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by Becky Garrison
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
In this collection of snippets and short stories, Roy B. Clogston recounts his lifelong love of sports beginning with his childhood in upstate New York and his college years at Springfield College, where he lettered in five sports. This passion led to his appointments as Athletic Directors for St....
The Tumult and the Shouting
My Life in Sport
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
50 YEARS OF SPORT AS SEEN BY THE CHAMPION OF ALL SPORTS WRITERS
‘This isn’t, praise be, a formal book. It is no literary exercise in balanced sentences and the painfully selected word. This is Grant Rice talking, rambling happily along, tell again in his wonderful way the wonderful stories...
The Best of The Show
A Classic Collection of Wit and Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007
- "The Show" is the second most widely-read column in Sports Illustrated, after Rick Reilly, who will write one of the book's introductions. Sports Illustrated has over three million subscribers, the third highest magazine circulation in the United States, and is read by 23 million adults...
by Sports Entertainment Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
"Debating Destiny: Michael Jordan vs. LeBron James" is a first-of-its-kind and exceedingly controversial attempt to answer the question that some believe will define an era in sports. Michael Jordan or LeBron James: Who is the greatest NBA player of all time?In this compelling and comprehensive...
by alex trostanetskiy
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Are you looking for a journey that will take you through 100 of the Best Athletes in All of Sports, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choices, options, or just for fun; this book fits any criteria. Creating 100...
by Joe Pepitone
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
At age seventeen Joe Pepitone signed with the New York Yankees, and soon experts were predicting that he would be the team’s next superstar. He could run, throw, and field, and he had a sweet home run swing.
But during his twelve years in the major leagues Pepitone devoted most of his energy...
Gladiators
Deadly Arena Sports of Ancient Rome
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
A history of gladiators-with an added bite!
It’s hard for modern readers to truly grasp the spectacle that was arena sports in ancient Rome, which pitted man against man and man against beast in mortal combat. Our modern games of football and hockey, or even boxing and MMA, truly pale in...
The Last Headbangers: NFL Football in the Rowdy, Reckless '70s--The Era that Created Modern Sports
NFL Football in the Rowdy, Reckless '70s: the Era that Created Modern Sports
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
The inside story of the most colorful decade in NFL history—pro football’s raging, hormonal, hairy, druggy, immortal adolescence.
Between the Immaculate Reception in 1972 and The Catch in 1982, pro football grew up. In 1972, Steelers star Franco Harris hitchhiked to practice. NFL teams...
Tales from the San Francisco Giants Dugout
A Collection of the Greatest Giants Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
The rich tradition of the San Francisco Giants has provided indelible memories for their fans ever since they moved from New York’s Polo Grounds to Seals Stadium in 1958. With three World Series titles in five years, starting in 2010, the San Francisco Giants have established themselves as one of...
Skipper Supreme
Buck Showalter and the Baltimore Orioles
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
For the first decade of the 21st century, the Baltimore Orioles were perpetual cellar dwellers, with losing seasons from 19982011-fourteen straight years. They were the worst team in baseball when two-time American League Manager of the Year Buck Showalter took over as manager in August 2010, but...
A Summer to Remember
Bill Veeck, Lou Boudreau, Bob Feller, and the 1948 Cleveland Indians
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
While the Cleveland Indians are known lately more for being cellar dwellers than world champions, that wasn’t the case in 1948. Ranked by the Sporting News as the ninth-best team in baseball history, the ’48 Indians were a colorful group of guys, led by the always colorful Bill Veeck, the future...
The Blueprint
How the New England Patriots Beat the System to Create the Last Great NFL Superpower
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
For years, the New England Patriots were a certifiable joke of a franchise. They were run on the cheap and were once the very example of how not to manage a team. They hired inept coaches---one of whom (Clive Rush) was nearly electrocuted when he grabbed a microphone at his introductory press conference....
Cubs by the Numbers
A Complete Team History of the Chicago Cubs by Uniform Number
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
What do Dizzy Dean, Catfish Metkovich, John Boccabella, Bill Buckner, Mark Prior, and Jason Heyward all have in common? They all wore number 22 for the Chicago Cubs, even though eight decades have passed between the last time Dizzy Dean buttoned up a Cubs uniform with that number and the first time
outfielder...
The Wait Is Over
The New York Rangers and the 1994 Stanley Cup
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
After an over 50-year drought, the New York Rangers defeated the Vancouver Canucks in a dramatic seven-game series to capture the Stanley Cup in 1994. For this reason and countless more, 199394 will forever stand out as one of the most memorable seasons in Rangers history.
Now, 20 years later,...