For 31 years, Clyde Bolton wrote four sports columns per week for the Birmingham News. By his estimation, this makes him the most widely read Alabamian in history. He may be right. In Stop the Presses (So I Can Get Off) he takes the reader along on a joyride through more than three decades of Alabama sports. Unsurprisingly, tales of Bear Bryant and Shug Jordan, Roll Tide and War Eagle, dominate, but at one point or another, Clyde covered just about every type of sporting event in the state. Personalities and events from the realms of high school sports, minor league baseball, college basketball, and Nextel Cup Racing are just some of the many facets of his personal and professional life that he shares in this, his 17th book. In relating the outlines of his life, Bolton pays homage to his mentors, including famed sports editor Benny Marshall, and shares some insights he’s gained after a lifetime in the newspaper game. But throughout the book, he never forgets that any good journalist—any good writer—is in the business of telling stories. And oh, what stories! Bolton writes of meeting Michael Jordan during the basketball star’s year with the Birmingham Barons; of having dinner with Muhammad Ali at the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity house at Auburn University; of walking incognito down sunny Birmingham sidewalks with Hall-of-Famer Johnny Unitas. He explains why Bear Bryant, in his opinion, is the greatest football coach ever, tells of interviewing Joe Namath in the men’s bathroom, and reveals why his grandmother watched professional wrestling on her hands and knees on the floor in front of the television. Stop the Presses (So I Can Get Off) is a joyous romp through the SEC, the Nextel Cup Circuit, and, in the end, life itself.  

Stop the Presses (So I Can Get Off): Tales from Forty Years of Sports Writing

Biographies & Memoirs

Bolton, Clyde

Professionals & Academics

Fire Ant Books

Children's Books

Biographies

Holloway House Pub Co

Basketball Tide: A Story of Alabama Basketball

Sports & Outdoors

Basketball

Strode Pub

Water Oaks

Cromartie-Long

Silver Britches: An Inside Look at Georgia Football

Leisure Pr

Nancy Swimmer: A Story of the Cherokee Nation

Literature & Fiction

Highland Pr

Details the life and times of former NASCAR driver Davey Allison.

Remembering Davey: Portrait of an American Hero

Birmingham News

Stock car racing meets romance in this exciting novel by a legendary sports writer.

Turn Left on Green: A Novel of Stock Car Racing

Contemporary

River City Pub

Clyde Bolton has long been a dean of the Southern sportswriting community. Now this popular columnist focuses his beguiling prose on his boyhood memories in his delightful memoir, Hadacol Days. The title is taken from a high school cheer: “Statham Wildcats on the Ball, They’ve Been Drinking Hadacol.” The Statham in the cheer refers to Statham High School, Statham, Georgia, now as long gone as Hadacol, but equally effervescent in the author’s nostalgic but clearheaded look back at what life was like in small Southern towns of the 1940s and 1950s.

Hadacol Days: A Southern Boyhood

History

Americas

NewSouth Books

As Darrell and Jo Kent travel to Darrell's hometowm of Hemstead, Georgia, Darrell remembers back thirty years to 1950 when he met his first great love, Meg, and he began a relationship with Ves Oldham, a proud Black middle-aged man

The Lost Sunshine

United States

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