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The king of swings : Johnny Goodman, the last amateur to beat the pros at their own game / Michael Blaine.
LIBRA GV964.G66 B53 2006
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blaine, Michael.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Goodman, Johnny, 1908-1970.
- Goodman, Johnny.
- Golfers--United States--Biography.
- Golfers.
- Golf.
- History.
- United States.
- Golf--United States--History--20th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 332 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006.
- Summary:
- An orphan turned caddy from the Omaha stockyards, Johnny Goodman was considered too small, too foreign, and too poor to play the country club game. But he swore he would prove everyone wrong, and before a nation's riveted gaze, this self-taught kid from the wrong side of the tracks beat legendary Bobby Jones in the nation's first national golf tournament in 1929.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-317) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0618514643
- OCLC:
- 62281715
- Publisher Number:
- 9780618514649
- Online:
- Publisher description
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