Download or read book Charlie Brumfield King of Racquetball written by Steve Keeley and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE ONLY AUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY of Charlie Brumfield, racquetball's greatest champion, by the sport's greatest author of the best-selling The Complete Book of Racquetball, his nemesis, Steve bo Keeley. Charlie Brumfield the King of Racquetball outstripped the field with 22 national and world titles during the Pioneer and Golden eras of the 1970s and 80s. Brumfield alone is the only player ever to hold Triple Crowns in both singles and doubles-an accomplishment unlikely ever to be matched. And when the racquetball day is done, the question is who is the All-Time Best Player ever? It is fairly said that the King rules best when the subjects are most plentiful and splendid, and for this Charlie Brumfield is the undisputed King of Racquetball of all time. He calls himself 'The All Time Holder.' 'Yet I still recall how he held forth for an hour or so before a group of Vermont instructors on the dynamics of the grip. He had more faith in himself than the average movie hero, and he wrote his own script as he went along.' - Art Shay Official Racquetball Photographer, Official Olympic Photographer, Racquetball Hall of Fame. Charlie Brumfield also enchanted the gallery because he committed the least number of Mental and Physical errors in a contest. He had perfected the Sword and Shield of backhand ceiling and sharp forehand kills to begin an unprecedented 20 tournament win streak! When everything else failed, he was still the best Gamesman in town alongside Muhammad Ali, with an IQ approaching Einstein's 180, and a photographic memory to catalog every pro's moves that he could rewind and edit with a single curse or jab. Once he stuck a racquet under young Hogan's chin, pushed him a few inches and threatened to bop him if he didn't back off. Brumfield was penalized one point- and won going away. Later he predicted, 'I believe that as Hogan matures he will lose his nasty edge and be more beatable.' Charlie Brumfield looked like the Prince of Darkness, moved like Groucho Marx, and had the flawless arsenal of a platypus on steroids. The only way to defeat him seemed to be before the finals by sending him chocolates, dates, or to hire a Californian to take him drinking. Sports Illustrated lambasted, "Brumfield is a bearded, bespectacled, silver-tongued San Diego attorney whose belief it was that nobody would beat him 'unless they pull down my pants.' When he rarely lost a match, he found secret solutions in laboratories like Dr. Frankenstein in a penchant for his 'science experiments of racquetball." Must sees for all sports' fans inside this book: * You will never see another story about Elvis in racquetball or about the Memphis Racquetball Mafia.* No other publication finds Bobby Fischer playing racquetball on an obscure court at the Church of God. * Three early shots Brumfield and the author pioneered that are still used. * How he beat Björn Borg with one stunning shot to break 'Mr. Ice' to win the Challenge of the Racquets in squash and badminton.* Pouncing under tournament pressure on his sleeping opponents, shouting, 'Twenty-one!'* Shot by shot analysis of the match with Marty 'Killer Dog' Hogan that was painted by Leroy Neiman.* The only Box of Statistics of Brumfield's 22 National and World Championships.* Two pages of testimonials from his friends, foes, refs and sponsors.* Three pages of famous Brumfield quotations.* The secrets of Racquetball's history declassification in 2013.* What winning tips he kept in his crib list under the grip on his handle. Play by play description by the author, his nemesis, of the champion's strokes, strategies and methodologies. Brumfield earned his Law degree while winning his back-to-back national singles titles on the court during 1972 and 1973. 'I love the theory and practice of law,' he said. 'And use the same techniques applied from racquetball to the court of law.' In 1975 and 1976 he again won back-to-back titles, while practicing law on the side.
Download or read book Racquetball the cult written by Eugene L. Scott and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advanced Racquetball written by Steve Keeley and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boys Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1981-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.
Download or read book Inside Racquetball written by Chuck Leve and published by McGraw-Hill/Contemporary. This book was released on 1981 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Racquetball Book written by Margaret Poynter and published by Silver Burdett Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the game of racquetball, its equipment, clothing, rules, techniques, and some of its champion players.
