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| Arnie & Jack: Palmer, Nicklaus, and Golf's Greatest Rivalry | 
 enlarge | Author: Ian O'connor
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Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 38155
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 0618754466
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.3520922
EAN: 9780618754465
ASIN: 0618754466
Publication Date: April 11, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Fantastic Read! May 18, 2008
Fantastic read. It's the first book I've read from Ian O'Connor and I was not disappointed. Both Arnie and Jack are two genuine sportsmen and gentlemen. I've met both as a volunteer at PGA events and both were class acts. I know there was a fierce rivalry between them and this book chronicles it all.
This book is a great run through history and every member on the PGA Tour should a. read it and b. write a thank you letter to these two gentlemen as their rivalry put golf on the map. The money they are making today is a result of these two.
In the end, it doesn't matter who won what. Both golfers are universally loved, respected businessmen and class acts. A lot of professional athletes today should read this and take note of their actions both on the course and off.
Both are legends and masters of their sport.
Jack and Arnie May 20, 2008
An excellent book - well written and very insightful. It was fun getting an inside look at these two legends. I thoroughly enjoyed the book.
Arnie & Jack June 9, 2008
For anyone that has followed professional golf for the past 50 years, reading about these two greats was very rewarding. I remember almost everyone of their thrilling victories, especially in the Masters and US Opens. I personally saw them in the Ryder Cup in St. Louis at Old Warson CC. They shot a best ball of 29 on the back nine to pull out a one up victory for the USA.
golf fanatics July 1, 2008
When your husband has EVERYTHING golf...a new and interesting golf book a must ! Thank you for quick delivery,book in excellent condition.
 How Arnie and Jack Liked to Defeat Each Other . . . in Detail July 1, 2008
If you want the long and short of this book, it's easy to summarize: Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus loved nothing better than to one-up each other; Arnold wanted to win more on the golf course, and Jack wanted to be more popular with the fans; their wives kept the rivalry from getting out of hand; and they are more at peace with one another now than before.
If you want to read about the various times they played each other, the off-course competition, slights to one another, and what bugged each one about the other, then you'll want to read every page of this detailed dual biography. If you would rather read just about one or the other . . . and their whole career in perspective, another book will undoubtedly be more pleasing.
I had never read anything about the backgrounds of either golfer so I learned a lot. As soon as the book got into the years where I was well aware of both men, the book didn't add very much to what I knew already. In fact, Mr. O'Connor left out material that I would have included.
Because the two men are ten years apart in age, they aren't the kind of playing rivals that some of the earlier champions were who competed against each other in their prime years. In the process, the astonishing rise of golf as a spectator sport isn't given as much attention as it should.
But if you want to get an overview of both men, magnified by their feelings about one another, this book will serve you all right. But don't expect the book to be compelling reading. It's more like those long-winded stories you hear at the country club in the bar that are shared by the oldest member after quite a few libations.
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