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Basketball's Greatest Stars
Michael Grange · Firefly Books, Limited
Pages: 248
Format: Print book
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Profiles of the best NBA players provide a great history of the game. Basketball is an elite professional sport and players command stratospheric salaries. The spectacular success of the NBA is based on its stars' performances, which excite fans game after game, championship after... |
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Arnie: The Life of Arnold Palmer
TOM CALLAHAN · HARPERCOLLINS
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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In this definitive biography, veteran sportswriter Tom Callahan shines a spotlight on one of the greatest golfers ever to play the game, Arnold Palmer.The winner of more than ninety championships, including four Masters Tournaments, Arnold Palmer was a legend in twentieth century sports:... |
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Football's Greatest Stars
Allan Maki · Firefly Books
Pages: 248
Format: Book
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Praise for the first edition: It's sure to be a hit with any gridiron fan. -- American Profile A superb book for fans and a compelling history of a great game. -- BookPage In the United States, football has more fans than any other sport. Why is the NFL so popular? Who are the players... |
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The QB: The Making of Modern Quarterbacks
Bruce Feldman · Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover
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With unparalleled access to the recruits coaches and gurus shaping footballrsquos future Bruce Feldman has written a modern-day tale about the making of the next superstars in the gamersquos most important position the quarterbackIn the world of modern football with NFL teams worth more... |
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The Kevin Show: An Olympic Athlete's Battle with Mental Illness
Mary Pilon · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Monopolists, the incredible story of Olympic sailor Kevin Hall, and the psychiatric syndrome that makes him believe he stars in a television show of his life.Meet Kevin Hall, brother, son, husband, father, and Olympic and America's Cup sailor.... |
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The 50 Greatest Players in Boston Red Sox History
Robert W. Cohen · Lyons Press
Pages: 376
Format: Paperback
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The Boston Red Sox are one of the most iconic baseball teams, representing not just a city or a state, but an entire region--they're the only professional baseball team in New England. Baseball immortals Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth wore the uniform early in their careers and many other... |
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Lost Champions: Four Men, Two Teams, and the Breaking of Pro Football's Color Line
Gretchen Atwood · Bloomsbury
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Many know the story of Jackie Robinson integrating major league baseball in 1947. But few know that the NFL integrated a year earlier, when Kenny Washington stepped on the field for the Los Angeles Rams. He wasn't the only one. Four men broke pro football's color line in 1946, Kenny Washington... |
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Brothers in Arms: Koufax, Kershaw, and the Dodgers' Extraordinary Pitching Tradition
Jon Weisman · Triumph Books
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
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The Los Angeles Dodgers are one of the most storied franchises in all of sports, with enduring legacies both on and off the diamond. Chief among the hallmarks of the organization is an unparalleled pitching dominance; Dodger blue and white brings to mind brilliance on the mound and the Cy Young... |
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26.2 Miles to Boston: A Journey Into The Heart Of The Boston Marathon
Michael Connelly · Lyons Press; Revised edition
Format: Paperback
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117 years Strong…and Counting!This all-new edition, which follows the Boston Marathon into the 21st century and through the tragedy of the 2013 race, is a colorful and moving portrait of what it feels like to run the world’s oldest annual marathon, escorting the reader... |
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Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
Ben Montgomery · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 277
Format: Print book
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Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, sixty-seven-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile... |
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The Run Walk Run® Method
Jeff Galloway · Meyer & Meyer Sport
Pages: 200
Format: Print book
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Jeff Galloway's injury-free marathon training program has helped hundreds of thousands of runners of all abilities. His training schedules have inspired the second wave of marathoners who follow the Galloway RUN-WALK-RUNTM, low mileage, three-day suggestions to an over 98% success rate.... |
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The League: How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports Empire
John Eisenberg · Basic Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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The epic tale of the five owners who shepherded the NFL through its tumultuous early decades and built the most popular sport in America The National Football League is a towering, distinctly American colossus spewing out $13 billion in annual revenue. Yet its current dominance has obscured... |
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The Devil's Snake Curve: A Fan's Notes From Left Field
Josh Ostergaard · Coffee House Press
Pages: 253
Format: Paperback
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The Devil's Snake Curve offers an alternative American history, in which colonialism, jingoism, capitalism, and faith are represented by baseball. Personal and political, it twines Japanese internment camps with the Yankees; Walmart with the Kansas City Royals; and facial hair patterns... |
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