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by Tom Callahan


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As a columnist for Time magazine, among many other publications, Tom Callahan witnessed an extraordinary number of defining moments in American sport across four decades. He takes us from Roberto Clemente clinching his 3,000th, and final, regular-season hit in Pittsburgh; to ringside for the Muhammad Ali-George Foreman fight in Zaire; and to Arthur Ashe announcing, at a news conference, that he'd tested positive for HIV. There are also little-known private moments: Joe Morgan whispering thank you to a virtually blind Jackie Robinson on the field at the 1972 World Series, or Kareem Abdul-Jabbar saying he was more interested in being a good man than in being the greatest basketball player.

Brimming with colorful vignettes and enlivened by Callahan's eye for detail, Gods at Play offers surprising portraits of the most celebrated names in sports. Roger Rosenblatt calls Callahan "the most complete sportswriter in America. He knows the most and writes the best.

From the rear cover

Praise for Tom Callahan:

Tom Callahan combines lively, swaggering sports reporting with machismo to burn.
- Janet Maslin, New York Times

Under Tom Callahan's spell, words soar, spin, and do the samba on the head of a matchstick. There's nobody better.
- Rick Reilly, former ESPN sportswriter and author of Commander in Cheat

Tom Callahan writing about anything is like Julia Child saying, 'If you don't have any plans, stick around and I'll make you dinner.'
- Tony Kornheiser, host of the sports television show Pardon the Interruption

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  • Title Gods at Play: An Eyewitness Account of Great Moments in American Sports
  • Author Tom Callahan
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
  • Date 2020-09-22
  • Features Index
  • ISBN 9781324004271 / 1324004274
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.2 in (23.11 x 15.75 x 3.05 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Sports - United States - History, Anecdotes
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2020008286
  • Dewey Decimal Code 796.097

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  • Kirkus Reviews, 06/01/2020, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 10/12/2020, Page 0
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