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Hardcover:
9781634503426 | Skyhorse Pub Co Inc, February 9, 2016, cover price $19.99
Product Description: The true story of the dramatic 1991 Ryder Cup at Kiawah Island, which changed the competition in golf forever. The 1991 Ryder Cup began in 1985. Up to then, the biennial match between all-star teams of golf professionals from America and Europe was more ceremonial exhibition than real competition, with the Americans consistently beating the Europeans...read more
Hardcover:
9781592407965 | Gotham Books, September 6, 2012, cover price $28.00
Paperback:
9781592408429 | Avery Pub Group, August 6, 2013, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: The true story of the dramatic 1991 Ryder Cup at Kiawah Island, which changed the competition in golf forever.
Product Description: Of all the games ever played in a sporting competition, never has an event been so bizarre and yet so fitting for its historical moment: the 1968 Masters.Anger gripped America's heart in April 1968. Vietnam and a bitter presidential contest sharpened the divides between races and generations, while protests and violence poisened the air...read more
Hardcover:
9780743470025 | Atria Books, March 15, 2005, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: An account of the controversial 1968 Masters Tournament recounts how Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus were surpassed by three little-known players, including Argentinian Roberto DeVincenzo, whose win was disqualified on a scoring technicality.
Paperback:
9780743274234 | Atria Books, September 19, 2007, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Of all the games ever played in a sporting competition, never has an event been so bizarre and yet so fitting for its historical moment: the 1968 Masters.
Hardcover:
9780618812486 | Houghton Mifflin, April 9, 2008, cover price $22.00
Commemorating the seventy-fifth anniversary of Bobby Jones's remarkable 1930 season, a portrait of the legendary golfer looks at his Grand Slam victories in terms of his rise to success in the sport of golf and the devastating impact of fame and adulation for a intensely private man. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
Hardcover:
9781594861208 | Rodale Pr, May 6, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A portrait of the legendary golfer looks at his Grand Slam victories in terms of his rise to success in the sport of golf and the devastating impact of fame and adulation for a intensely private man.
Paperback:
9781594864827 | Reprint edition (Rodale Pr, June 27, 2006), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Commemorating the seventy-fifth anniversary of Bobby Jones's remarkable 1930 season, a portrait of the legendary golfer looks at his Grand Slam victories in terms of his rise to success in the sport of golf and the devastating impact of fame and adulation for a intensely private man.
Product Description: The Masters golf tournament weaves a hypnotic spell. Success at Augusta National breeds legends, while failure can overshadow even the most brilliant of careers. But as Curt Sampson, author of the bestseller Hogan, reveals in The Masters, a cold heart beats behind the warm antebellum facade of this famous Augusta course...read more
CD/Spoken Word:
9780786190133 | Mp3 edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, May 1, 2003), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The Masters golf tournament weaves a hypnotic spell.
9780786192472 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, May 1, 2003), cover price $72.00 | About this edition: The Masters golf tournament weaves a hypnotic spell.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780786124176 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, May 1, 2003), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: The Masters golf tournament weaves a hypnotic spell.
Product Description: Ben Hogan is probably the best golfer in the history of the game, having won 63 PGA tournaments--third only to Sam Snead and Jack Nicklaus. Hogan portrays the poignant and private life of this man who overcame poverty, insanity, and a potentially fatal car crash to be the only man to win the U...read more
Hardcover:
9781558538672 | Updated edition (Rutledge Hill Pr, March 1, 2001), cover price $24.99
9781558533875 | Rutledge Hill Pr, March 1, 1996, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A biography of the legendary golf champion explores his private life, the source of his motivation, and his personal difficulties in later life
Paperback:
9780553062908 | Reprint edition (Broadway Books, June 1, 1997), cover price $14.00 | also contains La Femme Et L'amour Chez Catulle Et Les Elegiaques Augusteens
9780553061949 | Three Rivers Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $16.99
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780786113583 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 2002), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Ben Hogan is probably the best golfer in the history of the game, having won 63 PGA tournaments--third only to Sam Snead and Jack Nicklaus.
9780786114603 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, February 1, 1999), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Golf hero Ben Hogan bore a mystique that still captivates golfers: a silent, almost eerie concentration that intimidated his opponents, a presence any politician or actor would envy, and an ability to hit a ball so squarely it sizzled as it left his club.
Hardcover:
9780743442121 | Atria Books, June 1, 2002, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Describes the influence of Tiger Woods on the overall quality, competition, excitement, and interest in the sport of golf.
Paperback:
9780743442138 | Reprint edition (Atria Books, March 2, 2004), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A former pro golfer and award-winning author of The Masters describes the dramatic influence of Tiger Woods on the overall quality, competition, excitement, and interest in the sport of golf.
CD/Spoken Word:
9780786196340 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, December 1, 2001), cover price $56.00
Product Description: Was there ever a year in golf like 1960? It was the year that the sport and its vivid personalities exploded on the consciousness of the nation, when the past, present, and future of the game collided. Television, still a new medium, provided a fresh window to the show and enabled this rich man s sport to win over millions of new fans...read more
Hardcover:
9780878337880 | Taylor Pub, May 1, 1992, cover price $19.95
Paperback:
9780375753688 | Villard Books, October 1, 2000, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Focusses on the summer of 1960 as the watershed year in professional golf as exemplified by the winning streaks and vivid personalities of Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Ben Hogan.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780786121229 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, November 1, 2001), cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Was there ever a year in golf like 1960?
An inside look at the oldest and best-known golf tournament in the world retraces the history of the British Open and paints vivid portraits of some of its greatest players. 35,000 first printing.
