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开 本: 16开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780345495709
He’s been called a journeyman. Even Paul wouldn’t dispute that
classification. Regardless, Bill Simmons, ESPN.com’s “The Sports
Guy,” has said of Paul Shirley, “We could finally have an answer to
the question ‘What would it be like if one of our friends was an
NBA player?”
There’s no denying that Paul Shirley is the closest thing pro
basketball’s got to Odysseus. In Homeric fashion, he has logged
time practically everywhere in the roundball universe, from six NBA
cities to pro leagues in Spain and Greece to North America’s pro
ball Siberia, the minor leagues. Hell, he’s even played in the real
Siberia. And in Can I Keep My Jersey?, Shirley finally puts down
roots long enough to deliver one of the great locker-room
chronicles of the modern age.
With sharp elbows and an even sharper wit, Shirley–whose writings
have been described as “wildly entertaining” by The Wall Street
Journal–drops hilarious commentary, revealing which teams have the
best cheerleaders (he’s spent many a time-out watching them ply
their trade), why Christ is rapidly becoming every team’s “sixth
man,” and even the best ways to get bloodstains out of your game
uniform, using only an ordinary bar of soap and a hotel bathroom
sink.
From sharing the court with Kobe and Shaq to perusing the food
court at some mall in a bush-league burg; from taking pregame
layups to getting laid out by a stray knee from an NBA power
forward; from hopping a limo to the team’s charter jet to dashing
to catch the van home from a B-league game in Tijuana, Shirley
dishes on what it’s like to try to make it as a professional
athlete. Can I Keep My Jersey? is a rollicking, thoughtful, even
thought-provoking insider’s look at a pro baller’s life on the
fringe. Like Jim Bouton’s Ball Four or John Feinstein’s A Season on
the Brink, Shirley’s odyssey deserves to find a home on every
sports fan’s bookshelf.
From the Hardcover edition.
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