Paul D. Staudohar is the author of Playing for Dollars: Labor Relations and the Sports Business and other business books. A professor of business administration at California State University in Hayward, he lives in Lafayette, California.
Ranging through the complete history of football, veteran sports-story anthologist Staudohar (Golf's Best; Baseball's Best) presents a collection of 22 stories that covers the game in all its forms: college and professional, amateur and school-boy. The standouts‘Peter Gent's "Waiting for the Turk," T. Coraghessan Boyle's "56-0," Ben Ames Williams's "Scapegoat" and Samuel W. Taylor's "There Must Be a Losing Coach"‘focus on characters more than the game, which, not unexpectedly, they refuse to take too seriously. The efforts of two celebrated literary authors‘Don DeLillo's "Game Plan" and John Updike's "In Football Season"‘are surprisingly plodding and go nowhere fast, like three plays and a punt. Two selections by Damon Runyon, "Hold 'Em Yale" and "Undertaker Song," stand out from the other entries for their comic brilliance and masterful rendering of dialect. (Dec.)
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