Ebook: The stone thrower: a daughter's lessons, a father's life
- Tags: Fathers and daughters--Canada, Football players--Canada, Families, Fathers and daughters, Football players, Biography, Biographies, Ealey Chuck, Canadian Football League -- Biography, Richardson Jael Ealey -- 1980- -- Family, Richardson Jael Ealey -- 1980-, Canadian Football League, Football players -- Canada -- Biography, Fathers and daughters -- Canada -- Biography, Canada
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Dundurn
- City: Toronto;Canada
- Language: English
- epub
A daughter discovers herself while uncovering her father's legendary past in football.
At the age of thirty, Jael Ealey Richardson travelled with her father — former CFL quarterback Chuck Ealey — for the first time to a small town in southern Ohio for his fortieth high school reunion. Knowing very little about her father's past, Richardson was searching for the story behind her father's move from the projects of Portsmouth, Ohio to Canada's professional football league in the early 1970s. At the railroad tracks where her father first learned to throw with stones, Jael begins an unexpected journey into her family's past.
In this engaging father-daughter memoir, Richardson records some of her father's never-before told stories: his relationship with his absentee father, memories of his high school and college football victories — including a winning record that remains unbroken to this day — and his up-and-down relationship with the woman...