Crown imprint: 1774 books
They Said It Couldn't Be Done
The '69 Mets, New York City, and the Most Astounding Season in Baseball History
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
“One of sports’ most storied championship teams gets its proper due” (Tom Verducci) in this definitive history of the 1969 Miracle Mets from the New York Times bestselling author of The Boys of Winter.
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“If you want to know what it was like to live and witness a baseball miracle in...
Lead to Succeed
10 Traits of Great Leadership in Business and Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2001
Learn how to be a leader from one of sports' greatest teachers, Rick Pitino.
As Rick Pitino says, great leaders aren't born great; they learn great leadership along the path of life. From the time Pitino first became a coach at twenty-four, he has been a student of leadership in all its forms,...
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...
Mastering Golf's Mental Game
Your Ultimate Guide to Better On-Course Performance and Lower Scores
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Perfect your mental approach to your game
To be a golfer is to tinker—with everything from equipment to grip to swing. But one thing most players don’t give enough attention to is the mental game. Psychologists aren’t a new phenomenon in golf, but Dr. Michael Lardon is a different breed...
by Emmitt Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
With candor, detail, and insight, star running back of the two-time Super Bowl champion Dallas Cowboys Emmitt Smith takes us onto the field and into his life. From Escambia High School to Texas Stadium, from the rough and tumble on the field to the down and dirty at the contract table, The Emmitt Zone vividly recounts the accomplishments and frustrations that follow this NFL celebrity.
Johnny U
The Life and Times of John Unitas
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
In a time “when men played football for something less than a living and something more than money,” John Unitas was the ultimate quarterback. Rejected by Notre Dame, discarded by the Pittsburgh Steelers, he started on a Pennsylvania sandlot making six dollars a game and ended as the most commanding...
What Would Jefferson Do?
A Return to Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2004
When the Founding Fathers were searching for the best and fairest form of government, they studied the models of Athenian democracy, the Roman republic, and the Iroquois Confederacy and created what is now called a modern liberal democracy. Today, 81 nations can be described as fully democratic. Yet...
This Is Your Brain on Sports
The Science of Underdogs, the Value of Rivalry, and What We Can Learn from the T-Shirt Cannon
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
This is Your Brain on Sports is the book for sports fans searching for a deeper understanding of the games they watch and the people who play them. Sports Illustrated executive editor and bestselling author L. Jon Wertheim teams up with Tufts psychologist Sam Sommers to take readers on a wild ride...
Idiot
Beating The Curse and Enjoying the Game of Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Dear Baseball Fan:
I know what you’re thinking: Couldn’t he have come up with a better title?
My mother agrees with you, but unfortunately Genius just doesn’t have the same ring.
Let’s get something straight right away. I may be an idiot, but I’ve tried to do more in...
Fall Classics
The Best Writing About the World Series' First 100 Years
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Long before there was the Super Bowl, the NBA Championship, the Final Four, or the World Cup, there was the World Series. In the beginning, men in derbies sat in the outfield and marveled at Mathewson and McGraw. Today, fans congregate in sports bars, staring at screens big enough to see which players...
A Nice Little Place on the North Side
A History of Triumph, Mostly Defeat, and Incurable Hope at Wrigley Field
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
**Now with bonus material on the Chicago Cubs' World Series win, the New York Times-bestselling history of America's most beloved baseball stadium, Wrigley Field, and the Cubs’ century-long search for World Series glory
In A Nice Little Place on the North Side, leading columnist George Will...
The Last River
The Tragic Race for Shangri-la
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
It was the ultimate whitewater adventure on the Mount Everest of rivers, and the biggest challenge of their lives....
October 1998 an American whitewater paddling team traveled deep into the Tsangpo Gorge in Tibet to run the Yarlung Tsangpo, known in paddling circles as the "Everest of...
Year of the Dunk
A Modest Defiance of Gravity
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
By embarking on a quest to dunk a basketball at the age of 34, journalist Asher Price investigates the limits of human potential—starting with his own.
We all like to think that (with a little practice) we could run faster, learn another language, or whip up a perfect soufflé. But few of us...
Loopers
A Caddie's Twenty-Year Golf Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
John Dunn never expected that his summer job as a caddie at the local course in Connecticut might turn into something more. The lifers who plied the loops were an ensemble of misfits and degenerates who made the caddie yard look more like a gambling hall than a country club. But Dunn came of age...