| The Sweet Season Contributor(s): Murphy, Austin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060505842 ISBN-13: 9780060505844 Publisher: It Books OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2022 Annotation: Praised by sports fans and book critics alike, this book is a laugh-out-loud story about football, family, and marriage. Murphy's humor is relentless and his football anecdotes insightful in a story of kindness and humility in the typically macho world of sports. Print features. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Football - Sports & Recreation | Essays - Sports & Recreation | Shooting |
| Dewey: 796.332 |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 5.28" W x 8.07" (0.64 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Minnesota - Cultural Region - Midwest - Cultural Region - Upper Midwest |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: After fifteen years as a Sports Illustrated writer, pleading for interviews with large men in possession of larger egos, Austin Murphy decides to bail out. The time has come, he concludes, to fly beneath the radar of big-league sports, to while away a season with the Johnnies. So, he moves his family to the middle of Minnesota to chronicle a season at St. John's, a Division III program that has reached unparalleled success under the unorthodox guidance of John Gags Gagliardi. The Sweet Season is an account of what happens when a family pulls up stakes and spends months in a strange and wonderful place. It is also, not incidentally, the story of the most incredible football program in the country, run by a smiling sage who has forgotten more about the game than most of his peers will ever know. |
Contributor Bio(s): Murphy, Austin: - Austin Murphy is a senior writer at Sports Illustrated. He lives in northern California with his wife and their two children. |