Sports Publishing imprint: 487 books

by Brian Startare, Kevin Reavy
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019

This Day in Philadelphia Sports, first published in 2014 and now newly updated in paperback to cover Super Bowl LII, Villanova basketball's latest championships, and more, offers a concise 366-day approach to looking back at the history of Philadelphia sports. Every day on the calendar is represented...
by Brian Startare, Kevin Reavy
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014

This Day in Philadelphia Sports offers a concise 366-day approach to looking back at the history of Philadelphia sports. Every day on the calendar is represented with a fun tidbit of information of what had happened on that specific date in the history of one of the greatest sports towns in the world,...
by Brian Startare, Kevin Reavy
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016

This Day in Philadelphia Sports, first published in 2014 and now newly updated in paperback to cover events from the 2014–15 season, offers a concise 366-day approach to looking back at the history of Philadelphia sports. Every day on the calendar is represented with a fun tidbit of information of...

Philadelphia Phenoms

The Most Amazing Athletes to Play in the City of Brotherly Love

by Michael Baumann
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014

It’s been more than fifty years since Wilt Chamberlain began excelling on a Philadelphia basketball court. After his rookie season in the NBA, he broke a slew of league records and became one of the most revered professional athletes in Philadelphia history. Yet Chamberlain is not the only...

Start Your Engines

Famous Firsts in the History of NASCAR

by Jay W. Pennell
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015

Start Your Engines contains twenty-nine chapters describing different inaugural accomplishments that have taken place throughout NASCAR history. This book answers the following questions: • When was NASCAR officially founded? • Where was the first Strictly Stock race held? • What was the...

I Was There!

Joe Buck, Bob Costas, Jim Nantz, and Others Relive the Most Exciting Sporting Events of Their Lives

by Eric Mirlis
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016

Take a trip through sports history through the eyes of those covering the biggest events of all-time. In I Was There! sixty-five of the biggest names in sports broadcasting and journalism share their personal experiences at the Top 5 sports moments they each saw in person. From cultural phenomena...

Spartan Sports Encyclopedia

A History of the Michigan State Men's Athletic Program, 2nd Edition

by Jack Seibold
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014

The all-time roster of Michigan State University athletics reads like a who’s who. Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Steve Garvey, Bubba Smith, Robin Roberts, Mateen Cleaves . . . the list grows with each new season. This book, now in its second edition, covers the complete history of MSU men’s athletics. The...

The Race

Inside the Indy 500

by James McGuane
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016

The Race: Inside the Indy 500 examines in words and pictures this highly evolved auto-racing spectacle, which is hosting the 100th running in 2016. Author James McGuane has spent ten years working to capture the history of the Indy 500, which is loved my millions, and create a “top-to-bottom” and...

Step Up Your Game

The Revolutionary Program Elite Athletes Use to Increase Performance and Achieve Total Health

by Naresh C. Rao
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016

As a sports and wellness medicine practitioner whose clients include Olympic and professional athletes, triathletes, and weekend warriors, Dr. Naresh Rao has uncovered the secrets of how and why elite athletes consistently perform at the highest levels. In Step Up Your Game, he reveals what separates...

Hardcore History

The Extremely Unauthorized Story of ECW

by Scott E. Williams, George Tahinos
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

by Tim Hornbaker
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...

Backlund

From All-American Boy to Professional Wrestling's World Champion

by Bob Backlund, Robert H. Miller
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

by Carole Townsend
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

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...
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