The Grand Slam
Bobby Jones, America and the story of golf
$43.83
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
16 August 2006
Summary
In the wake of the 1929 stock market crash, an amateur golfer began a decade of unparalleled achievement, seeming a ray of light in an otherwise depressed America. Bobby Jones won the British Amateur Championship, the British Open, the US Open and the US Amateur Championship. A new phrase was born: The Grand Slam.
A modest, sensitive man, a lawyer from a middle-class Atlanta family, Bobby Jones had barely survived a sickly childhood, and took up golf at the age of five for health reas…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780751535754 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0751535753 |
| Author: | Mark Frost |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Sphere |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 16 August 2006 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 126mm x 198mm x 28mm |
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[Mark Frost’s] first book on golf was, darn it, as close to perfection as any author can hope to attain … [THE GRAND SLAM] is unquestionably the golf book of the year - IRISH TIMES
The second book, like the second album, is supposed to be the hard one and after the massive success of THE GREATEST GAME EVER PLAYED critics doubted Frost’s ability to pull it off again. He has in this wonderful bio of Bobby Jones, the first man to lay - IRISH INDEPENDENT, Top 20 Sports Books of 2004Fascinating … superb - GOLF WEEKLY[THE GRAND SLAM] will be read with pleasure in the afterglow of refreshment at the nineteenth hole - SpectatorAbout The Author
Mark Frost
Mark Frost is the author of THE GREATEST GAME EVER PLAYED, THE LIST OF SEVEN, THE SIX MESSIAHS and BEFORE I WAKE. He has written and produced several television series, including Hill Street Blues and Twin Peaks.
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