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Close But No Cigar: Runner-Ups, Nearly-Weres and Also-Rans

Close But No Cigar: Runner-Ups, Nearly-Weres and Also-Rans

Patterson, Dale

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Canadian HistoryGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 0889955514
ISBN13: 9780889955516
Publisher: Red Deer Press
Published: Sep 4 2019
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
  • Ever heard of Edward Everett who was keynote speaker at Gettysburg in 1863? Of course not, because President Lincoln followed Everett with the most memorable two-minute speech ever ? the Gettysburg Address.
  • Or Lord Halifax, who in 1940 was front-runner to become Prime Minister of England, but went to the dentist, missing a key meeting, while the job went instead to Winston Churchill.
  • How about Jug McSpaden, who came second a record 13 times in one season ? the year Byron Nelson won an astonishing 18 PGA events the same year.
  • And who couldn't forget Elisha Gray who might have been Ma Gray had he filed a caveat for the telephone two hours earlier.
  • Or Harriet Quimby, the first woman to fly the English Channel solo -- a feat completely lost in the news to the sinking of the Titanic.

If life is all about the winners, the top dogs, and the walk-off homeruns -- you'd never know it from Dale Patterson's newest and greatest collection. Because Close, But No Cigar is a rollicking fun-filled romp through the dustbin of history where the real stars come from the flip-side of fortune and fame. Come celebrate the runner-ups, nearly-weres, and also-rans from the forgotten corners of science, sports, entertainment, politics and more.

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