John ed bradley biography

John Ed Bradley (b.

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1958)
From Football: Great Writing about the National Sport

John Ed Bradley football card, Collegiate Collection #51, 1990.

When former Louisiana State University offensive center John Ed Bradley published “The Best Years of His Life,” a “little nothing story” looking back on the years since his college football career, he was completely unprepared for the response.

Letters—the most the editors had received for any article that year—poured into the Sports Illustratedoffices, publishers contacted him about expanding the piece into a book, and filmmakers expressed interest into turning it into a movie. A bit overwhelmed and even “shocked” (as he later told the magazine), he refused offers for several years, when he finally decided he was ready to develop his article into the book-length memoir It Never Rains in Tiger Stadium.

He subsequently told an interviewerfor The New York Times:

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