Lost Balls: Great Holes, Tough Shots, and Bad Lies
by Charles Lindsay
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A unique and colorful collection of photographs featuring the under-celebrated wayward shot, its landing locale and the unexpected encounters with wildlife on and off the green.Tags
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Lost Balls: Great Holes, Tough Shots, and Bad Lies
- Original publication date
- 2005
- Epigraph
- And the wind shall say: "Here were decent godless people: Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls." -T.S. Eliot, chorus to The Rock
- Dedication
- Lost Balls is dedicated to the greens keepers, pros, historians, collectors, and golfing friends who were so helpful in the making of this book.
- First words
- I have seen news videos of outfielders rummaging for a baseball bat lost in the ivy on the quaintly leafy wall at Wrigley Field, and I have experienced mis-hit tennis balls flying over the court fence deep into an impenetrabl... (show all)e grove beyond; but no sport offers the sensation of lostness as often and enragingly as does golf. (Foreword by John Updike)
- Blurbers
- Norman, Greg; Stadler, Craig; Lewis, Huey
Classifications
- Genres
- Sports and Leisure, Nonfiction, Art & Design, General Nonfiction, Science & Nature
- DDC/MDS
- 796.352022 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Athletic and outdoor sports and games Ball sports Ball and stick sports Golf modified standard subdivisions Miscellany
- LCC
- GV967.5 .L56 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Recreation. Leisure Recreation. Leisure Sports Ball games: Baseball, football, golf, etc.
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 1
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