Who the Hell is Bob? The Man Behind the Magic

Rudman, Steve

ISBN 10: 1883697700 / ISBN 13: 9781883697709

Published by Hara Publishing, Seattle, WA, 2001

About this Item

538 pp. with index. Illus. with B&W photos. The biography of the man who helped create "March Madness"; coordinated disaster relief for earthquake victims, produced the 1990 Goodwill Games, and more. Inscribed and signed by author and Bob Walsh on front endpaper. Binding tight, text clean.

Seller Inventory # 16570

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Who the Hell is Bob? The Man Behind the Magic
• Publisher: Hara Publishing, Seattle, WA
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1883697700
• ISBN 13: 9781883697709
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography

About this title

Synopsis

WHO THE HELL IS BOB? is the rollicking story of one of America's little-known but most successful entrepreneurs, Bob Walsh. Author Steve Rudman uses his considerable talent for writing wry and witty prose to tell what seem to be preposterous tales about Bob and his astonishing antics. More than one influential billionaire, a prominent atheist and famous cardinal, the KKK, CIA, and KGB, several U.S. presidents, a host of sports stars and Hollywood celebrities are just a few of the characters who play parts in this fast-paced nonfiction novel. Hundreds of pictures feature Bob with some of the most prominent figures and events of the twentieth century.

About the Author

Steve Rudman knows his way around big-league sports the way a billiard ball knows its way around a pool table: having paid his dues knocking around the sports world, he now fits comfortably into several different pockets. He has followed the sports beat for a big-city newspaper, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer in Seattle; was founder and editor of The National Sports Review -- for which he received his fifteen minutes of fame on The Today Show; worked in TV as ESPN's Director of Research; and created a strip called "Wow!Stats," distributed nationally and internationally by Universal Press Syndicate.

Steve also admits to having once taught ballroom dancing, a good indication of his sense of humor, which he uses expertly to add flavor to his crisp, intelligent, and metaphor-rich writing.