{"product_id":"the-boundless-game-soccer-stories-from-across-the-street-to-around-the-world-9780700641024","title":"The Boundless Game: Soccer Stories from Across the Street to Around the World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA lifelong soccer player and award-winning author shows us how the sport transcends races, ethnicities, cultures, and experiences and brings us all closer together.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTim Bascom spent half his childhood in Kansas and the other half in East Africa. Living and traveling around the world, the game of soccer proved a constant truth. Through storytelling that effortlessly flows between poignant and funny, sobering and charming, Bascom explores why soccer matters so much in our common, everyday lives, and how this ordinary yet extraordinary game can bring us all a little closer together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis passionate vision for this most global game leads Bascom to describe how soccer brought him sanity in the middle of a brutal revolution in Ethiopia and how bridging divisions of race and culture was key to success for teams he joined in Chicago and Kansas. From watching Arsenal's energetic rise in the Premier League to the bravery of a besieged Afghanistan Women's National Team, and from pickup games in the Midwest and the Middle East, Bascom finds universal truths and deeply human meaning in the beautiful game of soccer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tim Bascom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Kansas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.51h x 5.60w x 0.49d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780700641024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBascom, Tim:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eTim Bascom is the author of two prize-winning memoirs, \u003ci\u003eChameleon Days\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRunning to the Fire\u003c\/i\u003e; two essay collections, \u003ci\u003eThe Comfort Trap\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eClimbing Lessons\u003c\/i\u003e; a collection of short stories, \u003ci\u003eContinental Drift\u003c\/i\u003e; and the novel \u003ci\u003eSquatters' Rites\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the Executive Director of the Kansas Book Festival.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Tim Bascom \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47809134002333,"sku":"9780700641024","price":42.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_6084eee2-5c9c-422a-ae87-be26318f5a22.jpg?v=1775557070","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/the-boundless-game-soccer-stories-from-across-the-street-to-around-the-world-9780700641024","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}