Father Seymour shook the captain's hand , kissed Jamie on the cheek , and walked the back way across the dark grounds to Garfield Street and home . Saturday was hot with a creeping heat spreading over the 266 DREAMING OF HEROES.
Arcadio Lucero completes the portrait . Appearing briefly as Billy Tully's opponent late in the novel , he is the most admirable boxer in the book . He represents the fighter who has been there , who has achieved a measure of the fame ...
Analyzes the treatment of baseball, basketball, football, and boxing in American fiction, through the sports novels of such writers as Ring Lardner, Bernard Malamud, Mark Harris, and John Updike
Dreaming of Heroes
This is a story of America and college football, as seen through the eyes of a forgotten star, Cyril Letzelter, who deserves to be remembered again.