Powerful stories about the way sports can bring together fathers and
sons, to work out their differences and express their love for each
other.
Fathers & Sons & Sports **** presents a powerful lineup of real-world
stories about fathers and sons playing one-on-one in the game of life,
written by such great sportswriters and authors as
Henry Aaron, as told to Cal Fussman - Michael J. Agovino - Buzz
Bissinger - Jeff Bradley - John Ed Bradley - James Brown - Darcy Frey -
Tom Friend - Bill Geist - Mike Golic - Donald Hall - Paul Hoffman - Mark
Kriegel - Norman Maclean - John Buffalo Mailer - Ron Reagan - Peter
Richmond - Jeremy Schaap - Lew Schneider - Dan Shaughnessy - Paul
Solotaroff - John Jeremiah Sullivan - Wright Thompson - Steve Wulf
The unforgettable accounts here include the stories of a professional
football player passing on his father' s secrets to his own sons, a
severely disabled boy discovering joy on a surfboard, a wealthy NFL
player taking his coddled children back to the mean streets that made
him, and a major league manager who must face the hard fact that
nothing, not even unconditional love, can save his son.
Anyone who has ever been a father or a son will see himself in these
moving snapshots of family life at its most emotional. Whether the
stories take place on a diamond, a court, a gridiron, a fairway, or a
chessboard, they're all about the same subject: fatherhood, one of the
world's most intriguing sports.
