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Overview

John Feinstein's illuminating recollections from two decades of interviews with sports legends.

John Feinstein's career is a sports fan's dream-a lifetime of encounters with the great figures in sports, not just on the field, but in the locker room and behind the scenes with legends like Bob Knight, Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, and John McEnroe.

Since his days as a young Washington Post journalist, Feinstein has written twenty-eight books and countless magazine articles and newspaper columns, covering college basketball, golf, tennis, baseball, and very nearly every sport in between. He has told us of victory and defeat, of athletes and coaches we love--and love to hate. But some of his best stories have been left untold, until now.

One on One is an incredible portal into the sports we love-from the box scores and the pageantry of game night and into the hard work and intensity that turn players and coaches into legends.

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Sports take a backseat to covering sports in this feisty, full-contact memoir. Sportswriter Feinstein (A Season on the Brink) recounts his exploits gathering material for his bestselling sports epics, from his celebrated sagas of college basketball seasons to insider tell-alls on pro tennis, golf, and the Army-Navy football rivalry. In his account of the sportswriter’s game, everything comes down to access; there are innumerable scenes in which he chases down media-shy athletes and coaches, dodges interfering PR flacks, breaks through defensive lines of security guards to the locker room, and even faces down Czech KGB goons during the Cold War to interview the mother of a defected hockey player. Feinstein kept his scorecards and settles them with swipes at everyone from meddling editors and obstructionist league officials to legendary Indiana University basketball coach Bobby Knight—great access, obnoxious behavior—and the allegedly odious Tiger Woods (“Here’s hoping, seriously, that at some point in his life he can find joy in something other than stepping on people’s necks and filling his pockets”). The sports themselves usually get eclipsed by Feinstein’s relentless access seeking, but his punchy, evocative prose and irreverent jabs at superstars make for lively play-by-play. Photos. (Dec. 5)
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Sports author Feinstein has been writing long enough that he can craft a memoir about the greats he's met, from coaches Bob Knight and Jim Valvano to athletes Jack Nicklaus, Ivan Lendl, and Mary Carillo. Lots of sports fans out there, and with 4.1 million copies of Feinstein's books out there, too, this should be big.
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The sports journalist and author of sports-related mysteries chats candidly about his first 10 nonfiction books, beginning with A Season on the Brink (1986), and chases down some of their principal characters for a reunion. The former basketball coach at the University of Indiana, Bob Knight, dominates this book, even as he dominated the first. Feinstein (The Rivalry: Mystery at the Army-Navy Game, 2010, etc.) devotes most of the first 150 pages to Knight, who pops up for return visits throughout, then reappears for a valediction. The author concedes that Knight has some virtues (among them--his former players remain loyal) but believes those virtues are drowned by the torrents of arrogance and entitlement that surge from Knight's personality. By contrast, Feinstein writes fondly about his experiences covering the ACC, especially the relationships he developed with coaches Mike Krzyzewski, Dean Smith and the late Jim Valvano. He then segues into tennis, writing about such icons as Jimmy Connors (whom no one seemed to like), John McEnroe and--a favorite--Ivan Lendl, who was standoffish until Feinstein encountered some problems with state security in Czechoslovakia. He moves on to baseball and golf, where he writes about interviews with Palmer and Nicklaus, his friendship with David Duval and the massive personal failings of Tiger Woods, who will not find any comfort in these pages. The author bestows his greatest affection on the players he met while writing about the Army-Navy game and on those from the Patriot League basketball teams whose stories he told in The Last Amateurs (2000). At times, Feinstein reveals his own ego issues, often quoting people who praise him. Engaging stories from a storyteller who doesn't just know his subject--he loves it.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780316079044
  • Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
  • Publication date: 12/5/2011
  • Pages: 533
  • Sales rank: 6,965
  • Product dimensions: 6.40 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 1.80 (d)

Meet the Author

John Feinstein is the bestselling author of Moment of Glory, Are You Kidding Me?, Living on the Black, Let Me Tell You a Story, Caddy for Life, Open, The Punch, The Last Amateurs, The Majors, A Good Walk Spoiled, A Civil War, A Season on the Brink, Play Ball, Hard Courts, and two novels. He writes for Inside Sports, Golf, Tennis Magazine and Basketball America and commentates on NPR and CBS.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 1, 2012

    John Feinstein " A Natural Writer ".He tells it like i

    John Feinstein " A Natural Writer ".He tells it like it is.Keep up the GREAT work!!

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  • Posted April 15, 2012

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    John Feinstein, a long time sports reporter and best selling author, shares his experiences from his college internship to the present day. This book is a personal glimpse into the roller coaster ride his professional career and personal life have been through as he captures life in various sports. With brutal honesty, high integrity and a passion for anything sports, Mr. Feinstein opens up a world that most of us do not get a chance to experience. From the perspective of hindsight, he is able not just to tell a story but add tidbits of information that make each tale personal to the reader. I laughed, contemplated, even cried, and will never view sports the same again. This isn't to say I have become a die-hard sports fan and certainly not of all the games the author enjoys.

    What a pleasure to be introduced to the works of John Feinstein! Prior to listening to this wonderful audio book, these public figures were just faces to me. Some seemed nice, some had attitudes, some didn't even have a face or a familiar name. Now when I hear the names from the book, I perk up. I know their stories, some of their dirt and that some are no longer with us. I found myself appreciating his writing this book. I felt it honored not just the sports but also the unique people behind the scenes, on the court/field/ice/whatever and the great men and women whose lives are dedicated to making their teams the very best.

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  • Posted January 4, 2012

    This amounts to the author's personal memoirs ...

    This is John Feinstein reviewing the books he has authored, and: a) Giving the back-story behind them b) Re-interviewing most of the people he profiled c) Along the way, telling his newspaper career story, and d) Giving his opinion on the current state of the sports involved. He covers baseball, college football and basketball, golf and tennis thoroughly. One disappointment: omitting pro football (and the year he spent with the Baltimore Ravens). Unexpected plus: his travelling behind the Iron Curtain to interview the mother of a Czech player defecting to the NHL ... and how Martina Navratilova asked the pilots to hold a plane departure after the Czech KGB detained him, trying to cause him to miss his flight. If you like his style of writing but don't want to read a book about just one sport - this one ties it all together.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 2, 2011

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    Great interview with the author - definitly must read.

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  • Posted July 1, 2011

    Please hurry

    Gargh : (

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