Simon Schuster: 4797 books
InSideOut Coaching
How Sports Can Transform Lives
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
In this inspirational yet practical book, the man Parade called “the most important coach in America,” subject of the national bestseller Season of Life, Joe Ehrmann, describes his coaching philosophy and explains how sports can transform lives at every level of play, from the earliest years to...
Fourth and Long
The Fight for the Soul of College Football
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
The New York Times bestseller about the state of college football: Why we love the game, what is at risk, and the fight to save it—“A fascinating saga” (Booklist).
In search of the sport’s old ideals amid the roaring flood of hypocrisy and greed, bestselling author John U. Bacon embedded...
Ty Cobb
A Terrible Beauty
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
A fascinating and authoritative biography of perhaps the most controversial player in baseball history, Ty Cobb—“The best work ever written on this American sports legend: It’s a major reconsideration of a reputation unfairly maligned for decades” (The Boston Globe).
Ty Cobb is baseball...
by Michael Bamberger
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
The instant New York Times bestseller from acclaimed Sports Illustrated writer Michael Bamberger—a warm, nostalgic, intimately reported account of golf’s greatest generation, and “maybe the best golf book I’ve ever read” (Bill Reynolds, The Providence Journal).
With “exceptional...
Clemente
The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 25, 2006
En Clemente: la pasión y el donaire del ultimo héroe del béisbol, David Maraniss revive magistralmente al extraordinario deportista valiéndose de una narración de gran vuelo y de meticulosos detalles para captar, a un tiempo, al hombre y al mito.
El último día de 1972, después de dieciocho...
by Peter Sagal
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
“Sagal has created a new genre—the five-minute-mile memoir. Combining commentary and reflection about running with a deeply felt personal story, this book is winning, smart, honest, and affecting. Whether you are a runner or not, it will move you.” —Susan Orlean
In the midpoint of life,...
Be Quick - But Don't Hurry
Finding Success in the Teachings of a Lifetime
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2002
Be Quick, But Don't Hurry presents the team-building management secrets of the greatest coach of the twentieth century, cloaked in the heartwarming tale of the reluctant protege who learned those secrets in spite of himself.
Perhaps the least controversial sports honor in living memory was...
The Smart Money
How the World's Best Sports Bettors Beat the Bookies Out of Millions
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2006
A riveting inside look at the lucrative world of professional high-stakes sports betting by a journalist who lived a secret life as a key operative in the world's most successful sports gambling ring.
When journalist Michael Konik landed an interview with Rick "Big Daddy" Matthews,...
by Bill Walton
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
“An elegiac yet exuberant new memoir” (The New York Times Book Review)—Bill Walton’s New York Times bestselling memoir about his recovery from debilitating physical injury and how lessons from John Wooden at UCLA (and the music of the Grateful Dead) have inspired his darkest hours.
In...
by David Owen
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
Earl Woods, the father of young Eldrick "Tiger" Woods, was widely ridiculed in 1996 when, in an article anointing his son as Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year, he likened Tiger's potential impact to that of a messiah. This unseemly proclamation appeared to embody all the worst elements...
Bob Knight
The Unauthorized Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2006
Brilliant, intimidating, charming, or profane, Coach Bob Knight is an enduring contradiction who has long fascinated and repelled basketball fans, for whom he has provided as much to dislike as to respect.
Bob Knight: The Unauthorized Biography is the first comprehensive biography of Knight,...
Loudmouth
Tales (and Fantasies) of Sports, Sex, and Salvation from Behind the Microphone
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
From one of radio's former loudest, orneriest, most beloved, and highest-rated sports radio personalities, a bold and hilarious memoir of sports, manhood, and what it is to be a fan.
In 1991, fresh from college, Craig Carton drove a crappy 1980 Buick to Buffalo, New York, to interview for a...
Joe DiMaggio
The Hero's Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Joe DiMaggio was, at every turn, one man we could look at who made us feel good.
In the hard-knuckled thirties, he was the immigrant boy who made it big—and spurred the New York Yankees to a new era of dynasty. He was Broadway Joe, the icon of elegance, the man who wooed and won Marilyn Monroe—the...
Arthur Ashe
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
The first comprehensive, authoritative biography of American icon Arthur Ashe—the Jackie Robinson of men’s tennis—a pioneering athlete who, after breaking the color barrier, went on to become an influential civil rights activist and public intellectual.
Born...