You Gotta Play Hurt

From the author of Semi-Tough comes a hilarious novel chronicling one year in the life of irreverent sports columnist Jim Tom Pinch.Jim Tom Pinch is a unabashed sportswriter who has followed around and reported on too many blonde-haired skiers, basketball players with names like Potatus Fry, and Russian figure skaters who want to know how much a house with a toilet costs in America. Now he tells the story of a year of romance, cursing, bimbos, touchdowns, pandering, padded expense accounts---from the Olympics to the Indy 500 to the heavyweight championship--a year that will leave neither Jim Tom nor the wide world of sports the same. "Bawdy, bitter, very funny...Jenkins's farewell salute to big-time sportswriting is a tell-all novel that deflates the hype around each and every event, from the Olympics to the Kentucky Derby to Wimbledon (Kirkus Reviews).

Author: Dan Jenkins
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: 12/23/2014
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781501116629

About the Author
Dan Jenkins (1928-2019) was an author and sportswriter who wrote for Sports Illustrated. He was the author of more than twenty books, including Semi-Tough, Dead Solid Perfect, and His Ownself.