This chunky hardcover book profiles golf superstars like Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, and Tiger Woods.
It highlights golf's greatest moments, including Gene Sarazen's double eagle at the 1935 Masters, Nancy Lopez's streak of five wins in her rookie season, and John Daly's out-of-nowhere victory at the 1991 PGA Championship.
Mixed in are hilarious quotes and amusing stories about the great pastime of golf.
Captures the passion of the game through intriguing text and beautiful photographs.
The Love of Golf starts with detailed stories about the game's legends - Sam Snead, golf courses such as St. Andrews - and then moves to the lighter side of golf, where readers will meet golfers like Lee Trevino, also known as Supermex, and Roger Maltbie, who once lost a $40,000 winner's check at a restaurant.
A sampling of the book's content:
Golf greats: Arnold Palmer, Babe Zaharias, Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Jack Nicklaus, Phil Mickelson, Nancy Lopez, Greg Norman, Vijay Singh, Tom Watson, Seve Ballesteros.
Courses: Pebble Beach, Shinnecock Hills, Glen Abbey, The National, Cypress Point.
Golf's best: Best rounds, best hot streaks, best Masters, best characters, strangest moments, best shots, best U.S. Opens, best U.S. holes, best PGA Championships.
Golf's lighter side: Humorous quotes from Chi Chi Rodriguez, Walter Hagen, Jimmy Demaret, and Zeppo Marx.
Hardcover, 320 pages
Published February 10th 2005 by Publications International, Ltd.
USED BOOK VERY GOOD CONDITION
Hardcover, 264 pages
Published September 1st 1980 by Parker Publishing Company
The Orangemen-say the name and basketball fans everywhere immediately recognize the team from Syracuse University. For more than one hundred years, they have been playing basketball up on "the Hill." Their history is one of growth and continued success, all of which is documented with rare archival photographs in The Orangemen: Syracuse University Men's Basketball.Syracuse University fielded its first men's basketball team in 1900 and enjoyed many successes in the program's early years. Legendary players highlighted the time: Lewis Castle, the first of Syracuse's thirty-two All-Americans; Vic Hanson, the only player enshrined in both the College Football and Naismith Memorial Basketball Halls of Fame; and Wilmeth Sidat-Singh, the first African American to play at Syracuse. Longtime coach Jim Boeheim is one of just twenty-five Division I coaches with more than six hundred victories. The Orangemen: Syracuse University Men's Basketball will take fans back to Manley Field House and the days of the zoo. More recent photographs of Carrier Dome favorites such as Pearl Washington, Derrick Coleman, Sherman Douglas, Lawrence Moten, and John Wallace will complete the picture of one of college basketball's most successful and enduring teams.
Original TitleThe Orangemen: Syracuse University Men's Basketball [Revised] (Images of Sports)
ISBN 0738534765 (ISBN13: 9780738534763)
Edition LanguageEnglish
USED BOOK IN VERY GOOD CONDITION