Sports imprint: 713 books
by Dr. Rajeev Kumar
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2011
Every physical activity gives us something to learn, increases our fitness components (one or the other) makes one confident and refresher or recharges us to lead life happy. On other side participation in games and sports may lead to injury. The injury can be the minor one, serious, career ending or...
I Was There!
Joe Buck, Bob Costas, Jim Nantz, and Others Relive the Most Exciting Sporting Events of Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Take a trip through sports history through the eyes of those covering the biggest events of all time. In I Was There! seventy of the biggest names in sports broadcasting and journalism share their personal experiences at the top five sports moments they each saw in person. From cultural phenomena...
A Fighting Life
My Seven Decades in Boxing
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
For more than seven decades, Lou Duva has been a mainstay in the boxing world. With his craggy face and the bulbous nose of a boxer with questionable defensive skills, Duva is one of the most enduring images of boxing, having climbed in and out of rings for championship fights on six different continents....
Tales from the University of South Carolina Gamecocks Locker Room
A Collection of the Greatest Gamecock Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
With one of the most amazing football turnarounds in NCAA history, from 0-21 in 1998-99 to a 2001 Outback Bowl victory over Ohio State and six subsequent championships since, the South Carolina Gamecocks rang in the new century with a bang. For 45 years, author Tom Price was in Columbia, South Carolina...
Encyclopaedia of Sports Injuries and Medicine
100% Pure Adrenaline
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2007
This book which is entitled Encyclopedia of Sports Injuries and Medicines in which different aspects of sports injuries and their management have been dealt properly. All the terms have been arranged alphabetically by which information can be understood easily and effectively. For this purpose, author...
Bearing the Cross
My Inspiring Journey from Poverty to the NFL and Sports Television
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Born into poverty in Hammond, Indiana, not much was expected from Irvin Acie Cross. But with much hard work and dedication, he put together one of the most incredible life stories imaginable.
After being drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in 1961 out of Northwestern University, Cross went on...
Miracle Year 1969
Amazing Mets and Super Jets
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Sports fans in New York will always remember the incredible events of 1969. It was the year that two of the city’s underdog teams would rise above all expectations to be crowned world champions.
On January 12, 1969, the underdog New York Jets faced the heavily-favored Baltimore Colts in Super...
My First Book of Basketball
A Rookie Book (A Sports Illustrated Kids Book)
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
My First Book of Basketball, the sixth book in the best-selling Rookie Book series from Sports Illustrated Kids, coaches young kids through the game of basketball with a visual retelling of a professional basketball game—from the jump ball to the game-winning basket! Dribbling, passing, traveling,...
Five-Plus Tools
The Past, Present, and Future of Baseball through the Eyes of a Scout
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Five-Plus Tools” is a scouting term that refers to a rare and elite type of amateur baseball prospect. A player with five-plus tools grades out well above average in all five skill areas, known as tools: hitting, power, running, throwing, and fielding.
While most baseball fans critique...
Tales from the Missouri Tigers
A Collection of the Greatest Tiger Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
College sports fans around the nation know it as the University of Missouri, the home of the Tigers. But for the legions of fans from St. Louis to Columbia, it’s simply Mizzou, and there is no better place to be on a crisp fall afternoon than Faurot Field at Memorial Stadium. Don Faurot himself,...
Tales from the Baltimore Orioles Dugout
A Collection of the Greatest Orioles Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
For several decades, the Baltimore Orioles were the envy of every Major League Baseball team. Stars like Rick Dempsey and Cal Ripken, Jr. brought life and power to a team full of dedication and fun. Since 2012, the team has regained momentum under Buck Showalter, boasting winning seasons and clinching...
Odd Man Rush
A Harvard Kid?s Hockey Odyssey from Central Park to Somewhere in Sweden?with Stops along the Way
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
In his hilarious, gritty, and touching debut, Bill Keenan-a hockey star once on the fast-track to the NHL-tells of how he overcame multiple obstacles to find fulfillment and redemption in the strange world of European minor-league professional hockey.
Keenan’s hockey obsession begins as a...
Game of My Life Denver Broncos
Memorable Stories of Broncos Football
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
How do you measure the soul of a city? In Denver, for the better part of five decades it’s been by the Broncos. From an ugly and inauspicious beginning to the first nationally televised Monday-night game in 1973, through postseason games that included back-to-back World Championships and five other...
by Geoff Hollister
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
This book provides a compelling insider's account of how Nike became the world's largest sports and fitness company.It includes a dedicated mailing and e-mail campaign to targeted sports interest media & organisations.How does a young boy from a small Oregon town get swept up in the politics of his chosen...