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  • Jeffrey
  • Austin Texas, United States
  • 04-09-13

Nostaligic sports history at its finest!

I was a late comer to Arnie's Army. He was already past prime, but I still wanted him to best Jack. That all changed into 1986, Jack's final major victory at Augusta, a glorious televised ending to a legendary career. I enjoyed Jack then as much as I had Arnie. Great one on one rivalries in sports are rare, especially now. Tiger Woods has no such counterpart, never will. Even Tiger would admit that the modern game of (and business of) golf has Arnie and Jack to thank for what it is to day and will be forever more. This was great read, albeit limited to those who love the arcane history of a sport that quite frankly is still mostly about rich or well to do kids with a talent for performing and making a great living on not the most stressful of backdrops. I would guess that mostly older men and golf fans as myself will enjoy this read the most, but if you're young and you really want to know about a rare sports duo that will likely never again be matched, try it out. The narration is smooth, a bit monotonous at times, but still lovingly given.

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Good, but the narrator? Meh...

Really enjoyed this book, but the narrator read it like English wasn't his first language. Makes it a 3 star rather than a 4 star recording.

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No Match

I listened to The Grand Slam, a book about Bobby Jones, prior to listening to this one. There is no comparison. The Grand Slam is a much better book. This one cannot come close to properly interjecting significant current events into the time line of the story being told, though this book tries. It is almost as though the author read The Grand Slam and tried following the same format. The narrator of this story is better suited to reading the time of day and the temperature when dialing "time" with your phone. He reads it as if watching a teleprompter, with -zero- emotion. Still, I did learn a few points of trivia regarding the careers of these two great golfers.

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