What Sport Tells Us About Life Ed Smith

Name: What Sport Tells Us About Life von Ed Smith
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Zusammenfassung

Why will there never be another Bradman? How do you win 33 games in a row? Why did Zidane lose his rag on the world's stage? Foraying into sport's leftfield, this title intends to ask the questions we rarely ask of our teams and players. It answers questions such as when is cheating really cheating? Is the free market good for sport?

What Sport Tells Us About Life Zusammenfassung

What Sport Tells Us About Life Ed Smith

Why will there never be another Bradman?

How do you win 33 games in a row?

Why did Zidane lose his rag on the world's stage?

Foraying deep into sport's leftfield, Ed smith asks the questions we rarely ask of our teams and players. When is cheating really cheating? Is the free market good for sport? Can talent be a curse? Does luck matter? His answers, often controversial and always thought provoking, will delight anyone who has ever wondered why sport matters.

What Sport Tells Us About Life Bewertungen

Recommended to anyone interested in sport, history, or simply human nature * Mark Lawson, Front Row *
I could eat this stuff up with a spoon * Nick Hornby *
A book that everyone with a serious interest in sport needs to read. Don't miss it -- Simon Barnes * The Times *
A terrific book - Smith has distilled into 200 pages things that took me fifteen years of playing to work out * Mike Atherton *
An exceptional book: lucid, thought-provoking, informative and fair. Outstanding -- Christopher Martin-Jenkins * The Times *
I could eat this stuff up with a spoon * Nick Hornby *

Über Ed Smith

Ed Smith read History at Peterhouse, Cambridge. Having played for Kent and England, he is now Captain of Middlesex County Cricket Club.

He has published two highly acclaimed books: Playing Hard Ball, a comparison of baseball and cricket, and On and Off the Field, which was named Wisden Book of the Year, 2004. He writes for many publications including The Times and Sunday Telegraph.

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GOR001307502

ISBN 13

9780141031859

ISBN 10

0141031859

Titel

What Sport Tells Us About Life Ed Smith

Autor

Ed Smith

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Broschiert

Verlag

Penguin Books Ltd

Datum

20090129

Anzahl der Seiten

208

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