Sports category: 37872 books
Miracle Year 1969
Amazing Mets and Super Jets
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Sports fans in New York will always remember the incredible events of 1969. It was the year that two of the city’s underdog teams would rise above all expectations to be crowned world champions.
On January 12, 1969, the underdog New York Jets faced the heavily-favored Baltimore Colts in Super...
My First Book of Basketball
A Rookie Book (A Sports Illustrated Kids Book)
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
My First Book of Basketball, the sixth book in the best-selling Rookie Book series from Sports Illustrated Kids, coaches young kids through the game of basketball with a visual retelling of a professional basketball game—from the jump ball to the game-winning basket! Dribbling, passing, traveling,...
Hockey, Kids & Positive Coaching
Michael's Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
***“Hockey, Kids & Positive Coaching”***is an inspiring story about how a young boy’s love for the game of hockey is affected by the pressures placed on him by the adults closest to him in life. It demonstrates how a child’s growth and development is enhanced when guided by those who are...
Oui Love Sports
An English/French Bilingual Word Book
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
Oui Love Sports teaches kids sports vocabulary in French and English. Each page features athletic-related illustrations with the associated English word above and its French equivalent below. This collection also includes American team sports, with baseball and American football making an appearance.
Perfect for children up to age 3.
by Bouton Jim
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Ball Four: The Final Pitch is the original book plus all the updates, unlike the 20th Anniversary Edition paperback.
When Ball Four was published in 1970, it created a firestorm. Bouton was called a Judas, a Benedict Arnold and a “social leper” for having violated the “sanctity of the...
MIKE's FREE Soccer Sports Comic Book
Volume 6
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Known as football throughout the non-American sports universe, soccer boasts its own unique language, eccentric expressions and unparalleled personalities.
Soccer is the world’s most popular sport by a long shot, even in spite of its peculiarities. For example:
Soccer keeps time...
by Charles Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
It is, without question, an incident that defined an era in sports entertainment and marked - if not tainted - the legacies of two of the greatest professional wrestlers in modern history. It was a memorable and some say disgraceful event that is universally known today by just one word: Montreal.The...
by Paul Gallico
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
**One of Sports Illustrated’s Top 100 Sports Books of All Time: A classic collection by one of the twentieth century’s most influential sportswriters **
From 1923 to 1937, New York* Daily News *columnist Paul Gallico’s dispatches from ringside, rink-side, the sidelines, and the...
Changing the Game
The Parent's Guide to Raising Happy, High Performing Athletes, and Giving Youth Sports Back to our Kids
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
The modern day youth sports environment has taken the enjoyment out of athletics for our children. Currently, 70% of kids drop out of organized sports by the age of 13, which has given rise to a generation of overweight, unhealthy young adults. There is a solution. John O’Sullivan shares the secrets...
Hot for Sports: A Bad Boy Sports Romance
Hot for Sports, #1
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Jake Nash is the star of the Denver Broncos Football Team. His career and his younger sister Rebecca are his only concerns in his life, after his parents died, leaving him and Rebecca in the care of Aunt Maurine. Football became his passion, his escape and his only way of survival, when he thought...
by O-O Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
Millions of people around the world, including you, bet on sports each year. Nearly all of them lose money in the long term.
This book, written by someone with a long term winning record in sports betting, sets out the simple to follow steps to profitable sports betting. The book also includes one...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
*Includes pictures of the boxers and important people in their lives. *Includes the boxers' most colorful quotes. *Discusses the facts, legends, and controversies surrounding their most famous fights. *Includes Bibliographies for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. "A champion is someone who...
The Field Guide to Sports Metaphors
A Compendium of Competitive Words and Idioms
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
**A gift-worthy playbook of common and unexpected words and idioms that have their roots in sports and games. **
There are many metaphors we can quickly identify from the realm of sports: covering all the bases (baseball), game plan (football), and par for the course (golf). But the English...
Jock Around the Clock
The Story of History’S First All-Sports Radio Network
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Jock Around the Clock takes you back three decades to a time when satellite broadcasting and the concept of all sports all the time were brand-new. Its the story of how ESPN founders Bill and Scott Rasmussen, having been forced out of their TV sports network, turned to radio and gave birth to the...