Cracked Sidewalks and French Pastry The Wit and Wisdom of Al Mcguire

Name: Cracked Sidewalks and French Pastry The Wit and Wisdom of Al Mcguire
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ISBN: 9780299183103

ISBN-10: 0299183106

ISBN-13: 9780299183103

Edition: 2002

Authors: Tom Kertscher

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Al McGuire was the Mark Twain of college basketball. Never was there a figure in the game so quoted and so quotable, on sports and on the human condition. This book collects more than a hundred of McGuire’s most colorful quotations, plus photographs from his life and career, in a tribute that is funny, poignant, and brimming with his streetwise sagacity. McGuire, a brash and fiery New Yorker who grew up working in his parents’ saloon, played a rough and tumble game of basketball at St. John’s University and briefly in the NBA before entering the coaching ranks. He reached the pinnacle of his profession and gained national fame at Marquette University in Milwaukee, where in thirteen…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 10/23/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 8.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English



Foreword


Preface


Acknowledgments



Cupcakes and Sand Fights: McGuire on Coaching



Barefoot in the Wet Grass: McGuire on Life



Pure Park Avenue: McGuire on McGuire



Calliopes, Clergy, and Raquel Welch: McGuire on Everything Else



The Carnival Gates Close: McGuire Bids Farewell


Chronology: McGuire's Career


Lexicon: A McGuire Glossary


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