Frank Deford, Author . Sourcebooks $24 (272p) ISBN 978-1-57071-745-1
The versatile Deford, best known for his sports writing and radio commentary and most recently the author of a novel about Pearl Harbor titled Love and Infamy, here segues into romantic suspense with a touch of gothic mystery. Set in 17th-century...
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Frank Deford, Author . Sourcebooks Landmark $24 (256p) ISBN 978-1-57071-992-9
Anyone who remembers the fearful summers before the Salk vaccine wiped out polio will relate to Deford's novel of the 1950s. Those who warm to stories in which appealing teenagers come of age will also find resonance here. The narrator, 14-year-o
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Frank Deford, Author . Atlantic Monthly $24 (241p) ISBN 978-0-87113-885-9
At the turn of the 20th century, "every American could want to be Christy Mathewson," Deford writes, and "every American could admire John J. McGraw." For a generation of fans in the era before Babe Ruth, Giants pitcher Mathewson was
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Frank Deford, Author . Sourcebooks $24.95 (318p) ISBN 978-1-4022-0896-6
Sportswriter, screenwriter and author Deford (Alex: The Life of a Child
; Everybody's All-American
) scores another hit with this novel of athletes behaving badly. After a career spent knocking around in the minor leagues as a player and manager,
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Frank Deford, Overlook, $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-59020-359-0
When American swimmer Sydney Stringfellow arrives at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, she never expects to fall in love with a handsome young German, but she does. When politics separate them, she goes home to nurse her broken heart and meets Jimmy, a kind
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Frank Deford, Author Little Brown and Company $17.95 (306p) ISBN 978-0-316-17944-7
If, as accepted wisdom has it, the sports department is the toy shop of journalism and sportwriters are the midgets of the literary world, Deford wants to be known as the world's tallest midget. And in this collection of his pieces from Sports...
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Frank Deford, Author Viking Books $15.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-670-82780-0
Deford ( Everybody's All-American ) uses Ernest Thayer's classic poem ``Casey at the Bat'' to create a whimsical tale blending fact, fiction and fantasy. Timothy Casey is a brilliant young ``ballist'' (as they were called back in 1888) whose...
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Frank Deford, Author Viking Books $24 (576p) ISBN 978-0-670-82995-8
Highly regarded sportswriter ( Everybody's All American ) and author of an affecting chronicle of his daughter's death ( Alex ), Deford debuts as a novelist with an engrossing story of political and personal intrigue that takes place in Japan before
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Frank Deford. Atlantic Monthly, $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2015-1
Sportswriter (Sports Illustrated) and author (Everybody’s All-American) Deford tells the story of his rise from the comfortable and modest streets of Baltimore to the top of the sports journalism world. He discovered that he “had some facility for...
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Frank Deford, Author, Glenn Stout, Editor, Frank Deford, Editor Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $10.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-395-63323-6
This collection proves again that some of the best current American journalism is on the sports pages. The book contradicts Deford's assertion that sports writers should be held to a higher standard of craftsmanship because ``sports is rarely...
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