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" Lost in the lights : "
Paul Hemphill.
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BL
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953599
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b707969
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| Main Entry
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Hemphill, Paul,1936-2009.
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Lost in the lights : : sports, dreams, and life /\ Paul Hemphill.
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Tuscaloosa :: University of Alabama Press,, ©2003.
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1 online resource (173 pages)
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0817382844
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0817313168
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9780817313166
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| Contents
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The dawning. White bread and baseball ; Big night, big city ; "I gotta let the kid go" ; Marty Malloy, 2b ; The kid and the third baseman -- The striving. Saturday night at Dixie Speedway ; The great Wallenda ; The boys of Stalag Thirteen ; It's a mad, mad, mad whirl ; We were champions, once -- The gloaming. Mister Cobb ; The Billy Ray Hunsinger Show ; On the bus ; Whatever happened to what's-his-name? ; Yesterday's hero.
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A veteran journalist's collection of sportswriting on the blue-collar South. Sport mirrors life. Or, in Paul Hemphill's opinion, 'Sport is life.' The 15 pieces in this compelling collection are arranged along the timeline for an aspiring athlete's dream: 'The Dawning, ' with stories about boys hoping and trying to become men, 'The Striving, ' about athletes at work, defining themselves through their play, and 'The Gloaming, ' about the twilight time when athletes contend with broken dreams and fading powers. Through all the pieces, Hemphill exhibits his passion for the sports he covers and a keen.
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Sports stories, American.
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Manners and customs.
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Sports stories, American.
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Southern States, Fiction.
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Southern States, Social life and customs.
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Southern States.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.54
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PS3558.E4793L67 2003eb
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