Sports category: 37872 books
The Real Madrid Way
How Values Created the Most Successful Sports Team on the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
The untold story of Real Madrid: one of the most incredible turnarounds in sports and business history.
Real Madrid is the most successful sports team on the planet. The soccer club has more trophies than any other sports team, including 11 UEFA Champions League trophies. However, the story...
Bad Sports
How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
A THOUGHT-PROVOKING LOOK AT THE BIG BUSINESS AND IMMORAL PRACTICES BEHIND PROFESSIONAL SPORTS BY ACCLAIMED SPORTSWRITER DAVE ZIRIN, HAILED AS THE “CONSCIENCE OF AMERICAN SPORTSWRITING” (THE WASHINGTON POST )
The fastest-growing sector of today’s sports audience is the alienated fan. Complaints...
The Immortal Bobby
Bobby Jones and the Golden Age of Golf
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
Acclaim for The Immortal Bobby
"Just when you think there is nothing new to be said or written on the subject of Bob Jones, Ron Rapoport comes along and proves that theory completely untrue. The Immortal Bobby is wonderfully reported and superbly written."
--John Feinstein, author...
by Joe Falls
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
In his very first trip to the ballpark, Joe Falls watched Lou Gehrig slam two home runs against the Philadelphia As. He's been in love with professional sports ever since. In this humerous and intellegent memoir, Falls reflects on over sixty years of writing with stories about all the greats from...
The Worst of Sports
Chumps, Cheats, and Chokers from the Games We Love
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007
TAKE THEM OUT OF THE BALL GAME–PLEASE!
From star running back Bryon “Bam” Morris’s interesting (and totally illegal) sideline career to the 1950s Kansas City A’s sneaky relationship with the New York Yankees; from French golfer Jean Van de Velde’s epic choke on 18 at the 1999 British...
Mathletics
How Gamblers, Managers, and Sports Enthusiasts Use Mathematics in Baseball, Basketball, and Football (New in Paper)
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2012
Mathletics is a remarkably entertaining book that shows readers how to use simple mathematics to analyze a range of statistical and probability-related questions in professional baseball, basketball, and football, and in sports gambling. How does professional baseball evaluate hitters? Is a singles...
by Harvard Business Review, Sir Alex Ferguson, Bill Parcells
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
The world's elite athletes and coaches achieve high performance through inspiring leadership, mental toughness, and direction-setting strategic choices. Harvard Business Review has talked to many of these high performers throughout the years to learn how their success translates to the world of business.
If...
Fair and Foul
Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Fair and Foul explores our love of sport, just as it reveals sport’s darker side—the influence of big business, corruption, price gouging, political maneuvering, gender bias, media grandstanding, and more. The sixth edition features a new chapter on mass media and sport, a revised introduction...
by Charles Pierce
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2000
Here, at last, is Charles Pierce's best writing on sports, collected for the first time in one volume. All of these pieces, first published in GQ, the National, and Esquire, showcase Pierce's trademark humor. Some are spot-on profiles of famous sports personalities such as Tiger Woods, Magic Johnson,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
38 pieces that will be remembered for seasons to come
For 25 years, sports journalists south of the border have been collected in best-of anthologies. With Best Canadian Sports Writing, editors Stacey May Fowles and Pasha Malla offer a long overdue rejoinder from the North, showcasing top literary...
The Stupidest Sports Book of All Time
Hilarious Blunders, Bloopers, Oddities, Quotes, and More from the World of Sports
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
The thrill of victory! The agony of a tight jockstrap!
It’s a celebration of true sports lunacy from the renowned connoisseurs of stupidity, Kathryn and Ross Petras, authors of the beloved 365 Stupidest Things Ever Said calendar.
Here from the wide world of professional and amateur...
Bob Logan's Tales from Chicago Sports
Cubs, Bulls, Bears, and Other Animals
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Tales from Chicago Sports: Cubs, Bulls, Bears and Other Animals will combine stories, anecdotes, columns and fun stuff about the Windy City's sports teams, woven together by text of Bob Logan's personal memories and tales...some taller than others. It will include vignettes about Chicago personalities...
by Editors of Sports Illustrated
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
For more than 50 years, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED has been the gold standard of sports writing, and during that time, football-once a popular college pastime but only a rag-tag professional game-has moved to center stage, taking its unquestioned place as America's most popular sport. This book brings together...
The Average Joe's Super Sports Almanac
All-Star Stats, Amazing Facts, and Inspiring Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
A Far-From-Average Sports Book for the Average Joe
Go beyond the 24/7 online highlights and celebrate the hilarious humor and heartwarming heroics of the sports world in this all-star collection of trivia, quotes, and anecdotes. For example...
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