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Rooney: A Sporting Life

Maggie Jones Patterson, Michael P. Weber, Rob Ruck

Review "One of the best books on football written so far this century. . . . Assiduously researched, Rooney is more than ...

Cool Runnings and Beyond: The Story of the Jamaica Bobsleigh Team

Chris Stokes

Cool Runnings and Beyond: The Story of the Jamaica Bobsleigh Team...

Alex Haley's Autobiography of Malcolm X (Bloom's Guides)

Harold Bloom

Alex Haley's Autobiography of Malcolm X (Bloom's Guides)...

Hacker Cracker: A Journey from the Mean Streets of Brooklyn to the Frontiers of Cyberspace

David Chanoff, Ejovi Nuwere

From Publishers Weekly By age 21, Nuwere had grown from a precocious child in Brooklyn's embattled Bed-Stuy neighborhood ...

Emmy Noether: The Mother of Modern Algebra

M. B. W. Tent

Review How appealing to teenage girls that a homely girl finds fame and happiness not with Prince Charming but with makin...

Sporting lives: metaphor and myth in American sports autobiographies

James W. Pipkin

Review “Sporting Lives is unfailingly well written and engaging. Drawing on an amazing range of sports autobiographi...

King of Shadows

Susan Cooper

From Publishers Weekly Cooper (The Dark Is Rising) brilliantly weaves past and present together, using London's Globe The...

Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball

Bill Madden

From For longtime baseball fans, this biography of the mercurial owner of the New York Yankees is as painful to read as ...

Sports heroes, fallen idols

Stanley H. Teitelbaum

From Publishers Weekly Drugs, gambling, domestic abuse, even-occasionally-murder-all are part of the day-to-day existence...

Venezuelan bust, baseball boom: Andrés Reiner and scouting on the new frontier

Milton H. Jamail

Review “If you know nothing about Andrés Reiner—and chances are you don’t—know this: Wit...

I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to The Blind Side, and Beyond

Michael Oher

Review "I''d understand if some people out there felt like another re-telling of the Oher story was flogging a dead horse...

Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend

Timothy M. Gay

From Publishers Weekly Tristam "Spoke" Speaker sits, statistically, alongside baseball's greatest sluggers and fielders, ...

How the Web Was Won: The Inside Story of How Bill Gates and His Band of Internet Idealists Transformed a Software Empire

Paul Andrews

Amazon.com Review In a brilliant--and, at times, overwhelming--display of research and perspicacity, Paul Andrews chroni...

Barry Bonds: A Biography (Baseball's All-Time Greatest Hitters)

John Bloom

Review ?An intriguing coverage.?- MBR Bookwatch/Donovan's Bookshelf Book Description This biography examines the ca...

Lou Gehrig: A Biography (Baseball's All-Time Greatest Hitters)

William Kashatus

Review "Lou Gehrig played his last complete season in 1938, while unknowingly suffering from his dread disease. Although ...

Arab-American and Muslim Writers (Multicultural Voices)

Rebecca Layton

From School Library Journal Gr 7 Up–Layton discusses the work of Khalil Gibran, Malcolm X, Samuel Hazo, Amiri Bara...

Wink: The Incredible Life and Epic Journey of Jimmy Winkfield

Ed Hotaling

From Publishers Weekly In mid- and late-19th-century America, horse racing led American sports, and within that world, bl...

You Never Forget Your First: Ballplayers Recall Their Big League Debuts

Josh Lewin

Review "Great stories plus great memories equals great reading." --Tim McCarver From the Publisher Players descri...

Professor Baseball: Searching for Redemption and the Perfect Lineup on the Softball Diamonds of Central Park

Edwin Amenta

Review "At one level, Professor Baseball is a straightforward diary of Amenta''s successes and failures over one summer s...

Wayne Gretzky (Sports Heroes and Legends)

Matt Doeden

Wayne Gretzky (Sports Heroes and Legends)...

An Autumn Remembered: Bud Wilkinson's Legendary '56 Sooners

Gary T. King

About the Author Gary T. King is Professor of Psychology at Rose State College in Midwest City, Oklahoma. ...

Ghosts of Manila: The Fateful Blood Feud Between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier

Mark Kram

Amazon.com Review Muhammad Ali once admitted to former Sports Illustrated writer Mark Kram that he and Joe Frazier went ...

You Can Observe A Lot By Watching: What I've Learned About Teamwork From the Yankees and Life

Yogi Berra

From Publishers Weekly Notorious for his run-ins with the English language, baseball great Berra has become an improbably...

Open Ice: Reflections and Confessions of a Hockey Lifer

Jack Falla

Review Praise for Jack Falla’s Previous Collection of Essays, Home Ice “literary hot chocolate that will wa...

