Sports Publishing: 554 books
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...
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...
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...
Chill Factor
How a Minor-League Hockey Team Changed a City Forever
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
The city of Columbus, Ohio, had always struggled to support any professional sports franchise. It’s a town where Ohio State University reigns supreme, and everything else is less important. That was until 1991, when the Columbus Chill, a minor-league hockey franchise, arrived. Using Veeckian marketing...
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.
Skyhorse Publishing, along...
So You Think You're a Dallas Cowboys Fan?
Stars, Stats, Records, and Memories for True Diehards
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
So You Think You’re a Dallas Cowboys Fan? tests and expands your knowledge of America’s Team. Rather than merely posing questions and providing answers, you’ll get details behind each-stories that bring to life players and coaches, games and seasons.
This book, the first in a new sports...
by Jim Turpinn
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
In Turpin Times, Jim Turpin, the radio play-by-play voice of University of Illinois football and basketball for the past 40 years, takes readers behind the scenes for an intimate glimpse of players, coaches, and others associated with big-time intercollegiate athletics. Turpin follows the Illini through...
Drama in the Bahamas
Muhammad Ali's Last Fight
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
On December 11, 1981, Muhammad Ali slumped on a chair in the cramped, windowless locker room of a municipal baseball field outside Nassau. A phalanx of sportswriters had pushed and shoved their way into this tiny, breeze-blocked space. In this most unlikely of settings, they had come to record the...
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...
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...
Super Agent
The One Book the NFL and NCAA Don't Want You to Read
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Super Agent. Maverick. Reformer. Iconoclast. Dealmaker. Dentist? Jerry Argovitz has worn many hats in his remarkable life, both inside and outside of the world of sports. As a player agent representing and advising some of the biggest names in the game, Argovitz challenged the NFL both at the negotiating...
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...