Author ~ Bill Simmons
Title ~ Now I Can Die in Peace
ISBN ~ 9781933060132
Condition ~ Very Good
No creasing to covers or spine. no inscriptions clean pages only slight marks and shelf wear
Edition ~ First paperback edition, second print
Publisher ~ ESPN
Published ~ Sept 2006
Language ~ English
Pages ~ 374
Format ~ Paperback
ESPN's beloved Sports Guy replays the years leading up to the Boston Red Sox historic championship season and says goodbye to a lifetime of suffering. At least for now. "The Red Sox won the World Series. "To Citizen No. 1 of Red Sox Nation, those seven words meant "No more 1918 chants. No more smug glances from Yankee fans. No more worrying about living an entire life -- that's 80 years, followed by death without seeing the Red Sox win a Series."
But once he was able to type those life-changing words, Bill Simmons decided to look back at his Sports Guy columns for the last five years to find out how the miracle came to pass. And that's where the trouble began. Why didn't he see it coming? Why didn't it happen sooner? What was the key deal, the lucky move, the funny bounce, the sign from above that he failed to spot? Pretty soon, The Sports Guy was second-guessing himself, rewriting history, sniping at his own past predictions, pounding the table -- that's what sports guys do, right And doing so, he let himself get side tracked by the suffering of the Boston Bruins, frustrated by the false promise of the Celtics -- and driven into a state of ecstasy by the dynastic New England Patriots.
The result is Now I Can Die in Peace, a hilarious and fresh new look at some of the best sports writing in America, with sharp critical commentary (and fresh insights) from the guy who wrote it in the first place.
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