BETTER THAN LIFTING THINGS is an entertaining trip through sportswriter Glenn Sheeley’s 44-year career in and out of newspapers, from covering the Pittsburgh Steelers at age 25, to being on the scene for 17 Super Bowls, to his special relationships with golf’s two finest players, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods, to changing his occupational course in his 50s to the golf industry. Featuring a foreword by NFL Hall of Famer and TV personality Terry Bradshaw, Better Than Lifting Things is an insightful, inside look at other sports giants such as John Madden, Arnold Palmer, Joe Paterno, Mickey Mantle, Chuck Noll, and Al Davis.

A former Steelers beat writer for the Pittsburgh Press, Glenn describes life around this famous team in the mid-'70s, when it won four Super Bowls with players such as Bradshaw, Mean Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, and Fats Holmes, who somehow also won a bizarre cocaine trial in Amarillo, Tex. Pittsburgh fans will love Glenn’s look at the city he fell in love with, the amazing Rooney family, and Pittsburgh’s wildly unique sportscaster, Myron Cope.

Better Than Lifting Things takes you behind the scenes for Glenn’s 26 years with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, when he assumed the golf beat in 1994 and covered 32 straight major championships, 10 of them won by Tiger Woods, and also reported on the Falcons, Hawks, and Braves. Glenn takes you to Augusta National, where he covered 20 Masters tournaments, including Nicklaus’ victory in 1986 at age 46, and to the Open Championship, where he walked every step with Nicklaus during Jack’s last trip around St.

Andrews in 2005. The late Red Smith, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist from the New York Times, called sportswriting “a lot better than lifting things,” and despite decades of missing holidays to make deadlines, Glenn Sheeley could not agree more.

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