Tales from the Maryland Terrapins [Hardcover]

David Ungrady (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2003

Tales from the Maryland Terrapins will relive the most profound memories from more than 100 years of athletics at the University of Maryland in College Park. Authored by David Ungrady, a former two-sport athlete at the school, the book will include a series of first-person anecdotes that reflect the joys and challenges of his athletic career as well as the rich history of collegiate athletics at the school. While it was still the Maryland Agricultural College, the university staged its first intercollegiate athletic competition in 1888, playing baseball games against St. John's College and the Naval Academy. The first organized competition for football was in 1892. The athletic program began to flourish early in the 1900s. Men's basketball began shortly after the turn of the century, in 1904, and men's lacrosse began in 1910. Women's sports such as basketball, rifling and soccer started as intramural sports in the 1920s, and basketball started about 20 years later. The women's rifle team won several titles after it was first organized in 1922. By the 1940s, the men's intercollegiate program boasted such national-caliber programs as baseball, boxing, football, lacrosse, track and field, and soccer. Women's teams started competing intercollegiate competition in 1960 and later blossomed during the last quarter of the 20th century.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Dave Ungrady is a 1980 Maryland graduate. This is his second book on Terps athletics for Sports Publishing. His first, Tales from the Maryland Terrapins, was published in the fall of 2003 and was a bestseller for sports nonfiction books. Ungrady was a captain of the 1980 Terps track team and was also a member of the university's varsity soccer team. His first book, Unlucky: A Season of Struggle in Minor League Professional Soccer, was published in 1999.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 200 pages
• Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC (October 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1582616884
• ISBN-13: 978-1582616889
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,739,140 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars From the book's author, January 8, 2006

By 

Dave Ungrady (Arlington, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tales from the Maryland Terrapins (Hardcover)

Anyone who has read this book may wonder, as did a reviewer here on Amazon.com, how this book could have been so poorly edited. There is a good explanation.

The publisher assigned one editor to work with me on the book. After I submitted the manuscript, the editor was to review it, and return a copy for my approval. The publisher never sent the edited manuscript to me before it was submitted for publication. I noticed the editing changes when I first saw the book in its published form. I can not adequately express my disappointment when I viewed the finished product. Text was moved, removed and rewritten drastically compared to how it was submitted. In one case, a fragmented sentence appears in the middle of a page.

After I expressed my strong disatisfaction with the final product to the pubisher, they told me the editor was fired soon after I submitted the manuscript. The publisher made no attempt to tell me of the editor's firing during the editing process. They also showed no interest in removing the initial print run from distribution. These developments were a tremendous disappointment

As a former Terp student-athlete, I was very excited to work on this book. I thoroughly enjoyed compiling and writing the material. And despite its blemishes, it was listed as a best-seller in the sports non-fiction category within months of its release.

I hope anyone who purchases this book or has purchased the book can read beyond the mistakes to enjoy it for what it provides--a fun reflection on a storied and proud sports program. If they can not, I understand.

I did write a second Maryland book with the publisher, "Legends of Maryland Basketball", and I am happy to report the editor I worked with was very professional and a pleasure to work with. And, to my knowledge, the editing was superb. But to this author, one out of two is not good enough.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Dave Ungrady
Author, "Tales from the Maryland Terrapins"

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars In need of editing, January 6, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Tales from the Maryland Terrapins (Hardcover)

As a two-time graduate of the University of Maryland and a rabid Terrapin fan for 25 years, I desperately wanted to enjoy this book. It does contain lots of information about the development of athletics at UM from the beginning to the present. But it needs a thorough editing/proofing. There are far too many repetitions, lapses, confusing passages, and grammatical errors for a book that made it to print--enough that they detracted from my reading experience. For example, the author sometimes refers to individuals by last name long before ever identifying them by full name and role, leading to the question of "Who is THAT?" All-in-all, this one was disappointing. Go Terps!