Dawidoff, Nicholas

Nicholas Dawidoff recounts his troubled childhood, focusing on how his love of baseball helped him cope with his father's abandonment and social awkwardness.

Presents an insider's view of the NFL, as Nicholas Dawidoff offers his own words on his experiences in being on the sidelines and in the locker rooms of NFL teams, as well as in their practice sessions and the off season. Discusses issues with the draft, the "Combine," strategy meetings, and the lives of the players and coaches.

"Football is the country's most popular pastime, and yet most of what happens in today's NFL is a mystery. The New York Jets gave Nicholas Dawidoff a security code, a locker, an office in the scouting department, and for an entire year he lived with the team. He has written a vivid, funny, and moving narrative about an emblematic NFL season that deepens the way we know the game. In COLLISION LOW CROSSERS, Dawidoff introduces us to a memorable cast of characters: brilliant, polarizing head coach Rex Ryan; the defensive coaches and their offensive counterparts and rivals; the best defensive player in football Darrelle Revis and the young, whimsical, and erratic quarterback Mark Sanchez; and the brotherhood of American characters who come together to form a team. Here finally is the definitive work on the elusive game, a story that is part Paper Lion and part Moneyball, part Deliverance and part The Office"--.

Presents a chronicle of the author's travels throughout the United States, visiting the places country music originated, and talking with country singers, musicians, and songwriters who represent old-time country music.

A collection of stories, memoirs, poems, news reports, and insider accounts by various authors which deal with every aspect of the game of baseball.