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He was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Squash: A History of the Game
(The first comprehensive history of squash in the United S...)
The first comprehensive history of squash in the United States, Squash incorporates every aspect of this increasingly popular sport: men's and women's play, juniors and intercollegiates, singles and doubles, hardball and softball, amateurs and professionals. Invented by English schoolboys in the 1850s, squash first came to the United States in 1884 when St. Paul's School in New Hampshire built four open-air courts. The game took hold in Philadelphia, where players founded the U.S. Squash Racquets Association in 1904, and became one of the primary pastimes of the nation's elite. Squash launched a U.S. Open in 1954, but its present boom started in the 1970s when commercial squash clubs took the sport public. In the 1980s a pro tour sprung up to offer tournaments on portable glass courts in dramatic locales such as the Winter Garden at the World Trade Center. James Zug, with access to private archives and interviews with hundreds of players, describes the riveting moments and sweeping historical trends that have shaped the game. He focuses on the biographies of legendary squash personalities: Eleo Sears, the Boston Brahmin who swam in the cold Atlantic before matches; Hashim Khan, the impish founder of the Khan dynasty; Victor Niederhoffer, the son of a Brooklyn cop; and Mark Talbott, a Grateful Dead groupie who traveled the pro circuit sleeping in the back of his pickup. A gripping cultural history, Squash is the book for which all aficionados of this fast-paced, exciting game have been waiting.
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Run to the Roar: Coaching to Overcome Fear
(The winningest coach in college sports history shares his...)
The winningest coach in college sports history shares his lessons on building and coaching teams of champions. For 244 consecutive dual matches over the past twelve years, the Trinity men's squash team has gone unbeaten. No other team in any collegiate sport has achieved the same sustained level of greatness. Run to the Roar is the story of a coach who succeeds in recruiting young men from around the world, getting them to work as a team, managing personalities, calming egos, and encouraging daily effort and focus under pressure. The focus of the book is a single match-Trinity vs. Princeton at the 2009 national championships. Within this framework we learn how Assaiante drives his players to achieve unparalleled success. Run to the Roar is not just a book about squash; it is an invaluable and unique reflection on mentoring and leadership.
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Squash: A History of the Game by James Zug (2003-09-23)
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James Zug
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Education
Dartmouth College; Columbia University. Columbia University School of the Arts.
Career
He is the author of six books He has written for national magazines and newspapers, as well as for publications in Africa, the Middle East and Europe. He has written for The Daily Beast and for a time had a weekly blog on squash, the game, for Vanity Fair"s online edition
A former reader at The Paris Review, he is a senior writer at Squash Magazine.
Zug has written an obituary on a South African communist. A review of a travel book on Siberia.
A magazine article on the last player of an obscure racquet sport. An essay on Quaker education.
An appreciation for Doris Lessing"s forgotten first novel.
And an interview with a groundhog handler in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. His fiction has appeared in the anthology Stress City: A Big Book of Fiction By 51 District of Columbia Guys (Paycock Press, 2008). He also appeared in South Africa"s Resistance Press: Alternative Voices in the Last Generation Under Apartheid (Ohio University, 2000).
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Squash: A History of the Game
(The first comprehensive history of squash in the United S...)
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Run to the Roar: Coaching to Overcome Fear
(The winningest coach in college sports history shares his...)
- Squash : A History of the Game
- Squash: A History of the Game by James Zug (2003-09-23)
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Squash: A History of the Game
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