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Bill Russell was not the first African American to play professional basketball, but he was its first Black superstar. From the moment he stepped onto the court of the Boston Garden in 1956, Russell began to transform the sport in a fundamental way, making him, more than any of his contemporaries, the Jackie Robinson of basketball. In King of the Court, Aram Goudsouzian provides a vivid and engrossing chronicle of the life and career of this brilliant champion and courageous racial pioneer. Russell's leaping, wide-ranging defense altered the game's texture.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Portrait of a Basketball Revolutionary
- De Susie en 01-28-13
De: Aram Goudsouzian
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Men in Blazers Present Encyclopedia Blazertannica
- A Suboptimal Guide to Soccer, America's "Sport of the Future" Since 1972
- De: Michael Davies, Roger Bennett
- Narrado por: Roger Bennett, Michael Davies
- Duración: 3 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 151
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 135
Soccer has been America's Sport of the Future since 1972. The Men in Blazers are two English-born, soccer-obsessed broadcasters who have savored the dizzying growth of the game along with millions of Americans, as if it was a rollicking, sporting telenovela playing out in real life. Written in such a way that fully immerses Americans in the history and culture of the world's game, their Encyclopedia Blazertannica relives the careers of such greats such as George Best, Maradona, Beckham...and Alexi Lalas.
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1 out of 5 stars
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complete horsecrap
- De Jordan en 06-07-18
De: Michael Davies, y otros
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The Boxing Kings
- When American Heavyweights Ruled the Ring
- De: Paul Beston
- Narrado por: Alexander Cendese
- Duración: 13 h y 15 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 147
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 124
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The Boxing Kings tells the story of the heavyweight title in the days when it was a defining institution in the United States. Author Paul Beston places special emphasis on those champions who held a central place in American culture beyond just in the boxing ring, including John L. Sullivan, who made the title a commercial property; Jack Johnson, who in 1908 became the first black man to claim the title; Joe Louis, whose contributions to racial tolerance and social progress transcended even his greatness in the ring; and many more.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An outstanding book on heavyweight champions
- De LSmith en 02-01-18
De: Paul Beston
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The Comeback
- Greg LeMond, the True King of American Cycling, and a Legendary Tour de France
- De: Daniel de Vise
- Narrado por: Pete Cross
- Duración: 12 h y 56 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 347
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 306
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 308
Greg LeMond stunned the sporting world by becoming the first American to win the Tour de France in 1986, defeating French cycling legend Bernard Hinault. Nine months later, LeMond lay in a hospital bed, his career as a bicycle racer seemingly over. And yet, barely two years after this crisis, LeMond mounted a comeback. In 1989, he once again won the Tour - by a narrow margin of eight seconds. It remains the closest Tour de France in history. The Comeback chronicles the life of this great American athlete, from his roots in Nevada and California to the heights of global fame.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good book. Flawed reading.
- De david savage en 07-23-18
De: Daniel de Vise
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Rome 1960
- The Olympics that Changed the World
- De: David Maraniss
- Narrado por: David Maraniss
- Duración: 5 h y 41 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 45
The athletes competing in the 1960 Rome Olympics included some of the most honored in Olympic history: decathlete Rafer Johnson, sprinter Wilma Rudolph, Ethiopian marathoner Abebe Bikila, and Louisville boxer Cassius Clay, who at 18 seized the world stage for the first time, four years before he became Muhammad Ali.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Good Book
- De Jay en 07-30-08
De: David Maraniss
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Triumph
- The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics
- De: Jeremy Schaap
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 7 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 177
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 140
In 1936, against a backdrop of swastikas flying and storm troopers looming, an African-American son of sharecroppers set three world records and won an unprecedented four gold medals, single-handedly crushing Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy. The story of Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics Games is that of a high-profile athlete giving a performance that transcends sports. But it is also the intimate and complex tale of the courage of one remarkable man.