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Hardcover:
9780375502781 | 1 edition (Villard Books, May 1, 2000), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: An inside look at the oldest and best-known golf tournament in the world retraces the history of the British Open and offers portraits of some of its greatest players
Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson, Ben Crenshaw, Judy Rankin, Tom Kite, Fred Cobb, Harvey Penick, Babe Zaharias, Lee Trevino . . . the list of Texas golf legends reads like the leader board of an imaginary Twentieth-Century Golf Greats Invitational.The Lone Star State has spawned more than its share of golf heroes, and fifty of the best are featured in this collection of portraits and interviews. Milosevich deftly illustrates each golfer with compelling head-and-shoulder portraits and action views. Sampson's brief vignettes of the golfers capture the dramatic incidents and illuminating details that help make each person a legend on and off the links.BEN CRENSHAWNineteen eighty-six Buick Open, thirteenth hole, final round. Again Crenshaw is fighting to hold a one-shot lead, but he hits a wild four-iron second shot on this par five that stops against the trunk of a tree. He has no shotâor does he?"My only shot was with a nine iron, upside downâleft handed" says Crenshaw. He hits the damnedest pressure shot anyone has ever seen: from forty yards and between trees, Crenshaw's left-handed hack stops four feet from the hole. He makes the birdie putt, of course, and wins the tournament. LEE TREVINOOn the first tee, a laughing Trevino held up a rubber snake he kept in his golf bag. The gallery laughed too, feeling the same release from the drama and tension of the moment that Trevino did. Nicklaus sat quietly, at the back of the tee on a spectator's chair while his mugging opponent dangled the toy reptile at the end of the club. Nicklaus joined in the merrimentâhe asked to see the fake snake, then flung it back to Trevinoâbut his smile seemed forced.Trevino won the playoff [with Nicklaus], sixty-eight to seventy-one, for his second US Open title. Three weeks later he won the Canadian Open and the week after that, the British Open. No one else has ever held these three national titles simultaneously.TOM KITEWhat would Kite hit? Surely he would play away from the water, with a two or three iron. Perhaps he would gamble and hit a three wood. He looked at his caddy, Mike Carrick. "What do you think about a driver?" he said. The color drained from Carrick's face.Wind billowed the legs of Kite's grey pants as he got set to hit. "It's a driver!" whispered the television announcer.He nailed it...."Best swing I made all day," said Kite to no one in particular as he walked off the tee.HARVEY PENICKDave Marr calls him "one of God's people." He is indeed a gentle man, this patriarch of Texas golf, but he is also humorous and sly. "'I'd like you to meet Mr. Ammanex," Penick says, as a confused-looking member introduces himself as Roane Puett. Ammanex? "Well, whenever I see you, you say, 'Am I next?"' explains Penick. HOW ARE YOU TODAY, MR. PENICK? asks another member, loudly compensating for the old gentleman's hearing loss. "I'm Mister Penick's son Harvey," he deadpans, not answering the question."BABE" ZAHARIAS"I remember playing in one of those first tournaments with Babe, and I was nervous," recalls Marilynn Smith. "So Babe put her arm around me on the first tee and said in a loud voice, I always like playing golf with you Smitty. You really bring out the crowds." The gallery laughed, of course. They were there to see the Babe. But the humor relieved Smith's tension and made her a Zaharias fan for life.When he's not out on the golf course trying to improve his five handicap, Paul Milosevich is in front of an easel sketching, drawing, or painting. A thirty-year retrospective of his work, Out of the Ordinary, was published in 1991 by Texas Tech University Press.Curt Sampson was "broke and disgusted" at the end of a four-year stint as a club and touring pro. So he traded in the trials and tribulations of a golf pro for the woes of a writer, thankful that he can stay close to the game he loves. He is a frequent contributor to national golf magazines and the author of The Eternal Summer.Each collector's edition is prefaced wi
Hardcover:
9780896723146 | Texas Tech Univ Pr, November 1, 1999, cover price $350.00
9780896723832 | Texas Tech Univ Pr, November 1, 1999, cover price $750.00
9780896722989 | Texas Tech Univ Pr, March 1, 1993, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson, Ben Crenshaw, Judy Rankin, Tom Kite, Fred Cobb, Harvey Penick, Babe Zaharias, Lee Trevino .
Hardcover:
9780679457534 | Villard Books, May 1, 1998, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A history of the most prestigious tournament in golf highlights famous names and illuminates the local politics, racism, finances, and publicity involved in its six and a half decades
Paperback:
9780375753374, titled "Masters: Golf, Money, and Power in Augusta, Georgia" | Villard Books, April 1, 1999, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A revelatory history of the most prestigious tournament in golf highlights the wins and losses of the contest's famous names and illuminates the local politics, racism, finances, and publicity involved in its six and a half decades.
A champion golfer shares the secrets of an effective golf game in an instructional handbook that introduces the five fundamental princples of his effortless swing--the grip, the setup, the backswing, the downswing, and the tempo.
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Hardcover:
9780345421524 | Ballantine Books, November 1, 1998, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: A champion golfer shares the secrets of an effective golf game in an instructional handbook that introduces the five fundamental principles of his effortless swing--the grip, setup, backswing, downswing, and tempo
A memorable portrait of the 1994 season of the Seattle Sonics basketball team profiles their volatile coach, George Karl, their colorful and talented roster of players, and their battles on and off the court. Tour.
Hardcover:
9780385476324 | Doubleday, May 1, 1995, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A portrait of the 1994 season of the Seattle Sonics basketball team profiles their coach, George Karl, their roster of players, and their battles on and off the court
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