Crown: 5430 books
At Fenway
Dispatches from Red Sox Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Seeing baseball played at Fenway is an experience like no other for Red Sox fans and rivals alike because the park reminds us of what baseball used to be. Fenway may not offer fans the best seats or even adequate parking, but when game-goers walk through the park's gate, the smell of hotdogs and...
Masters of Modern Soccer
How the World's Best Play the Twenty-First-Century Game
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
In Masters of Modern Soccer, Sports Illustrated writer Grant Wahl asks: How do some of the game's smartest figures master the craft of soccer? By profiling players in every key position (American phenomenon Christian Pulisic, Mexican superstar Javier "Chicharito" Hernández, Belgium's Vincent...
by Bill Lee, Richard Lally
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The return of a sports classic with a new foreword by the author
Finally back in print after many years, here is Bill Lee’s classic tale of his renegade life on and off the mound. Whether walking out on the Montreal Expos to protest the release of a valued teammate or telling sportswriters...
Backyard Brawl
Inside the Blood Feud Between Texas and Texas A&M
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
It happens once a year, creating a seismic divide throughout the country. It pits brother against brother. It breaks up business deals. It ruins relationships. And once it’s finished, all both sides want is for another year to pass by so they can do it again. It is the Texas/Texas A& M football...
Wilt, 1962
The Night of 100 Points and the Dawn of a New Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
On the night of March 2, 1962, in Hershey, Pennsylvania, right up the street from the chocolate factory, Wilt Chamberlain, a young and striking athlete celebrated as the Big Dipper, scored one hundred points in a game against the New York Knickerbockers.
As historic and revolutionary as the...
Major
A Black Athlete, a White Era, and the Fight to Be the World's Fastest Human Being
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008
At the turn of the 20th century, hundreds of handsome, lightning-fast racers won the hearts and minds of a bicycling-crazed public. Scientists studied them, newspapers glorified them, and millions of dollars in purse money was awarded to them. Major Taylor aimed to be the fastest of them all. A prominent...
The Beckham Experiment
How the World's Most Famous Athlete Tried to Conquer America
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2009
In 2007, David Beckham, the golden boy of soccer, shocked the international sports world when he signed a five-year contract with an American team, the Los Angeles Galaxy. Under the direction of his manager, Simon Fuller, the mastermind behind American Idol and the Spice Girls, Beckham was ready for...
The Fine Green Line
My Year of Golf Adventure on the Pro-Golf Mini-Tours
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
What happens when a man leaves home for a year to pursue his dream?
One day, playing a particularly spectacular round of golf, husband and father John Paul Newport suddenly tastes what it's like to be a pro. Deciding to take a year off and hit the road playing golf's mini-tour circuit, Newport...
by Gary Sheffield, David Ritz
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
Becoming a Major League ballplayer for Dwight and me, that was the dream.
Dwight is Dwight Gooden. Most people know him for winning the Cy Young Award. To me, though, he’s family, an uncle, but at four years older, really a brother. I can still remember those games of catch with Dwight in...
Fair Ball
A Fan's Case for Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2001
From his perspective as a journalist and a true fan, Bob Costas, NBC's award-winning broadcaster, shares his views on the forces that are diminishing the appeal of Major League Baseball and proposes realistic changes that can be made to protect and promote the game's best interests.
In this...
Fire on the Track
Betty Robinson and the Triumph of the Early Olympic Women
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
The inspiring and irresistible true story of the women who broke barriers and finish-line ribbons in pursuit of Olympic Gold
When Betty Robinson assumed the starting position at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam, she was participating in what was only her fourth-ever organized track meet....
Have Glove, Will Travel
Adventures of a Baseball Vagabond
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
It was 1982 when Bill Lee was famously booted from the Montreal Expos after he went AWOL in protest of another player’s mistreatment by management. His reputation for antics both on and off the field guaranteed that no other club would pick him up. The Ace from Space had landed on professional baseball’s...
Mickey and Willie
Mantle and Mays, the Parallel Lives of Baseball's Golden Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Acclaimed sportswriter Allen Barra exposes the uncanny parallels--and lifelong friendship--between two of the greatest baseball players ever to take the field.
Culturally, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays were light-years apart. Yet they were nearly the same age and almost the same size, and they...
Final Accounting
Ambition, Greed and the Fall of Arthur Andersen
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2003
A withering exposé of the unethical practices that triggered the indictment and collapse of the legendary accounting firm.
Arthur Andersen's conviction on obstruction of justice charges related to the Enron debacle spelled the abrupt end of the 88-year-old accounting firm. Until recently,...