One on One Behind the Scenes with the Greats in the Game

by Feinstein, John

• ISBN13: 9780316079051
• ISBN10: 0316079057
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-12-04
• Publisher: Back Bay Books

Summary

John Feinstein's illuminating recollections from two decades of interviews with sports legends. John Feinstein's career is a sports fan's dream-a lifetime of encounters with the great figures in sports, not just on the field, but in the locker room and behind the scenes with legends like Bob Knight, Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, and John McEnroe. Since his days as a young Washington Postjournalist, Feinstein has written twenty-eight books and countless magazine articles and newspaper columns, covering college basketball, golf, tennis, baseball, and very nearly every sport in between. He has told us of victory and defeat, of athletes and coaches we love--and love to hate. But some of his best stories have been left untold, until now. ONE ON ONE is an incredible portal into the sports we love-from the box scores and the pageantry of game night and into the hard work and intensity that turn players and coaches into legends.

Author Biography

John Feinstein is the author of many bestselling books on sports. He writes for the Washington Post, Washingtonpost.com, Golf Digest, and Golf World, and is a regular contributor to the Golf Channel. He lives in Maryland.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 3
How It Began	p. 7
No, No, No, No…and No	p. 33
Next Stop, Bloomington	p. 58
Back Home Again… Sort Of	p. 73
The Honeymoon	p. 89
Moving On… and Not Moving On	p. 118
Book Two	p. 136
Starting All Over	p. 151
V. and Other Characters	p. 179
Junior and Friends	p. 211
Hard Times and Hard Courts	p. 225
Around the World and Beyond	p. 247
Dream Season	p. 263
Mark Twain Was Wrong	p. 298
A Good Walk Not Spoiled	p. 310
Tiger	p. 329
More Walks	p. 346
Special Kids and Brick Walls	p. 358
Really Special Kids	p. 373
"Can't You Just Write a Magazine Story?"	p. 390
Back to the Future	p. 418
Tennis, We Hardly Knew Ya	p. 434
The Existentialist and the Buddhist	p. 454
Hoopsters	p. 466
The Indiana Boys	p. 481
Epilogue: The Best and the Brightest	p. 503
Acknowledgments	p. 517
Index	p. 521
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