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sports history

3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.

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Jack Nicklaus

Jack Nicklaus is widely regarded as the greatest golfer of all time, winning 18 major championships and testifying in PGA Tour v. Martin that walking is essential to professional golf.

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Laura Hillenbrand

American narrative non-fiction author whose Seabiscuit and Unbroken are two of the most commercially successful works of narrative non-fiction ever published — written while she herself suffers from debilitating chronic fatigue syndrome — making her both a storyteller of extraordinary resilience and a practitioner of it.

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Tom Kite

Tom Kite is an American professional golfer who won the 1992 U.S. Open and testified alongside Jack Nicklaus in PGA Tour v. Martin that walking is integral to professional golf competition.

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