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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.332
EAN num: 9781582618913
Format: Illustrated
ISBN number: 1582618917
Label: Sports Publishing LLC
Manufacturer: Sports Publishing LLC
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 160
Printing Date: 2004-10
Publishing house: Sports Publishing LLC
Sale Popularity Level: 1349299
Studio: Sports Publishing LLC
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More than 30 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. Telander recently found the tattered, spiral-bound journal he kept while in that training camp and, after re-reading 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 people's lives today. In Like a Rose: A Thoughtful Celebration of Football, Rick Telander reproduces his training-camp journal, following each entry with his views yesterday 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 country's most highly respected and well-known sportswriters. Telander, whose other books include Heaven is a Playground, ranked as the 15th 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.
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I loved this book. Not only does Rick Telander reprint his journal from his training camp with the Kansas City Chiefs, he also includes his current perspective on it. This is a very introspective and personal book, yet it also serves as just a great read.
On the reflective side, Telander intersperses his current life with the life that the journal contained. Telander balances his love of sports with the love of his family, particularly his athletic son.
On the simpler level, it is a great look at life for a rookie in a pro football training camp thirty years ago. Telander's experiences with some great football players and just some good names from the past really brought back some great memories for me of a simpler time in sports and life.
Either way, this book works on all levels.
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