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Title Losers : dispatches from the other side of the scoreboard / edited by Mary Pilon and Louisa Thomas.

Publisher New York : Penguin Books, 2020.

ISBN 9780143133834 (paperback)
0143133837 (paperback)



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 Toledo Heights Branch Adult  796.019 Los    AVAILABLE  ---
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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.
Defeat (Psychology)
Failure (Psychology)
Athletes -- Psychology.
Added Name(S) Pilon, Mary, editor.
Thomas, Louisa, editor.
Added Title Losers (Penguin Books USA, Inc.)
ISBN 9780143133834 (paperback)
0143133837 (paperback)