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Off Speed: Baseball, Pitching, and the Art of Deception
Terry McDermott · Pantheon
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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A wonderfully informative, exuberant, and entertaining book that explores the evolution and history of baseball pitching through the story of one "perfect" game. Tracing the evolution of pitching and the pitcher's art of deception, Terry McDermott tells the fascinating story... |
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Thrown
Kerry Howley · Sarabande Books
Pages: 282
Format: Paperback
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In this darkly funny work of literary nonfiction, a bookish young woman insinuates herself into the lives of two cage fighters - one a young prodigy, the other an aging journeyman. Acclaimed essayist Kerry Howley follows these men for three years through the bloody world of mixed martial... |
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Ways of Grace: Stories of Activism, Adversity, and How Sports Can Bring Us Together
James Blake · Amistad
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Inspired by Arthur Ashe's bestselling memoir Days of Grace, a collection of positive, uplifting stories of seemingly small acts of grace from across the sports world that have helped to bridge cultural and racial divides.Like many people of color, James Blake has experienced the effects... |
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Havana Hardball: Spring Training, Jackie Robinson, and The Cuban League
César Brioso · University Press of Florida
Pages: 301
Format: Print book
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"An in-depth look at a pivotal time in baseball history." - Lou Hernández, author of Baseball's Great Hispanic Pitchers "Set against the backdrop of Old Havana, Cesar Brioso has given us an insightful, often loving ode to a memorable season when baseball's past and future... |
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Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong
Juliet Macur · Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive account of Lance Armstrong's spectacular rise and fall.In June 2013, when Lance Armstrong fled his palatial home in Texas, downsizing in the face of multimillion-dollar lawsuits, Juliet Macur was there—talking to his girlfriend and children and listening to Armstrong's... |
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Playing Through the Whistle: Steel, Football, and an American Town
S L Price · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 550
Format: Print book
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In the early twentieth century, down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh, the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company built one of the largest mills in the world and a town to go with it. Aliquippa was a beacon and a melting pot, pulling in thousands of families from Europe and the Jim Crow south.... |
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Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic: Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Charlie Finley's Swingin' A's
Jason Turbow · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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How the Oakland A's of the 1970s-a revolutionary band of brawling winners led by Reggie Jackson, Catfish Hunter, Vida Blue, Sal Bando, and Rollie Fingers-won three straight championships and knocked baseball into the modern ageThe Oakland A's of the early 1970s were the most transformative... |
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Undisputed Truth
Mike Tyson · Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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A bare-knuckled, tell-all memoir from Mike Tyson, the onetime heavyweight champion of the world—and a legend both in and out of the ring. Philosopher, Broadway headliner, fighter, felon—Mike Tyson has defied stereotypes, expectations, and a lot of conventional wisdom during... |
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When It Was Just a Game: Remembering the First Super Bowl
Harvey Frommer · Taylor Trade Publishing, 2015.
Pages: 312
Format: Print book
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Written by acclaimed sports author and oral historian Harvey Frommer and with an introduction by pro football Hall of Famer Frank Gifford, When It Was Just a Game tells the fascinating story of the ground-breaking AFL-NFL World Championship Football game played on January 15, 1967: Packers... |
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