Lute!: The Seasons of My Life

by David Fisher and Lute Olson
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Published by: Macmillan
eBook Publish Date: October 30, 2007
Print ISBN: 031235942X
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It was love at first sight . . . One day I picked up a basketball, and it never let me go. nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; For fifty seasons Lute Olson has been teaching young athletes the skills of basketball---and life. Starting as a high school coach, he worked his way to the top of the basketball world---winning more than a thousand games, a national championship and world championship, producing some of the NBA’s biggest stars, and eventually being enshrined in the basketball Hall of Fame. nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; But Lute is far more than a basketball story. His partner for forty-seven years in building championship programs was his high school sweetheart; his story is also a love storynbsp;of a couple who together built a sports legend.nbsp;Lute and Bobbi Olson were a team. Their almost half-century love affair ended with Bobbi’s death from cancer. Lute explores how he dealt with her death and how he moved forward to find a new love. nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; This is the chronicle of one American boy’s dream to become a great basketball coach---his achievements, his coaching strategies, and how he dealt with his beloved wife’s death---the wins and losses he faced as boy, man, and coach.nbsp;But

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Bio of David Fisher

David Fisher is the author of more than fifteen New York Times bestsellers. He is the only writer ever to have works of fiction, nonfiction, and reference offered simultaneously by theBook of the Month Club. He lives in New York with his wife, two teenagers, one dog, and one cat.