Sports Publishing: 554 books
Fightin' Words
Kentucky vs. Louisville
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
The long-standing rivalry between the Kentucky Wildcats and the Louisville Cardinals is one of the most heated in college basketball. Facing off against each other on the court for over a century, the intrastate rivalry became red-hot over thirty years ago when the two faced each other in 1983 NCAA...
Tales from the Cleveland Cavaliers Locker Room
The Rookie Season of LeBron James
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Long before The Decision,” four MVP awards, and back-to-back NBA championships with the Miami Heat, LeBron James opened the 200304 season as an untested rookie with the Cleveland Cavaliers. In Tales from the Cleveland Cavaliers Locker Room: The Rookie Season of LeBron James, first published...
Game of My Life University of Kansas Jayhawks
Memorable Stories of Jayhawk Basketball
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
The night of April 4, 1988 will forever live in the hearts of fans of Jayhawks basketball. On that night, the Jayhawks and their fans raucously celebrated the team’s first national title since 1952. This game for the ages is one of 22 contests joyously recalled in this reissue of Steve Buckner’s...
Season of '42
Joe D, Teddy Ballgame, and Baseball?s Fight to Survive a Turbulent First Year of War
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Big league baseball would seem to have been a hard sell in 1942. World War II was not going well for the United States in the Pacific and not much better in Europe. Moreover, the country was in drastically short supply of ships, planes, submarines, torpedoes, and other war materials, and Uncle Sam...
by Steven Travers
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2003
Barry Bonds: Baseball Superman is the biography of the game's first four-time Most Valuable Player. In 2001, Bonds broke the greatest record in sports, the all-time single-season home run record held over the years by Babe Ruth, Roger Maris and Mark McGwire, and arguably had the greatest season in...
Press Box Revolution
How Sports Reporting Has Changed Over the Past Thirty Years
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Press Box Revolution is a journey through the evolution of reporting in New York and around the nation by a reporter who has witnessed every second of it in the past three decades. Rich Coutinho, a New York-based reporter who has covered numerous major sporting events, will escort readers into corners...
by Drew Sharp, Terry Foster
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Any sports fan knows that nothing brings on more passion and opinion than a good old-fashioned debate. Drew Sharp and Terry Foster are no different, as they take on the top debates of all time in Detroit sports.
Bob Logan's Tales from Chicago Sports
Cubs, Bulls, Bears, and Other Animals
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Tales from Chicago Sports: Cubs, Bulls, Bears and Other Animals will combine stories, anecdotes, columns and fun stuff about the Windy City's sports teams, woven together by text of Bob Logan's personal memories and tales...some taller than others. It will include vignettes about Chicago personalities...
Fun City
John Lindsay, Joe Namath, and How Sports Saved New York in the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
On January 1, 1966, New York came to a standstill as the city’s transit workers went on strike. This was the first day on the job for Mayor John Lindsay—a handsome, young former congressman with presidential aspirations—and he would approach the issue with an unconventional outlook that would...
I Was There!
Joe Buck, Bob Costas, Jim Nantz, and Others Relive the Most Exciting Sporting Events of Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Take a trip through sports history through the eyes of those covering the biggest events of all time. In I Was There! seventy of the biggest names in sports broadcasting and journalism share their personal experiences at the top five sports moments they each saw in person. From cultural phenomena...
Bearing the Cross
My Inspiring Journey from Poverty to the NFL and Sports Television
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Born into poverty in Hammond, Indiana, not much was expected from Irvin Acie Cross. But with much hard work and dedication, he put together one of the most incredible life stories imaginable.
After being drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in 1961 out of Northwestern University, Cross went on...
by Amy Rosewater
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2000
Jim Thome: Lefty Launcher is the first book ever written about the man who has hit 30 or more home runs for four-consecutive seasons, the first left-handed hitter in franchise history to accomplish that feat. Thome also ranks sixth on Clevelands all-time list for career home runs. "Lefty Launcher"...
by Steve Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
"Dr. Death" Steve Williams was given a second chance. In the prime of his life, Steve was diagnosed with T-4 throat cancer. With God by his side, Steve overcame all odds and survived this deadly disease. Now, Steve is committed to giving his testimony to the people from the wrestling ring. As an athlete,...
by Jack O'Connell
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
An easy to read children's book chronicling the exciting career of Derek Jeter.
Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known...