Fathers & Sons & Sports

Powerful stories about the way sports can bring together fathers and sons to work out their differences and express their love for each other.. Fathers & Sons & Sportspresents apowerful lineup of real-world stories about fathers and sons playing one-on-one in the game of life written by such great sportswriters and authors as. Henry Aaron as told to Cal Fussman • Michael J. Agovino • Buzz Bissinger • Jeff Bradley • John Ed Bradley • James Brown • Darcy Frey • Tom Friend • Bill Geist • Mike Golic • Donald Hall • Paul Hoffman • Mark Kriegel • Norman Maclean • John Buffalo Mailer • Ron Reagan • Peter Richmond • Jeremy Schaap • Lew Schneider • Dan Shaughnessy • Paul Solotaroff • John Jeremiah Sullivan • Wright Thompson • Steve Wulf. The unforgettable accounts here include the stories of a professional football player passing on hisfather’ s secrets to his own sons a severely disabled boy discovering joy on a surfboard a wealthy NFL player taking his coddled children back to the mean streets that made him and a major league manager who must face the hard fact that nothing not even unconditional love can save his son. . Anyone who has ever been a father or a son will see himself in these moving snapshots of family life at its most emotional. Whether the stories take place on a diamond a court a gridiron a fairway or a chessboard they’re all about the same subject: fatherhood one of the world’s most intriguing sports.