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From Gold Teeth to Gold Jacket
My Life in Football and Business
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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 ...
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
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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
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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 ...
Kaiser!
The Greatest Footballer Never to Play Football
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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
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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 New York Giants Sideline
A Collection of the Greatest Giants Stories Ever Told
Sports Publishing
Few sports franchises can match the long, storied history, rich tradition, and legion of passionate, loyal fans of the New York Giants. In this newly-updated edition of Tales from the New York Giants Sideline, memories, anecdotes, names, faces, ...
Fabric of the Game
The Stories Behind the NHL's Names, Logos, and Uniforms
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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
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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 ...
Heaven Is a Playground
A Journey Into the Sweet World of Street Basketball
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"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 ...
The College Football Problem
How Money and Power Corrupted the Game and How We Can Fix That
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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
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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
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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 ...
How Life Imitates Sports
A Sportswriter Recounts, Relives, and Reckons with 50 Years on the Sports Beat
Sports Publishing
Memorable Stories From a Half Century of Sports Journalism For the last half century, Pulitzer Prize–winning sportswriter Ira Berkow has been at the center of some of the most memorable moments in sports history. From the World Series, NBA ...
Dodgers vs. Yankees
The Long-Standing Rivalry Between Two of Baseball's Greatest Teams
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A History of the Epic Rivalry between Two of Baseball's Powerhouses that Has Spanned Over Eighty Years—from Ebbets Field to Dodger Stadium, from Babe Ruth to Reggie Jackson The Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees are two of the most storied ...
Phillies 1980!
Mike Schmidt, Steve Carlton, Pete Rose, and Philadelphia's First World Series Championship
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How the 1980 Philadelphia Phillies Won the First World Series Championship in Franchise History The road was rocky and the suspense intense as a make-or-break 1980 baseball season unfolded for the Philadelphia Phillies under a new, ...
A Fan's Guide to Baseball Analytics
Why WAR, WHIP, wOBA, and Other Advanced Sabermetrics Are Essential to Understanding Modern Baseball
Sports Publishing
Broken up into sections (pitching, fielding, hitting), this authoritative yet fun and easy guide will help readers young and old fully understand and comprehend the statistics that are the present and future of our national pastime. We all know ...
The Ultimate Book of Golf Trivia
600 Questions and Answers
Sports Publishing
Become a golf trivia expert with these challenging questions about Jack Nicklaus, the Masters, Tiger Woods, and more! The Ultimate Book of Golf Trivia tests and expands your knowledge of golf—covering the sport from the 1970s (and earlier) up ...