The Greatest Fight of Our Generation: Louis vs. Schmeling

Lewis A. Erenberg

From In 1938, radio announcer Clem McCarthy called the rematch between German Max Schmeling and American Joe Louis "the ...

Matty: An American Hero: Christy Mathewson of the New York Giants

Ray Robinson

From Publishers Weekly At the turn of the century, the great American sports hero was the fictional Frank Merriwell, ever...

Hans Christian Andersen (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)

Harold Bloom

Hans Christian Andersen (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)...

The Lombardi Rules: 26 Lessons from Vicni Lombardi--The World's Greatest Coach (The McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series)

Vince Lombardi

From the Back Cover The Lombardi Rules Vince Lombardi--loved by some, feared by others, but respected by all--was first and...

Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith (Sporting)

David Steele, Tommie Smith

From Tommie Smith raised his black-gloved right fist after receiving the 200-meter gold medal at the 1968 Mexico City Ol...

W. E. B. Dubois (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)

Harold Bloom

From School Library Journal Gr 9 Up-During his long life, the controversial DuBois, who eventually embraced communism and...

Break Point! The Secret Diary of a Pro Tennis Player

Dan Markowitz, Vince Spadea

Review "[I] could hardly put it down." —Sports Illustrated Online (SI.com) About the Author Vince Spad...

Mr. Basketball: George Mikan, the Minneapolis Lakers, and the Birth of the NBA

Michael Schumacher

From Publishers Weekly Schumacher (Family Business) explores the on-court life and legacy of George Mikan, the big man wh...

The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal

Ben Mezrich

Amazon.com Review Amazon Exclusive: Kevin Spacey on The Accidental Billionaires Kevin Spacey’s films include , ,...

Tour de Lance: The Extraordinary Story of Lance Armstrong's Fight to Reclaim the Tour de France

Bill Strickland

From Publishers Weekly Strickland, an editor at large for Bicycling magazine, follows Armstrong after he decides to come ...

Toni Morrison (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)

Harold Bloom

Toni Morrison (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)...

Yellow Star

Jennifer Roy

From School Library Journal Starred Review. Grade 5-9–In thoughtful, vividly descriptive, almost poetic prose, Ro...

Taking Shots: Tall Tales, Bizarre Battles, and the Incredible Truth About the NBA

Keith Glass

Review “Glass displays a razor-sharp wit and an amazing capacity to tell a story. …fans will love this book...

Tiger Woods: A Biography, 2 edition (Greenwood Biographies)

Lawrence J. Londino

Review "Mandatory for all Tiger Woods fans, this impressively detailed, 232-page biography also offers a brief overview of ...

Love Me, Hate Me: Barry Bonds and the Making of an Antihero

Jeff Pearlman

From Pearlman, former staff writer with Sports Illustrated and Newsday, delivers a fully realized, if hardly appealing, ...

Radiohead: Welcome to the Machine: OK Computer and the Death of the Classic Album

Tim Footman

About the Author Tim Footman is the author of several biographies on bands, including Blink 182: The ...

The Danihers: The Story of Football's Favourite Family

Adam Mcnicol, Anthony Daniher, Chris Daniher, Neale Daniher, Terry Daniher

About the Author Terry Daniher has excelled as a country football ambassador for the AFL. ...

Ukrainian Americans (The New Immigrants)

John Radzilowski

Ukrainian Americans (The New Immigrants)...

In the Ballpark: The Working Lives of Baseball People

George Gmelch, J.J. Weiner

Amazon.com Review An oral history with academic credentials behind it, In the Ballpark is a clever hybrid of sober schol...

The Game

Ken Dryden

Review "The sports book of the year, or maybe the decade, or maybe the century." —The Globe and Mail "A work of ar...

Four Days to Glory: Wrestling with the Soul of the American Heartland

Mark Kreidler

From Publishers Weekly Sportswriter Kreidler, a columnist for the Sacramento Bee, immerses himself in "the largest event...

Operation Yao Ming: The Chinese Sports Empire, American Big Business, and the Making of an NBA Superstar

Brook Larmer

From Publishers Weekly The 7'5" Yao Ming didn't get where he is today because of some lucky genes and a good three-point ...

Red and Me: My Coach, My Lifelong Friend

Bill Russell, Alan Steinberg

From First, let’s get the basketball credentials out of the way. Russell was the greatest team basketball player ...

In Rare Form: A Pictorial History of Baseball Evangelist Billy Sunday

W. A. Firstenberger

Review “A doubleheader . . . a collective biography of an influential Midwest couple and their material worlds . ....

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