Better Than Lifting Things: A former Pittsburgh and Atlanta sportswriter's entertaining reflections on a 44-year career in and out of newspapers.

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 R