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4 unusual facts about Buzz Bissinger


Buzz Bissinger

Bissinger is perhaps best known for his book Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream, which documents the 1988 season of the football team of Permian High School in Odessa, Texas.

The New York Times bestselling Three Nights in August, published in 2005, chronicles a series in August 2003 between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs through the perspective of Cardinals manager Tony La Russa.

Darryl Kile

The details leading up to and following Kile's death are detailed to some degree in Buzz Bissinger's book, "Three Nights in August."

Will Leitch

Leitch was criticized by Pulitzer-Prize winning author Buzz Bissinger on an April 2008 episode of Costas Now for the lack of quality writing on sports blogs.



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