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Bigger Than the Game : Bo, Boz, the Punky QB, and the Making of the Modern Athlete
ISBN: 9781592405596 | 1592405592
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Gotham
Pub. Date: 8/5/2010
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The author of The Kings of New York, former Newsday reporter Weinreb considers how sports in the 1980s focused not on a love of the game but on what he calls "a cult of personality." Not just for sports fans.
Weinreb offers a mesmerizing look at the 1980s when American athletics went corporate, villains replaced heroes, and sports stars became superstars.
Weinreb offers a mesmerizing look at the 1980s when American athletics went corporate, villains replaced heroes, and sports stars became superstars.
| Prologue | p. vii |
| Ronnie Jim | p. 1 |
| I Am Superman | p. 25 |
| Interlude: Greenwood, South Carolina | p. 54 |
| Glamour Profession | p. 61 |
| We're Not Here to Start No Trouble | p. 84 |
| Interlude: Summit, New Jersey | p. 114 |
| Matches to a Fire | p. 118 |
| A Major Malfunction | p. 147 |
| Greed Is Healthy | p. 164 |
| Interlude: ... MORE | p. 182 |
| 1103 Washington Hall | p. 186 |
| What a Performance! | p. 209 |
| Money Days | p. 221 |
| A Casual Defiance | p. 238 |
| The Old College Try | p. 256 |
| Epilogue | p. 272 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 286 |
| Notes | p. 289 |
| Bibliography | p. 320 |
| Index | p. 327 |
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Michael Weinreb is the author of Game of Kings (winner of a Quill award), and a former reporter for Newsday. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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