If all sports are really about war, then rugby is a heart-thumping epic
of bayonet charges and hand-to-hand fighting. In "Memoirs of a
Rugby-Playing Man," bestselling author Jay Atkinson describes his
thirty-five year odyssey in the sport-from his rough and rowdy days at
the University of Florida, through the intrigue of various foreign
tours, club championships, and all star selections, up to his current
stint with the freewheeling Vandals Rugby Club out of Los Angeles. Jay
has played in more than 500 matches, for which he's suffered three
broken ribs, a detached retina, a fractured cheekbone and orbital bone,
four deadened teeth, and a dislocated ankle. Written in the style of
Siegried Sassoon's Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Atkinson's book
explains why it was all worth it--the sum total of his violent
adventures, and the valuable insights he has gained from them.
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