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    Thomas Hauser on Sports: Remembering the Journey
    Thomas Hauser on Sports: Remembering the Journey
    Thomas Hauser on Sports: Remembering the Journey
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    Thomas Hauser on Sports: Remembering the Journey

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    Thomas Hauser is best known as Muhammad Ali's biographer and for his recording of the contemporary boxing scene. Booklist called Hauser "the most respected boxing journalist working today and perhaps the best ever." Robert Lipsyte said Hauser is "the best boxing writer of our time." Still, Hauser's love of sports began not with boxing but with baseball. Long before he turned to the sweet science, America's national pastime had captured his heart. His childhood allegiance was to the New York Yankees. Growing up in the suburbs of New York, he cheered for the Giants in football and Knicks in basketball. In college, the often-hapless Columbia Lions became his cause. Thomas Hauser on Sports brings together Hauser's articles on sports other than boxing. It combines personal memories with issue-oriented commentary and an intimate look at some of the most remarkable athletes of modern times. Hauser has dealt one-on-one with Ted Williams, Mickey Mantle, Arnold Palmer, Pete Rose, Arthur Ashe, Wilt Chamberlain, and other giants of sports. He has crossed swords with the likes of Marvin Miller and Howard Cosell. Thomas Hauser on Sports is a remarkable journey that begins in the days of Hauser's youth and follows the games we play into the era of steroids and multi-billion-dollar television contracts.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Arkansas Press
    Release dateJun 1, 2013
    ISBN9781610755245
    Thomas Hauser on Sports: Remembering the Journey
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    Thomas Hauser

    Thomas Hauser, New York City attorney and Pulitzer Prize nominee, is the author of fifty books, non-fiction and fiction, on subjects that range from professional boxing to Beethoven. He is widely recognised as the world’s pre-eminent writer on the sweet science and, in particular, Muhammad Ali. His book Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times, was honored with the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award.

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