Like a Rose (eBook)

Life Lessons from a Training Camp with Hank Stram and the Kansas City Chiefs

Rick Telander (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2014
160 Seiten
Sporting Classics (Verlag)
978-1-61321-757-3 (ISBN)

Infos

More than thirty years ago, acclaimed author and Chicago Sun-Times sports columnist Rick Telander was drafted out of Northwestern University by a Kansas City Chiefs team filled with future Pro Football Hall of Famers and coached by the legendary Hank Stram. In 2004, Telander found the tattered, spiral-bound journal he kept while in that training camp and, after rereading the entries he kept until being cut from the team, was amazed and moved by the life lessons he took away from that once-in-a-lifetime experience and how they can be applied to peoples lives today.In Like a Rose, Rick Telander reproduces his training-camp journal, following each entry with his views today on how those unique events and the heartbreak of not being able to fulfill his NFL dream helped propel him into a life as one of the countrys most highly respected and well-known sportswriters. Telander, whose other books include Heaven Is a Playground, ranked as the fifteenth best sports book of all-time by Sports Illustrated, hopes to show how a game some see as being violent can instead offer lessons that people from any walk of life can understand. He also promises to explain the poignancy behind the enigmatic title, Like a Rose.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.12.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Fahrrad
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 1974 • Albert • Amateurism • America • athletic department • ball scene • basketball courts • basketball players • bball • Bergan • big-time college • books on big-time colleges • books on city basketballs • books on college athletics • books on college footballs • books on ghettos • books on hundred yards books on college a • books on ncaa tournaments • books on play basketballs • books on pro balls • books on reach successes • books on scalpings • books on scholarships • books on street balls • books on youths • Brooklyn • city basketball • coached • Coaches • Coaching • college athletes • College Athletics • college basketball • College Football • Colleges • crime filled • deaf ears • flatbush • Florida • hundred yard • hustler • inner city • inner-city • Missouri • ncaa tournament • northwestern ghettos • Parker • phenom • Photographers • play basketball • players playing • Playground • prep schools • pro ball • quote explains • reach success • receive money • Rodney • rose bowl • Scalping • Scholarships • Scouting • self-educated • street ball • Streetball • thirty-six-year-old • Ticket • Williams • worrell • Youths
• ISBN-10: 1-61321-757-9 / 1613217579
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61321-757-3 / 9781613217573