Download or read book Women Racquetball Pioneers written by Steve Keeley and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to a hard-hitting look at the earliest women amateur and professional racquetball champions, with photos from a dozen personal collections and museums dating back into the 1960s. Back before women's lib freed blindfolded ladies passing surreptitiously through men's locker rooms onto the back courts of YMCAs and JCCs and onto the 'Women's court'. Private racquet clubs were yet a gleam in some man's eye, and a handful of the largest biceped women vied with men in the Big Four annual tournaments across the nation: National Singles and Doubles, and National Invitational Singles and Doubles. The history of women's racquetball moves like the Pacific from a bashful lap on the shore to a tempest against sea walls. The initial 60s decade was a doldrums on back courts, when a few frustrated college coeds and girlfriends or wives tagged along to practice and tournaments. In the 1970s, females burst upon the racquetball scene and, indeed, were the primary factor in the sport's meteoric rise. Where the gals went, the guys followed. The first women's divisions were held early in the decade, as draw sheets spread on the walls from the lobby to the first women's locker rooms. Heads turned and many young champions were produced. In mid-decade, the first sponsored player, Kathy Williams-who graces these pages-finally raked in the cash. Janelle Marriott started the first women's pro tour... and hits a smashing forehand at mid-book. The Kickoff shot is the first group photo of the WPRA pros at the Long Island, NY, stop, with their hair styles and fashions of the era. The book proudly features 36 photos with one hundred of the best of the early best of the women players, and I am happy to say that I knew and/or trained nearly all of them from California to Alaska to Maine to Florida. I take responsibility for the story captions marshaled from hundreds of emails, Facebook messages, letters, interviews, and our memories. The shots, snapped by the early sport's best photographers, vary from classic portraits of the first national champions-Jan Pasternak and Peggy Steding-through a belly dancer and Playmates of the glitz era of racquetball in the 1970s, and on to the 'prima donnas'... as the 1980s champions referred to one another. In balance, see actress Lana Wood's stunning grip at the Greatest Racquetball Show on Earth and an action shot of a forehand-backhand by the Canadian 'Siamese twin ' team-who carried home at least one championship cup. This is a fun, yet nonetheless scholarly, photoessay. Thirty-six shots of the top guns of early racquetball, and all proceeds go to the US Open. From the gallery of time on these pages, may you bring their winning strokes and ways to your game!
Download or read book Racquetball written by Eugene L. Scott and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boys Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1981-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.
Download or read book Racquetball for the Serious Player written by Charles Garfinkel and published by Scribner Paper Fiction. This book was released on 1982 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on advanced techniques and strategies for amateur and professional tournament participants.
Download or read book Marty Hogan s Power Racquetball written by Marty Hogan and published by Contemporary Books. This book was released on 1978 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Off the Wall written by Charles Brumfield and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Racquetball s Best written by Steve Keeley and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-17 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best tips for racquetball come straight from the top professionals. This unique instructional covers the topics of: Strategy - Forehand - Backhand - Service - Serve Return - Kill Stroke - Kill Strategy - Power Source - Velocity vs. Accuracy - Spin - Back Wall - Overhead - Volley - Ceiling - Specialty Shots - Shot Selection - Court Coverage - What to Watch - Focus - Drills - Conditioning - The Psyche - Vs. Control Players - Vs. Power Players - Pre-Tournament - Tournament - Tips for Pros, Juniors and Females - And More!From the World Champions and Top Pros: Cliff Swain - Marty Hogan - Sudsy Monchik - Jose Rojas - Alvaro Beltran - Andy Hawthorne - Charlie Pratt - Dave Peck - Jerry Hilecher - Ruben Gonzalez - John Ellis - Davey Bledsoe - Mike Ray - Brian Hawkes - Jeff Leon - Rhonda Rajsich - Cheryl Gudinas - Jackie Paraiso - Suzy Acosta - Cristina Cassino - Kerri Wachtel - And Many More! Learn the most important aspects of the game from the best who have ever played!!
Download or read book Winning Racquetball written by Arthur Shay and published by NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company. This book was released on 1976 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contemporary Racquetball written by Chuck Sheftel and published by McGraw-Hill/Contemporary. This book was released on 1978 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boys Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1980-04 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.
