Frank Deford: 13 books
I'd Know That Voice Anywhere
My Favorite NPR Commentaries
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
“A sparkling sampler of commentaries from celebrated sports journalist Frank Deford . . . offers a kaleidoscope of sports highs and lows.” —Midwest Book Review
Frank Deford (1938–2017) was one of the most beloved sports journalists in America. A contributing writer to Sports Illustrated...
The Best of Frank Deford
I'm Just Getting Started...
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
Whether Frank Deford is the voice you hear on National Public Radio's Morning Edition or the name you see in the Newsweek byline, you are sure to be highly entertained with the irreverent musings of this much-acclaimed sports mind. Deford possesses a witty and poignant take on the world of athletics...
Five Strides on the Banked Track
The Life and Times of the Roller Derby
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Illustrated with photographs by Walter Iooss Jr.: Iconic sportswriter and commentator Frank Deford’s first book brings to life one of America’s most thrilling—and misunderstood—sports entertainments, the Roller Derby, from its birth during the Great Depression to it second ascendancy in the...
The Entitled
A Tale of Modern Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
"The Entitled is a baseball masterpiece, like The Natural and Field of Dreams." —Mike Schmidt, Baseball Hall of Fame
From legendary six-time National Sportswriter of the Year and NPR commentator Frank Deford comes a richly detailed, page-turning tale that takes you deep into America's...
Over Time
My Life as a Sportswriter
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
A New York Times bestseller: The “entertaining” memoir by the legendary American sportswriter (Chicago Tribune).
Frank Deford joined Sports Illustrated in 1962, and over the following decades became one of the most beloved figures in sports journalism—renowned for everything from his...
Alex
The Life of a Child
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
A father’s moving memoir of cystic fibrosis “captures a brave child’s legacy as well as the continuing fight against the genetic disease” (The New York Times).
In 1971 a girl named Alex was born with cystic fibrosis, a degenerative genetic lung disease. Although health-care innovations...
Big Bill Tilden
The Triumphs and the Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
“A compelling, long overdue tribute” to America’s first tennis star from the renowned sportswriter and author of Everybody’s All-American (Kirkus Reviews).
When he stepped onto the Wimbledon grass in 1920, Bill Tilden was poised to become the world’s greatest tennis star. Throughout...
Bliss, Remembered
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
An “entertaining and thought provoking” WWII-era novel of love, war, and sports, told with “a superb sense of character and period” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, American swimmer Sydney Stringfellow finds herself falling in love with Horst Gerhardt, a...
The Old Ball Game
How John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, and the New York Giants Created Modern Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The legendary NPR sports commentator and Sports Illustrated journalist retells the story of an unusual friendship between two towering figures in baseball history.
At the turn of the twentieth century, Christy Mathewson was one of baseball’s first superstars. Over six feet tall, clean cut,...
by Frank Deford
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2009
Gavin Grey is everyone's All-American. A star running back at the University of North Carolina in the late 1950s, he graces the covers of Time and LIFE magazines and appears on the "Ed Sullivan Show." Everyone wants a piece of him or to be around him to bask in his glory, including his nephew...
by Frank Deford
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
A globetrotting journalist goes on assignment for the Central Intelligence Agency
As the world’s premier tennis journalist, Ronnie Ratajczak has a plush life. Like the professional players about whom he writes, he spends his life on the road, hopping from one glamorous locale to another and...
The Other Adonis
A Novel of Reincarnation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
If true love can travel across time, can true evil be far behind?
When the beautiful Dr. Nina Winston's patient Bucky Buckingham reveals his secret to her, she has to doubt him. Reincarnation? True love across four centuries? But Nina is fascinated and lets herself be drawn into the charming...
Fantastic Stories Presents the Weird Tales Super Pack #1
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2016
‘Weird Tales’ launched in March of 1923 and the world was never the same again. While pulp magazines had been around for some time, ‘Weird Tales’ was the first pulp magazine to specialize in supernatural fiction. ‘Weird Tales’ single-handedly created the field of genre fiction as we know...