Lyons Press: 836 books
Rush to Glory
FORMULA 1 Racing's Greatest Rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
The greatest duel in FORMULA 1 history: the 1976 season between Austrian Niki Lauda and Britain's James Hunt. As the '75 season ended, Hunt was out of FORMULA 1 racing while Lauda was world champion and the odds-on favorite for ’76 with a year’s contract ahead of him and Enzo Ferrari begging him...
Schwinn
The Best Present Ever
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
For many children of the sixties, the gift of a Schwinn was a ticket to freedom, a chance to feel the wind on their face and the steady rotation of rubber at their feet. The Schwinn took many through their childhood adventures, with memories filled of after school, free-range bike rides around the...
by Jonathan Weeks, Chris Enss, Howard Kazanjian
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
This three-in-one holiday gift set is the perfect gift for any baseball fan this season. Each with its own unique story, these books will thrill any fan of America’s favorite pastime. The set includes class tales (At the Old Ballgame: Stories From Baseball's Golden Era), scandals (Mudville Madness:...
Spurrier
How The Ball Coach Taught the South to Play Football
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
“We all like to prove people wrong who say we’re no good,” says the eternally driven Steve Spurrier, the 1966 Heisman Trophy winner and NFL quarterback who took off his helmet, put on his coaching visor, and turned three downtrodden universities into winners. Spurrier’s Fun ’N’ Gun offense...
Stars in the Ring: Jewish Champions in the Golden Age of Boxing
A Photographic History
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
For more than sixty years—from the 1890s to the 1950s—boxing was an integral part of American popular culture and a major spectator sport rivaling baseball in popularity. More Jewish athletes have competed as boxers than all other professional sports combined; in the period from 1901 to 1939,...
by Harvey Frommer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Another peek at baseball's good old days—or, in this case, bad old days—by veteran sports-historian Harvey Frommer. Frommer paints Shoeless Joe as a baseball natural ("Joe Jackson hit the ball harder than any man ever to play baseball"—Ty Cobb), an illiterate hick (his table utensils...
The Shetland Bus
A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival, and Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
The Shetland Bus recounts the hundreds of crossings of small boats from the Shetland Islands to German-occupied Norway to supply arms to the Resistors and to rescue refugees—all under constant threat by German U-boats and winter storms.
The Barstool Book of Sports
Stats, Stories, and Other Stuff for Drunken Debate
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Sports debates are the foundation of every fan’s night out. But it’s not enough merely to have these inebriated arguments—you must win them, too. Enter The Barstool Book Of Sports: a disorderly debate bible that’s jam-packed with hilarious lists, irreverent sidebars, and edgy illustrations...
Men of Kent
Ten Boys, A Fast Boat, and the Coach Who Made Them Champions
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Men of Kent is, first and foremost, an archetypical sports tale—a story of the improbable happening to the unlikely, unfolding against the backdrop of a turbulent era. Both an homage and a unique inside look at the fast-growing sport of rowing, it embraces the sport’s history, traditions, and culture...
Remembering the Stick
Candlestick Park—1960–2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Described by famed baseball scribe Roger Angell as looking like “a festive prison yard” during the 1962 World Series, Candlestick was loved and hated by sports teams and fans alike for its 43 years of existence. Built on a landfill above a garbage dump in a city rocked by an 8.6 earthquake only...
Pro Tactics™: Northern Pike
Use the Secrets of the Pros to Catch More and Bigger Pike
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Successful angling for northern pike requires specialized equipment and techniques, as well as an understanding of this predatory game fish’s seasonal movements and changes in behavior. Eight-time world record holder Jack Penny presents a complete course of instruction in fishing for northern pike,...
The Sphinx of the Charles
A Year at Harvard with Harry Parker
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Harry Parker was probably the most important figure in American rowing of the past century. His heavyweight crews at Harvard topped the leagues more consistently than any other team (they won the Eastern Sprints regatta, against most of the top college crews, more than three times as often as their...
Going Home Again
Roy Williams, The North Carolina Tar Heels, And A Season To Remember
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
"Roy Williams is awesome, baby, with a capital 'A.' "--Dick Vitale
As he traveled across the state of North Carolina in the summer of 2003, Roy Williams delivered a repetitive refrain to the thousands of University of North Carolina basketball fans who packed his public appearances:...
Irish Thunder
The Hard Life and Times of Micky Ward
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
The story behind the Major Motion Picture The Fighter, starring Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale, Irish Thunder is about a boxer from a boxing family and a boxing town, but it is not a boxing book. It is about the human spirit, blind loyalty, self-preservation and self-destruction. Micky’s dramatic...