Présentation de l'éditeur :
Ouimet and Vardon were two men from different generations and vastly different corners of the world whose lives, unbeknownst to them at the time, bore remarkable similarities, setting them on parallel paths that led with a kind of fated inevitability to their epic battle at Brookline years in the future. This collision resulted in the big bang' that gave rise to the sport of golf as we know it today.
For Mark Frost, Francis Ouimet and Harry Vardon represent everything that's right about sports in general and sportsmen in particular; gentlemen, champions, teachers, leaders, and each in their own quiet way, heroes. In THE GREATEST GAME EVER PLAYED, Frost attempts to create penetrating studies of both of these men, along with over dozens of the game's seminal figures, within the dramatic framework offered by the tournament when they finally met, one of the most thrilling sports events in history, the 1913 U.S. Open.
Revue de presse :
"One of the best golf books ever written."
―Travel & Leisure Golf Magazine
"Stirring Frost tells this story at the perfect pitch."
―New York Times Book Review
"The most compelling sports book since Seabiscuit."
―Booklist
"Anyone who loves golf, history, or just a great story will relish this wonderful book."
―Scott Turow
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