Sign-In
Cart
Joseph Wore Tennis Shoes: Stories From Small Town Journalism
Paperback
Biographies GeneralLetters & EssaysWriting Instruction
Publisher Price: $18.95
Publisher: Dale Kovar
Published: Sep 19 2025
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book keeps coming at you with one surprise after another. Pages and Paws said It's unlike anything we've ever read.
While tracing Dale Kovar's 50-year career path at Minnesota newspapers, it pauses along the way to indulge in original reprints of the most interesting stories, meet unforgettable characters, and weigh in on issues that affect everyone. In between, Kovar reveals behind-the-scenes moments that made work fun.
Dale spends a day in kindergarten, an evening at a 6-overtime basketball game, overnight riding shotgun with a deputy on patrol, and a weekend at a political convention. He celebrates successes, admits mistakes, and boldly looks death straight in the eye.
In a newspaper, you find stories on a wide variety of topics. Take that times 50 years and you have a page-turner you can't put down, eager for what's coming next. I never laughed so much and cried so much from the same book, one reader commented. It's not the ego trip of a national media memoir; it's a joyride on a gravel road.
In Joseph Wore Tennis Shoes: Stories From Small Town Journalism, you'll find:
- the blind man who asked only to be given a chance to prove his ability
- a sheriff who ended up at a hostage situation instead of Christmas shopping
- the brilliant play-calling of a legendary football coach
- a young man coming to the rescue of an elderly couple whose car had been towed
- the right way to hit a deer with your car
- fresh lobsters, the perfect watermelon, and the best hotdish recipe ever
- arriving at work and the office was on fire - literally
Get ready to nod your head in agreement, shake it in disbelief, and even it laugh it off. But keep the tissue box handy as well.
For readers who enjoy real stories about real people, this one's for you. It's also a unique gift for someone you love.
Also in
Biographies General
Bluesland: Portraits of Thirteen Major American Blues Masters
Pete Welding (ED.)
Toby Byron (ED.)
Hardcover
Karl Popper - The Formative Years, 1902 1945: Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna
Hacohen, Malachi Haim
Hardcover
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
Trump, Mary L.
Hardcover
The Children of Athena: Greek Intellectuals in the Age of Rome: 150 Bc0-400 AD
Freeman, Charles
Hardcover
Make It a Double: From Wretched to Wondrous: Tales of One Woman's Lifelong Discovery of Whisky
Sackier, Shelley
Hardcover
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
Isaacson, Walter
Hardcover
Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s
Howe, Sean
Hardcover
An Enemy Such as This: Larry Casuse and the Fight for Native Liberation in One Family on Two Continents Over Three Centuries
Correia, David
Hardcover
Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
Cooper, Christian
Hardcover
Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Womens Political Culture, 1830-1900
Sklar, Kathryn Kish
Paperback
The Secret Life of the Savoy: Glamour and Intrigue at the World's Most Famous Hotel
Williams, Olivia
Paperback
The Devil's Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich
Wittman, Robert K.
Kinney, David
Paperback
The Badger: The Life of Bernard Hinault and the Legacy of French Cycling
Fotheringham, William
Paperback
Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
Ehrenreich, Barbara
Paperback
The Butcher, the Embezzler, and the Fall Guy: A Family Memoir of Scandal and Greed in the Meat Industry
Cherington, Gretchen
Paperback
My Own Devices: True Stories from the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love
Dessa Wander
Hardcover
Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
Giuffre, Virginia Roberts
Hardcover
How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay: Tips and Tricks That Kept Me Alive, Happy, and Creative in Spite of Myself
Lawson, Jenny
Hardcover
A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
Fedarko, Kevin
Paperback
Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground
Dohrn, Zayd Ayers
Hardcover
Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast
Colloff, Pamela
Hardcover