Description
Dan Coughlin serves up another round of great stories . . . Meet the nutty sports team owner who nearly killed his franchise with terrible trades (and some spectators with an ill-advised publicity stunt) . . . The adventurous Browns lineman who flew a bombing run in Korea (though he wasn’t a pilot!) and survived a gunshot wound—from his wife . . . The Indians slugger with the worst attitude in baseball—he didn’t just menace pitchers; he menaced everyone . . . The brilliant and relentless tennis promoter who stole the Davis Cup . . . And many others—including Victor, the wrestling bear! In this third lively collection, Dan Coughlin tells yet more true tales about the most colorful characters he’s known in four decades covering sports for Cleveland TV and newspapers. Turn to any page and you’ll probably learn something new—and get a laugh out of it, too.
Table of Contents
Foreword: Sister Aurelia’s Diagrams
Always Check Your Zipper
The Harbor Inn
Ted Stepien: Canadian Sunset
The Old Stadium
Stadium Mustard
Don King and Richie Giachetti
Howard Cosell Humbled
The Sweet Science Ain’t Sweet
Joe Pickens: Start of a Dynasty
Canton McKinley’s Death Penalty
Bob Commings: Fifth Year Blues
West Senate Memories
Invisible High School
Won Sok Hung
Four Live Wires
Soccer’s Been Good to Me
Grin and Bear It
The Eagles Have Landed
The Body at Clifton Beach
Albert Belle: Bad Attitude
Photographs
1954 Revisited
Tony Horton’s Breakdown
Game of Threes
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Stuck in Pittsburgh
Hitchhiking
Miami’s Greatest Team
Bob Gain Took a Bullet
Draft Choices
Otto Graham: A Kinder Era
Touch of Color
Bursting the Bubble
No Betting in the Press Box
Saul Silberman Played Every Game
Great Impersonators
Rumors of My Death
Jim Fixx the Running Man
Last Resting Place
Married for His Money
Stealing the Davis Cup
Gratitudes
