The Colts' Baltimore
GBP 25.00
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| ISBN13: | 9780801890628 |
| ISBN10: | 0801890624 |
| Kötéstípus: | Keménykötés |
| Terjedelem: | 240 oldal |
| Méret: | 228x152x22 mm |
| Súly: | 477 g |
| Nyelv: | angol |
| Illusztrációk: | 19 Halftones, black & white |
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Revealing warm ties between Baltimore and its beloved Colts, Olesker's writing makes the events of 1958 seem like only yesterday.
Third Place, General Trade Hardcover Nonfiction, 2009 New York Book Show. Bookbinders' Guild of New York.
This is Michael Olesker's nostalgic reminiscence of 1958, the year the Baltimore Colts defeated the New York Giants in sudden-death overtime in a game that still grips the emotions of Baltimoreans. Olesker recaptures the city?s love affair with the Colts in a series of thoughtful and colorful stories that give voice to such notable characters as Colts players Johnny Unitas and Art Donovan, politicians Tommy D?Alesandro and Jack Pollack, entertainers Buddy Deane and Royal Parker, sportscasters Chuck Thompson and Vince Bagli, and filmmaker John Waters.
The Colts? Baltimore also traces the changing cultural landscape of the city just entering an age of revolution?a time when schools were being racially integrated, rock and roll played on the radio, and Baltimore was planning to renew the dilapidated downtown.
Revealing warm ties between Baltimore and its beloved Colts, Olesker's writing makes the events of 1958 seem like only yesterday.
Like a love poem . . . to a more innocent time.
?Diane Scharper, Baltimore Sun
Preface: The Ghosts of Ball Games Past
1. The Lost City
2. "Just Look at Those Awful People"
3. The Homely Girl
4. "Way You Chuck 'em In, Hon"
5. Father Raymond Berry
6. Lenny and Big Daddy
7. The Autumn Rituals
8. The Last Rites
9. A Town without Foreplay
10. Sudden Life
11. "They Just Wanted Somebody to Be Happy With"
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