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Lupica, Mike Dead Air
Random House Inc 1986 0394542762 / 9780394542768 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Near-Fine
Very-nice, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Price inside dustcover: $15.95 - NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine - Bright pages. 245 pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Dustcover shows slight wear (NO tears).
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Lupica, Mike Full Court Press
Putnam Pub Group 2001 0399147896 / 9780399147890 Hard Cover Fine Fine
Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $24.95. Tight spine,clean pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 360 pages. Synopsis: This is what happens when the desperate golden-boy owner of the worst pro-basketball team in the world and his equally desperate golden-boy coach do the unthinkable: sign the first woman ever to play in the NBA. Her name is Dee Gerard, the daughter of a New York playground legend and the product of God having an exceptionally good day. A star in Europe, but weary of bad arenas, she retires - until the day a scout for the hapless New York Knights calls his boss: "I found you a point guard who is perfect, except for one thing." What, no heart? "It's not the heart, exactly. But you're close." The league doesn't want a circus. The other players don't want her. The owner wants fannies in the seats. The sportswriters just want their column inches. What she wants . . . is to play in the best game there is. How she gets there, the hilarious and sobering things that happen to her, the personal and professional entanglements that spring up everywhere, the pitfalls of remaining old-school when all about her are tattooed, self-indulgent, young millionaires - this is a smart, funny, outrageous, wonderful story of Full Court Press. Lexington Herald Leader: Sportswriter Mike Lupica takes you on a wild, witty ride.
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Lupica, Mike Mad As Hell: How Sports Got Away from the Fans - And How We Get It Back
Putnam Pub Group 1996 0399142215 / 9780399142215 Hard Cover Fine Fine
Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 236 pages. Sports columnist Mike Lupica explores--in his usual unabashed way--the divisive issues compromising professional sports and alienating fans. Raising his voice on behalf of disgruntled fans everywhere, he's angry, over the top--and often hilarious. Lupica takes aim at owners and players alike, popping off a litany of ills (greed, free agency, no loyalty) as well as solutions (creating a fan's lobby, paying college athletes, boycotting certain owners, eliminating guaranteed contracts). Mad As Hell is essential reading for every self-respecting sports fan. From Publishers Weekly Syndicated sports columnist Lupica (Shooting from the Lip, etc.) piles anecdote on top of anecdote to illustrate what he thinks has gone wrong with sports. He criticizes virtually every group associated with sports but plunges his sharpest barbs into sports agents and unions. It is Lupica's contention that the stronger the union, the weaker the sport, and he cites baseball as his proof case. While he acknowledges that for a long period he was more sympathetic toward players than owners, he now thinks the pendulum has swung too far to the players' side. Athletes in all major sports earn salaries ranging from the low six figures to eight figures (yes, that's $100 million over seven years for the likes of basketball player Shaquille O'Neal). The exorbitant amount of money made by the players has made them feel superior to fans, and above the law, according to Lupica. The escalating salaries, coupled with the greed and mismanagement of the owners, has driven ticket prices beyond the means of many middle-class Americans. Even watching sports on television can be difficult, since many of the top events, such as the World Series, start too late for most kids to watch the end of the game, thus not developing the fans of tomorrow. To bring sports back to the public, Lupica urges that fans revitalize a watchdog organization formed by Ralph Nader in 1977 called FANS. He even suggests the person to run FANS if enough support can be generated: Mario Cuomo. For sports fans who think players are greedy, rude and overpaid, and that team owners are an even worse bunch, this is the book for them. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Lupica, Mike Summer of '98: When Homers Flew, Records Fell, and Baseball Reclaimed America
Putnam Pub Group 1999 0399145141 / 9780399145148 Hard Cover Fine Fine
Near-new condition - Appears unread - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Price inside dustcover: $23.95. 209 pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Tight spine - Bright pages. In 1998, the conversation of the country was about baseball again, as the taste of the 1994 strike was finally washed away in a sweet flood of glory. With humor and feeling, Lupica recaptures that season, but not in any ordinary way. In Fargo, North Dakota, Roger Maris's boyhood best friend watches McGwire hit 62. In New York, a baseball scout travels back thirteen years, to a skinny kid named Sosa getting off a bus from Santo Domingo with holes in his jersey and a bat in his hand. In Grand Prairie, Texas, Kerry Wood's high school assistant coach refuses to believe the reports of Wood's strikeout record, until the phone starts ringing. The Little League champions from Toms River stand in awe on the field at Yankee Stadium; Joe DiMaggio talks as he watches the Yankees have the kind of year he always had; Cal Ripken, Jr., speaks from the past about how he always intended his streak to end; Yogi Berra watches highlights of David Wells's perfect game and remembers the perfect game he caught from Don Larsen, every detail clear as a bell; Matt Williams of the Arizona Diamondbacks, also a divorced father, watches with a lump in his throat as McGwire lifts his son at home plate. Roger Clemens, Shane Spencer, Orlando Hernandez, Tony Gwynn, Ken Griffey, Jr. - all the boys of summer come alive in special ways, as we're reminded, for one season at least, that, yes, they do play baseball like they used to. But even more than all of this, Summer of '98 is about fathers and sons - about the golden thread that stretches through baseball and, for Lupica, from his father to himself to his sons.
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