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  • The Dogged Victims of Inexorable Fate

    by Dan Jenkins ...
    Dogged Victims is a hilarious tale of the PGA tour by legendary sportswriter Dan Jenkins with additional golf stories that Jenkins wrote. Jenkins holds an insider's view of the tour and gives laugh out loud stories that only he and his inner circle would know. His story on his first time golfing in Scotland is worth the price of the book itself. Dogged Victims was voted on of the Top 25 golf books ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dead Solid Perfect

    by Dan Jenkins ...
    The legendary golf novel, rereleased in a special edition with a new foreword by the author.Don Imus said it best: "Dan Jenkins is a comic genius." And nowhere is that genius more evident than in Dead Solid Perfect, his uproarious 1974 novel about life on the PGA Tour. To some, Kenny Lee Puckett, the star of Jenkins's ribald saga, is a more important figure in the history of golf than Bobby Jones ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • His Ownself

    A Semi-Memoir

    by Dan Jenkins ...
    Series series Anchor Sports
    In His Ownself, Dan Jenkins takes us on a tour of his legendary career as a sportswriter and novelist. Here we see Dan's hone his craft, from his high school paper through to his first job at the Fort Worth Press and on to the glory days of Sports Illustrated. Whether in Texas, New York, or anywhere for that matter, Dan was always at the center of it all—hanging out at Elaine's while swapping ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Stick a Fork in Me

    A Novel

    by Dan Jenkins ...
    A rollicking, no-holds-barred tour of the world of big-time college sports from “the best sportswriter in America” (Larry King).Pete Wallace, a good old boy from Texas, paid his dues coaching football on obscure campuses in the boondocks of America until he landed the athletic director's job at Western Ohio University. For 15 years, he has steadily and skillfully guided the school into the high ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist

    A Novel

    by Dan Jenkins ...
    The best golf writer on the planet returns with his funniest book ever.Dan Jenkins virtually invented the golf novel with Dead Solid Perfect, his rollicking account of the life and times of touring pro Kenny Lee Puckett. After thirty years of waiting for the follow-up, Jenkins returns to the world of big-time golf in The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist and finds a world where ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Franchise Babe

    A Novel

    by Dan Jenkins ...
    Jack Brannon, a golf writer in his forties who has been bunkered more than once in the marriage game, covers the sport for a big-time magazine. Bored with the PGA, he decides to check out “the Lolitas,” on the LPGA Tour. Jack chooses as a magazine subject Ginger Clayton, a fiery eighteen-year old whose killer looks and killer game make her the kind of star who can take the LPGA to the next level. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Unplayable Lies

    (The Only Golf Book You'll Ever Need)

    by Dan Jenkins ...
    Series series Anchor Sports
    In Unplayable Lies, Dan Jenkins takes us on a tour of the links as only he can do it. Here, Dan delves into the greatest rounds of golf he's ever seen, the funniest things said on a golf course, the rivalries on tour and in the press box, the game's most magical moments--and its most absurd. Filled with well-known characters like Tiger Woods, to others like Titanic Thompson--gambler, golf hustler, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • YOU GOTTA PLAY HURT

    by Dan Jenkins ...
    From the author of Semi-Tough comes a hilarious novel chronicling one year in the life of irreverent sports columnist Jim Tom Pinch.Jim Tom Pinch is a unabashed sportswriter who has followed around and reported on too many blonde-haired skiers, basketball players with names like Potatus Fry, and Russian figure skaters who want to know how much a house with a toilet costs in America.Now he tells ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • LIFE ITS OWN SELF

    by Dan Jenkins ...
    From the author of Semi-Tough—one of Sports Illustrated’s top 100 sports books of all time—comes the hilarious continuing comic adventures of star NFL player Billy Clyde Puckett.Injured football player and TV sports commentator Billy Clyde Puckett returns with his wife, the former Barbara Jane Bookman, and his old friend Shake Tiller in another hilarious romp through a lost era of professional ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Reunion at Herb's Cafe

    by Dan Jenkins ...
    Dan Jenkins reunites many of the most memorable and irascible characters from his most memorable and hilarious novels—starting with Semi-Tough. Billy Clyde Puckett, Shake Tiller, T. J. Lambert, Barbara Jane Bookman, Big Ed Bookman, Slick Henderson, Juanita Hutchins, Doris Steadman—the list goes on, and they’re all packin’ heat. It all begins when Herb’s Café—modeled after a Fort Worth landmark ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Fairways and Greens

    by Dan Jenkins ...
    "Tell me about plumbing, fine. Tell me about carpentry, terrace gardening, the timer on VCRs. Go ahead and explain cellophane. Tell me about all of these things, but don't try to tell me about golf, okay? Golf I know."--Dan JenkinsAfter four decades of covering golf-not to mention "playing scratch from the blues and gambling for my own money when I didn't have any", Dan Jenkins most definitely ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $8.99 USD

  • Semi-Tough

    A Novel

    by Dan Jenkins ...
    "Dan Jenkins is a comic genius." -- Don ImusMade into a hilarious and timeless film starring Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, and Jill Clayburgh, and recently named number seven on Sports Illustrated's Top 100 Sports Books of All Time, Semi-Tough is Dan Jenkins's masterpiece and considered by many to be the funniest sports book ever written.The novel follows the outsize adventures of Billy Clyde ... Read more

    $11.59 USD