The Sporting Stings (Paperback, First Printing ed.)

If you loved motion pictures like The Hustler and The Sting, and books on which they were based, you'll love The Sporting Stings. This book is full of amazing stories about prominent athletes and coaches like Muhammad Ali, Evel Knievel, Joe Namath, Pete Rose, John Madden, Red Auerbach, Lee Trevino, Casey Stengel, Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King. These are just a few of the 365 people you will find featured in this Who's Who of sports hustling. You will also read about crafty bowling hustlers you may never have heard of but will never forget: Men like the frustrated bowler who did so poorly in a tournament that he dumped his balls one by one off a bridge...until one cannonaded onto a boat deck. Men like the anonymous guy who robbed a store at gunpoint to fund his bowling action, lost and lost again...after robbing other stores. Men like shrewd bowling hustler Iggy Russo, who had a knack for putting his life in danger and then acting his way out of it and escaping into the night. Men like the frustrated bowler who did so poorly in a tournament that he dumped his balls one by one off a bridge...until one cannonaded onto a boat deck. Men like the anonymous guy who robbed a store at gunpoint to fund his bowling action, lost and lost again...after robbing other stores. Men like shrewd bowling hustler Iggy Russo, who had a knack for putting his life in danger and then acting his way out of it and escaping into the night.