The Call Me Super Mex. The Autobiography of Lee Trevino

Inbunden bok. Random House. 1982. 210 sidor.

Nära nyskick. Skyddsomslag i gott skick. Fotoillustrerad i sv/v. Språk: Engelska. "As a rags-to-riches saga, Lee Trevino's is the original article. Now, for the first time, a man who rose from humble origins to become one of the world's most popular sports figures describes his improbable and exuberant struggle upward. A fatherless Mexican-American boy, he was raised by his mother and grandfather in a Dallas shack - which also happenes to be next to a golf course. By the age of eight, he was caddying, and teaching himself to play golf behind the caddie shed. Lee Trevino's life seemed to be going nowhere - except for golf. He never made it though the eight grade. He joined the Marines, where he became an armed forces golf star. As a small-time pro, he made money any way he could, and 'They Call Me Super Mex' is an uproarious account of the weird games and gimmick bets he invented, and the big-stake gamblers he played for. This was the time when Trevino shined the shoes of Raymond Floyd, the 1982 PGA champion, and then went out on the course to beat hime. 'The Call Me Super Mex' retells the story of how Trevino's wife entered him in the 1967 U.S. Open without telling him - and how the man who didn't even own a coat or tie almost won the tournament. The next year Lee did win the Open, and his career took off. But even as he became a star, he fell victim to his own inability to manage his life. 'They Call Me Super Mex' is the story of that struggle, too, and how Lee Trevino learned to live with the fame he had never courted".