Lyons Press: 836 books
by Harvey Frommer
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Throughout the 2008 season, each game played at the world’s most beloved stadium brought “The House That Ruth Built” closer to shutting its gates forever. Players envisioned running off the field one last time. Vendors anticipated selling their last bags of peanuts. Fans readied themselves to...
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The Mickey Mantle Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Bestselling sportswriter Peter Golenbock knew Mickey Mantle, Billy Martin, Jim Bouton, Joe Pepitone, and many of Mantle’s friends, family, and teammates. While Mickey was a good person at heart, he had a dark side that went far beyond his well-known alcoholism and infidelities. In this fictional...
Waters Far and Near
Tales of Angling Adventure and Misadventure Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
From the glacial lakes of Patagonia to the safari camps of Zambia, Charles Gaines has traversed the globe in search of the elusive catch. Traveling by helicopter, kayak, ship or houseboat, on lakes, rivers, oceans and everglades, he has visited five continents and over 20 countries following his primary...
Old Time Baseball
America's Pastime in the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
In this delightful history of the sport, Frommer captures the flavor, smell, and craziness of the early days of baseball. Starting with its invention in 1842 by the descendant of a British sea captain (and not Abner Doubleday), Frommer traces the development of the sport from the first games on a...
by Bert Randolph Sugar
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Easily the most enduring of all sports questions is "Who was/is the best . . . ?" Perhaps in no sport is the question more asked and argued over than in boxing. And in boxing perhaps none is more qualified to answer the question than Bert Randolph Sugar.
In Boxing's Greatest Fighters, not...
One-Year Dynasty
Inside the Rise and Fall of the 1986 Mets, Baseball's Impossible One-and-Done Champions
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Relive the games, moves, and players of the hard-hitting team that won the 1986 World Series. Vin Scully called the tenth-inning groundball in Game Six of the 1986 World Series—Mets versus Red Sox—that sealed a comeback, fueled a curse, and turned a batting champion into a scapegoat. But getting...
Swinging '73
Baseball's Wildest Season
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Interest and attendance were dropping, and football was ascending. Stuck in a rut, baseball was dying. Then Steinbrenner bought the Yankees, a second-division club with wife-swapping pitchers, leaving the House That Ruth Built not with a slam but a simper. He vowed not to interfere—before soon changing...
by Barry Wilner, Ken Rappoport
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Immerse yourself in the greatest moments in football history. Barry Wilner and Ken Rappoport charge through every Super Bowl, covering the most intense moments in sports history. Revisit some of America’s classic and current football heroes, including: Bart Starr, Dave Robinson, Max McGee, Chuck...
Almost Perfect
The Heartbreaking Pursuit of Pitching's Holy Grail
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
The rich, poignant tales of major league baseball’s most hard-luck fraternity—the pitchers of its Almost-Perfect Games
From 1908 to 2015, there have been thirteen pitchers who have begun Major League Baseball games by retiring the first twenty-six opposing batters, but then, one out from...
by Harvey Frommer
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
This sensitive commentary on Jackie Robinson's life describes his childhood in Pasadena, through his years as a sports hero, to his later involvement in politics and the Civil Rights movement. Harvey Frommer has drawn upon interviews with Robinson's family, friends, and fellow ball players to tell...
The Immaculate Inning
Unassisted Triple Plays, 40/40 Seasons, and the Stories Behind Baseball's Rarest Feats
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
The Immaculate Inning shines a light on the miracle of baseball’s endless possibility—the way that on any given day, someone (maybe a star, or maybe a scrub) could perform the rarest of single-game feats or cap off a seemingly unobtainable chase for a record. Covering a selection of the most unusual,...
by Robert W. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
The New York Giants joined the National Football League back in 1925, and have since been one of the league’s flagship franchises. The Giants have appeared in nineteen NFL championship games—more than any other team—and have won eight league championships. Iconic figures such as Eli Manning,...
Haunted Baseball
Ghosts, Curses, Legends, and Eerie Events
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Baseball and ghost stories are as American as apple pie. Haunted Baseball combines both with this fun and freaky collection of otherworldly yarns. Collected from baseball players, stadium personnel, umpires, front-office folks, and fans, the tales told here explore the spooky connection between baseball...
Bullet Bill Dudley
The Greatest 60-Minute Man in Football
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
You can’t separate football from the man. The game gave him everything and “Bullet Bill” Dudley said as much. But you can separate the man from football. As a husband, father, businessman and citizen, he put far more into this world than he took out. Three years before Bill died, he asked his...