Scott Raab

You're Welcome, Cleveland

How I Helped Lebron James Win a Championship and Save a City

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In 2010, when LeBron James announced to the world that he was leaving for Miami, he broke the collective heart of his native city and destroyed the hopes of an entire tortured generation. As LeBron headed south, unofficial spokesman Scott Raab sent him off with a middle-finger salute of his own—a deliciously obscene aria of sports fandom, Jewishness, and weight gain that becameinfamous as The Whore of Akron. Four years—and two NBA championships—later, LeBron came home to the Rust Belt faithful who had vilified him mercilessly, none more so than Raab. You’re Welcome, Cleveland is the story of both LeBron’s and Scott’s redemption as they pursu… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-06-239686-0
EAN: 9780062396860
Produktnummer: 19706045
Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 272 S.

Über den Autor

Scott Raab, a writer-at-large for Esquire since 1997, is a graduate of Cleveland State University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His work has been widely anthologized, including in The Best American Sports Writing. Born and bred in Cleveland, he now lives in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. This is his first book.