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The Match: The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever Frost, Mark Very Good
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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9781401302788
- Book Title
- Match : the Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever
- Item Length
- 9.6in
- Publisher
- Hyperion Press
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreation
- Topic
- Golf, History, Sports
- Item Width
- 6.4in
- Item Weight
- 16.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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The year: 1956. Four decades have passed since Eddie Lowery came to fame as the 10-year-old caddie to U.S. Open Champion Francis Ouimet. Now a wealthy car dealer and avid supporter of amateur golf, Lowery boasts to George Coleman--an equally important figure in gold circles and a fellow millionaire--that two of his car salesmen are the best players in the world. These two, U.S. Amateur champion Harvie Ward and up-and-coming star Ken Venturi, could beat any two golfers in the world in a best ball match, he claims. Coleman asks Lowery how he plans to prove it, and Lowery puts his money where his mouth is: Bring any two golfers of your choice to the course at 10 a.m. tomorrow morning, he tells Coleman, and we'll settle the issue--for a substantial amount of cash. Coleman shows up, all right--with Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson, the game's greatest living professionals, with 14 major championships between them. In Mark Frost's peerless hands, complete with the recollections of all the participants, the story of this immortal foursome and the game they played that day--legendarily known in golf circles as the greatest private match ever played--come to life with powerful emotional impact and edge-of-your-seat suspense.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Hyperion Press
ISBN-10
1401302785
ISBN-13
9781401302788
eBay Product ID (ePID)
60195925
Product Key Features
Book Title
Match : the Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Golf, History, Sports
Publication Year
2007
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreation
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.6in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
16.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Gv983.P43f76 2007
Grade from
Eighth Grade
Grade to
College Graduate Student
Reviews
" The Match was a dream I never thought would come true. If I hadn't been there I wouldn't believe it myself, and if you know anything about sports or the game of golf, once you pick up this book you won't put it down. No one will ever see an event like this again. Fiction can't touch it."-- Ken Venturi, Frost captures an elusive magic in this improbable matchup and what it meant for those who played and witnessed it., "Frost weaves an exceptional narrative . . . It's a gripping tale--as good as James Patterson, John Grisham, or any other contemporary novelist could create. And all true. The match comes down to the 18th hole, and you'll be the winner once you turn the last page."-- Met Golfer, Frost...has a gift for dramatizing historic golf matches and making them seem suspenseful all over again., A fascinating story of the early days of golf in this country and how it came to be one of the major sports at the turn of the century., The untold story of golf's greatest money match, featuring Hogan and Nelson at Cypress Point, come to life in Mark Frost's gripping new book, The Match., "Frost masterfully puts the reader not just on the scene, but in the time, too, with terrific storytelling."-- The State (South Carolina), "Frost captures an elusive magic in this improbable matchup and what it meant for those who played and witnessed it."-- Publishers Weekly, "It's difficult to beat a good golf book, be it a good yarn or a picture book . . . The golf is spectacular, the course more so, the descriptions luminous."-- USA Today, Frost masterfully puts the reader not just on the scene, but in the time, too, with terrific storytelling., The Match was a dream I never thought would come true. If I hadn't been there I wouldn't believe it myself, and if you know anything about sports or the game of golf, once you pick up this book you won't put it down. No one will ever see an event like this again. Fiction can't touch it., Frost weaves an exceptional narrative . . . It's a gripping tale--as good as James Patterson, John Grisham, or any other contemporary novelist could create. And all true. The match comes down to the 18th hole, and you'll be the winner once you turn the last page., It's difficult to beat a good golf book, be it a good yarn or a picture book . . . The golf is spectacular, the course more so, the descriptions luminous., Masterful storytelling...A must-read for the fanatical golfers among us, and a worthwhile trip through a largely forgotten era for the rest.
Copyright Date
2007
Lccn
2007-023325
Dewey Decimal
796.352/660979476
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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