Buzz Bissinger
Teoksen Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream tekijä
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H. G. "Buzz" Bissinger graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1976. He has worked for many newspapers, including The Philadelphia Inquirer, and he shared a Pulitzer Prize for reporting in 1987 for a series on the Philadelphia Court System. He has written for magazines including Sports näytä lisää Illustrated, The New York Times Magazine, and Vanity Fair, for which he has been a contributing editor since 1996. Bissinger also co-produced and wrote for the ABC television drama NYPD Blue and published the nonfiction books Friday Night Lights, A Prayer for the City and Three Nights in August. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
Tekijän teokset
Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager (2005) 647 kappaletta
After Friday Night Lights: When the Games Ended, Real Life Began. An Unlikely Love Story. (Kindle Single) (2012) 27 kappaletta
Citizenship and Personal, Social and Health Education: Teacher Book Bk. 4 (Citizenship & PSHE) 1 kappale
Friday Nigth Lights 1 kappale
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Beekeeping 1 kappale
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- Kanoninen nimi
- Bissinger, Buzz
- Virallinen nimi
- Bissinger, Harry Gerard, III
- Muut nimet
- Bissinger, H. G.
- Syntymäaika
- 1954-11-01
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- New York, New York, USA
- Asuinpaikat
- New York, New York, USA (birth)
- Koulutus
- Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, USA
University of Pennsylvania (BA|1976) - Ammatit
- reporter
journalist
author - Suhteet
- Berg, Peter (cousin)
- Organisaatiot
- Ledger-Star
St. Paul Pioneer Press
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Chicago Tribune
Vanity Fair - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Neiman Fellowship, Harvard University
Pulitzer Prize (Investigative Reporting, 1987)
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- 4,133
- Suosituimmuussija
- #6,093
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- 4.0
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- 104
- ISBN:t
- 80
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- 1
- Kuinka monen suosikki
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It does go into pitch-by-pitch commentary at times, discussing how the game and the psychology changes at each point, what options La Russa is considering and what counters he anticipates.
The writing is ok. But the author does repeatedly use bad metaphors to emphasize points at times, I’m not quite sure he knows what his target audience is, but it did kind of remind me of some baseball announcers I’ve heard.
Overall I enjoyed the book, it is a good read for the baseball enthusiast.… (lisätietoja)