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4 out of 5 stars
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race headwinds
- De Andy en 04-26-07
De: Jeremy Schaap
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King of the Court
- Bill Russell and the Basketball Revolution
- De: Aram Goudsouzian
- Narrado por: J. D. Jackson
- Duración: 17 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 54
Bill Russell was not the first African American to play professional basketball, but he was its first Black superstar. From the moment he stepped onto the court of the Boston Garden in 1956, Russell began to transform the sport in a fundamental way, making him, more than any of his contemporaries, the Jackie Robinson of basketball. In King of the Court, Aram Goudsouzian provides a vivid and engrossing chronicle of the life and career of this brilliant champion and courageous racial pioneer. Russell's leaping, wide-ranging defense altered the game's texture.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Portrait of a Basketball Revolutionary
- De Susie en 01-28-13
De: Aram Goudsouzian
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Over Time
- My Life as a Sportswriter
- De: Frank Deford
- Narrado por: Frank Deford
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter is as unconventional and wide-ranging as Frank Deford's remarkable career, in which he has chronicled the heroes and the characters of just about every sport in nearly every medium. Deford joined Sports Illustrated in 1962, fresh, and fresh out of Princeton. In 1990, he was Editor-in-Chief of The National Sports Daily, one of the most ambitious and ill-fated projects in the history of American print journalism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Memories
- De Amazon Customer en 05-18-18
De: Frank Deford
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42 Faith
- The Rest of the Jackie Robinson Story
- De: Ed Henry
- Narrado por: Ed Henry
- Duración: 9 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Journalist and baseball lover Ed Henry reveals for the first time the backstory of faith that guided Jackie Robinson into not only the baseball record books but the annals of civil rights advancement as well. Through recently discovered sermons, interviews with Robinson's family and friends, and even an unpublished book by the player himself, Henry details a side of Jackie's humanity that few have taken the time to see.
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5 out of 5 stars
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42Faith
- De Phillip L. en 04-11-17
De: Ed Henry
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What's My Name, Fool?
- Sports and Resistance in the United States
- De: Dave Zirin
- Narrado por: Aaron Abano
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Here Edgeofsports.com sportswriter Dave Zirin shows how sports express the worst, as well as the most creative and exciting, features of American society. Zirin explores how Janet Jackson's Super Bowl flash-time show exposed more than a breast, why the labor movement has everything to learn from sports unions, and why a new generation of athletes is no longer content to "play one game at a time" and is starting to get political.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting read
- De sosnows8 en 08-16-20
De: Dave Zirin
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The Football Ramble
- De: Marcus Speller, Pete Donaldson, Luke Aaron Moore, y otros
- Narrado por: Marcus Speller, Pete Donaldson, Luke Aaron Moore, y otros
- Duración: 7 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 100
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 99
Downloaded over 10 million times a year, The Football Ramble podcast has established itself as the essential independent voice of football punditry. The weekly podcast has resonated with supporters around the world, and their sold-out live shows have been a massive hit with supporters. This audiobook is a collaboration by all four presenters and tackles the real issues from fans you won't see or hear on Sky Sports - or anywhere else, for that matter.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Performance
- De Amazon Customer en 11-15-16
De: Marcus Speller, y otros
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Forty Million Dollar Slaves
- The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete
- De: William C. Rhoden
- Narrado por: William C. Rhoden
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 362
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 310
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 307
From Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe, African American athletes have been at the center of modern culture, their on-the-field heroics admired and stratospheric earnings envied. But for all their money, fame, and achievement, says former New York Times columnist William C. Rhoden, Black athletes still find themselves on the periphery of true power in the multibillion-dollar industry their talent built. Provocative and controversial, Rhoden's Forty Million Dollar Slaves weaves a compelling narrative of Black athletes in the United States.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Book and Narrator Review
- De Leonor en 12-26-17
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Their Life's Work
- The Brotherhood of the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers
- De: Gary M. Pomerantz
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 16 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 69
