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The Last Cowboy: A Life of Tom Landry
Mark Ribowsky · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 684
Format: Hardcover |
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A Publisher's Weekly Best Book of 2013 An action-packed biography of a man, his team, and the league he helped create -- in the tradition of Maraniss's When Pride Still Mattered. Tom Landry, the coach during professional football's most fabled era, transformed the gridiron from... |
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Bigger Than the Game: Restitching a Major League Life
Dirk Hayhurst · Citadel
Format: Paperback |
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Old demons together with new enemies and a season ending-- possibly career ending-- injury look to knock Hayhurst out of baseball forever. Isolated from his family, broken, and branded a traitor by his teammates for writing inside the locker room, Hayhurst finds himself at a crossroads:... |
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The Outsider: A Memoir
Jimmy Connors · Harper; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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The Outsider is a no-holds-barred memoir by the original bad boy of tennis, Jimmy Connors.Connors ignited the tennis boom in the 1970s with his aggressive style of play, turning his matches with John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg, and Ivan Lendl into prizefights. But it was his prolonged dedication... |
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The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch
Jonathan Gottschall · Penguin Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover |
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An English professor begins training in the sport of mixed martial arts and explores the science and history behind the violence of menWhen a mixed martial arts (MMA) gym moves in across the street from his office, Jonathan Gottschall sees a challenge, and an opportunity. Pushing forty,... |
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Fields of Battle: Pearl Harbor, the Rose Bowl, and the Boys Who Went to War
Brian Curtis · Flatiron Books
Pages: 308
Format: Print book |
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In the wake of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the 1942 Rose Bowl was moved from Pasadena to Durham, North Carolina, out of fear of Japanese attacks on the West Coast. It remains the only Rose Bowl game to ever be played outside of Pasadena. Duke University, led by legendary coach Wallace... |
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Toughness: Developing True Strength On and Off the Court
Jay Bilas · NAL Hardcover
Format: Hardcover |
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe popular ESPN basketball analyst and former Duke player looks at the true meaning of toughness.If anyone knows tough, its Jay Bilas. A four-year starter at Duke, he learned an incomparable work ethic under coach Mike Krzyzewski, battling against the greatest... |
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Beast: Blood, Struggle, and Dreams at the Heart of Mixed Martial Arts
Doug Merlino · Bloomsbury, 2015. ©2015
Pages: 252
Format: Print book |
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The first book to bring readers deep inside a top mixed martial arts gym, Beast shows exactly what it takes to reach the top of this exacting sport. Doug Merlino spent two years at Florida's American Top Team, living, eating, and training alongside some of the world's best fighters,... |
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Brooks: The Biography of Brooks Robinson
Doug Wilson · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover |
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Finalist for the 2014 Casey Award!Selected by the National Baseball Hall of Fame for the 2014 author's seriesBrooks Robinson is one of baseball's most transcendent and revered players. He won a record sixteen straight Gold Gloves at third base, led one of the best teams of the era,... |
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Under the Stars: How America Fell in Love with Camping
Dan White · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 401
Format: Print book |
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"The definitive book on camping in America. . . . A passionate, witty, and deeply engaging examination of why humans venture into the wild." -- Cheryl Strayed, author of WildAn irreverent history of American campingFrom the Sierras to the Adirondacks and the Everglades, Dan White... |
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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Philip H Knight · Scribner
Pages: 386
Format: Print book |
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In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world's most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands.Young, searching,... |
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The Anatomy of Greatness: Lessons from the Best Golf Swings in History
Brandel Chamblee · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover |
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In the first book from popular Golf Channel analyst Brandel Chamblee, the network's "resident scholar and critic" (The New York Times) explores the common swing positions of the greatest players throughout history - and reveals how those commonalities can help players of every... |
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After The Wind : 1996 Everest Tragedy--One Survivor's Story
Lou Kasischke · Good Hart Publishing
Pages: 310
Format: Hardcover |
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Near the top of Mount Everest, on 10 May 1996, eight climbers died. It was the worst tragedy in the mountain's history. Lou Kasischke was there. Now he tells the harrowing story of what went wrong, as it has never been told before - including why the climbers were desperately late and out of time.... |
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Snake: The Legendary Life of Ken Stabler
Michael Freeman · Dey Street Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book |
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The first in-depth biography of one of the most talented and infamous legends to play in the National Football League - the life and times of pro football's first bad boy, famed Oakland Raiders quarterback Ken Stabler.Ken "The Snake" Stabler was the embodiment of the original... |
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