Bill: 4844 books
Steinbrenner
The Last Lion of Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
If you love the New York Yankees, arguably the most storied franchise in all of sports—or even if you’re just a fan of baseball history, or big business bios—this biography of the larger-than-life team owner for the past four decades is a must for your bookshelf. For more than 30 years Bill...
Tour de Lance
The Extraordinary Story of Cycling's Most Controversial Champion
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Lance Armstrong is a worldwide icon, indisputably one of the greatest cyclists who has ever lived. After battling cancer and becoming an inspiration to millions, Armstrong won the Tour de France a record-breaking seven consecutive years before retiring from competition in 2005.
Four years later,...
The Game Plan
The Art of Building a Winning Football Team
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
As one of the most successful general managers and team presidents in NFL history, few people understand how to create the blueprint for a winning football team like Bill Polian. After building the Buffalo Bills team that went to four consecutive Super Bowls and taking the expansion Carolina Panthers...
The Ghost Runner
The Epic Journey of the Man They Couldn't Stop
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
The incredible, inspiring, and heartbreaking story of a phenomenal long-distance runner’s race against insurmountable odds and his own demons.
John Tarrant was one of the best runners the world has ever seen. With a strange, loping gate and a nearly fanatical determination, he dominated the field...
I Live for This!
Baseball's Last True Believer
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2009
An award-winning sportswriter teams up with LA Dodgers manager and Hall of Famer Tommy Lasorda to reveal the secrets of his unlikely success.
Tommy Lasorda is baseball's true immortal and one of its larger than life figures. A former pitcher who was overshadowed by Sandy Koufax, Lasorda went...
Tales from the Minnesota Vikings Sideline
A Collection of the Greatest Vikings Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
Take a journey from the infant stages of football in Minnesota up through the Vikings four Super Bowl appearances in Bill Williamson and Eric Thompson’s Tales from the Minnesota Vikings Sideline. For more than fifty years the Vikings have been established as one of the premier teams in all of sports....
Glory Days
On Sports, Men, and Dreams-That Don't Die
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 1998
Bill Reynolds built his youth around sports. As a boy in a blue-collar Rhode Island town, he spend his hours shooting hoops and dreaming of stardom. From his adolescence to high school fame to a scholarship at Brown University, Reynolds enjoyed the perks of athletic glory. But those days soon ended...
Think Big
Make It Happen in Business and Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Donald J. Trump is an icon: the very definition of the American success story. President-elect, reality-television star, and developer of some of the planet's most prestigious real estate, he's also become one of the world's wealthiest men.
Trump is a living example of how thinking BIG and...
by Bill Chastain
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
He ran like a crazed jackrabbit, according to one awe-struck sportswriter.
Clint Castleberry was already an Atlanta-area football sensation when he arrived at Georgia Tech in 1942, and in one meteoric college season he became a national sports hero as well. He was the first college freshman...
Hack's 191
Hack Wilson and His Incredible 1930 Season
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Hack Wilson’s record 191 RBIs in 1930 may well stand the test of time, and so may the record of his hard-drinking lifestyle. In Hack’s 191, Bill Chastain recreates the most productive offensive season in baseball history while giving readers unique insight into the life of one of baseball’s...
The Elements of Journalism
What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2001
In July 1997, twenty-five of America's most influential journalists sat down to try and discover what had happened to their profession in the years between Watergate and Whitewater. What they knew was that the public no longer trusted the press as it once had. They were keenly aware of the pressures...
The Coffeehouse Investor
How to Build Wealth, Ignore Wall Street, and Get On with Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
In 1998, after thirteen years of providing investment advice for Smith Barney, Bill Schultheis wrote a simple book for people who felt overwhelmed by the stock market. He had discovered that when you simplify your investment decisions, you end up getting better returns. As a bonus, you gain more time...
Hacking Work
Breaking Stupid Rules for Smart Results
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Why work harder than you have to? One manager kept his senior execs happy by secretly hacking into the company's database to give them the reports they needed in one third of the time. Hacking is a powerful solution to every stupid procedure, tool, rule, and process we are forced to endure at the...
Back to Work
Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
“I wrote this book because I love my country and I'm concerned about our future,” writes Bill Clinton. “As I often said when I first ran for President in 1992, America at its core is an idea—the idea that no matter who you are or where you're from, if you work hard and play by the rules, you'll...