How Long to Read Best Seat in the House: A Father, a Daughter, a Journey Through Sports

How Long Does it Take to Read Best Seat in the House: A Father, a Daughter, a Journey Through Sports?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 34 minutes to read Best Seat in the House: A Father, a Daughter, a Journey Through Sports by Christine Brennan

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

From the best-known and most widely read woman sports columnist in the United States comes a remarkable memoir of a father and a daughter, the story of a girl who would turn her love for sports into a trailblazing career. Christine Brennan grew up in Toledo, Ohio, spending her summers playing with the boys on her block, memorizing baseball statistics, accompanying her dad to countless baseball and football games, and falling in love with everything about sports. While other girls were playing with Barbie dolls, Chris was collecting baseball cards and listening to the radio for the play-by-play accounts of her favorite teams. The eldest of four children, Chris was her father's daughter from the beginning. For a girl growing up in the 1960s and '70s, in the days before Title IX changed the playing fields of America, there were few opportunities to play organized sports. But Jim Brennan encouraged his daughter to believe she could play anything she wanted to, and when she couldn't be on the field, he was by her side in the stands -- she always thought the seat next to her father was the best seat in the house -- usually cheering for the underdog, and making sure Chris knew there was a place for her in the world of sports. In her warm and inspiring memoir, the first of its kind by a female sports journalist, Brennan takes readers from her neighborhood ball fields to the press boxes and locker rooms of stadiums around the world. Guided by her father's unfailing sense of loyalty, honor, and fairness, at the age of twenty-two she became the first female sportswriter for The Miami Herald, and in 1985 was the first woman to cover the Washington Redskins as a staff writer for The Washington Post. Over the past quarter century, Brennan has reported on many of the biggest stories in sports, and led the coverage of both the 1994 Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan saga and the pairs figure-skating scandal at the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics. Her USA Today column on Augusta National Golf Club, home of the Masters, triggered a nationwide debate about the club's lack of female members. Told in the spirited, friendly voice that readers of her column have come to love, Best Seat in the House is the heartwarming chronicle of a girl who came of age as women's sports were coming of age, encouraged every step of the way by her beloved father.

How long is Best Seat in the House: A Father, a Daughter, a Journey Through Sports?

Best Seat in the House: A Father, a Daughter, a Journey Through Sports by Christine Brennan is 267 pages long, and a total of 68,619 words.

This makes it 90% the length of the average book. It also has 84% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Best Seat in the House: A Father, a Daughter, a Journey Through Sports Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 14 minutes to read Best Seat in the House: A Father, a Daughter, a Journey Through Sports aloud.

What Reading Level is Best Seat in the House: A Father, a Daughter, a Journey Through Sports?

Best Seat in the House: A Father, a Daughter, a Journey Through Sports is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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