Book description
Jim Baxter was one of the greatest footballers Scotland has ever
produced. But his career was over by the time he reached 30 and in
2001 he died at the early age of 61, the victim of a lifestyle that
ultimately destroyed him.
Slim Jim Baxter charts the great man's rollercoaster years, his
emergence at Ibrox as a world-class midfield player and the rapid
decline as he pressed the self-destruct button and blew away his life
as a footballer. Team-mates and friends tell how Baxter lived by his
own rules and how he finally faced up to death with a courage and
dignity which impressed all who saw him in his last few tragic months.
Above all, Ken Gallacher's biography is the story of an
extraordinary footballer who was touched by genius, and of a young man
from the Fife coal-fields who could not always cope with the fame his
skills brought him.
