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Part memoir, part humor, and part myth, this entertaining and inspirational volume explores the moment the author realized his high-school basketball career would not last forever and examines why women continue to be perplexed by men's fascination with sports.
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Now a sports columnist for the Providence Journal-Bulletin, Bill Reynolds suffered from a common affliction. He was a star athlete in high school and college, but he couldn't quite give up the ghost when his playing days were done. As a young man, he put everything he had into the dreams of his basketball glory days, and suddenly, too suddenly, they were over. Now what? It's the question that haunts this affecting memoir of a man who found it impossible to let go. A decade after the cheering stopped, "I knew," he admits, "my life no longer worked the day the sheriff knocked on my door with a summons to appear in court for an overextended credit card loan." Once he figured out that he could make his obsession work for him--mentally, as a sportswriter; physically, in pick-up hoops--his life began to work, too. What makes Glory Days ultimately work is Reynolds's ability to take his confessional beyond the personal; he skillfully uses his experience as a laboratory for exploring the nation's fixation on its games and the unwillingness of so many American men to grow up and move on.
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"Eloquent...it should be required reading for all basketball junkies and the people who love them....A terrific voice." --Sports Illustrated
"[A] thoughtful memoir." --Dallas Morning News
"[An] eloquent testimony....[Reynolds] sees through the scam: Sports is not life, but it almost is." --Columbus Dispatch
"A bang-up job by Reynolds. For all the failed Little Leaguers and average high-school and college jocks this is 'the real story of sports in America.'" --Kirkus Reviews
"A wonderful book." --The Chattanooga Times
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- PublisherSt. Martin's Press
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0312300093
- ISBN 13 9780312300098
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages380
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