Men in Green

Name: Men in Green
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Michael Bamberger
ISBN: 9781494583101

Author: Michael Bamberger

Narrator: Mike Chamberlain

Unabridged: 9 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/02/2015

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreation, Golf, Sports Biography, History, Us History, Modern History

Synopsis

One night in a Chicago restaurant, Michael Bamberger draws up a list of golf heroes. Nine are living legends, like Arnold and Jack. Nine are secret legends, like Dolphus "Golf Ball" Hull, a windblown tour caddie from Jackson, Mississippi. What they all share is a game that courses through their collective veins like a drug.

Accompanied by a sidekick and friend, a former tour player who is a secret legend himself, Bamberger seeks to locate and get to know these luminaries. All the while, he is hopeful that they will answer a certain difficult question: When and where were you happiest?

In their travels, these detectives from the Golf Division uncover life and death, sickness and health, unusual marriages and unlikely friendships, trophies lost and won, comic tales from lives lived on the road, lost loves and second chances, and a cheating scandal that reveals volumes about an icon in their midst. They take us from Arnold Palmer's private warehouse in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, to the twelfth green at Augusta National. Men in Green time-travels to forgotten places in a lost world.

About Michael Bamberger

Michael Bamberger was born in Patchogue, New York, in 1960. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1982, he worked as a newspaper reporter, first for the (Martha’s) Vineyard Gazette, later for The Philadelphia Inquirer. After twenty-two years at Sports Illustrated, he is now a senior writer at Golf.com. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Christine.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Erin on April 09, 2019

For someone with little golf knowledge, this book was at times tedious. That being said, I still learned a lot about many different players, feuds, has beens, legends, caddies and more. It was like taking a peak into a boys club and discovering they're gossiping just as much as the women! At times i......more

Goodreads review by Ken on June 25, 2020

Michael Bamberger is in pursuit of the true happiness of golf and the "edge" that the great golfers like Arnold Palmer, Lee Travino, Ken Venturi and Jack Nicklaus reach. Those two searches are combined in "Men in Green," Bamberger's fantastic book about his road trip across America to discuss with g......more

Goodreads review by Gerald on November 16, 2015

The actual title of this book is "Men In Green." The title that came up in the scan comes from a line in the last chapter and does not reflect the essence of the book. This was a book that took the reader around the country for interviews with golf legends. Unfortunately most of the interviews that......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on July 27, 2015

One of the better golf books I've read in a damn long while. Every time I picked it up to read it I'd wonder what the hell Jack was saying to Palmer to get him to laugh like he was in the picture on the books cover.......more

Goodreads review by Mr. Kovach on February 28, 2019

A rambling, wistful travelogue and series of mini-bios on 10 characters from the golden age of American golf. Interesting light reading, a bit disjointed and tending to dart off to a different subject just when something compelling is hit upon, but I mean really, I could hardly put the thing down so......more