Game Faces: Sport Celebrity and the Laws of Reputation

by Sarah K. Fields

Book Overview

Sports figures cope with a level of celebrity once reserved for the stars of stage and screen. In Game Faces , Sarah K. Fields looks at the legal ramifications of the cases brought by six of them--golfer Tiger Woods, quarterback Joe Montana, college football coach Wally Butts, baseball pitchers Warren Spahn and Don Newcombe, and hockey enforcer Tony Twist--when faced with what they considered attacks on their privacy and image. Placing each case in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252081730
• ISBN13: 9780252081736
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"