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Glory Days On Sports, Men, and Dreams-That Don't Die [Paperback]

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  • Category: Books (Biography & Autobiography)
  • Author:  Reynolds, Bill
  • Author:  Reynolds, Bill
  • ISBN-10:  0312209665
  • ISBN-10:  0312209665
  • ISBN-13:  9780312209667
  • ISBN-13:  9780312209667
  • Publisher:  St. Martin's Griffin
  • Publisher:  St. Martin's Griffin
  • Pages:  256
  • Pages:  256
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Pub Date:  01-Aug-1999
  • Pub Date:  01-Aug-1999
  • SKU:  0312209665-11-MPOD
  • SKU:  0312209665-11-MPOD
  • Item ID: 102458937
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Bill Reynolds built his youth around sports. As a boy in a blue-collar Rhode Island town, he spend his hours shooting hoops and dreaming of stardom. From his adolescence to high school fame to a scholarship at Brown University, Reynolds enjoyed the perks of athletic glory. But those days soon ended and the onetime star drifted between his past and an uncertain future.Glory Daysis a warm, touching, and funny book about what happens when jocks grow older --about getting a life without losing touch with your dreams.

[A] thoughtful memoir Dallas Morning News

[An] eloquent testimony...[Reynolds] sees though the scam: Sports is not life, but it almost is. Columbus Dispatch

A bang-up job by Reynolds. For all the failed Little Leaguers and average high school and college jocks this is 'the real story of sports in America'. Kirkus Review

A wonderful book. The Chattanooga Times

Bill Reynoldsis a sports columnist for theProvidence Journal-Bulletinand the author of several previous books, includingFall River DreamsandSuccess Is a Choice, with Rick Pitino. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

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