The Game of Their Lives
(eBook)
Description
Loading Description...
More Details
Language
English
ISBN
9781466880818
Also in this Series
Checking series information...
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Geoffrey Douglas., & Geoffrey Douglas|AUTHOR. (2014). The Game of Their Lives . Henry Holt and Co..
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Geoffrey Douglas and Geoffrey Douglas|AUTHOR. 2014. The Game of Their Lives. Henry Holt and Co.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Geoffrey Douglas and Geoffrey Douglas|AUTHOR. The Game of Their Lives Henry Holt and Co, 2014.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Geoffrey Douglas, and Geoffrey Douglas|AUTHOR. The Game of Their Lives Henry Holt and Co., 2014.
Note! Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy. Citation formats are based on standards as of August 2021.
Staff View
Grouping Information
Grouped Work ID | 28e830a7-12dc-85b3-cd8d-6822747bb51a-eng |
---|---|
Full title | game of their lives |
Author | douglas geoffrey |
Grouping Category | book |
Last Update | 2024-05-15 02:00:45AM |
Last Indexed | 2024-05-16 02:31:20AM |
Book Cover Information
Image Source | hoopla |
---|---|
First Loaded | Nov 29, 2023 |
Last Used | Jan 21, 2024 |
Hoopla Extract Information
stdClass Object ( [year] => 2014 [artist] => Geoffrey Douglas [fiction] => [coverImageUrl] => https://cover.hoopladigital.com/mcm_9781466880818_270.jpeg [titleId] => 13989352 [isbn] => 9781466880818 [abridged] => [language] => ENGLISH [profanity] => [title] => The Game of Their Lives [demo] => [segments] => Array ( ) [pages] => 146 [children] => [artists] => Array ( [0] => stdClass Object ( [name] => Geoffrey Douglas [artistFormal] => Douglas, Geoffrey [relationship] => AUTHOR ) ) [genres] => Array ( [0] => Soccer [1] => Sports & Recreation ) [price] => 1.2 [id] => 13989352 [edited] => [kind] => EBOOK [active] => 1 [upc] => [synopsis] => In the late spring of 1950, eleven young immigrants' sons, most of them strangers to each other, came together for the love and fun of a game of soccer. They came from Missouri, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New York, from jobs in canneries, brickyards, post offices, classrooms, and bars, to play for their country in the 1950 World Cup, resulting in what has since been called, by scores of sources for more than forty years, the greatest upset victory in the history of American sports. But, no one in America at the time paid attention. Their only public honor-roughly twenty minutes' worth-was from a throng of strangers in a Brazilian mining town. Geoffrey Douglas's The Game of Their Lives is the story of the lives of these men: their jobs, wives, sweethearts, neighborhoods, the innocence of their era, the anonymity in which they worked and played. It is the story of heroism, stoicism, and simple unsung grace. Of a time before television, endorsement contracts, movie rights for serial killers, and seven-figure idols who denigrate us all. And ultimately, though it is not a sports story-it is the story of a game, played brilliantly. A single game of soccer, the greater game of life. [url] => https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/13989352 [pa] => [publisher] => Henry Holt and Co. [purchaseModel] => INSTANT )