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Static Apnea...
This book was amazing and inspiring.
Good Book, So Sad
I just finished this book.I read the whole thing in 24 hours.It is definitely a hard book to put down, I just kept wanting to know what happened next (even though I knew of Audrey's fate before I started the book).It makes you think of your own life and relationships. I truly feel for Pipin and can't imagine losing a love like the one he and Audrey had together.I don't think he would have ever put her in harm's way intentionally.At the end, you wish it was a book of fiction.I recommend this book to anyone, it is a fascinating sport.I want to read more from Pipin and see the James Cameron film, if it is still coming out?

She knew the risks
My first thought on finishing this book was addressed to Pipin--"You killed her!". I do feel that his obsession with the sport and attaining new records abused the trust of his less experienced wife and pushed her into a dive she may not have been prepared for. However, VeganGurl makes a good point that Audrey was herself quite aware of the safety precautions (or lack thereof) being taken on the dive and was free to pull out or insist on changes at any time. She was by all accounts an intelligent young woman and not a helpless puppet to her husband's ambitions. If there is any blame to be assigned for this tragic event, she must take her share. I can't imagine undertaking something so dangerous without checking and doublechecking my equipment *myself*, but then I've never been very "team"-oriented. Having said that, I found this a compelling read. Pipin is clearly a man of deep emotion and seems to have benefited from self-examination and soul-searching over the last few years. No, it's not literary, but it tells Pipin and Audrey's story simply, in Pipin's own words. Whatever one thinks of the circumstances around the fatal accident, or of the sport itself, one can't help but feel deep sorrow for everyone involved.
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Subjects:  1. 1974-2002    2. Biography    3. Biography & Autobiography    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Biography/Autobiography    6. France    7. General    8. Mestre, Audrey,    9. Personal Memoirs    10. Skin divers    11. Special Interest - Adventure    12. Sports - General    13. Water Sports    14. Biography & Autobiography / General   

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A closer look at a wonderful person
"Heart of a Husker" provides an insight of one of America's greatest college football coaches and all-around great guy.
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Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. Football - College    5. Sports & Recreation    6. Sports - Football    7. Sports - General    8. Biography & Autobiography / Sports    9. Cultural Region/Mid-South    10. Cultural Region/South    11. Geographic Orientation/Oklahoma   

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Tell it like it is!
Say what you will....but MIKE IACONELLI KICKS BASS!!!
Good Read !
You don't have to be a fan of Ike to enjoy this book.You'll learn a lot about Mike and tournament fishing reading this book.I read this book in one sitting and have thought about picking it up for another round on several ocassions.

I'm a fisherman not a bookworm.... this was good!
Ike talks about his life, and career in vivid detail. From his earliest fishing memories to winning the Classic a couple years ago. My favorite thing about the book is the fact that he wants to make YOU a better fisherman/angler. He shares loads of valuable information, and demonstrates how it works. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1972-    2. Anecdotes    3. Biography    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Fishers    6. Fishing - General    7. Fishing Sports    8. Iaconelli, Mike,    9. Personal Memoirs    10. Sports    11. Sports & Recreation    12. Sports - General    13. Tournament fishing    14. United States    15. Sports & Recreation / Fishing   

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Tossing aside a mundane and meaningless job, Daniel Duane went to Santa Cruz, California, to surf for year. The book he wrote about it, Read more

Reviews (66)

Garbage
What a total waste of time this book was. I read, or should I say endured, about 60-pages of it before wanting to throw it out a closed window. No story-line, just some incoherent ramblings. He would have been better to take the year off and do a creative writing course.

