A New York Times Bestseller By the author of Showtime --the source for HBO\'s Winning Time-- the definitive biography of mythic multi-sport star Bo Jackson.
The Last Folk Hero is the true tale of Bo Jackson that only master storyteller (NPR.org) Jeff Pearlman could tell..
No, Bo Jackson is Paul Bunyan.
He\'s not Deion Sanders, either. maybe.) Bo Jackson isn\'t Jim Thorpe.
Or ...
Or no.
Did Bo really jump over a parked Volkswagen? (Yes.) Did he actually run a 4.13 40? (Yes.) During the 1991 flight that nearly killed every member of the Chicago White Sox, was he in the cockpit trying to help? (Oddly, yes.
Drawing on an astonishing 720 original interviews, New York Times bestselling sportswriter Jeff Pearlman captures as never before the elusive truth about Jackson, Auburn University\'s transcendent Heisman Trophy winner, superstar of both the NFL and Major League Baseball and ubiquitous Bo Knows Nike pitchman.
He was Bo Jackson.
Then, almost overnight, he was gone.
He was half man, half myth.
He was on our televisions, in our magazines, plastered across billboards.
He became the first person to simultaneously star in two major professional sports, and overtook Michael Jordan as America\'s most recognizable pitchman.
He climbed (and walked across) walls, splintered baseball bats over his knee, turned oncoming tacklers into ground meat.
Video game makers turned him into an invincible character--and they were dead-on.
His power unmatched.
His strength was legendary.
Clocks failed to capture his speed.
Stadiums struggled to contain him. --Chris Herring, author of Blood in the Garden From the mid-1980s into the early 1990s, the greatest athlete of all time streaked across American sports and popular culture.
A legendary tome on a legendary athlete.
A New York Times Bestseller By the author of Showtime --the source for HBO\'s Winning Time-- the definitive biography of mythic multi-sport star Bo Jackson
