Glory Days: The Summer of 1984 and the 90 Days That Changed Sports and Culture Forever

A rollicking guided tour of one extraordinary summer, when some of the most pivotal and freakishly coincidental...
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Author: L. Jon Wertheim
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Glory Days: The Summer of 1984 and the 90 Days That Changed Sports and Culture Forever by Wertheim, L. Jon

Glory Days: The Summer of 1984 and the 90 Days That Changed Sports and Culture Forever

CHF 24.82

Glory Days: The Summer of 1984 and the 90 Days That Changed Sports and Culture Forever

CHF 24.82
Author: L. Jon Wertheim
Format: Paperback
Language: English

A rollicking guided tour of one extraordinary summer, when some of the most pivotal and freakishly coincidental stories all collided and changed the way we think about modern sports

The summer of 1984 was a watershed moment in the birth of modern sports when the nation watched Michael Jordan grow from college basketball player to professional athlete and star. That summer also saw the debut of ESPN and the first modern, commercialized, profitable Olympics. Magic Johnson and Larry Bird's rivalry raged, Martina Navratilova and John McEnroe reigned in tennis, and Hulk Hogan and Vince McMahon made pro wrestling a business, while Donald Trump pierced the national consciousness as a pro football team owner. It was an awakening in the sports world, a moment when sports began to morph into the market-savvy, sensationalized, moneyed, controversial, and wildly popular arena we know today.

In the tradition of Bill Bryson's One Summer: America, 1927, L. Jon Wertheim captures these ninety seminal days against the backdrop of the nostalgia-soaked 1980s, to show that this was the year we collectively traded in our ratty Converses for a pair of sleek, heavily branded, ingeniously marketed Nikes. This was the year that sports went big-time.



Author: L. Jon Wertheim
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 06/21/2022
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.34w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780358695288

About the Author
Wertheim, L. Jon: - L. JON WERTHEIM is an executive editor at Sports Illustrated and the author of several books, including Blood in the Cage, a chronicle of the rise of mixed martial arts, and Running the Table, about a bipolar pool hustler named Kid Delicious. His work has been featured in The Best American Sports Writing numerous times.

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