Mike Shropshire, Author . Morrow $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-057211-2
"Are you kidding me?" asked a Sports Illustrated
story in early 2003, shortly after autocratic Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones hired equally autocratic Bill Parcells ("The Big Tuna") as head coach of his NFL franchise. It was a...
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Mike Shropshire, Author Dutton Books $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-55611-495-3
Baseball's Texas Rangers were the Washington Senators before they were moved in 1972 by owner and political-insider Bob Short, whom the author describes as ""Hubert Humphrey's bagman."" In 1973, Shropshire first began covering the Rangers, a group...
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Mike Shropshire. St. Martin’s, $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-60424-0
Shropshire (The Last Real Season) offers an unabashed paean to Sarah Palin (née Heath) in the guise of a sports triumph. Palin, relegated to the junior varsity team her junior year, returned to be elected co-captain and play point guard her senior...
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Mike Shropshire, Author, Frank Schaeffer, With Carol Publishing Corporation $19.95 (271p) ISBN 978-1-55972-232-2
In this enthusiastic, casual, not-so-intimate biography of Democratic Texas governor Richards, Texas journalist Shropshire and novelist Schaeffer ( Pandora Man ) tell the life story of the gutsy, tart-tongued former junior high school teacher who...
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Michael Shropshire, Author, Mike Shropshire, Author . St. Martin's $23.95 (265p) ISBN 978-0-312-24231-2
A brilliantly comic diversion, this irreverent spoof does for golf what the author's Seasons in Hell
did for baseball. That is, it defines the genre in terms of spirited satire. Del Bonnet was kicked off the PGA tour for conduct involving a...
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