Search Results: Sports from Michael Diesman

William Morrow & Co., 2001. Book gift inscribed and signed by author. Muhammad Ali stretched out on a brown couch, a towel across his waist, while an air conditioner fired cool air across his body. It was a scorching Manila morning, and in thirty minutes Ali would go to war with Joe Frazier for the third and final time. Ali yawned and stared at the ceiling of his dressing room. "Just another day's work," he said. "Just gotta go beat on another man." The reporter did what a reporter is supposed to do. He listened and wrote down Ali's words. And so began just another day's work for Dick Schaap, who in the past half-century has carved out his own legend, not with his fists but with his reportorial verve, his indefatigable curiosity, and his irrepressible wit. Now, in Flashing Before My Eyes, the longtime ABC correspondent and host of ESPN"s The Sports Reporters recounts a charmed career in which he has met almost everyone and seen almost everything. He has… Read More

Penguin Ireland, 2007. Not Indicated. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Color Photos.

Macfadden Publications, 1950. Not Indicated . Soft cover. Very Good. Color & b/w Photos.

Macfadden Publications, 1954. Not Indicated . Soft cover. Very Good +. Color & b/w Photos.