Grasping the ring
Subtitle: nine unique winners in life and sports
By: Gene A. Budig ; foreword by Bob Costas.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780803226357
Subjects: Coaches (Athletics) -- United States -- Biography; Politicians -- United States -- Biography; Businessmen -- United States -- Biography; Athletes -- United States -- Biography; Successful people -- United States -- Biography; United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: Originally published: Champaign, Ill. : News-Gazette, c2008.
Table of contents: title: A Yankee Doodle dandy (George Steinbrenner); title: An American original (Larry Doby); title: Perhaps the greatest (Tom Osborne); title: A winning choice (Roy Williams); title: A meteor for the ages (Gale Sayers); title: Living a dream (Jerry Reinsdorf); title: An uncommon man (Robert Kerrey); title: The big score (Allen Neuharth); title: Country comes first (Robert J. Dole); title: Parting thoughts.