Simon Schuster: 4797 books
My Golden Lessons
100-Plus Ways to Improve Your Shots, Lower Your Scores and Enjoy Golf Much, Much More
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
He made his first cut in a professional major championship in the 1958 U.S. Open, at age eighteen. Forty years later, he had his most recent top-10 finish in a major at the Masters. In between, he won eighteen professional majors, a hundred tournaments worldwide, and provided countless thrills along...
by Jeff Benedict, Armen Keteyian
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
“A confident and substantial book...It has torque and velocity...It makes a sweet sound, like a well-struck golf ball. I found it exhilarating, depressing, tawdry, and moving in almost equal measure. It’s a big American story.” —*The New York Times***
Based on years of reporting and...
Harvey Penick's Little Red Book
Lessons And Teachings From A Lifetime In Golf
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
The twentieth anniversary edition of this classic work—the bestselling golf instruction book of all time and hailed as “the golfer's equivalent of The Elements of Style” (The New York Times)—includes a new introduction by a prominent golfer, twenty new illustrations, and never-before-published...
Crazy Good
The True Story of Dan Patch, the Most Famous Horse in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2008
A hundred years ago, the most famous athlete in America was a horse. But Dan Patch was more than a sports star; he was a cultural icon in the days before the automobile. Born crippled and unable to stand, he was nearly euthanized. For a while, he pulled the grocer's wagon in his hometown of Oxford,...
Rowing the Atlantic
Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
STUCK IN A corporate job rut and faced with an unraveling marriage at the age of thirty-six, Roz Savage sat down one night and wrote two versions of her own obituary -- the one that she wanted and the one she was heading for. They were very different. She realized that if she carried on as she was,...
To the Last Breath
A Memoir of Going to Extremes
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
A journey to the most extreme points on Earth and deep inside the human spirit
Before Georgetown physics professor Francis Slakey decided to climb the highest mountain on every continent and surf every ocean, he had shut himself off from other people. His lectures were mechanical; his relationships...
No Visible Horizon
Surviving the World's Most Dangerous Sport
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
The flying life has always demanded a passage across the razor's edge. At any moment you could slip to the other side: a gas leak, weather, fire in the cockpit. Sometimes what made the risks particularly horrible was that you could watch your mistakes play out in front of you, as a chorus of guilt...
The Lost Explorer
Finding Mallory On Mount Everest
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 1999
This is the adventure story of the year -- how Conrad Anker found the body of George Mallory on Mount Everest, casting an entirely new light on the mystery of the explorer who may have conquered Everest seventy-five years ago.
On June 8, 1924, George Leigh Mallory and Andrew "Sandy" Irvine were last...
Why Is The Foul Pole Fair?
Answers to 101 of the Most Perplexing Baseball Questions
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2004
Chicken soup for the baseball lover's soul -- the inimitable Vince Staten takes you out to the ol' ballgame and answers all the baseball questions your dad hoped you wouldn't ask.
The Art of a Beautiful Game
The Thinking Fan's Tour of the NBA
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
In The Art of a Beautiful Game, Chris Ballard, the award-winning Sports Illustrated writer who has covered the NBA for the past decade, goes behind the scenes to examine basketball in ways that will surprise even die-hard fans. An inveterate hoops junkie who played some college ball, Ballard sits...
by John Gierach
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers.
If John Gierach is living in a fool’s paradise, then it’s a paradise that his regular readers will recognize and new fans will delight in discovering....
Arnold
The Education of a Bodybuilder
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Five-time Mr. Universe, seven-time Mr. Olympia, and Mr. World, Arnold Schwarzenegger is the name in bodybuilding. Here is his classic bestselling autobiography, which explains how the “Austrian Oak” came to the sport of bodybuilding and aspired to be the star he has become.
I still remember...
What Time Is It? You Mean Now?
Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Could Confucius hit a curveball?
Could Yoda block the plate?
Can the Dalai Lama dig one out of the dirt?
No, there is only one Zen master who could contemplate the circle of life while rounding the bases.
Who is this guru lurking in the grand old game? Well, he's the winner of ten World Series...
by John Gierach
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers.
With the wry humor and wit that have become his trademark, John Gierach writes about his travels in search of good fishing and even better fish stories....