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Title: A Hip Pocket Guide to Sports

Author: Gordon Osmond

Narrator: Aaron Letrick

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-18-16

Publisher: Gordon Osmond

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

A Pocket Guide to Sports is part-memoir, part-analyses and evaluations of major sports, and part-commentary on sports movies. The book's tone is iconoclastic, sarcastic, and, at times, outrageous. It also contains some valuable advice for living, including that based on sports analogies, and thoughts about the progress of minority rights - gays, women, and racial - in the world of sports. For fun, the book includes a rating system where listeners can compare their own assessments of the value of various sports with those of the author. Finally, the book provides a prospective as to how sports, old, new, and future, can enhance the human condition.

Members Reviews:

A fun read for both the sports enthusiast and the sports "widow" (i.e., nearly everyone)

Very enjoyable to read. Osmond's work (and play) is an entertaining, fun, well written, unique combination of astute (and humorous) personal observation and memoirs, drawing parallels of particular films and film characters to the related sport under his good natured microscope. Given how sport and entertainment are so much a part of our culture, and that it's always worthwhile to have a "different take" on something we may have taken for granted, this would be a fun read for both the sports enthusiast and the sports "widow".

If you are ever offered a like ride donât do it

A Hip Pocket Guide To Sports

by Gordon Osmond

Review by Fred James

In 1999 sportswriter Rick Reilly wrote an hilarious article in Sport illustrated called âOn a Wing and a Prayerâ in which he described a ride he endured in an F-14 fighter jet flown by the toughest guy he had ever met. This article was a non stop laugh because Reilly was not aware of what he was in for. Reilly wrote; If you are ever offered a like ride donât do it: âMove to Guam. Change your name. Fake your own death. Whatever you do, do not go. I know. The U.S. Navy invited me to try it. I was thrilled. I was pumped. I was toast!â

He was warned the night before to eat bananas for breakfast. Why? âBecause they taste the same going in and out!â Reilly was told as he strapped into the jet that there was a device to egress him in case of major trouble and that it would be so powerful it would knock him out as he egressed.

Then he described the flight itself as it roared around the sky faster than sound, upside down and round about at 6 Gâs. âI egressed the bananas. I egressed the pizza from the night before. And the lunch before that. I egressed a box of Milk Duds from the sixth Grade. I made Linda Blair look polite. Because of the Gâs I was egressing stuff that I did not even want to be egressed. I went through not one airsick bag but two. Biff (the pilot) said I passed out. Twice.

And on it went. I still smile and laugh at this parade of humor. That was a short article. Gordon Osmond, a former lawyer, playwright and current author, has just written a short book in roughly the same vein except the whole book is full of genuine laughs. More, Osmond is a gay guy writing about some very macho sports and yet heâs not only funny but even handed to all.

I think this short book (109 pages) is filled with wonderful asides and fun gossip. Sample.