Twenty-one-year-old Hagen smiles under his straw hat after winning the 1914 U.S. Open in one of the many photos in this paean to the Babe Ruth of golf. The first professional to make his living playing the game, Hagen won el even major tournaments to top $1 million in career earnings for the first time ever. Fond of partying and fine clothes, Hagen traveled with two limos- one for his wardrobe. Colorful sports history.

Folksy and humorous accounts of a “holy fool”, each chapter beguiles with clever word play and literary allusions.

Where else might “Good Vibrations”, a consideration of the Wooly Bugger, start with a quotation on folly by Jane Austen?

A serious fisherman who knows enough not to take himself too seriously provides an entertaining read.

He won the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes twice each and fourteen Breeders’ Cup races. He also won his fight against addiction to alcohol. Bailey tells it all – the dangers, the adrenaline highs, the controversies of the racing world from stables to the stretch. A strong competitor’s wild ride to victory.

An American novelist meets Siberian Trapeze artist Olga Sidorova and is introduced to the multi -cultural world of the Cirque du Soliel. Like a non-fiction novel, the lives of the performers unfold on stage and off. Demands on body and psyche are unremitting for those who choose and are chosen to pursue their dreams.

The life, the loves, the lumps, the long passes, the last hurrahs. Broadway Joe, the sixties icon, alter ego to his contemporaries rose from a small Pennsylvania town to college and professional football fame and media sweetheart and then on to fatherhood and charity banquet speaker. Kriegel tells the whole story.