Steve Rushin - Road Swing One Fan's Journey into the Soul of Am
| Schrijver: | Steve Rushin |
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| Titel: | Road Swing One Fan's Journey into the Soul of America's Sports |
| ISBN: | 9780385482295 |
| Taal: | Engels |
| Uitgever: | Doubleday |
| Bijzonderheden: | Goed, 1998, Hardcover, 245p |
| Prijs: | € 10,00 |
| Verzendkosten: | € 3,50 (binnen Nederland) |
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On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, Steve Rushin decided he wanted to revisit the twin pursuits of his youth: epic car trips and an unhealthy obsession with sports. He had a desire to see French Lick, Indiana, the boyhood home of Larry Bird, to attend a Texas high school football game and to watch Louisville Sluggers being \"Powerized\"--whatever on Earth that means. So he got into his Japanese car and drove to American sports shrines for a year. \"I was going to put my finger on the pulse of American sports, and I wanted that finger to be one of those giant, foam-rubber index fingers worn by pinhead fans across the land. So I joined Interstate 35 and traveled south out of Minneapolis in a cold gray mist. It was like driving into a sneeze. The radio reported ninety-four-mile-an-hour winds in southern Minnesota, as well as golf ball-, baseball-, and softball-sized hail. It was raining sporting goods, and I was following the perforated yellow line of the highway, like a trail of dripping ballpark nacho cheese, that would lead me to the soul of American sports--or whatever I was looking for.\" \nLike a sports-addled \"Blue Highways, Road Swing is a hearty chunk of Americana, a travelogue about the places that are the soul of sports, and a reflection of those themes that are unique to the American character.
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