SPORTS IN AMERICA Tapa blanda - 1977

New York: Fawcett, 1976. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 6x4x1. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. spine creasing, edge wear; James A. Michener’s explosive, spectacular Sports in America is a prescient examination of the crisis in American sports that is still unfolding to this day. Pro basketball players are banned for narcotics use, while a Major League pitcher is arrested for smuggling drugs across the Mexican border. The NFL’s “injury report” grows longer every Sunday. Corruption and recruiting violations plague collegiate sports as the “winning is everything” mentality trickles down to the Little League level. With his lifelong enthusiasm for sports in evidence, the incomparable Michener tackles this subject thoroughly and leaves us amazed and appalled by what we’ve learned, yet still loving the games we grew up on.

Fawcett, April 1977. Paper Back. Good.

576 pages, because Michener almost never wrote a short book. All about sports in the 1970s. (It would even be longer if written today.) The obsession with sports and the social costs. Wear around the edges of the cover. Pages good, clean, tight.

Fawcett. MASS MARKET PAPER. 0. 0449232042 :Moderate wear. Yellowed, Spine is creased. Binding: Mass Market Paperbound<br />Subject: Non-Classifiable | Non|Classifiable<br />Vendor: Fawcett Books . Fair.

Fawcett, April 1977. Paper Back . 7 Choice HB Standard.

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Fawcett Books, 1976. First edition. 1st Fawcett Crest printing.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Minor spine creasing. Clean.. 1 576p. Black covers; red, white titles. Blue star. Index. More than 30 years ago, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and chronicler Michener turned his research skills and passion to the state of American sports from Little League to the Olympics to the pros. In this non-fiction analysis, themes are much the same today: superstar salaries, discrimination against women, scandalous recruitment programs at the university level. How have sports changed?

Random House Publishing Group, 1977. Mass Market Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Fawcett. Used - Good. Good condition. (Non-Fiction, Sports, Sociology)

Fawcett, 1977-04-12. Mass Market Paperback. Good.