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The agent : my 40-year career making deals and changing the game / Leigh Steinberg with Michael Arkush.

by Steinberg, Leigh.

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Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, c2014.

Steinberg, Leigh.

Sports agents -- United States -- Biography.

9781250030429 (hc.)

1250030420 (hc.)

302 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes index.

"Leigh Steinberg is renowned as one of the greatest sports agents in history, representing such All-Pro clients as Troy Aikman, Bruce Smith, and Ben Roethlisberger. Over one particular seven-year stretch, Steinberg represented the top NFL Draft pick an unheard of six times. Director Cameron Crowe credits Steinberg as a primary inspiration for the titular character in Jerry Maguire, even hiring Steinberg as a consultant on the film. Lightyears ahead of his contemporaries, he expanded his players' reach into entertainment. Already the bestselling author of a business book on negotiation, the original superagent is now taking readers behind the closed doors of professional sports, recounting priceless stories, like how he negotiated a $26.5 million package for Steve Young--the biggest ever at the time--and how he passed on the chance to represent Peyton Manning. Beginning with his early days as a student leader at Berkeley, Steinberg details his illustrious rise into pro sports fame, his decades of industrydominance, and how he overcame a series of high-profile struggles to regain his sobriety and launch his comeback. This riveting story takes readers inside the inner circle of top-notch agents and players through the visionary career of Leigh Steinberg, the pre-eminent superagent of our time"--Publisher.

Autobiographies.

Arkush, Michael.

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