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The Perfect Pass: American Genius and the Reinvention of Football
S C Gwynne · Scribner
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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New York Times bestselling, award-winning historian S.C. Gwynne tells the incredible story of how Hal Mumme and Mike Leach - two unknown coaches who revolutionized American football in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s - changed the way the game is played at every level, from high school to the NFL.Hal... |
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Gironimo!: Riding the Very Terrible 1914 Tour of Italy
Tim Moore · Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The 1914 Giro d'Italia: The hardest bike race in history. Eighty-one riders started and only eight finished after enduring cataclysmic storms, roads strewn with nails, and even the loss of an eye by one competitor. And now Tim Moore is going to ride it. And he's committed to total... |
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Basketball: A Love Story
DAN KLORES · Crown Archetype
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping and revelatory history of basketball, drawing upon hundreds of hours of interviews with the greatest players, coaches, executives, and journalists in the history of the game.In an effort to tell the complete story of basketball in all its fascinating dimensions, celebrated journalists... |
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Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: And Other Lessons in Life
Charles Jardine · Hachette Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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With over 100 movies and two Academy Awards to his credit over six decades, Hollywood legend Michael Caine shares the wisdom, stories, insight, and skills that life has taught him in his remarkable career--and now his 85th year. One of our best-loved actors Michael Caine has starred in a huge... |
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Game 7, 1986: Failure and Triumph in the Biggest Game of My Life
Ron Darling · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Every little kid who's ever taken the mound in Little League dreams of someday getting the ball for Game Seven of the World Series. Ron Darling got to live that dream - only it didn't go exactly as planned. In Game 7, 1986, the award-winning baseball analyst looks back at what might... |
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Fun City: John Lindsay, Joe Namath, and How Sports Saved New York in the 1960s
Sean Deveney · Sports Publishing LLC
Pages: 376
Format: Hardcover
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On January 1, 1966, New York came to a standstill as the city's transit workers went on strike. This was the first day on the job for Mayor John Lindsay - a handsome, young former congressman with presidential aspirations - and he would approach the issue with an unconventional outlook... |
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Baseball Maverick: How Sandy Alderson Revolutionized Baseball and Revived the Mets
Steve Kettmann · Atlantic Monthly
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In 2010, the New York Mets were in trouble. One of baseball's most valuable franchises, they had recently suffered an embarrassing September collapse and two bitter losing seasons. Their GM had made costly mistakes. And their principle owners were embroiled in the largest financial... |
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Coming Out to Play
Robbie Rogers · Penguin Books
Format: Book
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“Rogers made history.” —Sports IllustratedRobbie Rogers knows better than most that keeping secrets can crush you. But for much of his life Robbie lived in paralyzing fear that sharing his big secret would cost him the love of his family and his career as a professional... |
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I'm Fascinated by Sacrifice Flies: Inside the Game We All Love
Tim Kurkjian · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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ESPN baseball commentator Tim Kurkjian is fascinated by sacrifice flies. In fact, he is fascinated by so many aspects of baseball that he's written a book to show baseball fans where this fascination comes from and how they, too, can find it. In the aftermath of the Steroid Era that... |
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Arthur Ashe: A Life
RAYMOND ARSENAULT · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 784
Format: Hardcover
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The first comprehensive, authoritative biography of American icon Arthur Ashe - the Jackie Robinson of men's tennis - a pioneering athlete who, after breaking the color barrier, went on to become an influential civil rights activist and public intellectual.Born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1943,... |
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The Mamba Mentality: How I Play
KOBE BRYANT · MCD
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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The first book from the basketball superstar Kobe Bryant -- a lavish, deep dive inside the mind of one of the most revered athletes of all timeIn the wake of his retirement from professional basketball, Kobe "The Black Mamba" Bryant has decided to share his vast knowledge and understanding... |
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Truth Doesn't Have a Side: My Alarming Discovery about the Danger of Contact Sports
Bennet Omalu · Zondervan
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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One day in 2002 the fifty-year old body of former Pittsburgh Steeler and hall of famer Mike Webster was laid on a cold table in front of pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu. Webster's body looked to Omalu like the body of a much older man, and the circumstances of his behavior prior to his death... |
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Who Invented the Bicycle Kick?: Soccer's Greatest Legends and Lore
Paul Simpson · William Morrow Paperbacks
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Published in time for the 2014 World Cup, the ultimate collection of soccer’s greatest lore and legends, illustrated with 100 black-and-white photos, by two of the world’s most knowledgeable soccer journalists.Who Invented the Bicycle Kick? is a rollicking ride through soccer... |
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