Steamer e-bog
150,55 DKK
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For nearly sixty years, Bud Furillo wrote and talked about sports in Southern California. For fifteen of those years, he authored a popular column for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner called The Steam Room, which gave him the nickname that lasted him for the rest of his life: the Steamer.As a reporter, columnist, editor, and pioneer of sports talk radio, the Steamer dished out insight and unders...
E-bog
150,55 DKK
Forlag
Santa Monica Press
Udgivet
31 maj 2016
Længde
480 sider
Genrer
1KBBWF
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781595808073
For nearly sixty years, Bud Furillo wrote and talked about sports in Southern California. For fifteen of those years, he authored a popular column for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner called The Steam Room, which gave him the nickname that lasted him for the rest of his life: the Steamer.As a reporter, columnist, editor, and pioneer of sports talk radio, the Steamer dished out insight and understanding to Southern California sports fans while Los Angeles grew into a sports empire. On his watch, L.A. acquired the Rams from Cleveland, the Dodgers from Brooklyn, and the Lakers from Minneapolis. He covered them all while they won championships for the city.In The Steamer: Bud Furillo and the Golden Age of L.A. Sports, Furillos son, Andy, himself a longtime newspaperman, uses his fathers lens to give focus to the citys rise as a sports empire. The Steamer is a history of a great sports town at its most dynamic, told from the point of view of a legendary reporter who used his phenomenal access to reveal the inside story of the greatest athletes and teams to ever play in Los Angeles.