Over Rated
This book is ok - not excellent - if you give it 5 stars you really need to read some more books. It is somewhat interesting in describing the life of a surfer but its extremely repetitive, it drags on and its lacking in any action and that certain something that seperates the wheat from the chafe.
Dreams and books.
Look, If you want to read a book about the important aspects of life, more important than making money and going to school (sure it seems impossible and even I have fallen into the monotonous doldrum of capitalist existance) read this memoir.It will teach you life.I've read it 3 times over the past year and each time my yearning for the coast grows.Unfortunately I'm stuck in Cleveland, Ohio and all I have are dreams and books. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. California    4. General    5. Guidebooks    6. Nature/Ecology    7. Santa Cruz    8. Sports & Recreation    9. Sports - General    10. Surfers    11. Surfing    12. Water Sports    13. Sports & Recreation / Water Sports    14. Surfing, windsurfing, water skiing    15. USA   

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A Better Time and Place
Elmer Keith is a legend of the American West and of firearms.He was a contemporary of Charles Askins (Unrepentent Sinner) and of many of the other greats of American firearm experts.
A bold and bragging autobiography of a tough man
Elmer Keith was referred to as the dean of American gun writers and that may have been an honest title. He wrote about cartridges and firearms as much as about hunting and the outdoors.
The Story of a Man's Man
A couple of generations ago, you couldn't have a conversation with someone about big game hunting or big bore cartridges for very long without the name Elmer Keith coming up. Elmer was a man's man, to be sure. In HELL I WAS THERE, Keith has assembled a bit of a personal memoir of so many of his adventures from `back in the day'.Keith was not that great of a writer, but not many could come close to his prowess as a storyteller.
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Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography/Autobiography    3. Sports - General   

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Book does not live up to its catchy subtitle
"The Mind of Bill James: How a Complete Outside Changed Baseball" delivers better on the first part of the title.
fusion
One sign of a great, compelling biography, I think, is a kind of merging of the two voices - that of the subject of the biography and that ofthe biographer himself.When a kind of seamless interaction between them occurs on the page the result can be beautifully illuminating. Scott Gray's The Mind of Bill James: How a Complete Outsider Changes Baseball accomplishes exactly this and does so by focusing on the essence of James' contribution to the game rather than devoting too much time to more personal details of his subjects' history.That said, the book is, in it's way, intensely personal - again, from the both the standpoint of the individual as well as the author, for both make a deeply felt, strong case for the beauty of real, meaningful information over appearances, not only in baseball, but in ostensibly disparate subjects such as politics and crime stories as well.Essentially Gray's book supports James' method and approach to deciphering the actual and real strengths of a baseball team and of individual players by citing him extensively. But what makes the book such a great read is that Gray provides an enlightening and, at times, poetic, context in which sabermetrics takes on the broader scope of things.His particular form of prose is not ethereal or flowery at all however, on the contrary, it is rather calculated, surefooted, and certain, and possesses edges as sharp as the James analyses cited throughout the book. This book represents what I consider a perfect fusion, a great meeting of the minds.I think the thought that most struck me from reading it is that I'm sure James would have been an incredibly interesting voice in any pursuit - and Gray's book conveys that in a comparably staightforward and precise way and with undeniable enthusiasm and depth.

A compelling read about a fascinating man.
Gray takes the bio genre into uncharted waters--a perfect match for his iconoclastic, quirky subject. Full of unique insights and strange-and-beautiful humor, Gray's book takes us on a remarkable journey as we discover how this maverick came to be so loved and so hated and so influential in the baseball world. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Baseball    2. Baseball - General    3. Biography    4. Biography & Autobiography    5. Biography / Autobiography    6. Biography/Autobiography    7. History    8. Sports - Baseball    9. Sports - General    10. Sportswriters    11. Statistics    12. United States    13. Biography & Autobiography / Sports   

Editorial Review

Together with companion tomes on Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson, this oversize homage to Bobby Jones forms golf's most imposing threesome of photographic celebrations. The only golfer ever to win the elusive Grand Slam, Jones was among the most dominant sporting personalities of the Roaring '20s and early '30s, an athlete of unsurpassed grace and charisma. As much as the photographs capture Jones's enormous accomplishment, the forward by Alistair Cooke, and accompanying essays by Dave Anderson, Ben Crenshaw, Peter Dobreiner, Nick Seitz, and Larry Dorman put those accomplishments in perspective and offer insight on the man and his legacy. "What we are left with in the end," supposes Cooke, "is a forever young, good-looking Southerner, an impeccably courteous and decent man with a private ironical view of life who, to the good fortune of people who saw him, happened to play the great game with more magic and more grace than anyone before or since." Thankfully, Read more

