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At 27, professional rugby player Ed Jackson was told he would never walk again. A freak accident, involving a swimming pool and a miscalculated dive, broke his neck and crushed his spinal cord. Jackson had to be resuscitated three times and spent weeks in intensive care—for the first of those, he couldn’t so much as twitch a muscle. But three years on from the accident, Jackson’s recovery is nothing short of miraculous.

Sports fans see Joe Buck everywhere: broadcasting one of the biggest games in the NFL every week, calling the World Series every year, announcing the Super Bowl every three years. They know his father, Jack Buck, is a broadcasting legend and that he was beloved in his adopted hometown of St. Louis. Yet they have no idea who Joe really is. Or how he got here. In Lucky Bastard, Joe takes the listener into the broadcast booth and into his childhood home. Hilarious and occasionally heartbreaking, this is a book that any sports fan will love.

Eddie Robinson's career lasted 65 years and spanned the era before and during World War II, integration, the organization of the players union, expansion, use of artificial turf, free agency, labor stoppages, and even the steroid era. He was a Minor League player, a Major League player, a coach, a farm director, a general manager, a scout, and a consultant.

Felix Hutt zählte einmal zu den besten Junioren Deutschlands, doch für die große Tenniskarriere hat es nicht gereicht. Er begann zu arbeiten, heiratete, und verlor den Sport aus den Augen. Bis zu diesem einen Morgen, als er sein Idol Roger Federer im Fernsehen kämpfen und gewinnen sieht. Mit Ende 30 packt Hutt nochmal das Fieber: Er will sich seinen Jugendtraum erfüllen und seinen Namen einmal in der Weltrangliste lesen. Und so beginnt er eine Reise zu exotischen und weniger exotischen Orten, zu Tennisturnieren in Pakistan, Kambodscha, Israel, Uganda und Bayern.