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Fore! Play: The Last American Male Takes up Golf
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Fore! Play: The Last American Male Takes up Golf Hardcover - 2001

by Geist, Bill

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The bestselling author of "Little League Confidential" goes on a hilarious investigative excursion to find out what's behind America's growing obsession with golf. The humorist's unique approach to the game provides uproarious insight into the nuances of golf that will ring true with any lover of the sport.

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Grand Central Publishing, 2001-04-25. hardcover. New. 6x0x9.
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  • Title Fore! Play: The Last American Male Takes up Golf
  • Author Geist, Bill
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Grand Central Publishing, New York
  • Date 2001-04-25
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0446527637-11-31822979
  • ISBN 9780446527637 / 0446527637
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.23 x 0.9 in (23.62 x 15.82 x 2.29 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Golf
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00066256
  • Dewey Decimal Code 796.352

Summary

The bestselling author of "Little League Confidential" goes on a hilarious investigative excursion to find out what's behind America's growing obsession with golf. The humorist's unique approach to the game provides uproarious insight into the nuances of golf that will ring true with any lover of the sport.

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I am from a golf-deprived background.

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Citations

  • BookPage, 04/01/2001, Page 3
  • Publishers Weekly, 03/19/2001, Page 91

About the author

Bill Geist is the New York Times bestselling author of nine books, including City Slickers, Little League Confidential, The Big Five-Oh, Fore! Play!, and Way Off the Road. Geist has won numerous Emmys and in 2011 was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for the hundreds of "singular, informative, entertaining" pieces he has done since joining CBS in 1987. He was awarded the Bronze Star for his service as a combat photographer in Vietnam in 1969. In 2018 he retired from CBS having battled Parkinson's disease for twenty-five years. Geist lives in Riverside, Connecticut, with his wife, Jody. They have two children, Willie and Libby, and four grandchildren.