Peter Golenbock: 21 books
Wrigleyville
A Magical History Tour of the Chicago Cubs
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
For celebrated sportwriter Peter Golenbock, Wrigleyville is a symbol of America's fidelity to its greatest sport. As he did with classics of sports literature, Bums (a history of the Brooklyn Dodgers) and Dynasty (a history of the New York Yankees), Golenbock turns to a team that has won and broken...
George
The Poor Little Rich Boy Who Built the Yankee Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
The biography of one of the most controversial figures in sports: New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner
For 34 years, he berated his players and tormented Yankees managers and employees. He played fast and loose with the rules, and twice could have gone to jail. He was banned from baseball...
by Peter Golenbock
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
This first book by best-selling author Peter Golenbock is the inside story of the legendary Yankee teams of the Mantle/Berra/Ford/Stengel era, which appeared in an amazing 14 of 16 World Series, winning nine of them. Each season is brought back to life in colorful detail through the memories and reflections...
by Peter Golenbock
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
The Forever Boys is the funny, heartbreaking, authentic story of the men who played in the short-lived Senior Professional Baseball Association.Peter Golenbock spent the season with the league champion St. Petersburg Pelicans. Like the league’s other seven teams, the Pelicans were a collection...
by Peter Golenbock
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Bums is the intimate story of one of the most beloved franchises ever, told by the men who lived it, and brilliantly compiled by the master of baseball oral histories, Peter Golenbock. From the building of Ebbets Field through those first dismal decades; to Durocher and Rickey and the development...
Landry's Boys
An Oral History of a Team and an Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
I'll bet you didn't know that without some deft bribery of a key government official, the Dallas Cowboys may never have come to be. Surprised? If you want to learn more about this story and countless other fascinating tales of Cowboy lore, check out five-time New York Times best-selling author Peter...
In the Country of Brooklyn
Inspiration to the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
One of every seven people in the United States can trace their family back to Brooklyn, New York—all seventy-one square miles of it; home to millions of people from every corner of the globe over the last 150 years. Now Peter Golenbock, the author of the acclaimed book Bums: An Oral History of the...
The Spirit of St. Louis
A History Of The St. Louis Cardinals And
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
No metropolis in America has more pure baseball spirit than St. Louis, Missouri. It's a love affair that began in 1874, when a band of local boosters raised $20,000 to start a professional ball club, and the honeymoon still isn't over. Now Peter Golenbock, the bestselling author and master of baseball...
Rage
The Legend of "Baseball Bill" Denehy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Bill Denehy was at the top of his game . . . until he threw a pitch that changed the course of his life.
A home-run bio about a gifted pitcher whose National League career held promise until a hard slider to Willie Mays injured his shoulder, Rage chronicles Denehy's injury-plagued career in...
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The Mickey Mantle Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Bestselling sportswriter Peter Golenbock knew Mickey Mantle, Billy Martin, Jim Bouton, Joe Pepitone, and many of Mantle’s friends, family, and teammates. While Mickey was a good person at heart, he had a dark side that went far beyond his well-known alcoholism and infidelities. In this fictional...
The Last Lap
The Life and Times of NASCAR's Legendary Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
Stock car racing is not only the most popular sport in the country, but it's also among the most dangerous, as well. Traveling at speeds of over 200 miles per hour, drivers risk their lives every time they take the wheel. To be competitive, drivers must feel invincible. The best of them did, and lived...
Amazin'
The Miraculous History of New York's Most Beloved Baseball Team
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
From Tom Seaver to Gary Carter, Ron Swoboda to Al Leiter, from the team's inception to the current day, the New York Mets' road to success has been a rutted and furrowed path. Now, with the help of New York Times bestselling author Peter Golenbock, the complete story of one of the most controversial...
Growing Up NASCAR: Racing's Most Outrageous Promoter Tells All
Racing's Most Outrageous Promoter Tells All
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
In 1949, when Humpy Wheeler was 11, he attended the very first NASCAR race. For the next ten years, he spent as much time in the pits as he could, and came to know many of the sport's pioneers. Eventually, Wheeler began promoting races at Carolina tracks such as Concord Speedway, Robinwood Speedway,...
by Peter Golenbock
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
America's favorite pasttime from A to Z.
From young to old, new to tried-and-true, here is the baseball book for every fan. With one or more baseball-related terms for each letter arranged in alphabetic order, accompanied by a stirring illustration, this gorgeous compendium celebrates America's...
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