{"id":1106,"date":"2018-12-31T15:41:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T15:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2018-12-31T15:41:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T15:41:31","slug":"texas-reads-archiveglenn-dromgoole-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1106","title":{"rendered":"Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span><\/span>Texas Reads<\/span>>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span>Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

10.29.2017\u00a0\u00a0 Two books celebrate Texas sports every day<\/h1>\n

Two new books offer sports fans a Texas sports story a day<\/span> chronologically throughout the year. Both books, similar in their approach but offering different stories for most days, came out within weeks of each other.<\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>Lone Star Sports Legends: On This Day in History<\/span> by Ryan Sprayberry<\/span> (The History Press, $21.99 paperback) opens with the first Cotton Bowl game on Jan. 1, 1937, and concludes with the Dallas-Green Bay \u201cIce Bowl\u201d game on Dec. 31, 1967. Sprayberry does not offer a Feb. 29 leap-year item.<\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>Texas Sports: Unforgettable Stories for Every Day of the Year<\/span> by Chad S. Conine<\/span> (University of Texas Press, $19.95 paperback) starts off with Texas winning the Cotton Bowl and the national championship on Jan. 1, 1964, and ends with TCU defeating Southern Cal in the Sun Bowl on Dec. 31, 1998. Conine does include an entry for Feb. 29.<\/p>\n

Each book has its plusses and minuses. Lone Star Sports Legends<\/span> includes more photographs as well as a headline for each entry. Texas Sports<\/span> doesn\u2019t include headlines, just the date of the event, which isn\u2019t as reader-friendly, in my opinion. It has some photographs, but not as many as the other book.<\/p>\n

However, Texas Sports<\/span> does include an index and a list of sources of information, which are helpful.<\/p>\n

On a few dates, the two authors selected the same event to write about \u2014 for example, Aug. 4, 1993, when Chicago White Sox batter Robin Ventura charged the pitching mound after being hit by a Nolan Ryan fastball. Conine tells the story in more depth and even includes the Associated Press photo of Ryan, age 46, grabbing Ventura in a headlock and punching him.<\/p>\n

Both authors picked the same event to recognize on Jan. 16 \u2014 the Dallas Cowboys winning their first Super Bowl in 1972. Sprayberry\u2019s entry includes a picture of the souvenir pennant from the game.<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t go wrong with either book, and either one (or both) would make a good gift for the die-hard sports fans on your holiday list.<\/p>\n

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Glenn Dromgoole\u2019s<\/span> latest book is West Texas Stories<\/span><\/a><\/span>Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/p>\n

>> Read his past Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Literary Life here.<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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