Rent Just One More Story: A Last Batch of Stories About the Most Unusual, Eccentric and Outlandish People I’ve Known in Five Decades as a Sports Journali

Synopsis

Last call! Dan Coughlin swears this is his final collection of sports stories . . . Meet the Pro Bowl left tackle who would try anything once (including canoeing across Lake Erie and serving as state senator) . . . The junior high school teacher who became totally obsessed with making free throws . . . The priest who got himself ejected from a baseball game . . . The soccer hero who won a championship for Cleveland yet played for three teams that folded within three years . . . The sandlot umpire and trivia whiz who won more than $100,000 by appearing on 195 TV game shows . . . The bad boy of handball, universally despised for his drinking, cheating, and womanizing . . . And witness Art Modell's ill-conceived attempt at high culture in Municipal Stadium . . . "Super Joe" Charboneau's brush with Hollywood . . . The heyday of amateur baseball in Lakewood, when big games sometimes ended in brawls . . . The time the Russians and the FBI got involved with the Cleveland Marathon . . . and lots more! By the author of Crazy, With the Papers to Prove It, Pass the Nuts, and Let's Have Another.

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