Subjects:  1. 1902-1971    2. Biography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Golf    5. Golf - General    6. Golfers    7. Jones, Bobby,    8. Photoessays & Documentaries    9. Pictorial works    10. Sports    11. Sports & Recreation    12. Sports - General    13. United States    14. Biography: sport    15. Jones, Bobby    16. Sports & Recreation / Golf   

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A cherished read
By reading this book I began to admire Bobby Jones, not so much for his golf but for his character and his strength in making it to the end.It would have been a lot easier for him in a folklore sense if he had died young instead of being tortured with a crippling, painful disease that challenged him physically and was a test to him mentally and emotionally.I admire that he never hid himself away like so many famous people do that want to be remembered as they "were".I believe that this is the most admirable thing about him.That and his willingness to serve in WWII, landing on the same beach the day after D-Day.Not just a "for show" tour of duty.His devotion to his family, his country and his friends and his hometown are quite amazing.He is a role model in many ways that I don't even think of golf as one of them but for his tenaciousness, his intellect, his well roundedness and his extreme graciousness.He could have derailed many times but he never did in life.It's a loss that there isn't more to read about his life to know how he managed to adjust to everyday life and his illness, how he kept putting one foot in front of the other.The criticism seems unjust re: Chick Evans, Jones was very kind in all his correspondence to him which I have read in other books.Also, so much is made of his temper which he defends and explains in "Down the Fairway" by Jones, as not worse than any other player of the time and shortlived as a childish display that was never witnessed again at least publically for the rest of his life.Bobby Jones accomplished an amazing number of feats that most of us would feel proud to do even one of such as the many languages he spoke, the degrees, his many intellectual skills, a good family man and most of all his grace in a life.

Interesting insights on Jones
Most sports fans have heard that Jones won the Grand Slam, but few (including myself) realize the temper that Jones had or how the quest to win ate him up. Also the story of his later life was unknown to me as well.

Not just a golf story an excellent Historical Narrative
Historical Narrative in the spirit of Seabiscuit or Jeff or Michael Shaara's works.Excellent story interwoven with the characters, times, and actions that surrounded Bobby Jones. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1902-1971    2. Biography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Golf    5. Golf - General    6. Golfers    7. History    8. Jones, Bobby,    9. Sports    10. Sports & Recreation    11. Sports - General    12. United States    13. Sports & Recreation / Golf   

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David Breashears has climbed Mt. Everest four times. For this, he is known as a world-class mountaineer. A lengthy career in documentary filmmaking--including the Imax film, Read more

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Interesting, But Not Gripping
I must agree witht he reviewer who commented about the book being written by committee. The narrative is choppy and lacking not only key details, but also historical background. Because it's an autobiography, I don't necessarily think that it's fair to damn the book for being self-centered; it IS about him. I do feel, however, that the book needs better editing and a bit more self-examination.
Written by a Committee
It's an enjoyable, occasionally exciting, read, yet a flawed and problematic work. For one thing, Breashears, who never went beyond high school, and by his own admission isn't much of a writer, had the help of a stable of ghost writers and editors. The book has the feel of having been pasted together by a committee. The narrative often flows, but as often drops away or skips over important points. For example, Breashears mentions a falling out with his friend Geoff Lowe but never tells us why. He seems to accept some blame for his failed marriage - he admits he was seldom home - but gives only a very sketchy account that hints at issues without providing answers. His mountaineering exploits are impressive; sometimes there is ample detail, at other times the narrative just cuts off seemingly in the middle of a story.
A Quiet Intelligence
I was prepared for stories of physical prowess, for tales of overcoming the elements and vicious forces of nature, and even for another perspective on the now famous 1996 Everest disaster.What I didn't expect-but found as a wonderful thread throughout this multi-layered and surprising introspective and humble work-is the high level of thoughtfulness and intelligence that Breashears brings to his writing.He isn't afraid to place blame where it belongs, especially if that blame belongs on himself, as he demonstrates as he gradually reveals the deterioration of his marriage.Most men can't do that, especially those who lives routinely depend upon physical capability over emotional vulnerability.Despite his career triumphs and rise to the epitome of mountaineering accomplishments, Breashears presents a self-effacing and modest work which calls little attention to the incredible feats he accomplished...and therein lies the only fault I have with this book.In the natural reservation of his character and his modesty, he nearly glosses over the physical difficulties and demanding situations of mountaineering, making it seem as if anyone could do what he has done, if they only possess the same caution and determination.Not true.Not by a long shot.
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Subjects:  1. Adventurers & Explorers    2. Biography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Cinematographers    5. Mountaineering    6. Mountaineers    7. Sports    8. Sports & Recreation    9. Sports - General    10. United States    11. Biography: general    12. Climbing & mountaineering    13. Travel / Adventure   

