Sportsbiografier

Never before in the UK has a Rugby League man of Malcolm Reilly's legendary status issued such a full and revealling autobiography.

Nobody has ever been able to ignore Alex Murphy. In his rugby league career stretching over forty years - from schoolboy days playing with St Helens, to international success for Great Britain, as a player, coach and manager. This book tells the tale of how a liittle man reached the summit of his sport, and helped other little men along the way.

Excerpt: "We could get partly undressed-so that we had only such clothes as would be delicious to hug & squeeze in & then you could sit in my lap & we'd kiss & hug & squeeze & cuddle each other until we couldn't stand it any longer. . . ."Ronald A. Smith, a well-known sport historian and emeritus professor at Penn State University, has published several books in sport history, including an edited diary belonging to the subject of these love letters. "Big-Time Football at Harvard, 1905: The Diary of Coach Bill Reid" chronicles the most important year in college football, when the crisis in brutality led to the creation of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the legalization of the forward pass. Bill Reid had another side to his life, however-a passionate one in which he and his girlfriend, fiancé, and wife exchanged intimate love letters for well over a decade. The passionate nature of Bill and Christine's letters during the late Victorian period and early twentieth century are rare and distinguish them from other collections. Bill and Christine wrote intimate love letters when they first met, through their engagement and a lengthy separation while Christine took an eight-month voyage with her parents to Europe, and especially after their marriage and the birth of their first three children. The explicit love letters of upper-middle and upper class individuals are an exceptional find, and they broach issues between couples that are almost universal, often appearing timeless. The love letters of Bill and Christine not only illuminate aspects of life in the early twentieth century, but also they make us reflect on our own lives.

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The dramatic and inspiring story of two football greats, NFL Hall of Famer and broadcaster Bob Griese and his son, Brian Griese, starting quarterback of the Denver Broncos and 1998 Rose Bowl Champion with the Michigan Wolverines.

During the 1940s and 50s, the author, a country boy, simply wanted to go fishing. This is how he succeeded, despite opposition, and experienced a glorious boyhood.