Three Yards and a Plate of Mullet Twenty-two-year-old Jake Yankelovich is learning that the hard way. That’s making it difficult for him to get answers about murky financial dealings and a dubious school redistricting decision t
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| Title | : | Three Yards and a Plate of Mullet |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.65 (508 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1507679394 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 362 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-16 |
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If you’re a football fanatic, then you’ve probably heard the term “three yards and a cloud of dust.” Well, in Drabenville, Florida, they do things a little differently.Twenty-two-year-old Jake Yankelovich is learning that the hard way. On the precipice of a soul-crushing slog into the corporate world, he decides to become a sportswriter—and he has to start somewhere…As he covers an intense season of high school football, Jake is blown away by the passion everyone has for the sport. But as the new guy in an alien, insular town, he’s also running up against the old-boy network. That’s making it difficult for him to get answers about murky financial dealings and a dubious school redistricting decision that just so happens to have brought some of the best players in the state to perennial powerhouse Dolphin High, which had fallen from dominance.Three Yards and a Plate of Mullet is a thoroughly entertaining flashback to 1980s Florida.
Editorial : About the AuthorAdam Gordon Sachs worked as an intern/writer for National Football League Properties in Los Angeles, a sports reporter in Florida, and as a news reporter for the Baltimore Sun, before switching to public affairs for nonprofits in social services and health care. He graduated from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, earned a master’s degree in journalism from Boston University, and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in mental health counseling. He is a married father of two living in Columbia, Maryland.
His debut novel, Three Yards and a Plate of Mullet, was inspired by the period in Sachs's life immediately after college when he worked as a sportswriter in Florida.
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