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INTERESTING
THIS IS ABOUT FORMER DETROIT LION GREAT BARRY SANDERS. HE WROTE THIS HIMSELF WITH A LITTLE HELP. HIS STORY IS SHORT, SWEET AND VERY WELL WRITTEN. IT ALSO INCLUDES A DVD SHOWING SOME OF HIS RUNS. I THINK ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS IS HIS REASONS FOR RETIRING WHEN HE WAS ON THE VERGE OF BECOMING THE TOP RUSHER OF ALL TIME. BARRY IS A CHRISTIAN AND IS HIS OWN MAN. THE BOOK IS FOR ALL LION AND FOOTBALL FANS. ENJOY.

Barry Sanders Highlight DVD...... FINALLY!!!But.......
I've been looking for a Barry Sanders highlights DVD for years.... good news - there finally is one, it comes with the book. Bad news? It's only about 20 minutes long, and doesn't show many of his spectacular runs. The book is outstanding, as it's written pretty much by Barry himself, and has great comments from other players in the NFL, giving him the praise he deserves. Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky, they have entire 60 minute DVD's (and more) on their lives.... if any player in the history of football should have one, it's Barry Sanders. All in all, if you like football at all, and appreciate magic, this is a must have, from the most talented running back in the history of the game.

Barry Sanders story...short and sweet
The newly elected Hall of Fame running back, Barry Sanders, was always a man of many words and his recently released autobiography is fitting in its 139 page, picture-filled 8 x 10 work.Read more

Subjects:  1. 1968-    2. Biography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Football - General    5. Football players    6. People of Color    7. Personal Memoirs    8. Sanders, Barry,    9. Sports    10. Sports & Recreation    11. Sports - Football    12. United States    13. Biography & Autobiography / Sports   

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Avid football fans who are also readers will be engrossed.
THE LAST COACH: A LIFE OF PAUL 'BEAR' BRYANT comes from a noted sportswriter who offers up a fine survey of the life of college football's finest coach, leader of numerous college teams who went on to victory. THE LAST COACH not only recreates Bryant's life, but offers up a history of his times and college football's winning moments - avid football fans who are also readers will be engrossed.
A Legend Remembered
I read this book from cover to cover very quickly. The book was both revealing to me about the more human side of Coach Bryant as well as a wonderful opportunity to walk down the memory lane of Alabama football in the 1970s. To me the book was more of a compilation of thoughts, notes, and interviews through the years, but in its own way provides a unique kind of insight to the John Wayne of college football coaches.
COMPREHENSIVE WORK
In researching my book about the 1970 USC-Alabama game, SEPTEMBER 1970, I interviewed Allen Barra. In that interview, in this fine book, THE LAST COACH, and in media interviews, he has demonstrated that he is not provincial. Rather, Barra knew as much about the USC angle as the Alabama angle. Obviously, THE LAST COACH goes well beyond the 1970 Trojan-Crimson Tide game and its segregation-ending implications, but Barra does not try to whitewash what it was or was not. The fact is, Bear Bryant and John McKay teamed up to do something great, and in losing that day, the "real winner was Alabama," as Jim Murray of the L.A. Times observed.
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Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography & Autobiography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Biography And Autobiography    5. Biography/Autobiography    6. Bryant, Paul W    7. Coaching - Football    8. Football    9. Football - College    10. Football - General    11. Football coaches    12. History    13. Sports (General)    14. Sports - Football    15. Sports - General    16. United States    17. University of Alabama    18. American football    19. Biography: sport    20. Sports & Recreation / General   

