Best Seat in the House: A Father, a Daughter, a Journey Through Sports
- ISBN-10
- 0743254368
- ISBN-13
- 9780743254366
- Series
- Best Seat in the House
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 283
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-05-09
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Christine Brennan
Description
An award-winning sports journalist traces the origins of her love of sports in her relationship with her supportive father while describing her efforts to break barriers and stereotypes in a male-dominated industry and her reportage of such events as the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan scandal and the 1999 Women's World Cup Soccer victory. 40,000 first printing.
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