Sports imprint: 713 books
Hardcore History
The Extremely Unauthorized Story of ECW
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) was one extreme contradiction on top of another. An incredibly influential-but never profitable-company in the world of professional wrestling in the 1990s, it portrayed itself as the ultimate in anti-authority rebellion, but its leadership was working covertly...
Legends of Pro Wrestling
150 Years of Headlocks, Body Slams, and Piledrivers
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Legends of Pro Wrestling offers the first comprehensive look at the entire world of wrestling. With detailed biographies and never-before-seen statistics of some of the greatest athletes in the sport, you will be able to read about hundreds of wrestlers, dating back to the mid-1800s. As the first...
by Ken Coleman
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Talking on Air: A Broadcaster's Life in Sports highlights the 40-year career of Ken Coleman. The book details a broadcasting life seen not only from inside the booth, but also from inside the minds and throughout the experiences of many of sports' greatest names.
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Backlund
From All-American Boy to Professional Wrestling's World Champion
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Bob Backlund began life as a poor farm boy in the little village of Princeton, Minnesota, with a population of just over 2,000 people. He was a below-average student with a lackluster work ethic and a bad attitude, who hung with the wrong crowd and made a lot of bad choices. He was a kid whose life...
Magnolias, Sweet Tea, and Exhaust
One Woman?s Journey to Understanding the Phenomenon of NASCAR
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
In Magnolias, Sweet Tea, and Exhaust, Carole Townsend goes to ground with NASCAR, following the races at Southern tracks from one to the next, learning about the sport and the culture of NASCAR as she goes. Townsend meets and interviews top drivers as well as some of NASCAR’s rising stars, legends,...
by Jim Wexell
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
The "Immaculate Reception" may have started it all, but the 1979 Pittsburgh Steelers put the stamp on the modern era’s greatest sports dynasty. It’s not even a debate. No other National Football League team in the modern sports era-as defined by Nielson-won so much in so little time. The tag is...
Tales from the Boston College Hockey Locker Room
A Collection of the Greatest Eagles Hockey Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
With five Division I national championships to its credit-most recently in 2012-the men’s hockey program at Boston College is a force to be reckoned with year after year. Tales from the Boston College Hockey Locker Room details the long and highly successful history of ice hockey at Boston College,...
Tales from the Indianapolis 500
A Collection of the Greatest Indy 500 Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
What’s it like to race across the blacktop of the nation’s most famous track? How does it feel to smash into a concrete wall while going over 200 miles per hour? This exciting, humorous, and poignant collection of tales takes readers inside the most thrilling race in America. Newly updated, Tales...
Women Athletes Who Rule!
The 101 Stars Every Fan Needs to Know
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Inspirational and aspirational. Fearless and phenomenal. The 101 women athletes every fan needs to know!
The fifth book in the Big Book of Who series from Sports Illustrated Kids profiles extraordinary athletes who shaped the narratives of their sports. The best women athletes-past and present-including...
Tales from the Maryland Terrapins
A Collection of the Greatest Terrapin Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
In this reissue of Tales from the Maryland Terrapins, fans can relive the most profound memories from more than 100 years of athletics at the University of Maryland in College Park. Authored by David Ungrady, a former two-sport athlete at the school, the book includes a series of first-person anecdotes...
by Prasidh Kumar Mishra
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2010
This book discusses the major areas of sports journalism the impact of the media on sport and vice versa. Drawing on research into world media events such as the major games, it shows how the study of the sport raises complex issues of identity, culture and politics which have implications for society...
Handbook of Sports Injuries
100% Pure Adrenaline
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2007
Sports Injuries continue to increase in organized or varsity athletics and in the general population because of the increased interest in fitness and sports. In the present study, all major sports injuries including foot and ankle, knee, hip flexors, hip joints, shoulders, head, forearm muscles, wrist...
When Shea Was Home
The Story of the 1975 Mets, Yankees, Giants, and Jets
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Four teams, 175 games, 3,738,546 fans-one stadium. If 1975 wasn’t the most successful year in New York sports-and it wasn’t-then it was certainly one of the oddest. For that one crazy season, all four New York teams-the Mets, Jets, Yankees, and Giants-called Shea Stadium home.
When Shea...
by Dr. Baljit Singh Sekhon
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
the book Dictionary of Shooting Sports. Seeing the potential in the area of Shooting sports it is essential that the practitioners or would be practitioners are aware of technical terms and terminology frequently used in the international shooting arena.