Thomas Dunne Books imprint: 1256 books
The Book on The Book
A Landmark Inquiry into Which Strategies in the Modern Game Actually Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2006
Diehard fanatics will enjoy this comprehensive collection of groundbreaking baseball strategies, analyses, statistics, and studies
Baseball fans all across America will delight in this fascinating analysis of strategies and statistics. This unique approach to understanding the "tried and...
Bushville Wins!
The Wild Saga of the 1957 Milwaukee Braves and the Screwballs, Sluggers, and Beer Swiggers Who Canned the New York Yankees and Changed Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
"Bushville hits the sweet spot of my childhood, the year my family moved to Wisconsin and the Braves won the World Series against the Yankees, a team my Brooklyn-raised dad taught us to hate. Thanks to John Klima for bringing it all back to life with such vivid detail and energetic writing."...
Rock 'n' Roll Soccer
The Short Life and Fast Times of the North American Soccer League
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
The North American Soccer League - at its peak in the late 1970s - presented soccer as performance, played by men with a bent for flair, hair and glamour. More than just Pelé and the New York Cosmos, it lured the biggest names of the world game like Johan Cruyff, Franz Beckenbauer, Eusebio, Gerd...
It's Not About Perfect
Competing for My Country and Fighting for My Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
"When the odds were against me, I was always at my best."
When she retired at age 19, Shannon Miller did so as one of the most recognizable gymnasts in the country. The winner of seven Olympic medals and the most decorated gymnast, male or female, in U.S. history, Shannon tells a...
The Cooperstown Casebook
Who's in the Baseball Hall of Fame, Who Should Be In, and Who Should Pack Their Plaques
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, tucked away in upstate New York in a small town called Cooperstown, is far from any major media market or big league stadium. Yet no sports hall of fame’s membership is so hallowed, nor its qualifications so debated, nor its voting process so dissected.
Since...
by Art Garner
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Winner of the 2014 Dean Batchelor Award, Motor Press Guild "Book of the Year"
Before noon on May 30th, 1964, the Indy 500 was stopped for the first time in history by an accident. Seven cars had crashed in a fiery wreck, killing two drivers, and threatening the very future of the...
The Cardinals Way
How One Team Embraced Tradition and Moneyball at the Same Time
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
The St. Louis Cardinals have experienced the kind of success that is rare in baseball. Regarded by many as the premier organization in Major League Baseball, they not only win, but do so with an apparently bottomless pool of talent, one that is mostly homegrown.
Despite years of phenomenal...
by Rob Miech
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
"The remarkable story of Bryce Harper's unforgettable ride from Morse Stadium to the top of the baseball draft" (Jayson Stark, ESPN.com) updated from the hardcover edition (The Last Natural) to include his Rookie of the Year season!
Before he famously became a Major League All-Star...
Raiders!
The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
The official companion book to the hit feature-length documentary, Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made, in theaters and on video on demand June 27th 2016
In 1982, in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, Chris Strompolos, eleven, asked Eric Zala, twelve, a question: "Would you...
Down in Bristol Bay
High Tides, Hangovers, and Harrowing Experiences on Alaska's Last Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 1999
Dr. Robert Allen Durr - literary scholar, award-winning author, former confidant to legendary writer H. L. Mencken, and one-time rising star in the East Coast academic world - decided one day to give it all up and move to a remote region of Alaska in search of paradise.
Convinced that truth,...
Blacktop Cowboys
Riders on the Run for Rodeo Gold
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Blacktop Cowboys chronicles the 2004 rodeo season through the eyes of several steer wrestlers trying to make it back to rodeo's version of the Super Bowl, the National Finals Rodeo (NFR) in Las Vegas.
Steer wrestling is an adventure that entails riding into an arena at 25 mph, sliding off a horse...
Grounds for Golf
The History and Fundamentals of Golf Course Design
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2003
Golfers dream of playing the legendary courses of the game: St. Andrews, Augusta National, Pinehurst, Pebble Beach. And anyone who has played the royal and ancient sport is an armchair architect at heart. From alterations for their home course to visions of their very own backyard dream course, most...
Payne at Pinehurst
The Greatest U.S. Open Ever
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
"A fresh and concise look at Payne Stewart's victory at the 1999 U.S. Open."
---Golf Digest
It has been called the greatest U.S. Open in the Open's over one hundred-year history.
Veteran sports journalist, Bill Chastain, crafts the dramatic story of Payne Stewart's 1999 U.S....
Critical
What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
A much-needed and hard-hitting plan, from one of the great Democratic minds of our time, to reform America's broken health-care system.
Undoubtedly, the biggest domestic policy issue in the coming years will be America's health-care system. Millions of Americans go without medical care because...