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Golf My Own Damn Way
The Wit and Wisdom of John Daly
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
If you know anything at all about John Daly—and if you don't, what in the hell are you doing with this book in your hands?—you know he approaches the game of golf from an, uh, slightly different perspective than your average two-time major winner.
How different? Well, for starters, Long...
Barbaro
A Nation's Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
This up-to-minute book follows the story of Barbaro, the Triple Crown contender whose unlikely fight back from almost certain death from a shattered leg and ensuing complications captured the hearts of a nation who responded with a stunning display of love.
In 132 years of derby races, only...
Sandy Koufax
A Lefty's Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
“The incomparable and mysterious Sandy Koufax is revealed…. This is an absorbing book, beautifully written.” —Wall Street Journal
“Leavy has hit it out of the park…A lot more than a biography. It’s a consideration of how we create our heroes, and how this hero’s self perception...
The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty
The Game, the Team, and the Cost of Greatness
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
For six extraordinary years around the turn of the millennium, the Yankees were baseball's unstoppable force, with players such as Paul O'Neill, Derek Jeter, and Mariano Rivera. But for the players and the coaches, baseball Yankees-style was also an almost unbearable pressure cooker of anxiety, expectation,...
by Eric Blehm
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Destined to become a classic of adventure literature, The Last Season examines the extraordinary life of legendary backcountry ranger Randy Morgenson and his mysterious disappearance in California's unforgiving Sierra Nevada—mountains as perilous as they are beautiful. Eric Blehm's masterful work...
Bounce
Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
In the vein of the international bestselling Freakonomics, award-winning journalist Matthew Syed reveals the hidden clues to success—in sports, business, school, and just about anything else that you’d want to be great at. Fans of Predictably Irrational and Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point will find many interesting and helpful insights in Bounce.
by Roger Kahn
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
This is a book about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then went on to play for one of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded, the team that broke the color barrier with Jackie Robinson. It is a book by and about a sportswriter who grew up near...
Hunting Booger Bottom
Life Lessons from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
“Michael [Waddell] is the real McCoy. Down to earth, clever, genuine, well-grounded, funny as all hell, kind, generous, decent, and surely one of the best natural hunters and woodsmen that I have ever grilled a sacred backstrap with.” —Ted Nugent
From hunting legend Michael Waddell, star...
The Machine
A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-stopping World Series: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Award-winning sports columnist Joe Posnanski hits a grand slam with The Machine—a thrilling account of the magical 1975 season of the Cincinnati Reds, baseball’s legendary “Big Red Machine,” from spring training through the final game of the ’75 World Series. Featuring a Hall of Fame lineup...
Horse People
Scenes from the Riding Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Bestselling author Michael Korda's Horse People is the story -- sometimes hilariously funny, sometimes sad and moving, always shrewdly observed -- of a lifetime love affair with horses, and of the bonds that have linked humans with horses for more than ten thousand years. It is filled with intimate...
A Home on the Field
The Great Latino Migration Comes to Smal
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
A Home on the Field is about faith, loyalty, and trust. It is a parable in the tradition of Stand and Deliver and Hoosiers—a story of one team and their accidental coach who became certain heroes to the whole community.
For the past ten years, Siler City, North Carolina, has been at the front...
Tony Hawk
Professional Skateboarder
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
In this young adult autobiography, Tony Hawk shares the stories from his life that have helped him become a skateboarding hero.
Hawk speaks of being a super-competitive 'demon' child who found peace while on a skateboard. Classmates teased him because of his interest in an 'uncool' sport. Instead...
Dixieland Delight
A Football Season on the Road in the Southeastern Conference
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
There is no college ball more passionate and competitive than football in the Southeastern Conference, where seven of the twelve schools boast stadiums bigger than any in the NFL and 6.5 million fans hit the road every year to hoot and holler their teams to victory.
In September 2006, popular...
The Unwritten Rules of Baseball
The Etiquette, Conventional Wisdom, and Axiomatic Codes of Our National Pastime
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
From beanballs to basebrawls, the most important rules governing the game of baseball have never been officially written down—until now.
They have no sanction from the Commissioner, appear nowhere in any official publication, and are generally not posted on any clubhouse wall. They represent...