Kevin Cook: 12 books
by Kevin Cook
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
An unforgettable look at how baseball families share our national pastime.
Baseball honors legacies—from cheering the home team to breaking in an old glove handed down from father to son. In The Dad Report, award-winning sportswriter Kevin Cook weaves a tapestry of uplifting stories in which...
Ten Innings at Wrigley
The Wildest Ballgame Ever, with Baseball on the Brink
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
The dramatic story of a legendary 1979 slugfest between the Chicago Cubs and the Philadelphia Phillies, full of runs, hits, and subplots, at the tipping point of a new era in baseball history
It was a Thursday at Chicago’s Wrigley Field, mostly sunny with the wind blowing out. Nobody expected...
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...
Electric October
Seven World Series Games, Six Lives, Five Minutes of Fame That Lasted Forever
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
The epic World Series between the Yankees and the Dodgers and the six men whose lives were changed forever
The 1947 World Series was “the most exciting ever” in the words of Joe DiMaggio, with a decade’s worth of drama packed into seven games between the mighty New York Yankees and underdog...
by Kevin Cook
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
"Vividly transforms Ms. Genovese from an iconic urban martyr to a three-dimensional protagonist in a case that transformed the criminal justice system." —Sam Roberts, New York Times
In 1964 Catherine "Kitty" Genovese was brutally stabbed to death on her front stoop in...
Flip
The Inside Story of TV's First Black Superstar
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
The first biography of the beloved entertainer who broke the prime-time color barrier
When The Flip Wilson Show debuted in 1970, black faces were still rare on television and black hosts nonexistent. Then came Flip—to instant acclaim. His show dueled Marcus Welby, M.D. for the top spot in the...
Driven
Teen Phenoms, Mad Parents, Swing Science and the Future of Golf
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2008
An inside look at the creation of the new breed of superstar golfers
Golf keeps looking for the next phenom who will take over the game the way Tiger Woods did in the mid-nineties. But in all likelihood this young golfer will not be discovered but created in a gated three-hundred-acre complex...
by Kevin Cook
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
How does a normal, college educated, military trained Intelligence agent get so far down that he has to spend time on skid row busting perps? Is it therapy? Or just anger and depression. What does he really want out of life; peace and quiet or always in crisis? Follow FBI agent Trace Nickels as he...
by Kevin Cook
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Capturing the spirit of a freewheeling era, this rollicking biography brings to life the gambler-hero who inspired Guys and Dolls.
Born in a log cabin in the Ozarks, Alvin "Titanic" Thompson (1892-1974) traveled with his golf clubs, a .45 revolver, and a suitcase full of cash. He...
Tommy's Honor
The Story of Old Tom Morris and Young Tom Morris, Golf's Founding Father and Son
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2007
In the tradition of Seabiscuit, the riveting tale of two proud Scotsmen who beat all comers to become the heroes of a golden age—the dawn of professional golf. This essential golf history is now a major motion picture.
Bringing to life golf’s founding father and son, Tommy’s Honor is...
Home Game
Big-League Stories from My Life in Baseball's First Family
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
From the first third-generation player in Major League history, a sometimes moving, always candid inside look at his family’s seventy years in baseball
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A five-foot-ten fireball questioned by scouts because of his small stature, supposed lack of power, and cocky attitude, Bret Boone didn’t...
Reaching a Generation for Christ
A Comprehensive Guide to Youth Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 1997
Things have changed. The Truth has not. The 1950's are gone forever. The days of the Sunday school attendance award and the much-loved Sunday school picnic have faded into oblivion. Yet some youth ministries still operate as if today's kids are living in a vacuum, unaffected by the changing morals...