THE MINORITY QUARTERBACK: And Other Lives in Sports.
by Berkow, Ira
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket./fine
- ISBN 10
- 1566634229
- ISBN 13
- 9781566634229
- Seller
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About This Item
Chicago:: Ivan R. Dee,, 2002.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A collection of essays, written over a period of 20 years, which focus on athletes overcoming hardships, including profiles of pitcher Jim Abbott, who worked past the handicap of having just one arm, and Geno Torretta, who won the Heisman Trophy. The title piece, which was cowinner of a 2000 Pulitzer Prize, examines the struggle that minority football players have undergone in winning recognition at a position once reserved for white players. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. Index. xi, 307 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 83783
- Title
- THE MINORITY QUARTERBACK: And Other Lives in Sports.
- Author
- Berkow, Ira
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1566634229
- ISBN 13
- 9781566634229
- Publisher
- Ivan R. Dee,
- Place of Publication
- Chicago:
- Date Published
- 2002.
- Keywords
- essays, pulitzer prize, football, baseball,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sports;
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