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Title: The Mad Dog 100 : The Greatest Sports Arguments of All Time by CHRIS RUSSO, ALLEN ST. JOHN ISBN: 0-7679-1462-7 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 04 May, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (26 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A must for sports fans.
Comment: This is a great beach or airplane book for fans of sport, whether your bag is the NCAA Final Four, the Super Bowl, the Stanley Cup or the Series. All those, plus horseracing, boxing, tennis and all manner of both major and minor sports are here.
Do you prefer Willie, Mickey or the Duke? Think that the rivalry between North Carolina and Duke is greater that the Sox vs. Yankees or Giants vs. Dodgers? Russo has the arguments on all of these and three hundred pages more. He is pretty well balanced also, which I think makes for great analysis (the essence of arguing the imponderable).
Chris Russo does sports talk on WFAN in New York. I suppose (having left The Apple before the advent of talk radio) that these and many many more are the stuff that makes sports talk radio so interesting and compelling. I agree with another reviewer who notes that (like most of us) the greatest concentration (although certainly not all) of Russo's entries includes those players and teams whom he has witnessed personally - another reason to always be the old man at the bar in this argument (so we can tell the whippersnappers that "if you had only seem Jackie Robinson play like I did, you'd feel differently".) It is what good dialogue should be: a handful of stats (acknowledging that some may view slugging percentage above on base percentage) and lots of argument (without shouting, invective or other unpleasantries).
This book reads easy, in short chapters of several pages as well as short (four or five paragraph) lists. It makes it easy to compare DiMaggio to Williams, and the case for Mays over Mantle. There are as many arguments as there are categories of sport: Which was the greater achievement, Ted Williams' .406 season or Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak? Does Ali beat Louis? Among my favorites is the question of the five greatest athletes of the century (I agree with Russo that ESPN shamelessly pandered to Jordan by putting him ahead of The Greatest of All Time and The Babe.)
The reader who won't want to stop reading after several pages and argue a point with another fan is not a true aficionado of Sport! For all sports fans, it is a great gift.
Rating: 4
Summary: Everything You'd Expect from the Dog
Comment: Any fan of "Mike and the Mad Dog" knows that the Dog has an opinion on almost everything sports-related. In this book, Chris Russo offers his opinion on 100 great sports arguments (though not each subject is really an argument), each without blatant subjectivity. Russo does not draw out his opinion over 20 pages, keeping each argument at around roughly 3 pages, which makes the book enjoyable because one can browse through the arguments that are not of interest. One doesn't have to read each argument and agree with everything Mad Dog says to find this book entertaining. I'd recommend this book to sports fans in general because it has something for just about everyone.
Rating: 1
Summary: Toilet Tome
Comment: I have loaned this book out to three friends who all listen to Mad Dog's radio show, and we agree. This book stinks! The writing is juvenile, the ideas insipid, and the style awful. The best thing I can say about the book is that it's short. It didn't take me long to flip through the pages (most of them have lots of empty space on them) and reach the end. The arguments are short because Russo has no facts to back them up, only opinions. Russo's opinions stand alone about as well as a flamingo in a hurricane.
This is the perfect gift for a sports-nut who doesn't read, or for people who need kindling for their fireplace.
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Title: Not Till the Fat Lady Sings: The Most Dramatic Sports Finishes of All Time by Les Krantz, Doug Flutie, Jim McKay ISBN: 1572435585 Publisher: Triumph Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Who's Your Caddy? : Looping for the Great, Near Great, and Reprobates of Golf by RICK REILLY ISBN: 0385488858 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Sports Illustrated: Fifty Years of Great Writing by Editors of Sports Illustrated ISBN: 1932273069 Publisher: Sports Illustrated Pub. Date: December, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: LT: Over the Edge: Tackling Quarterbacks, Drugs, and a World Beyond Football by Lawrence Taylor, Steve Serby ISBN: 0060185511 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 25 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Clearing the Bases: The Greatest Baseball Debates of the Last Century by Allen Barra, Bob Costas ISBN: 0312265565 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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