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His ownself, a semi-memoir, Dan Jenkins

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His ownself

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Dan Jenkins

a semi-memoir

Recounts the author's life as a sports writer, sharing his humorous and colorful experiences in journalism, sports, and show business

The fine art of sitting around and hanging out -- A unique and happy compound -- with homemade biscuits -- If dad's back in town there must be a big sports event coming up -- Cigarettes, coffee, antiques, and looking for Mr. Harger -- I learned more from radio and movies than I did in any schoolroom -- Wherein the outwitted mentally resort to physical violence -- Fast times at Paschal High on the way to a career -- A quick course in grown-up journalism on a daily paper -- Here comes the world's greatest sports staff -- in our own minds -- I interrupt this book to speak of boyhood heroes -- The Ben Hogan I knew probably wasn't the Ben Hogan you knew -- Ben Hogan, part II, now appearing in a chapter near you -- As Arnold and Jack and the majors go marching by -- Behind the scenes in the wonderful world of golf -- We wanted to get out from under the soot, is all -- So there we were, living and working in Big D -- my, oh, yes -- Zeroing in on the Yankees, the bigs, the show, the apple -- "Life is just one Texas-OU game after another with fun in between" -- When covering Saturday's America was ice cream -- It matters not who wins or loses but how you write the game -- When every street was a boulevard in old New York -- On the road with a plethora of names to drop -- The short happy life of a man covering ski racing -- "I'd buy a novel called Semi-Tough if there was nothing in it but blank pages -- Learning to love the game that ate our sports pages -- Hooray for Hollywood, that silly, dippy, goofy Hollywood -- Goodbye to all that and hello to the rest of my life -- Is it grandpa I see or merely Camp David? -- What I gave I kept, what I kept I lost. Have I got that right?

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