Mike Shropshire: 7 books
The Last Real Season
A Hilarious Look Back at 1975 - When Major Leaguers Made Peanuts, the Umpires Wore Red, and Billy Martin Terrorized Everyone
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2008
There are baseball books and there are baseball books.
But for the baseball cognoscenti, there are just a few "must-have" classics: BALL FOUR by Jim Bouton. THE LONG SEASON by Jim Brosnan. WILLIE'S TIME by Charles Einstein. And SEASONS IN HELL by Mike Shropshire, which was a hilarous...
Johnny Football
Johnny Manziel's Wild Ride from Obscurity to Legend at Texas A&M
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
An inside look at one of today’s most compelling athletes and his influence on college football—in Texas and across the nation.
It’s no secret that Texas is the capital of legendary football players. From Sammy Baugh to Earl Campbell to Robert Griffin III and scores of others in between,...
When the Tuna Went Down to Texas
The Story of Bill Parcells and the Dallas Cowboys
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Bill Parcells was living in self-imposed exile from the National Football League sidelines. The Tuna had earned living-legend status after coaching the Giants, Patriots, and Jets from the skid-row district of the NFL and transforming those teams into champions. The final weeks of the 2002 season found...
Runnin' with the Big Dogs
The Long, Twisted History of the Texas-OU Rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Raucous, raw, and reliably remarkable, the century–old football riavlry between the state universities of Texas and Oklahoma stands as testimony that hate–based relationships are the most enduring. Texas and Oklahoma have been top–level programs for a long time, but in the last few years the...
The Ice Bowl
The Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys Season of 1967
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Some athletes never stop playing. Some rivalries transcend the gridiron. Some games last forever.
The Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys engaged in a fierce rivalry in the 1966 season, culminating in the Packers defeating the Cowboys to win the NFL championship. The next year, they clashed...
Sarah Palin and the Wasilla Warriors
The True Story of the Improbable 1982 Alaska State Basketball Championship
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Long before the whole world knew Sarah Palin as "Momma Grizzly," the handful of girls on her high school basketball team called their starting point guard Sarah "Barracuda" for the tenacious defense she played. Hers was the kind of determination that fit in well on a scrappy team...
The Pro
A Golf Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Del Bonnet, a teaching pro at an obscure Florida golf resort, needs a change and needs it badly. Having crossed an ominous threshold--his fiftieth birthday--Bonnet receives frequent communiques from the AARP people. He gazes into the future and sees the prospect of assisted living growing larger by...