Steven Travers: 13 books
The Poet
The Life and Los Angeles Times of Jim Murray
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Forget Ring Lardner, Grantland Rice, and Jerome Holtzman. According to author Steven Travers, Jim Murray of the Los Angeles Times was the greatest sports columnist who ever lived—period. Known for his highly descriptive metaphors and phrasing—a strike zone the size of Hitler's heart, so painfully...
by Steven Travers
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2003
Barry Bonds: Baseball Superman is the biography of the game's first four-time Most Valuable Player. In 2001, Bonds broke the greatest record in sports, the all-time single-season home run record held over the years by Babe Ruth, Roger Maris and Mark McGwire, and arguably had the greatest season in...
by Steven Travers
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
Nineteen sixty-two—it's been called “the end of innocence,” as America witnessed the Cuban Missile Crisis and the following year saw the Kennedy assassination and the early stirrings of Vietnam.In baseball, 1962 was a thrilling season. Five years prior the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants had...
The USC Trojans
College Football's All-Time Greatest Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
In this lively history of Southern California football, Steven Travers makes the case that under coach Pete Carroll (54-10), the Trojans have overtaken Notre Dame as the greatest ever collegiate tradition. USC has produced legendary gridiron coaches and stars. They have tied Notre Dame for the most...
The Duke, the Longhorns, and Chairman Mao
John Wayne's Political Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
The year of change. The year of division. The middle of the 1960s, the great dividing line between what America had been, and what it became. All of it, in all its color, glory, and ugliness, came symbolically together on a hot, humid weekend in Austin, Texas.
The protagonist? None other John “Duke”...
The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly: Los Angeles Lakers
Heart-Pounding, Jaw-Dropping, and Gut-Wrenching Moments from Los Angeles Lakers History
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Genuine fans take the best team moments with the less than great, and know that the games that are best forgotten make the good moments truly shine. This monumental book of the Los Angeles Lakers documents all the best moments and personalities in the history of the team, but also unmasks the regrettably...
The Last Icon
Tom Seaver and His Times
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
In early 1969, New York City and all it represented was in disarray: politically, criminally, and athletically. But while Simon and Garfunkel lamented the absence of a sports icon like Joe DiMaggio, a modern Lancelot rode forth to lead the New York Mets to heights above and beyond all sports glory.
This...
The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly: San Francisco 49ers
Heart-Pounding, Jaw-Dropping, and Gut-Wrenching Moments from San Francisco 49ers History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Genuine fans take the best team moments with the less than great, and know that the games that are best forgotten make the good moments truly shine. This monumental book of the San Francisco 49ers documents all the best moments and personalities in the history of the team, but also unmasks the regrettably...
by Steven Travers
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
From their origins as the Brooklyn Atlantics in 1884, through their departure from their beloved borough in 1957, to their record-breaking popularity in sunny Los Angeles, the Dodgers baseball team has been an unstoppable force in professional baseball for well over a century. The franchise has captured...
The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly: Oakland Raiders
Heart-Pounding, Jaw-Dropping, and Gut-Wrenching Moments from Oakland Raiders History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly includes the best and worst teams and players of all time, the most clutch performances and performers, the biggest choke jobs and chokers, great comebacks and blown leads, plus overrated and underrated players and coaches.
Remembering the Stick
Candlestick Park—1960–2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Described by famed baseball scribe Roger Angell as looking like “a festive prison yard” during the 1962 World Series, Candlestick was loved and hated by sports teams and fans alike for its 43 years of existence. Built on a landfill above a garbage dump in a city rocked by an 8.6 earthquake only...
Coppola's Monster Film
The Making of Apocalypse Now
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
In 1975, after his two Godfather epics, Francis Ford Coppola went to the Philippines to film Apocalypse Now. He scrapped much of the original script, a jingoistic narrative of U.S. Special Forces winning an unwinnable war. Harvey Keitel, originally cast in the lead role, was fired and replaced by...
1969 Miracle Mets
The Improbable Story of the World's Greatest Underdog Team
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2006
In the popular 1977 movie “Oh, God!” George Burns, playing the deity, is asked in a courtroom to prove His divinity by performing a miracle. Burns tells the attorney, "The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets. Before that, I think you have to go back to the Red Sea."
Man has engaged in...