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The Wonder Years: Portraits of Athletes Who Never Slow Down Hardcover – July 1, 2009

by Rick Rickman (Author, Photographer), Donna Wares (Author), Peggy Fleming (Foreword)

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Filled with inspiring stories, insightful interviews, and stunning color photography from Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Rick Rickman, this incredible book showcases the unique power and grace of today's senior athletes. Spanning a broad spectrum of sports, the profiles inside paint an intimate portrait of senior swimmers, runners, and others who continue to compete well into their later years. Also including an in-depth look at the spirited and increasingly popular U.S. Senior Games, The Wonder Years triumphs over the conventional wisdom that growing older means slowing down.

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144 pages
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English
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Chronicle Books
Publication date

July 1, 2009
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18 years and up
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11.25 x 0.73 x 9.25 inches
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0811868494
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978-0811868495
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Rick Rickman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and the official photographer of the Senior Games. He lives in Southern California.

Donna Wares is an author and editor living in Southern California.

Peggy Fleming is a world class figure skater and the only American to bring home a gold medal from the 1968 Winter Olympics. She advocates for numerous causes from her home in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Chronicle Books (July 1, 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0811868494
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0811868495
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.3 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 11.25 x 0.73 x 9.25 inches

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Donna Wares
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I'm a journalist and book editor who specializes in nonfiction books (among them the bestselling MY CALIFORNIA anthology) and a writer who turned my love of travel into paying work (my SANTA BARBARA AND CALIFORNIA'S CENTRAL COAST is published in winter 2011 and GREAT ESCAPES: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA was published in 2008). My book projects also include THE WONDER YEARS: PORTRAITS OF ATHLETES WHO NEVER SLOW DOWN, a stunning collection featuring the photographs of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Rick Rickman and stories by me.
I've worked at the Los Angeles Times, Orange County Register, and Miami Herald, and taught at California State University, Long Beach. I live in Southern California.
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Rick Rickman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer whose work is often featured in such magazines as Newsweek, Time, Sports Illustrated and National Geographic. He's a fixture at the Olympic Games and other top sport competitions. His passion, though, is taking pictures of senior athletes.
Rick has spent the past two decades chronicling the lives of aging adventurers and amateur athletes who seem to defy the conventional wisdom about what it means to grow old in our society. His photos reveal a beauty, power and grace not often associated with senior citizens, but through Rick's keen eye, age -- and agelessness -- take on new meaning.
Rick is the co-author of "The Wonder Years," a stunning collection of photographs and inspiring stories about older men and women pushing themselves -- and our own expectations of what the future has to offer -- in extraordinary directions. The subjects of "The Wonder Years" are men and, more often, women of all backgrounds from across the United States, who grew up before well-organized community sports teams became commonplace for kids, and long before Title IX gave girls equal time on the diamond, the track and the court.
For many years, Rick has been the official photographer for the National Senior Games, which arrived on the West Coast for the first time Aug. 1-15, 2009 at Stanford University in Palo Alto. The games move to Houston in 2011
Rick Rickman lives in Southern California. When he isn't traveling on assignment, you can usually find him surfing at his favorite beach, San Onofre.
Visit Rick online and browse more of his work at www.rickrickman.com.
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M. Bisbey

Aging athletes indeed!

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"The Wonder Years: Portraits of the Athletes Who Never Slow Down" is amazing and inspiring. I used this book for a presentation in my developmental psych class to show positive role models for aging when the majority of the 20 somethings in class had a hard time finding anything but negative ones in their research for a paper involving the media and ageism. I am 56 and was a competitive swimmer and cyclist earlier in life and still enjoy a very active lifestyle. The seniors featured in this book are a population vastly overlooked when the media publicizes anything about older adults in our society...sadly. A "must" read for anyone interested in seeing the alternative to dementia, late life obesity/diabetes, incontinence/impotence, heart disease/cancer,depression,prescription drug addiction, etc....

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Perfect for inspiration and your coffee table.

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An invitation to be amazed and inspired by the pictures and stories of senior athletes

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 3, 2009

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This is billed as a photo essay by the official photographer of the Senior Olympics with a foreword by famed Olympic Gold Medalist, Peggy Fleming. It is a large coffee table format book with lots of photos and few words.

The first half of the book is a set of profiles of particular senior athletes or groups of athletes. There is a wide range of athletic activities represented, including track and field, surfing,competitive body building and cowboy style roping and wrangling. Several men are profiled but most of the profiles are of women.

The second section of the book is all about the Senior Olympics and contains even fewer words. It starts with an overview and history of the Senior Olympics followed by photos of the opening ceremonies and then many shots of the competitors and the observers and a few wordless set of photos of specific sports in the Senior Olympics. Again most of the photos are of women.

The photos are great but the striking emphasis on female athletes is never explained. I think overall this book is intended an invitation to be amazed and inspired by the pictures and stories of senior athletes. Several of the featured athletes started on their athletic path quite late in life and it is heartening to see their successes.

There is a lot of joy that shines out through these pictures.

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Featuring inspiring stories of different athletes and beautiful photography, definitely a book worth recommending!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 3, 2009

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One of the most inspiring things to see are people who continue to be athletes and enter competitions without having a care for their age. No one is going to stop them. If they want to part of a race, to surf the waves, to cycle, it doesn't matter, they continue. They are driven and what better to capture that drive and be inspired by the photography of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Rick Rickman, together with writer Donna Wares plus a foreword by athlete Peggy Fleming.

"The Wonder Years: Portraits of Athletes Who Never Slow Down" is an inspiring book that features the story of several older athletes such as Janet Freeman, a track competitor; Eve Fletcher who started in surfing in 1957 continues to do so today; Granville Coggs who competes at the 1500-meter run at the Senior Games; Sister Madonna Buder at 78 continues to swim and cycle; couple Bill Cunningham and Jane Hesselgesser who both are body builders; an aquatic dancing team known as the Aquadettes who range from ages 54 through 93 and many, many more athletes who have never slowed down.

Also, included is photography from the National Senior Games featuring a few of the thousand of athletes all over the United States who take part in the largest sporting event for people over 50 and also photography of people over 50 who take part in various sports such as swimming, ice hockey, track and field, basketball, softball and many other competitive sports.

"The Wonder Years: Portraits of Athletes Who Never Slow Down" captures the passion for the sport and the competitiveness with the athletes. Donna Wares does a very good job in capturing the drive of each athlete featured and of course, Rick Rickman's photography is just beautiful, inspiring and wonderful.

For those who have been inspired by these athletes or one that wants that additional inspiration to get out there and take part in a sport, this book shows that even after the age of 50, there are many out there who are driven and passionate about pushing themselves to a higher level and enjoying themselves. Definitely a book worth recommending!

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