Looking for Help: Sports Books Made Into Movies

You know, I'm sure he did a lot of things with/to Heidi Fleiss' coochie, but I highly doubt running around with it on his head was one of them.....at least, if he did, I never saw it on YouTube.

 

That's more how I envisioned Rosie O'Donnell's beaver would look, to be honest.

And no, I don't envision such things on a regular basis.

 

Great book.

I actually read The Boys of Winter by Wayne Coffey, which is about the Miracle on Ice. Solid book, pretty short, has a lot of biographical facts and does a great job of telling the story.

 

Fear Strikes Out.

I'm reminded of this because I just watched "The Sopranos" episode where Janice finds Tony's 7th-grade book report on that subject while digging through their dead mom's crap in the basement after Janice almost got caught loking for the purported hidden stash of money.

 

Even now, the thought of Anthony Perkins portraying a major-league baseball player is absurd.

Due to that, FSO was even more bizarre than "Tall Story".

 

Uh, Tom Sawyer would fall under the same category as Friday Night Lights. So would Huck Finn