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Just Let Me Play: The Story of Charlie Sifford, the First Black PGA Golfer (Hardcover)
by Charlie Sifford (Author)
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"Bitter, ornery, angry" Sifford, writing with freelancer Gallo, here provides an unrelievedly depressing autobiography that, one hopes, will cause shame in certain quarters and inspiration in others. While the man who has been called--inaccurately, he says--the Jackie Robinson of pro golf was the first African American to be accepted into the PGA (in 1960), Sifford encountered as much racism after joining the tour as he had before: not from fellow players, who simply treated him as a challenging opponent, but from organizers of the tour and especially from sponsors of various events. Sifford notes that playing on the Senior and Super Senior Tours he has made more money than before, but he is extremely pessimistic about the future of blacks in the game. Yet there's a lesson to be learned from this model of justified righteousness: "anybody . . . who decided that I wasn't good enough or marketable enough to enter their golf tournament . . . I don't stay down. I fight back." Photos.
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Product Details
  • Hardcover: 237 pages
  • Publisher: British American Publishing (May 1992)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 094516744X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0945167440
  • Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars 3 customer reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #222,771 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars So so., June 28, 2004
The story of Sifford is a very inspiring one. The book was just written in a horrible way. Every other sentance starts with the word "hell". It gets boring afterwards. The first half of the book moves very slowly, but the second half picks up a little more speed. This book will let people know that before Tiger Woods, there was Charlie, Lee Elder,