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Tiger Woods
Jeff Benedict · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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Based on three years of extensive research and reporting, two of today's most acclaimed investigative journalists, Jeff Benedict of Sports Illustrated and eleven-time Emmy Award winner Armen Keteyian, deliver the first major biography of Tiger Woods - sweeping in scope and packed with groundbreaking,... |
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Wooden: A Coach's Life
Seth Davis · Henry Holt & Co
Pages: 591
Format: Hardcover
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A provocative and revelatory new biography of the legendary UCLA coach John Wooden, by one of America's top college basketball writersNo college basketball coach has ever dominated the sport like John Wooden. His UCLA teams reached unprecedented heights in the 1960s and '70s capped... |
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A Life Well Played: My Stories
Arnold Palmer · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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The instant New York Times bestsellerThis book is Palmer's parting gift to the world -- a treasure trove of entertaining anecdotes and timeless wisdom that readers, golfers and non-golfers alike, will celebrate and cherish. No one has won more fans around the world and no player has had a bigger... |
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Just Tell Me I Can't: How Jamie Moyer Defied the Radar Gun and Defeated Time
Jamie Moyer · Grand Central Publishing; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Long-time fans of the National Pastime have known Moyers name for more than 25 years. Thats because hes been pitching in the bigs for all those years. With his trademark three pitches - slow, slower, and slowest - the left-handed Moyer is a pinpoint specialist whose won-lost record actually... |
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Lucky Bastard: My Life, My Dad, and the Things I'm Not Allowed to Say on TV
Joe Buck · Dutton
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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In his debut memoir, Joe Buck talks about his life, his career, and his memorable relationship with his father, legendary sportscaster Jack Buck.Sports fans see Joe Buck everywhere: broadcasting one of the biggest games in the NFL every week, doing the World Series every year, announcing... |
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Stars and Strikes: Baseball and America in the Bicentennial Summer of '76
Dan Epstein · St Martins Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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Dan Epstein scored a cult hit with Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70s. Now he returns with a riotous look at the most pivotal season of the decade.America, 1976: colorful, complex, and combustible. It was a year of Bicentennial... |
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The Streak: Lou Gehrig, Cal Ripken, and Baseball's Most Historic Record
John Eisenberg · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating story of baseball's legendary "Ironmen," two players from different eras who each achieved the coveted and sometimes confounding record of most consecutive games played When Cal Ripken Jr. began his career with the Baltimore Orioles at age twenty-one, he had no idea... |
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Life Is a Wheel: Memoirs of a Bike-Riding Obituarist
Bruce Weber · Scribner Book Company
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
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Life Is a Wheel chronicles the cross-country bicycle trip Bruce Weber made at the age of fifty-seven, an "entertaining travel story filled with insightful thoughts about life, family, and aging" (The Associated Press) .During the summer and fall of 2011, Bruce Weber, an obituary... |
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What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen
KATE FAGAN · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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From noted on-air commentator and sports journalist Kate Fagan, the heartbreaking and vital story of college athlete Maddy Holleran, whose death by suicide rocked the University of Pennsylvania campus and whose life reveals with haunting detail and uncommon understanding the struggle of young... |
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Relentless Spirit: The Unconventional Raising of a Champion
Missy Franklin · Dutton
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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What does it take to become a champion? Gold medalist Missy Franklin, along with her parents, D.A. and Dick, tell the inspirational and heartwarming story of how Missy became both a legendary athlete and a happy and confident woman, something they accomplished by doing things their own way and making... |
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Basketball: Great Writing About America's Game
Alexander Wolff · Library of America
Pages: 500
Format: Hardcover
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From the street game to March Madness to Jordan and LeBron, the greatest writing about the grit, grace, and glory of basketballMade in America, basketball is a sport that stirs a national passion, reaching fever pitch during the NCAA's March Madness and the NBA Finals. Masterfully assembled... |
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A Season in the Sun: The Rise of Mickey Mantle
Randy Roberts · Basic Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The story of Mickey Mantle's magnificent 1956 seasonMickey Mantle was the ideal batter for the atomic age, capable of hitting a baseball harder and farther than any other player in history. He was also the perfect idol for postwar America, a wholesome hero from the heartland.In A Season... |
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