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Two Lives Inextricably Entwined
Dave Kindred has done lovers of sports and history a favor with Sound and Fury.
Cosell and Ali-Media darlings
Sound and Fury (14 hours, 11 cds, unabridged, Blackstone Audio) is a duel biography of Howard Cosell and Mohammed Ali.
The Odd Couple
David Kindred has written what amounts to a duel biography of the controversial odd couple that is Muhammad Ali and Howard Cosell.The author tells us that Ali elected to not join the military because the Muslim Nation told him not to.To cross them was to literary toy with his life.The assassination of Malcolm X being used as an example.While not necessarily agreeing with Ali's decision Cosell supported Ali stating that taking his heavyweight championship away from him without any semblance of due process was completely wrong.There appears to be evidence that Cosell may have already been experiencing dementia when he came out with his second book entitled I Never Played the Game.Aware of the criticism in his book of his cronies in the TV booth for Monday Night Football Cosell was asked before publication whether he wanted to include these strong opinions.Since he always prided himself on telling it "like it is" he felt it would be hypocrisy of him not to do so now.Cosell was a devoted family man while Ali ventured into nocturnal delights.It was hard for sports fans to be neutral in regard to either of these men, but boxing was the ingredient that brought these two men together first in mutural respect and then in friendship.Incidentally, page 247 has a hilarious anecdote of Howard using his colorful vocabulary in breaking up fisticuffs involving teens in Kansas City.Whether you are a fan of either man or the part they played in sports you will find this to be an extremely enjoyable book to read. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Boxers (Sports)    4. Boxing    5. Historical - General    6. History    7. Sports    8. Sports & Recreation    9. Sports - General    10. Sports Journalism    11. Sportscasters    12. United States    13. Sports & Recreation / History   

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ok
at the end of the book i actually disliked Webb. it was a story about someonewho was not patient enough and thougt of himself as above everyone, i actually think him running such great times as a highschooler hurt him,he did not give the coach at michigan a fair chance and found ways to make everything a drama. the part i did enjoy though was reading about the other people from michigan and the fact that chris lear is such a great writer and really connects with the reader.

So Much Potential, So Little Patience
In a space of several months in 2001, Alan Webb ran the fastest indoor mile by a U.S. high school athlete and then set a national high school record for the magical distance, breaking a mark that reigned supreme for 36 years by the legendary Jim Ryun.
Reaching the PRO's
Alan Webb in this story strikes me as more a baby than a runner who has ran under 4 minutes in the mile. He whines about being hurt and not getting trained right. Warhurst is one of the greatest american distance coaches, if you can't run under him don't run at all. Nate seemed more likeable and more of a team player than Webb did in this book. Being for Illionis I love how Webb lost to Don Sage in 1500 meter final. Towards the end of the book, you knew he was going to quit michigan, now granted Webb has become very big in the sport but for a while he struggled after leaving Michigan and going back to his old coach. Good Book, if you like Webb, you might change your view of him, Nate is awesome, so is Tim Broe ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. Sports - General    5. Track & Field    6. Biography: sport    7. Track & field sports, athletics   

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Subjects:  1. Baseball - General    2. Baseball players    3. Biography    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Jewish Studies    6. Jewish baseball players    7. Personal Memoirs    8. Sports    9. Sports & Recreation    10. Sports - Baseball    11. Sports - General    12. United States    13. Biography & Autobiography / Sports    14. Biography & Autobiography/Personal Memoirs    15. Blomberg, Ron    16. New York Yankees (Baseball team)    17. Religious Orientation/Jewish    18. Social Science/Jewish Studies   

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Left for Dead
I wanted to read the different views of the various writers who wrote about the 1996 ascent of Everest. After reading Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, which is supposed to be the definitive account of the tragedy which took place on the 1996 ascent, I was curious to read the accounts of the same event told be other people who were there. This book (Left for Dead) was one of them and I found it interesting not so much as an alternative account of what happened but as the personal journey of one person and how he was changed as a result of what happened to him.

