Taylor Publishing: 636 books
The Best Show in Football
The 1946–1955 Cleveland Browns—Pro Football's Greatest Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
For ten years the Cleveland Browns compiled a better record and won more championships than any team in pro football history. In their first game they set an all-time attendance record and consistently drew the largest crowds of the post-World War II era. They dominated an upstart league and then...
by Robert W. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
This book carefully examines the careers of the fifty men who made the greatest impact on one of the most successful franchises in the history of professional sports. Features of The 50 Greatest Players in Detroit Tigers History include quotes from opposing players and former teammates, summaries...
Old Time Baseball
America's Pastime in the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2005
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...
How I Played the Game
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2006
Byron Nelson was one of golf's greatest legends. He was one of the finest golfers ever to pick up a putter, and the man who had the most magnificent year any golfer has ever had—1945, when he won an incredible eighteen PGA tournaments, including eleven in a row, and finished second in seven others.
How...
Big and Bright
Deep in the Heart of Texas High School Football
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Texas is a diverse state. But the one thing that binds Texans more than their state pride, even more than religion, is football. For the many towns and cities of Texas, high school football is more than a sport or an extracurricular activity—it’s the glue of their community. Author Gray Levy,...
Super Bowl Monday
From the Persian Gulf to the Shores of West Florida—The New York Giants, the Buffalo Bills, and Super Bowl XXV
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Super Bowl Monday is a thorough retelling of Super Bowl XXV, the epic January 1991 showdown between the New York Giants and the Buffalo Bills. Great characters and a gripping finish to the closest episode in Super Bowl history made for a wonderful conclusion to the game's Silver Anniversary. But what...
The Bucs!
The Story of the Pittsburgh Pirates
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998
Each generation of Pirate fans has been blessed with a pantheon of heroes: Honus Wagner, Pie Traynor, Bill Mazeroski, Roberto Clemente and Willie Stargell.
Baby Bull
From Hardball to Hard Time and Back
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 1998
Orlando Cepeda enjoyed a stellar baseball career in the late fifties and throughout the sixties, but after it ended in the mid-seventies, his life fell apart. In Baby Bull, Cepeda shares his story for the first time. He reflects on his baseball career and shares his twenty-year struggle to rebuild his life and regain his reputation.
by Ross Adell, Ken Samelson
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2003
Born out of expansion in 1962, the New York Mets have more than filled the void left by the departure of the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants. They have provided baseball fans in New York and around the baseball world with close to 40 years of memories including Casey Stengel's loveable losers,...
by Bucky Fox
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2008
Since the Orioles' flight into Baltimore, stars from Brooks Robinson to Miguel Tejada have shot across baseball's stratosphere.
This swingin' team keeps the hits flying. Out of the park. Off the charts. How high?
To the world title in 1966, starring Frank Robinson.
To baseball's top...
Fixed
How Goodfellas Bought Boston College Basketball
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2000
Using extensive background research as well as interviews with the principal characters, Fixed provides the first in-depth reconstruction of the point-shaving scandal involving the 1978-1979 Boston College basketball team, from the genesis of the plot in the summer of 1978, through the uncovering...
Everything You Wanted to Know About the New York Knicks
A Who's Who of Everyone Who Ever Played On or Coached the NBA's Most Celebrated Team
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2007
This encyclopedic listing of every man who played on or coached the New York Knicks from the team's inception in 1946 to the present is jam-packed with details on everything from a player's careers statistics to his height, weight, and jersey number. Included is information about a player's life before...
Red Sox vs. Yankees
The Great Rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
The rivalry between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox involves not just the teams, but the cities, owners, ballparks, fans, and the media. Its roots reach back to before even Babe Ruth and Harry Frazee, yet it is as contemporary as the next Red Sox–Yankees game. This book tells the story of...
Quotable Petty
Words of Wisdom, Success, and Courage, By and About Richard Petty, the King of Stock-Car Racing
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2002
Petty's savvy promotional and media persona has helped make him one of America's most quoted sports champions.