The Passion of the Scrum: Life Lessons from Rugby - Softcover

Shaw, Peter Haywood

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1503182525 ISBN 13: 9781503182523

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

Legend has it rugby football was invented in 1823 when one student at the Rugby School in England picked up the ball during a soccer match and ran with it. From this mythical beginning grew a sport that has spread worldwide and has a fanatical following not just because of the action and physicality. From this sport one can derive essential lessons that can guide you to be the best person you can be whether you are an "old boy" who played in prehistoric times or never picked up a ball and never will. The author uses his experience as a rugby player and obsessed fan to share the principles he has learned from the sport that when internalized are the keys to leading an honorable, productive and meaningful life. If that’s too heavy and new age for you, then just read this book for the rugby anecdotes. They are funny if the author does say so himself, and all true.

About this title

About the Author

Peter Haywood Shaw was born in the Bronx, New York and grew up in Chappaqua, New York north of New York City. He attended Haverford College in Pennsylvania where he majored in anthropology and learned to love rugby football. After graduation he attended medical school at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and embarked on a medical career in pediatrics, where he is rarely the most immature person in the room. He is currently a full-time pediatric hematologist/oncologist living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with his wife, three children and dog named ... Rugby.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1503182525
• ISBN 13: 9781503182523
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 81