{"product_id":"1401309615","title":"The Match: The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever","description":"\n\n\u003cp\u003ethe Bestselling Author Of \u003ci\u003ethe Greatest Game Ever Played\u003c\/i\u003e Returns With The Story Of The Little-known Match That Forever Changed The History Of Golf.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ethe Year: 1956. Four Decades Have Passed Since Eddie Lowery Came To Fame As The Ten-year-old Caddie To U.s. Open Champion Francis Ouimet. Now A Wealthy Car Dealer And Avid Supporter Of Amateur Golf, Lowery Has Just Made A Bet With Fellow Millionaire George Coleman. Lowery Claims That Two Of His Employees, Amateur Golfers Harvie Ward And Ken Venturi, Cannot Be Beaten In A Best-ball Match. Lowery Challenges Coleman To Bring Any Two Golfers Of His Choice To The Course At 10 A.m. The Next Day To Settle The Issue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ecoleman Accepts The Challenge And Shows Up With His Own Power Team: Ben Hogan And Byron Nelson, The Game's Greatest Living Professionals, With Fourteen Major Championships Between Them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ein Mark Frost's Peerless Hands, Complete With The Recollections Of All The Participants, The Story Of This Immortal Foursome And The Game They Played That Day—legendarily Known In Golf Circles As The Greatest Private Match Ever Played—comes To Life With Powerful, Emotional Impact And Edge-of-your-seat Suspense.\u003c\/p\u003e publishers Weekly \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ein 1956, Millionaires Eddie Lowery And George Coleman Made An Off-the-cuff Bet On A Golf Match And Inadvertently Set Up One Of The Sport's Most Climactic Duels; This One Casual Game Has Become The Sport's Great Suburban Legend. Frost (\u003ci\u003ethe Greatest Game Ever Played\u003c\/i\u003e) Diligently Covers The Two Pros Slightly Past Their Prime, Ben Hogan And Byron Nelson, Who Squared Off Against Two Top Amateurs, Harvie Ward And Ken Venturi. It Happened In The Last Hours Of Hogan's Playing Career, And Ten Years After Byron Had Left The Stage, But At The Near Pinnacle Of The Amateurs', Whose Personalities Couldn't Have Been More Diametrically Opposed (venturi The Classic Up-and-comer, And Ward The Inveterate Playboy Who Performed Hungover On Two Hours' Sleep). The Match Itself, Scrupulously Teased Out By Frost For Maximum Drama, Is Less Interesting Than The People Involved And The Historical Backdrop. The Match Happened Near The Sport's Great Cusp, As It Transitioned From Something For Amateurs To A Professional Career, From A Pastime For Wastrel Aristocrats And Entertainers (and Bing Crosby, With His Annual Booze-soaked Clambake Charity Matches) To A Mainstream Suburban Obsession. Frost Has A Penchant Toward The Florid, But As He Writes, Because He Was Ben Hogan, And It Was Just Past Twilight, And His Like Would Never Pass This Way Again, He Captures An Elusive Magic In This Improbable Matchup And What It Meant For Those Who Played And Witnessed It. \u003ci\u003e(nov.)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ecopyright 2007 Reed Business Information\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBiographies \u0026amp; Memoirs\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eGeneral\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSports \u0026amp; Outdoors\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndividual Sports\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eGolf\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMiscellaneous\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eHistory of Sports\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBiographies\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eGolf\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eBook details\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Frost, Mark\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e paperback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Reprint\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hachette Books\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781401309619\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Hachette Books","offers":[{"title":"Used - Very Good","offer_id":49279993413822,"sku":"1401309615-3","price":7.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/81RzI7rR9rL.jpg?v=1791949869","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/1401309615","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}