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Description for King of Clubs
hardcover. It began as a Depression-era, winner-take-all challenge between two Chicago stockbrokers, one of them a flamboyant daredevil with more guts than money and the other with more money than sense. It erupted into a national news story, one never told in its entirety - until King of Clubs: The Great Golf Marathon of 1938. Num Pages: 168 pages, 36 b notes. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; WSJG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 159 x 10. Weight in Grams: 408.
It began as a Depression-era, winner-take-all challenge between two Chicago stockbrokers, one of them a flamboyant daredevil with more guts than money and the other with more money than sense. It erupted into a national news story, one never told in its entirety—until King of Clubs: The Great Golf Marathon of 1938.
In September 1938, thirty-two-year-old J. Smith Ferebee agreed to play 600 holes of golf in eight cities, from Los Angeles to New York, over four consecutive days. The ordeal meant playing more than thirty-three rounds in just ninety-six hours.
The stakes: Ferebee’s friend and former business ... Read more
It began as a Depression-era, winner-take-all challenge between two Chicago stockbrokers, one of them a flamboyant daredevil with more guts than money and the other with more money than sense. It erupted into a national news story, one never told in its entirety—until King of Clubs: The Great Golf Marathon of 1938.
In September 1938, thirty-two-year-old J. Smith Ferebee agreed to play 600 holes of golf in eight cities, from Los Angeles to New York, over four consecutive days. The ordeal meant playing more than thirty-three rounds in just ninety-six hours.
The stakes: Ferebee’s friend and former business ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Dulles, United States
ISBN
9781597978361
SKU
V9781597978361
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-14
About Jim Ducibella
After twenty-nine years as a sportswriter, mostly with the Virginian-Pilot, Jim Ducibella was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in April 2010. During his career, Ducibella covered more than two hundred professional and amateur golf tournaments. Now a Web writer for the College of William & Mary, he provides columns for The Virginia Golfer magazine and is regularly ... Read more
Reviews for King of Clubs
"Jim Ducibella has always brought humor and style to both his writing and his reporting, and King of Clubs is an example of that. There’s no doubt in my mind that those who read it will feel the same way as I do long before they finish the book."—John Feinstein, author of A Good Walk Spoiled, The Majors, and A ... Read more