Driving Mr. Yogi: Yogi Berra, Ron Guidry, and Baseball’s Greatest Gift is the story of how a unique friendship between a pitcher and catcher is renewed every year. Yankees pitching great Guidry arrives at the Tampa airport to pick up Hall of Fame catcher and national treasure Yogi Berra. Guidry drives him to the ballpark. They [...]
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Out of My League Picking up where the The Bullpen Gospels leaves off, Out of My League continues Canton native Dirk Hayhurst’s hilarious roller-coaster baseball odyssey through his rookie season with San Diego Padres. The Rotation: A Season with the Phillies and the Greatest Pitching Staff Ever Assembled Written by two Philadelphia Phillies beat writers, Jim [...]
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Super Bowl Monday : from the Persian Gulf to the shores of west Florida : the New York Giants, the Buffalo Bills and Super Bowl XXV This book singles out a special moment in American sports history when the Bills the Giants competed for the Super Bowl on January 27, 1991 against the backdrop of looming hostilities [...]
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The Last Great Game: Duke vs. Kentucky and the 2.1 Seconds That Changed Basketball Acclaimed ESPN columnist Wojciechowski delivers the definitive book on one of the greatest games in the history of college basketball–the March 28, 1992, match-up between Duke and Kentucky in the final of the NCAA East Regional–and the dramatic road both teams [...]
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Classic authors Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner were also avid hunters and outdoorsmen, writing fiction and memoirs of their outdoor advenutres. Take a trip with these contemporary writers on hunting, shooting and the outdoor life. Jim Harrison’s memoir, Off to the Side, was selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He catalogs [...]
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While you’re sitting at home keeping warm and dry, consider reading about some more adventurous souls. The Voodoo Wave by Mark Kreidler takes an inside look at the surfers who challenge the fifty-foot waves of Maverick’s surf point in California – the site of the Super Bowl of big wave surfing: the Maverick’s Surf Contest – [...]
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We know you’re waiting for football to start, but in the meantime try these new books. No one can touch Bart Starr’s record setting 5 NFL Championships. America’s Quarterback: Bart Starr and the Rise of the National Football League by Keith Dunnavant, tells the story of the man who helped create the legend of Vince Lombardi and the Green [...]
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Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller, the authors of Live from New York: an Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live, now take on ESPN in Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN. When the network began, it seemed to consist mainly of Australian Rules Football, rodeo, and a rinky-dink clip show [...]
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May is National Bike Month. Celebrate with these amazing stories. Mark Beaumont is The Man Who Cycled the World. When he set out, he had no idea what the journey would require of him. By the time he returned, a world-record 184 days after he began, he’d traveled four continents, made lifelong friends, been mugged, [...]
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In 1986 two Seattle, Washington, fathers put together a basketball team that mixed white players from an elite private school and black players from the inner city. The team was successful, winning its league championship. Twenty-five years later, Doug Merlino, one of the players, decided to find out how being on that team had affected the players’ [...]
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