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When the Crowd Didn't Roar: How Baseball's Strangest Game Ever Gave a Broken City Hope
Kevin Cowherd · University of Nebraska Press
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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The date is April 29, 2015. Baltimore is reeling from the devastating riots sparked by the death in police custody of twenty-five-year-old African American Freddie Gray. Set against this grim backdrop, less than thirty-six hours after the worst rioting Baltimore has seen since the assassination... |
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Elevated: The Global Rise of the N.B.A.
Harvey Araton · Triumph Books
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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Howard Beck. Marc Stein. Jonathan Abrams. Chris Broussard. Ira Berkow. George Vecsey. Mike Wise. Selena Roberts. Lee Jenkins. All have graced the pages of The New York Times, entertaining readers with their probing coverage of the N.B.A.: a stage on which spectacular athletes perform against... |
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Warren Spahn: A Biography of the Legendary Lefty
Lew Freedman · Sports Publishing
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
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With 363 victories, Warren Spahn is the winningest left-handed pitcher in baseball history. During his 21-year career, Spahn won 20 games thirteen times, was a 17-time All Star, a Cy Young-award winner, and was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1973. In addition, Spahn was also... |
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Full Count: The Education of a Pitcher
David Cone · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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Met and Yankee All-Star pitcher David Cone shares lessons from the World Series and beyond in this essential memoir for baseball fans everywhere. "There was a sense about him and an aura about him. Even when he was in trouble, he carried himself like a pitcher who said, 'I'm... |
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Legend: My Life in Football
JOE NAMATH · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Timed for the 50th anniversary of his legendary Super Bowl "Guarantee," the NFL icon who first brought show business to sports is finally ready to tell the story of his spectacular rise and reign as "Broadway Joe," to his struggles with alcoholism, to the redemption... |
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K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches
Tyler Kepner · Doubleday
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times baseball columnist, an enchanting, enthralling history of the national pastime as told through the craft of pitching, based on years of archival research and interviews with more than three hundred people from Hall of Famers to the stars of todayThe baseball is an amazing... |
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Belichick: The Making of the Greatest Football Coach of All Time
Ian O'Connor · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive biography of the NFL's most enigmatic, controversial, and yet successful coach Bill Belichick is perhaps the most fascinating figure in the NFL - the infamously dour face of one of the winningest franchises in sports. As head coach... |
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