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043 _an-us---
092 _aKINDRED, D.
_bK51
049 _aNFGA
100 1 _aKindred, Dave,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aMy home team :
_ba sportswriter's life and the redemptive power of small-town girls basketball /
_cDave Kindred.
250 _aFirst edition.
263 _a2309
264 1 _aNew York :
_bPublicAffairs,
_c2023.
300 _a292 pages ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
520 _a"Dave Kindred is among the greatest living chroniclers of sports. He has covered dozens of Super Bowls, developed a personal relationship with Muhammad Ali, and traveled the country following some of the greatest stars and teams in all of sports. But as he looks back on his life, it's a girls' high school basketball team, the Lady Potters of Morton, Illinois, that stands apart from the rest. In this moving and intimate story, Kindred writes about his rise to professional success and the changes that brought him back to his hometown late in life. As he dealt with personal hardship, his urge to write sustained him. For years, he has recapped the games of the Lady Potters, including their many runs to state basketball championships. It has been this community that was there for him as he lost a grandson to addiction, and then his wife to long-term illness. He goes to game after game, sitting the stands and making notes, being paid nothing but Milk Duds. Tender and honest, Kindred's story reminds readers what sports are really about. Kindred trades in the exhausting spectacle of Super Bowl Sunday for the joy of togetherness, the fire of competition, and the inexhaustible hope for victory tomorrow"--
_cProvided by publisher.
600 1 0 _aKindred, Dave.
650 0 _aSportswriters
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
_959535
650 0 _aBasketball for girls
_zIllinois.
650 0 _aHigh school athletes
_zIllinois.
650 0 _aWomen basketball players
_zIllinois.
655 7 _aAutobiographies.
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