Steve Rushin, Author . Doubleday $24.95 (259p) ISBN 978-0-385-52992-1
The first novel from former Sports Illustrated
columnist Rushin joins other works of pub fiction, yet it's the wordplay—not the alcohol consumption—that drives the novel. Rodney Poole is unemployed, spends much of his time at New...
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Steve Rushin, Author Doubleday Books $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-385-48229-5
You don't have to like sports to appreciate this sidesplitting travelogue, a literary home run from Sports Illustrated's senior writer and one of the most agile essayists around. Laugh your way across America with Rushin as he follows the ""perforate
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Steve Rushin, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $23 (256p) ISBN 978-0-87113-878-1
Don't let the word ""caddie"" in the title fool you--this is not a golf book. In a way, it's not even a sports book, although it consists of essays, columns and features that Rushin, a senior writer for Sports Illustrated, originally wrote for the...
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Steve Rushin. Little, Brown, $25 (352pp) ISBN 978-0-316-20093-6
Rushin, a longtime acclaimed writer for Sports Illustrated, chronicles the history of baseball through the items used by players (baseball bats, sanitary socks), enjoyed by fans (beer and hot dogs), and sported by both (baseball caps). A lot of the...
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Steve Rushin. Little, Brown, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-0-316-39223-5
Best known for his back-page slice-of-life vignettes in Sports Illustrated, Rushin (author of The Caddie Was a Reindeer, an essay collection, and the novel The Pint Man) describes growing up in the 1970s. He employs such cultural references as...
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