Description |
xvii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents |
Introduction / Mary Pilon and Louisa Thomas -- The sporting house / Charles Bock -- Yankees strike / Bob Sullivan -- Banderillero / Barry Newman -- An Athens odyssey skips the medal mark : sailing out of a square story / Kevin Hall -- The peanut vendor and the curse / Samuel Graham Felsen -- That loser LeBron / Ryan O'Hanlon -- Two white kids from New York kicking ass / Brian Platzer -- Too lucky in love / Joshua Prager -- If you can't beat 'em / Louisa Hall -- The great Wimbledon FC heist / Ryan Bailey -- The 1908 Olympic marathon / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Requiem for the Ivory Coast : the anatomy of Greece's last-minute penalty / Rowan Ricardo Phillips -- The "Dewey defeats Truman of sports / James Andrew Miller -- Chasing Ashton Eaton : an unintended pursuit of the world's greatest athlete that no one has heard of / Jeremy Taiwo, as told to Stefanie Loh -- Galiyeva-ed / Carla Correa -- The Kyrgios enigma / Louisa Thomas -- Tomato can blues / Mary Pilon -- Washington Generals win! / Matt Nissenbaum -- The guy wearing a hat / Andrew Lehren -- Losing on purpose / Mike Pesca -- Larry and the ball / Abby ellin -- The loser / Gay Talese. |
Summary |
"Twenty-two notable writers-including Bob Sullivan, Abby Ellin, Mike Pesca, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Louisa Hall, and Gay Talese-examine the untold stories of the losers, and in doing so reveal something raw and significant about what it means to be human"-- Provided by publisher. |
Subject(S) |
Sports -- Psychological aspects.
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Defeat (Psychology)
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Failure (Psychology)
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Athletes -- Psychology.
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Added Name(S) |
Pilon, Mary, editor.
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Thomas, Louisa, editor.
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Added Title |
Losers (Penguin Books USA, Inc.)
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ISBN |
9780143133834 (paperback) |
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0143133837 (paperback) |
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