Summary of Jeff Pearlman's The Last Folk Hero

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Download or read book Summary of Jeff Pearlman's The Last Folk Hero written by Milkyway Media. This book was released on 2023-06-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jeff Pearlman's The Last Folk Hero In The Last Folk Hero (2022), sportswriter Jeff Pearlman explores the extraordinary career and enigmatic persona of Bo Jackson, the iconic athlete who excelled in both pro football and baseball after starring at Auburn University, where he won the Heisman Trophy. Pearlman delves into Jackson’s upbringing, his college years, and his meteoric rise to fame, as well as the end of his pro sports career and its aftermath. Pearlman paints a nuanced portrait, showcasing both his good and bad sides.

The Last Folk Hero

2022-10-25 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Jeff Pearlman
Release : 2022-10-25
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Book Synopsis The Last Folk Hero by : Jeff Pearlman

Download or read book The Last Folk Hero written by Jeff Pearlman. This book was released on 2022-10-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller • The ultimate gift for sports lovers By the author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definitive biography of mythic multi-sport star Bo Jackson. “A legendary tome on a legendary athlete." —Chris Herring, author of Blood in the Garden From the mid-1980s into the early 1990s, the greatest athlete of all time streaked across American sports and popular culture. Stadiums struggled to contain him. Clocks failed to capture his speed. His strength was legendary. His power unmatched. Video game makers turned him into an invincible character—and they were dead-on. He climbed (and walked across) walls, splintered baseball bats over his knee, turned oncoming tacklers into ground meat. He became the first person to simultaneously star in two major professional sports, and overtook Michael Jordan as America’s most recognizable pitchman. He was on our televisions, in our magazines, plastered across billboards. He was half man, half myth. Then, almost overnight, he was gone. He was Bo Jackson. Drawing on an astonishing 720 original interviews, New York Times bestselling sportswriter Jeff Pearlman captures as never before the elusive truth about Jackson, Auburn University’s transcendent Heisman Trophy winner, superstar of both the NFL and Major League Baseball and ubiquitous “Bo Knows” Nike pitchman. Did Bo really jump over a parked Volkswagen? (Yes.) Did he actually run a 4.13 40? (Yes.) During the 1991 flight that nearly killed every member of the Chicago White Sox, was he in the cockpit trying to help? (Oddly, yes. Or no. Or … maybe.) Bo Jackson isn’t Jim Thorpe. He’s not Deion Sanders, either. No, Bo Jackson is Paul Bunyan. The Last Folk Hero is the true tale of Bo Jackson that only “master storyteller” (NPR.org) Jeff Pearlman could tell.

Sweetness

2012-08-28 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Jeff Pearlman
Release : 2012-08-28
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Download or read book Sweetness written by Jeff Pearlman. This book was released on 2012-08-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of Chicago Bears and Hall of Fame superstar Walter Payton. Based on meticulous research and interviews with nearly 700 contacts, an unforgettable portrait that describes a man who lived his life just like he played the game: at full speed.

Bo Knows Bo

1990 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Bo Jackson
Release : 1990
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Download or read book Bo Knows Bo written by Bo Jackson. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of a ball player.

Gunslinger

2016-10-25 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Jeff Pearlman
Release : 2016-10-25
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Download or read book Gunslinger written by Jeff Pearlman. This book was released on 2016-10-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Over two decades, Brett Favre was as compelling a figure as any in the National Football League. He alone was 'Must-See TV.' In Gunslinger, Jeff Pearlman provides an extraordinary look at every facet of the life of a man who performed on sport's grandest stage and who had one helluva time along the way.”—Al Michaels In Gunslinger, Jeff Pearlman tells Brett Favre’s story for the first time, charting his unparalleled journey from a rough rural childhood and lackluster high school football career to landing the last scholarship at Southern Mississippi, to a car accident that nearly took his life, and eventually to the NFL and Green Bay, where he restored the Packers to greatness and inspired a fan base as passionate as any in the game. Yet he struggled with demons: addiction, infidelity, the loss of his father, and a fraught, painfully prolonged exit from the game he loved, a game he couldn’t bear to leave. Gritty and revelatory, Gunslinger is a big sports biography of the highest order, a fascinating portrait of the man with the rocket arm whose life has been one of triumph, fame, tragedy, embarrassment, and—ultimately—redemption. “The compelling, complete story of his legend, and his faults.”—Chicago Tribune

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