Long Shots: They Beat the Odds (Sports Triumphs) [Paperback]

Jay Jennings (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 56 pages
• Publisher: Silver Burdett Pr (February 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0382241126
• ISBN-13: 978-0382241123
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 7.8 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,484,361 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jay Jennings is a freelance writer whose journalism, book reviews and humor have appeared in many national magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Oxford American, and Travel & Leisure. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review.

He began his writing career as a reporter at Sports Illustrated, followed by four years as the features editor at Tennis magazine. His work has been recognized by The Best American Sports Writing annual and has appeared in the humor anthology Mirth of a Nation: The Best Contemporary Humor. He is a two-time MacDowell Colony fellow in fiction and was awarded a grant in 2008 from the Arkansas Arts Council for a novel-in-progress.

Carry the Rock: Race, Football and the Soul of an American City is his first book.