Left for Dead
Beck Weathers gives a different side of the story well worth reading.

A Great Magazine Article....
This is a great magazine article, puffed up to a book-length work. I like Beck Weathers' sense of humor, which shines forth from time to time. And I like the idea of getting inside the psyche of the sort of man who'd leave his wife and kids for months at a time to do life-threatening and pointless things like climb deadly mountains. But Weathers isn't a very introspective man, and while he mentions several times having had an epiphany, I seem to have missed it in the actual narrative of his resurrection from the dead. One sign of Weathers' psychological distance from himself is that he refers to himself as "you." "When you freeze your hands solid on Mounth Everest, your hands feel like chunks of wood." Where is the first-person pronoun here? And oddly, that lack of self awareness seems to persist even in the post-epiphany stage.
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Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography & Autobiography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)    6. Mountaineering    7. Mountaineers    8. Sports - General    9. United States    10. Biography & Autobiography / Sports   

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Ok, but pretty generous
Cerutty was definitely an extraordinary character, but "maker of champions" or any other such label is very generous. Specifically, his antics drove Landy away, which led to Landy actually developing his own training and Cerutty then taking the credit for making the world's fastest man. In other words, he was kinda sleazy.

Inspiring
This fascinating biography of the legendary Australian track coach Percy Cerutty, based on his cache of personal writings and interviews with his inner circle, portrays a visionary thinker whose fusion of philosophical, biomechanical, naturalistic, nutritional and motivational theories into a "Stotan" approach to athletics and living remains as compelling today as it was during the peak of his popularity in the 1950s and 1960s.
The man who sets the soul on fire
Those who have met him would realize that something has been ignited within them. Regardless of whether those people agree or disagree with him. Their latent wildness is awakened and their fighting instinct is switched on. They become independent as a human being who decides their own path and who does not rely on others.Read more

Subjects:  1. Australia & New Zealand - Australia    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Sports    4. Sports - General    5. Australia    6. Biography: sport    7. Sports training & coaching    8. Track & field sports, athletics   

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Great Research, But The Delivery Is A Rough Ride
Author Richard J. Maturi hustled around the country like a jockey's agent when Triple Crown Winner was published. I saw him being interviewed in the outdoor paddock of Thistledown Race Track in Cleveland, OH, and a few days later he conducted an interesting phone interview on a Thoroughbred talk-radio show based in Cleveland.
Weaves an Interesting Biography
I laid aside "Triple Crown Winner: The Earl Sande Saga" long enough to watch undefeated Barbaro move into the saddling area at Churchill Downs. I studied the horses and listened to the commentators as the trainers gave their jockeys a leg up. With jockeys Jerry Bailey, Gary Stevens, and Pat Day retired, I said to my husband, "I'd sure like to see Edgar Prado win the Derby this year."
The life story of one of horse racing's most memorable jockeys
Triple Crown Winner: The Earl Sande Saga is the biography of a tall, lanky kid who learned to ride in competitive horse races on the "leaky-roof", dirt track, racing circuits, eventually rising to the top ranks of North American jockeys racing on the most prestigious courses in the country. Sande was a distinctive jockey who, in a time when other jockeys routinely resorted to the whip, used the whip sparingly, preferring to coax supreme efforts out of his mounts with a gentle hand while riding them to victory and singing in their ears. Biographer and horse racing enthusiast Richard J. Maturi has done a truly excellent job in presenting the life story of one of horse racing's most memorable jockeys -- Earl Sande.
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Wonderful, honest narrative about life experiences
I was truly sad to finish this book.Jill is very honest about her adventures and about the frustrating and life changing times she has had in the wilderness.Even if the reader is not an outdoorsperson, he or she will enjoy the vivid descriptions of the arctic communities, the relationship between Jill and husband Doug, the struggles Jill faces in life including her mother's battle with cancer and much more.Thank you Jill for writing such a beautiful book.

Inspiring, Adventurous, Real
I just finished reading this book.I stopped part way through, because it was so good, I didn't want to finish it yet.Now, I'm going to name it as the book of the month when I host my book club next.T