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Gone Pro: Alabama: The Crimson Tide Athletes Who Became Legends
Author(s): Steve Millburg (Author)
- Publisher: Clerisy Press
- Publication Date: 25 Oct. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 320 pages
- ISBN-10: 1578605113
- ISBN-13: 9781578605118
Book Description
Gone Pro: Alabama is a collection of biographies of 220 Crimson Tide athletes who went on to professional careers or Olympics success. Refresh your memory about their glory days at Alabama and find out what happened to them afterward, personally as well as professionally. Readers will recognize some of their favorites and learn about others who were heroes in their own generations. This book touches on multiple sports, although football has been the dominating sport in Alabama’s sports history.
Find out which Alabama quarterback turned in the greatest pro career: Ken Stabler, Bart Starr, or Joe Namath. The Crimson Tide has produced some stellar athletes in other sports as well. Joe Sewell made the Baseball Hall of Fame. Riggs Stephenson, Dave Magadan, Butch Hobson, Frank Lary, Al Worthington and others also starred in the major leagues, and Alex Avila and David Robertson have just started building their own legends. In basketball, Antonio McDyess, Gerald Wallace, Latrell Sprewell, T.R. Dunn, and Robert Big Shot Rob” Horry made their names in the NBAand so has Dominique Canty in the WNBA.
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About the Author
Steve Millburg has been a freelance writer and editor since March 2007 after 17 years with magazines (most recently as senior editor for travel at Coastal Living) and 16 years with newspapers. He began his professional career on the sports desk of the Omaha World-Herald in Nebraska while still in college. He has also been a copy editor, city columnist, movie reviewer, rock concert reviewer, theater reviewer, travel writer, medical writer, advertising copywriter, fitness writer, food writer, teacher, fact checker, musician, and wedding officiant, and in fact still is many of those things. Publications for which he has worked on staff include the St. Petersburg Times newspaper in Florida and Cooking Light and Southern Living magazines.