The Pittsburgh Steelers of the 1970s won an unprecedented and unmatched four Super Bowls in six years. A dozen of those Steelers players, coaches, and executives have been inducted into the Hall of Fame, and three decades later their names echo in popular memory: "Mean" Joe Greene, Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris, Mike Webster, Jack Lambert, Lynn Swann, and John Stallworth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book
- De cap en 07-18-18
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The King of New Orleans
- How the Junkyard Dog Became Professional Wrestling's First Black Superhero
- De: Greg Klein
- Narrado por: J D Jackson
- Duración: 6 h y 29 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 65
Telling the remarkable tale of a man who is still remembered on the streets of New Orleans and in the hearts of professional-wrestling fans, this book aims to restore the overlooked Junkyard Dog to his proper place in the history books. In 1979, Sylvester Ritter, also known as the Junkyard Dog, managed to break one of the final color barriers in the sport by becoming the first Black wrestler named undisputed top star of his promotion, and this biography reveals all the famous feuds and business back stories that made him a wrestling legend.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining & Insightful
- De Michael Cavacini en 10-22-20
De: Greg Klein
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A Nice Little Place on the North Side
- Wrigley Field at One Hundred
- De: George Will
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 5 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 81
In A Nice Little Place on the North Side, leading columnist George Will returns to baseball with a deeply personal look at his hapless Chicago Cubs and their often beatified home, Wrigley Field, as it enters its second century. Baseball, Will argues, is full of metaphors for life, religion, and happiness, and Wrigley is considered one of its sacred spaces. But what is its true, hyperbole-free history?
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3 out of 5 stars
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It's EEE-lia, not Ah-LEE-ah
- De Shawcago en 04-25-16
De: George Will
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Sound and Fury
- Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship
- De: Dave Kindred
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 249
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 192
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 192
Muhammed Ali and Howard Cosell, a legendary athlete and a television icon, were individually interesting, but together they were mesmerizing. They were profoundly different, young and old, black and white, a Muslim and a Jew, Ali barely literate, Cosell an editor of his university's law review. Yet they had in common forces that made them unforgettable: both were unprecedented performers who covered enormous insecurities by demanding, loudly and often, public acclaim.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great insight into Ali & Cosell
- De Steve en 05-04-06
De: Dave Kindred
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Pistol
- The Life of Pete Maravich
- De: Mark Kriegel
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 12 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 237
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 170
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 173
Pistol is more than the biography of a ballplayer. It's the stuff of classic novels: the story of a boy transformed by his father's dream and the cost of that dream. Even as Pete Maravich became Pistol Pete, a basketball icon for baby boomers, all the Maraviches paid a price. Now acclaimed author Mark Kriegel has brilliantly captured the saga of an American family: its rise, its apparent ruin, and, finally, its redemption.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extremely Good!
- De steve en 12-12-12
De: Mark Kriegel
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The Missing Ring
- How Bear Bryant and the 1966 Alabama Crimson Tide Were Denied College Football's Most Elusive Prize
- De: Keith Dunnavant
- Narrado por: Jay Snyder
- Duración: 13 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 31
Very few institutions in American sports can match the enduring excellence of the University of Alabama football program. Across a wide swath of the last century, the tradition-rich Crimson Tide has claimed twelve national championships, captured 25 conference titles, finished 34 times among the country's top ten, and played in 53 bowl games.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic
- De John Rogers en 03-29-18
De: Keith Dunnavant
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Slaying the Tiger
- A Year Inside the Ropes on the New PGA Tour
- De: Shane Ryan
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 13 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 156
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 142
For more than a decade, golf was dominated by one galvanizing figure: Eldrick "Tiger" Woods. But as his star has fallen, a new, ambitious generation has stepped up to claim the crown. Once the domain of veterans, golf saw a youth revolution in 2014. In Slaying the Tiger, Shane Ryan introduces us to the volatile, colorful crop of heirs apparent who are storming the barricades of this traditionally old-fashioned sport.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Reader knows no golf
- De James Trainor en 04-19-18
De: Shane Ryan