Upon Further Review
The Greatest What-Ifs in Sports History
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فرمت کتاب
audiobook
تاریخ انتشار
2018
Lexile Score
1200
Reading Level
9-12
نویسنده
Various Narratorsناشر
Hachette Book Groupشابک
9781549198588
- اطلاعات
- نقد و بررسی
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نقد و بررسی
Author Mike Pesca assembles a cadre of "what-if?" questions from the sports world. Malcolm Gladwell starts things off with a cerebral foreword, which precedes more than 30 stories written in varying styles. Some are potentially history altering--such as Mary Pilon's "What If Title IX Never Was?"--some are thought provoking and creative--such as Jonathan Hock's "What If Jerry Tarkanian Had Beaten the NCAA and Liberated College Basketball?"--and some are laugh-out-loud funny--such as Jesse Eisenberg's "What If I Hadn't Written That Fan Letter to Dan Majerle in April 1993?" The stories, delivered by multiple narrators, are told with the right tonal inflections. All the narrators hit their marks, with Pesca being the most animated. Not one narrator misses a beat in this entertaining and educational compilation. M.B. � AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine
March 5, 2018
In his first book, Pesca, host of The Gist podcast, collects lively and informative essays on possible alternatives to some of the most notable moments in sports history. The entries come from sports columnists, historians, documentarians, and fans, and “propose hypotheticals that sparked the imagination, that opened the door to a hidden history or set off a plausible chain reaction we might not have even considered.” Highlights include Shira Springer’s “What If the United States Had Boycotted Hitler’s Olympics?” in which she presents a convincing case that a boycott would have been better for the 1936 Olympics, immediately setting the sporting event on “a more progressive” course. In “What If Muhammad Ali Had Gotten His Draft Deferment?” Leigh Montville convincingly argues that Ali’s time away from boxing in 1966 “was the most important time of all”—that without his image of “challenging authority,” Ali’s career would have been “perfunctory, simply about boxing.” In one of the best essays, “What If Nat ‘Sweetwater’ Clifton’s Pass Hadn’t Gone Awry?” Claude Johnson takes a look at racism in the early days of professional basketball with Nat Clifton playing in 1948 on the New York Rens, an all-black pro basketball team (Clifton’s errant pass caused the Rens to lose the game, and perhaps a franchise spot on the newly formed NBA). Enlightening and entertaining, Pesca’s collection of hypothetical sports outcomes gives sports fans much food for thought.
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