Featured works on Sport
Zachary Michael Jack’s 2011 release, Let There Be Pebble: A Middle Handicapper’s Year in America’s Garden of Golf earned a nomination for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award and laurels from industry publications worldwide. A former newspaper sports editor and a professor teaching sports studies in North Central College’s Masters program in sports leadership, Zachary has served as a contributing writer for the WorldGolf Network and has covered premier worldwide sporting events ranging from the President’s Cup, to the U.S. Open to the Drake Relays while interviewing athletes as diverse as Tom Brady, Brandi Chastain, and Phil Mickelson. A sampling of Jack’s many popular sports titles include:
“There’s plenty to satisfy, entertain and prod most golfers to want to read this one on Pebble. . . . An absolute winner.” –Bob Koczor, Golf Today
“Few courses have spawned as many published words as Pebble Beach. It’s unlikely that any writer will ever tackle this subject with the skill displayed by Jack.” –Martin Kaufmann, Golf Week
“A real-life golf fantasy year, boldly lived and exuberantly told.” –Kirkus
“These intrepid scribes who put down their pens and laptops and entered the arena may have gotten pummeled, pinned, passed, and pasted. But, man, did they capture the experience. Inside the Ropes is as rich a collection of writing—not just sportswriting, but writing writing—as one could hope to find.”—L. Jon Wertheim, senior writer for Sports Illustrated and author of Running the Table: The Legend of Kid Delicious
“As a former pro athlete turned head football coach, I can vouch that Inside the Ropes has the best feel for sport I”ve ever read, written by the best sportswriters in America.”—Chuck Long, head football coach for San Diego State University and former NFL quarterback
“A high-colored panorama of thirteen years of sport, a summing up of the success and sob stories.”—New York Review of Books
“[Farewell to Sport] debunked professional wrestling and decried discrimination against black athletes and the hypocrisy of amateurism.”—Molly Ivins, New York Times
“[Gallico] is one of that small circle of writers who are the despair of the rest of us pedestrians; he cannot be dull. . . . Whether he is discussing Mildred [Babe] Didrikson or Primo Carnera or the race question in sport,he is always entertaining.”—John R. Tunis, Saturday Review of Literature