Football category: 4223 books
by Michael Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2007
"Lewis has such a gift for storytelling...he writes as lucidly for sports fans as for those who read him for other reasons."—Janet Maslin, New York Times
One day Michael Oher will be among the most highly paid athletes in the National Football League. When we first meet him, he...
Fourth and Long
The Fight for the Soul of College Football
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
The New York Times bestseller about the state of college football: Why we love the game, what is at risk, and the fight to save it—“A fascinating saga” (Booklist).
In search of the sport’s old ideals amid the roaring flood of hypocrisy and greed, bestselling author John U. Bacon embedded...
Goose
The Outrageous Life and Times of a Football Guy
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
A hugely popular and beloved football commentator and former player with the Indianapolis Colts and the Baltimore Ravens, Tony Siragusa offers his uncensored insider's look at the NFL and his hilarious take on life off the gridiron.
The New York Times called him a "modern-day John Madden."...
Alone in the Trenches
My Life as a Gay Man in the NFL
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
This is Esera Tuaolo's own searing story of terror and hope. A Samoan raised on a Hawaiian banana plantation, he had a natural talent, football. He went on to play for five NFL teams: the Green Bay Packers, the Minnesota Vikings, the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Carolina Panthers, and the Atlanta Falcons...
The Lion in Autumn
A Season with Joe Paterno and Penn State Football
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2005
"Fascinating. . . . One of the best books ever written on the rise and fall of a great college football coach."
—Allen Barra, San Francisco Chronicle
The Lion in Autumn takes readers inside Penn State’s storied football program as legendary coach Joe Paterno fights to turn his...
Carlisle vs. Army
Jim Thorpe, Dwight Eisenhower, Pop Warner, and the Forgotten Story of Football's Greatest Battle
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2008
A stunning work of narrative nonfiction, Carlisle vs. Army recounts the fateful 1912 gridiron clash that pitted one of America’s finest athletes, Jim Thorpe, against the man who would become one of the nation’s greatest heroes, Dwight D. Eisenhower. But beyond telling the tale of this momentous...
Courage Beyond the Game
The Freddie Steinmark Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title
Jim Dent, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Junction Boys, returns with a powerful Texas story which transcends college football, displaying the courage and determination of one of the game's most valiant players.
Freddie...
by Belmont and Belcourt Biographies
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Tim Tebow is one of the most talked about athletes of all time. Everybody seems to have an opinion about him, especially on his religious beliefs. But, in order to truly understand Tim Tebow, you must first understand where he came from. "Tim Tebow: An Unauthorized Biography" explores Tebow's...
by Richard III
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
I had a hunch we’d be champions! The most unlikely story in the history of sport, told by our greatest football writer On 25th March 2015, when King Richard III, recently rescued from a municipal car park, was reburied in Leicester Cathedral, his beloved football team had just lost 4-3 to Tottenham...
QB
My Life Behind the Spiral
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"This book is gold.”—Peter King
“Intense.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“Steve Young is a hero of mine, and his story is a source of inspiration for me. His perseverance, intelligence, and, most of all, grace under pressure NFL-style, make this book a fascinating...
Backyard Brawl
Inside the Blood Feud Between Texas and Texas A&M
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
It happens once a year, creating a seismic divide throughout the country. It pits brother against brother. It breaks up business deals. It ruins relationships. And once it’s finished, all both sides want is for another year to pass by so they can do it again. It is the Texas/Texas A& M football...
The Game Plan
The Art of Building a Winning Football Team
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
As one of the most successful general managers and team presidents in NFL history, few people understand how to create the blueprint for a winning football team like Bill Polian. After building the Buffalo Bills team that went to four consecutive Super Bowls and taking the expansion Carolina Panthers...
Cantona
The Rebel Who Would Be King
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
'An artist, in my eyes, is someone who can lighten up a dark room. I have never and will never find difference between the pass from Pele to Carlos Alberto in the final of the World Cup in 1970, and the poetry of the young Rimbaud' - Eric Cantona
Football, and art. Eric Cantona – legend,...
by Belmont and Belcourt Biographies
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Andrew Luck may not yet be a household name, but he is quickly becoming known throughout the sports world. Luck shocked sports analysts everywhere when he decided to exclude himself from the 2011 NFL Draft and go back to Stanford for his senior year. For nearly two years everyone has been anxiously...