SPORTS & THE HEROIC

About the Book

SPORTS & THE HEROIC is an ode to all American sports, illuminating that which can be derived from them for the good life. Of real events, facts and portrayals of well-known athletes, plus segments that are fiction, this slim volume pulls no punches, describing the good and the dreadfully awful that make up sports in our time, yet reminding us that sports, as a whole, can empower the very best that any of us has to offer in a complex world.

About the Author

Before being a sportswriter covering major league baseball, the NBA, the NFL and other sports leagues, journalist Marvin Leibstone covered defense and foreign affairs from Washington, D.C., for major U.S. newspapers, a career that he began after retiring from the U.S. Army as a full colonel of infantry and of Green Berets, his war: Vietnam. He lives with his wife near Denver, Colorado, and publishes and edits two websites: sports-notebook.blogspot.com, and worldaffairsnotebook.blogspot.com.