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Driven: From Homeless to Hero, My Journeys On and Off Lambeau Field
Donald Driver · Random House Inc
Pages: 278
Format: Book
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The legendary NFL receiver, all-time receptions and yards leader for the Green Bay Packers, and Dancing with the Stars champion looks back on his life and career. When he was picked in the seventh-round of 1999 NFL draft, Donald Driver couldn't find Green Bay on a map. He was given little... |
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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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The Pacific Crest Trail - "A Hiker's Companion"
Karen Berger · W W Norton
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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The Pacific Crest Trail - 'A Hiker's Companion' is not a step by step guide to the PCT. Rather it is an overview type of guide, designed to tell you the things the state guides leave out. Written by 2 people who wholeheartedly love the trail and return year after year to hike... |
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The Chicago Cubs: Story of a Curse
RICH COHEN · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A captivating blend of reportage and memoir exploring the history of the Chicago CubsFor Rich Cohen and millions of other fans, the Cubs have always been more than a team: they've been the protagonists of a King Arthur epic, in search of the Holy Grail that is winning the World Series.A... |
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The Secret of Golf: The Story of Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus
Joe Posnanski · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times BestsellerThe first time they met, at an exhibition match in 1967, Tom Watson was a seventeen-year-old high school student and Jack Nicklaus, at twenty-seven, was already the greatest golfer in the world. Though they shared some similarities - they were both Midwestern boys... |
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Power Ball: Anatomy of a Modern Baseball Game
ROB NEYER · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The former ESPN columnist and analytics pioneer dramatically recreates an action-packed 2017 game between the Oakland A's and eventual World Series Champion Houston Astros to reveal the myriad ways in which Major League Baseball has changed over the last few decades.On September 8, 2017,... |
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Feast by Firelight: Simple Recipes for Camping, Cabins, and the Great Outdoors
Emma Frisch · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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A transporting, lushly photographed book with easy-to-prepare recipes for gatherings at campgrounds and cabins alike. Feast by Firelight offers solution-oriented recipes that make cooking outdoors feel effortless and downright fun and it shows how to utilize clever cooking methods, prep... |
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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
Piers Paul Read · Avon; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback
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On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes. Out of the forty-five original passengers and crew, only sixteen made it off the mountain alive. For ten excruciating weeks they suffered deprivations beyond imagining, confronting... |
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Remembering the Stars of the NFL Glory Years: An Inside Look at the Golden Age of Football
WAYNE STEWART · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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The 1950s and 60s was a golden age for professional football. It was perhaps the toughest and roughest era for the sport, before rules were created to better protect the players, but it was also a time when legends were born. To many football fans this era remains the Glory Years of the NFL,... |
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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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Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
Joe Simpson · Perennial; Revised edition
Format: Paperback
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Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his leg. In the hours that followed, darkness fell and a blizzard raged as Yates tried to lower... |
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