Sports category: 37872 books
The Pine Tar Game
The Kansas City Royals, the New York Yankees, and Baseball's Most Absurd and Entertaining Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
The New York Times bestseller—“a rollicking account” (The Kansas City Star) of the infamous baseball game between the Yankees and Royals in which a game-winning home run was overturned and set off one of sports history’s most absurd and entertaining controversies.
On July 24, 1983,...
by Patrick Triplett
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2012
All-time greatest sports lists often end up comparing athletes from different eras, who played under different rules and conditions. How can one determine who was the better hitter between Ty Cobb or Pete Rose? It's virtually impossible.This is a top ten list of the greatest athletes, teams,...
The Agent
My 40-Year Career Making Deals and Changing the Game
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
A New York Times bestseller!
The real-life "Jerry Maguire," superagent Leigh Steinberg shares his personal stories on the rise, fall, and redemption of his game-changing career in the high-stakes world of professional sports
Leigh Steinberg is renowned as one of the greatest...
Living Out Loud
Sports, Cancer, and the Things Worth Fighting For
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
New York Times Bestseller
“Time is something that cannot be bought, it cannot be wagered with God, and it is not in endless supply. Time is simply how you live your life.” —Craig Sager
Thanks to an eccentric wardrobe filled with brightly colored suits and a love of sports that...
by Fritz Knapp
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
As part of the acclaimed Sports Virtues series, Althea Gibson: Persistence discusses the struggles and triumphs of Althea Gibson's life. As with each story in the Sports Virtues series, this book assigns a virtue to a celebrated athlete or coach, and uses that person's story to help the reader achieve...
SportsWorld
An American Dreamland
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Tough and witty, SportsWorld is a well-known commentator’s overview of the most significant form of mass culture in America—sports. It’s a sweaty Oz that has grown in a century from a crucible for character to a complex of capitalism, a place where young people can find both self-fulfillment...
by John Wooden, Steve Jamison
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
The Wisdom of Wooden is John Wooden’s final book, completed just weeks before his passing in June 2010. In it he shares his most treasured memories and never-before-seen photographs as he looks back on an extraordinary life on and off the court.
Hailed by many as the greatest coach in the...
by Fritz Knapp
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
As part of the acclaimed Sports Virtues series, Arthur Ashe: Integrity discusses the struggles and triumphs of Arthur Ashe's life. As with each story in the Sports Virtues series, this book assigns a virtue to a celebrated athlete or coach, and uses that person's story to help the reader achieve...
The Top of His Game: The Best Sportswriting of W. C. Heinz
A Library of America Special Publication
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Bill Littlefield (NPR's Only a Game) presents the second installment in the Library of America series devoted to classic American sportswriters, a defintive collector’s edition of the pathbreaking writer who invented the long-form sports story. Like his friend and admirer Red Smith, W. C. Heinz...
Always by My Side
The Healing Gift of a Father's Love
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
The New York Times bestseller, now in paperback. America's most visible sports commentator recounts some of the most dramatic moments in American sports and pays tribute to the man who inspired him-his beloved father
As vivid as an instant replay, Always by My Side gives readers an insider's...
Great Teams
16 Things High Performing Organizations Do Differently
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
There is nothing more magical than watching a team come together, to manage adversity as a group, selflessly give to others, to find common purpose. Inspiring that to happen year-in and year-out is what keeps us in leadership. Don Yaeger has studied the best of the best. Now it is our turn to study...
by David Berri, Martin Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2010
The next quantum leap beyond Moneyball , this book offers powerful new insights into all human decision-making, because if sports teams are getting it wrong this badly, how do you know you're not? Sometimes the decisions that teams make are simply inexplicable. Consider: sports teams have an immense...
by MIKE - aka Mike Raffone
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
As the sports world’s ultimate talking head, MIKE shares 25 of his all-time favorite baseball comics.
MIKE’s baseball comic book captures the moments, people and clichéd expressions that encompass our great American pastime.
This FREE sports comic book includes clever...
Jenkins at the Majors
Sixty Years of the World's Best Golf Writing, from Hogan to Tiger
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Legendary sports writer Dan Jenkins delivers a golf history lesson that is unrivaled in its scope and style.
In this seminal collection, Dan Jenkins has selected the funniest and most riveting stories from his epic career as a writer for Sports Illustrated and Golf Digest, where his wry reportage...