Jack Mccallum: 10 books
Seven Seconds or Less
My Season on the Bench with the Runnin' and Gunnin' Phoenix Suns
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2006
In Seven Seconds or Less, Sports Illustrated's chief NBA writer, Jack McCallum, gets in the paint with the Phoenix Suns and takes a season-long look at the NBA's most exciting and controversial team.
A few weeks before the 2005-2006 NBA training camps began, Jack McCallum called the Phoenix...
Golden Days
West's Lakers, Steph's Warriors, and the California Dreamers Who Reinvented Basketball
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The bestselling author of Dream Team tells the interconnected stories of the NBA champion Golden State Warriors and the early-1970s Los Angeles Lakers, two extraordinary teams playing in extraordinary times and linked by one extraordinary man: Jerry West.
With an update on Jerry West’s new...
The Prostate Monologues
What Every Man Can Learn from My Humbling, Confusing, and Sometimes Comical Battle With Prostate Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Recently diagnosed with prostate cancer and approaching surgery, Jack McCallum wanted to tackle the confusion, misconceptions, and conflicting medical advice that so many men struggle with when thinking about the disease. So he got to work writing The Prostate Monologues.
Through the lens of...
Unfinished Business
On and Off the Court with the 1990-91 Boston Celtics
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Jack McCallum (DREAM TEAM) gives an inside look at the legendary Boston Celtics during a season of change.“One of the five best NBA books ever written.”—Bill Simmons, ESPNIn the 1990-91 basketball season, the Boston Celtics were a team in transition, both on and...
Dream Team
La intrahistoria del mejor equipo que ha existido jamás
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 18, 2017
"Uno de los mejores libros sobre baloncesto que se haya escrito nunca." New York Post
El reputado periodista deportivo Jack McCallum desvela por primera vez todos los secretos de la historia del equipo más famoso de todos los tiempos: la selección olímpica norteamericana de baloncesto...
Dream Team: How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever
How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
They were the Beatles of basketball, the Mercury Seven in sneakers.
In Dream Team, acclaimed sports journalist Jack McCallum delivers the untold story of the greatest team ever assembled: the 1992 U.S. Olympic Men’s Basketball Team that captivated the world, kindled the hoop dreams of countless...
Leonard Wood
Rough Rider, Surgeon, Architect of American Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
One of the most fascinating but least remembered figures in modern American history, Major General Leonard Wood (1860-1927) was, with his close friend Theodore Roosevelt, an icon of U.S. imperialism as the nation evolved into a global power at the dawn of the twentieth century. The myriad of roles...
Dream Team
Comment Jordan, Magic, Bird, Barkley et la plus grande équipe de tous les temps ont conquis le monde
Language: French
Release Date: June 8, 2016
L’OUVRAGE - Récit
1992, Jeux Olympiques de Barcelone. La NBA décide de conquérir le monde : elle crée la Dream Team.
Ce livre raconte l’histoire confidentielle de la meilleure équipe de sport jamais formée. Le processus de sélection, sa préparation, les enjeux, les rivalités…...
Bleeding Orange
Fifty Years of Blind Referees, Screaming Fans, Beasts of the East, and Syracuse Basketball
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
In six decades as a player, assistant coach, and the head man on the bench for Syracuse University's basketball program, Jim Boeheim is synonymous with the blood and thunder of East Coast hoops. In Bleeding Orange, Boeheim recounts for the first time all the pleasures and perils of a career spent...
by Cristina Eisenberg, Jack Turner, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
A compelling case for connecting with the wild, for our psychological and physical well-being and to flourish as a species
We often enjoy the benefits of connecting with nearby, domesticated nature—a city park, a backyard garden. But this book makes the provocative case for the necessity...