Hip Pocket Guide to Sports
Author | : Gordon Osmond |
Publisher | : eBook Partnership |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 2016-06-17 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781783240432 |
ISBN-13 | : 1783240431 |
Rating | : 4/5 (431 Downloads) |
Download or read book Hip Pocket Guide to Sports written by Gordon Osmond and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pocket Guide to Sports is part memoir, part analyses and evaluations of major sports, and part commentary on sports movies.The book's tone is iconoclastic, sarcastic, and, at time, outrageous. It also contains some valuable advice for living, including those based on sports analogies, and thoughts about the progress of minority rights--gays, women, and racial--in the world of sports.For fun, the book includes a rating system where readers can compare their own assessments of the value of various sports with those of the author.Finally, the book provides a prospective as to how sports, old, new, and future, can enhance the human condition.