15/07/2024
GLENN SHEELEY RELEASES CAREER MEMOIR, WITH FOREWORD BY TERRY BRADSHAW
PITTSBURGH/ATLANTA, July 9, 2024 (PittsburghNewsWire.com) — Former award-winning Pittsburgh and Atlanta sportswriter Glenn Sheeley has released his career memoir, BETTER THAN LIFTING THINGS, a behind-the-scenes, entertaining trip through his 44 years in and out of newspapers, which started professionally in his mid-20s, covering the iconic Pittsburgh Steelers of the 1970s.
Featuring a foreword by NFL Hall of Famer and FOX Sports personality Terry Bradshaw, BETTER THAN LIFTING THINGS is an insightful, inside look at other sports giants such as John Madden, Arnold Palmer, Joe Paterno, Mickey Mantle, Chuck Noll, and Al Davis, and also includes chapters which detail his special relationships with golf’s two greatest players, Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus.
BETTER THAN LIFTING THINGS is the perfect sports fan gift for any occasion and is available on Amazon in e-book, paperback, and hardcover at www.amazon.com.
A former Steelers beat writer for the Pittsburgh Press, Sheeley describes life around this famous Steelers team of the ’70s, when it won four Super Bowls with players such as Bradshaw, Mean Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, and Fats Holmes, who somehow also won a bizarre co***ne trial in Amarillo, Tex.
“I was really happy to hear that Glenn had decided to complete this book,” Bradshaw says in the foreword. “I knew he’d been working on it for quite some time and I’m glad it’s finally out there for people to see.”
Sheeley continued to follow the NFL after leaving Pittsburgh for Atlanta, eventually covering 17 Super Bowls and hundreds of NFL games.
Pittsburgh fans will love Sheeley’s look at the city he fell in love with, the amazing Rooney family, and Pittsburgh’s wildly unique sportscaster, Myron Cope.
Atlantans will enjoy Glenn’s inside looks at former Hawks coach Hubie Brown, Atlanta Journal legend Furman Bisher, Ted Turner and his Atlanta Braves, and the Falcons.
“Overflowing with Hall of Famers and famous characters,” says best-selling author and Red Smith Award winner Dave Kindred, “Glenn Sheeley’s tale of a sportswriter’s life has us laughing all the way.”
BETTER THAN LIFTING THINGS takes you on an entertaining journey through Sheeley’s 26 years with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, when he assumed the golf beat in 1994 and covered 32 straight major championships, 10 of them won by Tiger Woods.
Steve Eubanks, author of Augusta: Home of the Masters Tournament, says, “If you miss great writing and want to revisit some classic moments and characters from sports gone by, this book is for you.”
Sheeley takes you to Augusta National, where he covered 20 Masters tournaments, including Nicklaus’ victory in 1986 at age 46, and to the Open Championship, where he walked every step with Nicklaus during Jack’s last trip around St. Andrews in 2005.
One of the nation’s most respected golf writers from 1994-2005, Sheeley covered every U.S. Open and PGA Championship during that period, plus eight Open Championships and several Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup matches.
The late Red Smith, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist with the New York Times, called sportswriting “a lot better than lifting things,” and despite decades of missing holidays to make deadlines, Glenn Sheeley could not agree more.
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GLENN SHEELEY is a former award-winning sportswriter with the Pittsburgh Press and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution who mainly covered the NFL and golf for 32 years, also making regular appearances on both the Golf Channel and CNN, before leaving newspapers to handle communications and membership sales for two private golf clubs in the Atlanta area. A Hershey, Pa., native and Penn State graduate, Glenn is retired and lives in Ormond Beach, Fla., with his wife, Nora.
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