Longest Shot Jack Fleck, Ben Hogan, and Pro Golf s Greatest Upset at the 1955

**A BN.com Top 100 book and Top 25 Nonfiction book** **Named one of "Booklist"'s Top 10 Sports Books of 2012** **Named one of the Best Books of 2012, According to Business Leaders by BloombergBusinessweek**"Fifty-seven years after the fact (and in time for this year's Open at Olympic), two books about one of golf's most improbable upsets have surfaced simultaneously. Like the clash between Hogan and Fleck, the works pit an established, celebrated veteran against a relative upstart. And as in 1955, the upstart wins. But, unlike in 1955, it's not close. "The Longest Shot" is the first book from Neil Sagebiel, the founder and editor of Armchair Golf Blog, and he makes a strong bid to create shelf space for himself alongside 21st-century golf literati like John Feinstein, Mark Frost and Don Van Natta Jr. Sagebiel takes his time, working leisurely as golf demands, but does a thorough job. And his narrative pace during the last hour of that final round, as he bounces back and forth between Hogan in the locker room and Fleck on the course, may have a rhythm more suited to a tennis rally, but here it aces."--"The New York Times Sunday Book Review ""A compelling read...Golf historians can thank Sagebiel." --"PGA Magazine ""Long before a small circle of American kids dismantled the Soviets' Big Red Machine at Lake Placid, Jack Fleck's defeat of the mighty Ben Hogan at the 1955 U.S. Open was as stunning and stirring an upset as sports had ever seen. In "The Longest Shot," Neil Sagebiel not only expertly reconstructs the million-to-one tale of the Iowa muni pro who denied Hogan his chance to become the only man to win the Open five times, he honors the grand tradition of profound and poetic literature in golf." --Ian O'Connor, "New York Times" bestselling author of "Arnie & Jack: Palmer, Nicklaus, and Golf's Greatest Rivalry """The Longest Shot" is the remarkable story of how Jack Fleck, the improbably named municipal course