstars to Cook and his own ball-playing father--share the game"--provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 COOBillheimer, John W.
Summary: Ohio sportswriter Lloyd Keaton investigates the use of performance enhancing drugs and tries to clear an old friend's name.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BILFord, Richard.
Summary: A brilliant new work that returns Richard Ford to the hallowed territory that sealed his reputation as an American master: the world of Frank Bascombe, and the landscape of his celebrated novels The Sportswriter, the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner winning Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land.In his trio of world-acclaimed novels portraying the life of an entire American generation,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Keillor, Garrison.
Summary: "Stories, essays, poems, and personal reminiscences from the sage of Lake Wobegon. When, at thirteen, he caught on as a sportswriter for the Anoka Herald, Garrison Keillor set out to become a professional writer, and so he has done--a storyteller, sometime comedian, essayist, newspaper columnist, screenwriter, poet. Now a single volume brings together the full range of his work: monologues from...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 KEISummary: Ray Barone is a successful sportswriter who deals with his brother and parents, who happen to live across the street from him and his family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2007
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ev 8Summary: After the unexpected death of his wife, a sportswriter finds himself consumed with grief and completely unprepared to raise two boys. Determined to bring joy back into their lives, he takes a 'just say yes' approach to parenting. And as freedom reigns, chaos ensues.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOYZirin, Dave
Summary: "A veteran sportswriter interviews high school athletes, college athletes, pro athletes and others involved in the nationwide movement to "take a knee" in response to police brutality"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.4 ZIRCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 306.4 ZIRPearlman, Jeff
Summary: Drawing on 720 original interviews, a New York Times best-selling sportswriter captures as never before the elusive truth about the greatest athlete of all time who took the world by storm from the mid-1980s into the early 1990s--and then, almost overnight, disappeared.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B JACKSON PEAGreen Day
Contents: Brutal love -- Missing you -- 8th Avenue serenade -- Drama queen -- X-Kid -- Sex, drugs & violence -- A little boy named Train -- Amanda -- Walk away -- Dirty rotten bastards -- 99 revolutions -- The forgotten.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Reprise 2012
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Summary: "The Detroit Tigers Old English D is one of the most recognized symbols in sports. Now fans of this indomitable franchise can relive the passion and excitement that has come to define the Tigers in this newly updated edition of Tales from the Detroit Tigers Dugout. Veteran sportswriter Jack Ebling brings to life four World Championships, five other World Series appearances, and so much...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sports Pub. 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.357 EBLPosnanski, Joe
Summary: "Longer than Moby-Dick and nearly as ambitious,​The Baseball 100 is a one-of-a-kind work by award-winning sportswriter and lifelong student of the game Joe Posnanski that tells the story of the sport through the remarkable lives of its 100 greatest players. In the book's introduction, Pulitzer Prize-winning commentator George F. Will marvels, "Posnanski must already have lived more than...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2021