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PUBLISHED: Sep.10.2008

The Galloping Ghost

In the 1920s four athletes defined American sports: Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Bobby Jones, and Red Grange. They were the country's first athletic pantheon, its Mount Rushmore, and for a few brief years Red Grange outshone them all. The Galloping Ghost tells the remarkable untold story of this fleet-footed college football player who inspired poetry, dazzled fans as he felled...

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Manny Pacquiao: A Biography

Manny Pacquiao, 31, was recently named "Fighter of the Decade" by the Boxing Writers' Association and is the only fighter ever to capture seven championship belts in seven different weight classes. But few could have imagined that Pacquiao would have ever reached the pinnacle of his sport, considering his background. He ran away from home-a cardboard shack in General...

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Oct.21.2008

Published by Dallas Morning News

The Galloping Ghost, by Gary Andrew Poole. In the three-plus decades I've covered the NFL, I've interviewed many an inflated ego that thought pro football began with him. Poole's...

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Gary Andrew Poole is the author of The Galloping Ghost (Houghton Mifflin), and the forthcoming PacMan: Behind the Scenes With Manny Pacquiao--The Greatest Pound-For-Pound Fighter in the World (Da Capo Press). Poole has written for The New York Times, TIME,...

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Gary Andrew PooleNarrative non-fiction writer

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Gary Andrew Poole
Narrative non-fiction writer