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From Gold Teeth to Gold Jacket
My Life in Football and Business
Sports Publishing
How a young man with a solid work ethic carried himself out of poverty to the pinnacle of professional sports and business. Before he turned sixteen, Edgerrin James had already developed the critical thinking and mental discipline required for ...
The New Book of Baseball Trivia
More than 500 Questions for Avid Fans
Sports Publishing
A comprehensive trivia book that enables readers to compete as they answer questions!In The New Book of Baseball Trivia, experienced baseball author Wayne Stewart includes 500 fun and engaging questions and answers on everyone's favorite former ...
College Sports on the Brink of Disaster
The Rise of Pay-for-Play and the Fall of the Scholar-Athlete
Sports Publishing
Impelled by runaway spending and rampant corruption, America's much-beloved games of college basketball and football are being threatened. The specter of billion-dollar sums being showered on coaches, voracious athletic directors, hordes of ...
Baseball's Best Ever
Sports Publishing
“Big-league baseball is subtle; cloaked in summer languor, moving with the slow, supple grace of a ballerina practicing backstage, yet taut and technical in its skills. To view a baseball game and appreciate it takes concentration.” So begins ...
Tales from the New Jersey Devils Locker Room
A Collection of the Greatest Devils Stories Ever Told
Sports Publishing
Relive the best stories from throughout Devils history—newly updated to include coverage of the 2019–2020 season! From the moment Dr. John McMullen brought professional hockey to New Jersey to the moment Scott Stevens lifted the Stanley Cup ...
I Should Be Dead By Now
The Wild Life and Crazy Times of the NBA's Greatest Rebounder of Modern Times
Sports Publishing
Whether it was helping Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls win three consecutive NBA titles in the 1990s, or showing up to a book signing in a dress and full makeup, Dennis Rodman has always distinguished himself as one of the great and most ...
Rangers vs. Islanders
Denis Potvin, Mark Messier, and Everything Else You Wanted to Know about New York's Greatest Hockey Rivalry
Sports Publishing
The intrastate rivalry between the Islanders and the Rangers is like no other in the NHL. Playing in the same league and with home rinks mere miles from one another, these two teams face off against each other multiple times a season. With ...
1930
The Story of a Baseball Season When Hitters Reigned Supreme
Sports Publishing
The 1930 Major League baseball season was both marvelous and horrendous, great for hitters, embarrassing for pitchers. In totality it was just this side of insane as an outlier among all seasons.Major League Baseball began with the founding of ...
Tales from the 1967 Red Sox Dugout
A Collection of the Greatest Stories Ever Told from the Impossible Dream Season
Sports Publishing
By the end of 1966, the Boston Red Sox were a team in serious trouble. The Red Sox had not won a pennant in twenty years and had not posted a winning record in eight. Pampered by their benevolent owner, Tom Yawkey, the Red Sox had developed a ...
Miracle Moments in New York Mets History
The Turning Points, the Memorable Games, the Incredible Records
Sports Publishing
For Mets fans, here are the stories they want to read and reread, now updated through the 2020 season: the Mets' first win in 1962, Tom Seaver's near-perfect game in 1969, the 1986 World Series, the trade for Mike Piazza, Al Leiter's two-hitter ...
Kaiser!
The Greatest Footballer Never to Play Football
Sports Publishing
The improbable story of a soccer player who scammed his way into a lengthy career…without ever playing in a game. Born in Rio Pardo, Brazil, Carlos Henrique Raposo had dreams of becoming a professional soccer (futbol) player. After a youth ...
Mount Rushmore of the New York Mets
The Best Players by Decade to Wear the Orange and Blue
Sports Publishing
Mount Rushmore, located in the Black Hills of Keystone, South Dakota, is one of the most iconic landmarks in the United States. The face of the mountain features 60-foot heads of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore ...
Tales from the Green Bay Packers Sideline
A Collection of the Greatest Packers Stories Ever Told
Sports Publishing
Experience the thrill of Packers football—newly updated through the 2019–2020 season! Since their dominance of professional football in the 1960s, the Green Bay Packers have reemerged as one of the elite teams in the NFL, with Super Bowl ...
Heaven Is a Playground
A Journey Into the Sweet World of Street Basketball
Sports Publishing
"The best basketball book I've ever read." —Barack ObamaHeaven Is a Playground, now in its fifth edition to include more information on Fly Williams, was the first book on the uniquely American phenomenon of urban basketball. Rick Telander, a ...
Tales from the Kansas City Chiefs Sideline
A Collection of the Greatest Chiefs Stories Ever Told
Sports Publishing
Relive the best stories of Chiefs football—newly updated through the 2019–2020 season! Beginning with their founding as the Dallas Texans of the American Football League in 1960, the Kansas City Chiefs have been one of professional football’s ...
Fabric of the Game
The Stories Behind the NHL's Names, Logos, and Uniforms
Sports Publishing
An in-depth look into the origins of how each NHL team was named, received their logo and design, with interviews by those responsible. Written by those most knowledgeable, you'll learn why every hockey team to every play in the National Hockey ...
The (Inter) National Basketball Association
How the NBA Ushered in a New Era of Basketball and Went Global
Sports Publishing
For most of its existence, the National Basketball Association was a league filled with (almost) all American-born players. Players from overseas were looked at as less-skilled and not worth the risk. Americans playing overseas were looked at as ...
The College Football Problem
How Money and Power Corrupted the Game and How We Can Fix That
Sports Publishing
A detailed expose on the corruption in college football by acclaimed sportswriter Rick Telander, with a foreword by Rick Reilly! In 1989, when Rick Telander first published The Hundred Yard Lie, he proposed that big-time college football should ...
Your Inner Golf Guru
The Science of Rethinking, Relearning, & Revamping Your Golf Swing
Sports Publishing
Lower your handicap and revamp your swing as you become your own best golf instructor.Conventional methodologies, which emphasize ball-striking dictated mostly by bio-mechanics and kinesiology, have failed to enhance the competencies of worn, ...
Football's Fearless Activists
How Colin Kaepernick, Eric Reid, Kenny Stills, and Fellow Athletes Stood Up to the NFL and President Trump
Sports Publishing
For the first time, here is the full story of the NFL player protests that rocked a nation and turned our country upside down. This is the players' side, one that has largely been ignored by the media.On September 1, 2016, Colin Kaepernick took ...