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Ray Richard
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John Montague Book forthcoming
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March 01, 2008, 06:20:08 AM »
Leigh Montville, the writer of top notch biographies of Babe Ruth and Ted Williams, has wriiten a new book on John Montague. The "Mysterious Montague"was a golf hustler and trick shot artist who was considered to be one of the best golfers in the country. Check out the summary from Random House.
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385526715
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BCrosby
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Re: John Montague Book forthcoming
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March 01, 2008, 09:03:52 AM »
Thanks for the heads up.
Leigh Montville used to be (and maybe still is) a sports writer for the Boston Globe. He is very good. Between Pete Gammons and Montville, opening The Globe sports pages every morning back in the '70's was a mini-literary event.
Bob
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BCrosby
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March 01, 2008, 09:28:05 AM »
BTW and speaking of hustlers, has anyone ever written a book on Titanic Thompson?
Bob
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Pete_Pittock
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March 01, 2008, 02:25:13 PM »
BCrosby,
Unsinkable Titanic Thompson by Carlton Stowers
Funeral of Titanic Thompson by Lowell Douglas.
The latter, set as a wake, gets good reviews.
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Joe Perches
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March 01, 2008, 03:15:18 PM »
A 1937 Time Magazine story about John Montague
http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,882762,00.html
John Montague used to frequent the Studio City golf course in the late 60's early 70's.
He was a kind and gentle man at that time, especially to squirts like me.
I think the last few years of his life were not particularly happy.
I went to his funeral service in 71/72. Three or four people showed up.
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Ray Richard
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Re: John Montague Book forthcoming
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March 01, 2008, 04:44:05 PM »
Joe, That was a wonderful find from Time magazine-circa 1937.
Bob-Leigh Montville left the Boston Globe many years ago, he wrote for SI, now he is on his own. The Babe Ruth and Ted Williams books are fantastic-he also did one on Dale Earnhardt.
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