Espn imprint: 16 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
In The ESPN Mighty Book of Sports Knowledge, Steve Wulf, acclaimed author and founding editor of ESPN The Magazine, delivers an arena’s worth of sporting wisdom, trivia, best-of lists, curiosities, legendary feats, and sacred objects–from the magic of Lou Gehrig’s farewell speech to the lore...
Fathers & Daughters & Sports
Featuring Jim Craig, Chris Evert, Mike Golic, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Sally Jenkins, Steve Rushin, Bill Simmons, and others
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
An inspiring anthology of sports short stories for any father, daughter or parent
Thank heavens for Title IX. That dusty piece of 1970s legislation not only made an entire generation of American women fitter and stronger and more self-confident, but it also gave fathers throughout the country...
As Good as Gold
1 Woman, 9 Sports, 10 Countries, and a 2-Year Quest to Make the Summer Olympics
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Imagine George Plimpton. Except with real athletic ability. And he’s a woman. And she’s taken on a challenge that makes Paper Lion look like a brisk game of Go Fish.
Meet Kathryn Bertine, elite triathlete, former professional figure skater, and starving artist. Just as her personal and professional...
The Book of Basketball
The NBA According to The Sports Guy
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
The NBA according to The Sports Guy
Foreword by Malcolm Gladwell
Newly updated with fresh takes on LeBron, Kobe, the Celtics & more*
Bill Simmons, the wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining basketball addict known to millions as ESPN.com’s The Sports Guy, has written...
Kiss 'Em Goodbye
An ESPN Treasury of Failed, Forgotten, and Departed Teams
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
The fascinating sports history of defunct teams in baseball, hockey, basketball and more!
THEY’RE GOING, GOING, GONE. . . .
Their names roll off the tongue, a litany of the damned: the Providence Steam Roller, the Wilmington Quicksteps, the Cincinnati Porkers. They are the lost squads...
Stan Musial
An American Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Veteran sports journalist George Vecsey finally gives this twenty-time All-Star and St. Louis Cardinals icon the biographical treatment he deserves. Stan Musial isthe definitive portrait of one of the game’s best-loved but most unappreciated legends—told through the...
How Lucky You Can Be
The Story of Coach Don Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
In September 2008, Northern State University men’s basketball coach Don Meyer stood on the brink of immortality. He was about to surpass the legendary Bobby Knight to become the all-time NCAA wins leader in men’s basketball. Then, on a two-lane road in South Dakota, everything changed in an instant.
In...
The Sure Thing
The Making and Unmaking of Golf Phenom Michelle Wie
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
Michelle Wie couldn’t miss. No way. Big success? It was only a matter of time. At four she could drive a golf ball a hundred yards. At ten she was outdriving adult male golfers in her Honolulu hometown–from the back tees. At thirteen she won the Women’s Amateur Public Links, becoming the youngest...
To Win and Die in Dixie
The Birth of the Modern Golf Swing and the Mysterious Death of Its Creator
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
A fascinating biography of a forgotten golf legend, a riveting whodunit of a covered-up killing, a scalding exposé of a closed society—in To Win and Die in Dixie, award-winning writer Steve Eubanks weaves all these elements into a masterly book that resurrects a superb sportsman and reconstructs...
The Extra 2%
How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First First
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
What happens when three financial industry whiz kids and certified baseball nuts take over an ailing major league franchise and implement the same strategies that fueled their success on Wall Street? In the case of the 2008 Tampa Bay Rays, an American League championship happens—the culmination...
The Games That Changed the Game
The Evolution of the NFL in Seven Sundays
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Professional football in the last half century has been a sport marked by relentless innovation. For fans determined to keep up with the changes that have transformed the game, close examination of the coachingfootage is a must. In The Games That Changed the Game, Ron Jaworski—pro football’s #1...
by John Ed Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
"The best sports book of the year."
- Sports Illustrated
"John Ed Bradley says that all he ever wanted to do was to leave behind a pretty piece of writing. Here it is-a wonderful blend of honest introspection, passionate reporting, and superb storytelling. One of the best books...
Fathers & Sons & Sports
Great Writing by Buzz Bissinger, John Ed Bradley, Bill Geist, Donald Hall, Mark Kriegel, Norman Maclean, and others
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Powerful stories about the way sports can bring together fathers and sons, to work out their differences and express their love for each other.
Fathers & Sons & Sportspresents apowerful lineup of real-world stories about fathers and sons playing one-on-one in the game of life, written...
Jerry West
The Life and Legend of a Basketball Icon
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
When in 1969 the NBA sought an emblem for the league, one man was chosen above all as the icon of his sport: Jerry West. Silhouetted in white against a red-and-blue backdrop, West’s signature gait and left-handed dribble are still the NBA logo, seen on merchandise around the world.
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