Individual Sports category: 1455 books
Growing Up Gronk
A Family’s Story of Raising Champions
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Huge boys, huge dreams, huge success—how one family from Buffalo put five boys on the track to realizing their athletic potential and making it “big.”
“The beauty of Growing Up Gronk is that you never really have to grow up at all. A fascinating look inside a larger-than-life football...
Rowdy
The Roddy Piper Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The biggest pro wrestling bio since Bret Hart's Hitman: legendary Rowdy Roddy Piper's unfinished autobiography, re-conceived and completed by his children, actress/musician Ariel Teal Toombs and wrestler Colt Baird Toombs.
In early 2015, Roderick Toombs, aka Rowdy Roddy Piper, began researching...
Who's The Daddy
The life and times of Shirley Crabtree
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
As wrestling superstar 'Big Daddy', Shirley Crabtree became a larger-than-life national icon in the 1970s, even if the fights themselves were a bit dodgy. These were the halcyon days of televised wrestling in Britain, an innocent age when men in leotards were still allowed out in public - and surely...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
Jack Sharkey fought Primo Carnera at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn in 1931. His left hook decked the Italian giant and he won the bout comfortably. Several years later the two boxers met again, this time at the Garden Bowl in Long Island City. Many things had changed between the two fights. Carnera was...
by LUIGI DEL BUONO
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 28, 2017
II racconto di alcune delle sensazioni più strane e difficili, nel passaggio dalla corsa a piedi allo sport del triathlon. Il rapporto difficile con in nuoto dove nessuna corsia è per te, l'inizio di una difficile convivenza con la bicicletta e i suoi effetti sulle gambe. L'equilibrio di voler ottenere...
Urethane Revolution
The Birth of Skate—San Diego 1975
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2019
One crazy year on the California coast--in 1975 a hippie skunkworks, bred in garages and shacks, launched the modern skater movement. Strap in for a wild ride replete with two car chases, two plane crashes, a massive truck bomb, Colombian narcos, the Mafia, senior White House staff, a gypsy fortuneteller,...
by Ian Freeman, Stuart Wheatman, Roy Pretty Boy' Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2009
'Hit me first and that's when I turn psycho. I cracked him so hard that he fell against the wall behind him; that was the only thing that kept him up. He was so dazed that he turned to run away and just ran straight into the wall...'Meet Ian Freeman...otherwise known as The Machine. A friend to keep...
The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling
A Hardcore, High-Flying, No-Holds-Barred History of the One True Sport
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
From the host of the critically acclaimed pro wrestling podcast Straight Shoot, this graphic novel history of wrestling features the key grapplers, matches, and promotions that shaped this beloved sport and form of entertainment.
As a pop culture phenomenon, professional wrestling--with its...
by Hulk Hogan
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2002
You think you know Hollywood Hulk Hogan? Brother, you don't know squat about me.
Yeah, I'm the towering red-and-yellow warrior who revolutionized the wrestling business, the larger-than-life superhero who transformed an entire country into a horde of Hulkamaniacs. I'm the guy who spit blood and...
by JohnA Passaro
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
There are going to be many occasions where you are faced with giving up, where the normal person would not hold it against you for stopping, where almost everyone would give you a pat on the back for a valiant effort.
The ability to muster up a little more when the whole world would understand...
The Original Big Book of Pattern Puzzles
8-Ball 9-Ball Puzzles
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
This beautiful, full-color book contains over 200 8-Ball and 9-Ball Puzzles! Bonus puzzles include Last Pocket 8-Ball and 9-Ball defensive patterns.
Each pattern has been carefully reproduced on a pool table with stickers marking the location of every object ball. The pattern was then...
The Squared Circle
Life, Death, and Professional Wrestling
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Grantland and Deadspin correspondent presents a breakthrough examination of the professional wrestling, its history, its fans, and its wider cultural impact that does for the sport what Chuck Klosterman did for heavy metal.
The Squared Circle grows out of David Shoemaker’s writing for Deadspin,...
by Guy Windsor
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Guy Windsor has been training swordsmen and swordswomen for a very long time. This short book distills his principles of training swordsmanship into seven key ideas, divided into three internal principles, and four external principles. They are:
Internal:
Mindfulness
Flow
Adopt Useful...
Aloha Rodeo
Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World's Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
The triumphant true story of the native Hawaiian cowboys who shocked America at the 1908 world rodeo championships
"An inspiring and impeccably crafted story of against-all-odds triumph.” —Simon Winchester
"Groundbreaking. … Not only a must-read, but an essential addition. …...