Ted Macauley

Raring to Go! (eBook, ePUB)

Star-studded stories from high-flying reporter and sports journalist Ted Macauley

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The autobiography of Ted Macauley - a fascinating glimpse into the glamorous world of an award-winning sports journalist and columnist, detailing his exciting lifestyle, and featuring personal insights into the sporting heroes and celebrities who became his closest friends.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787114173
• Artikelnr.: 72297227

Autorenporträt

Ted Macauley is currently the Formula One reporter for the Daily Star Sunday, London, and weekly F1 columnist for Gulf News, in Dubai, UAE. He is also a regular car reviewer for five monthly magazines for Surrey Hills Publishing, and the Lifestyle Editor. He was the Daily Mirror's Chief Sports Feature writer, F1 and MotoGP reporter, until his retirement from the paper in 1997.
Ted met Mike Hailwood at the Isle of Man TT in 1961 when Mike rode all four solo classes and became the first rider to win three races in a week. He was just 21. Their friendship flourished from then until Mike Hailwood's tragic death in 1981. Ted has written three books about Mike Hailwood's life and career.
He was educated at Houldsworth School, Reddish, Cheshire, read English language and literature at Stockport College, and then studied Economics and Economic history at the College of Commerce in Manchester.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction and thanks
Chapter 1 First report
Chapter 2 Treasured moments: from the Far East to the South East
Chapter 3 Kerris and Iain: recollections
Chapter 4 The high life
Chapter 5 George Best and Barry Sheene
Chapter 6 Mike Hailwood
* Gallery 1 Early career, George Best, Barry Sheene, and meeting Delia
Chapter 7 James Toseland
Chapter 8 The Isle of Man
Chapter 9 Close encounters with the stars
Chapter 10 Bernie Ecclestone
Chapter 11 What they said about me … 
* Gallery 2 Mike Hailwood and other sporting heroes 
Chapter 12 Dinner with Paul Newman et al 
Chapter 13 Red Rum and Ginger
Chapter 14 Stars from the Emerald Isle
Chapter 15 Schumacher
* Gallery 3 On film sets, on holiday and at home
Chapter 16 Brief encounters
Chapter 17 Epilogue
Chapter 18 Postscript Index