More Than a Game – The Best of Alf Van Hoose Hoose Stephenson Mullins Feld

More Than a GameThe Best of Alf Van Hoose\nAuthor(s): Alf Van Hoose, Creg Stephenson, Edward Mullins, Susanna Van Hoose Feld, Creg Stephenson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Alabama Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Alabama Press\nISBN-13: 9780817355111, 978-0817355111\nSynopsis\nAlthough he spent 43 years at the same job, Alf Van Hoose was not a man limited by the boundaries of his profession. As \""\""The Birmingham News\""\"" sports editor for 21 years and a columnist for a decade before that, Van Hoose helped define a city, a state, and a region largely known for sports. He was the writer of record for some of the biggest sporting events and personalities in the state of Alabama in the last half of the 20th century. Wayne Hester, Van Hoose's successor as sports editor of \""\""The News\""\"", in 1990, said, 'To many sports fans over the years, Alf Van Hoose has been \""\""The Birmingham News.\""\"" But he was also much more than the 'sports guy', as older gene.