Orlando Cepeda enjoyed a stellar baseball career in the late fifties and throughout the sixties, but after it ended in the mid-seventies, his life fell apart.
Improbable, heart-wrenching, and uplifting, Jeremiah Brown's journey from novice rower to Olympic silver medallist in under four years is a story about chasing a goal with everything you've got.
Improbable, heart-wrenching, and uplifting, Jeremiah Brown's journey from novice rower to Olympic silver medallist in under four years is a story about chasing a goal with everything you've got.
The inspiring story of an unlikely Buckeye legend, in his own wordsIn the days before college football's first four-team playoff field was announced in 2014, there were doubts that Ohio State would even make the cut.
Discover the reasons behind the downfall of the most promising Colorado University (CU) Football Team as author Dick Taylor shares their history interspersed with his experiences in A Chip Off The Old Buffalo.
A "e;fascinating"e; memoir by America's greatest professional billiards player, a child prodigy in the pool halls of the 1930s who became a world champion (Library Journal).
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist looks at the life and times of the Chicago Bulls superstar-"e;The best Jordan book so far"e; (The Washington Post).
A sweeping biography of one of the greatest and most provocative athletes of all time-"e;a life that needs to be understood whether you care a whit about boxing or not"e; (The Boston Globe).
"e;A compelling, long overdue tribute"e; to America's first tennis star from the renowned sportswriter and author of Everybody's All-American (Kirkus Reviews).
From one of radio's former loudest, orneriest, most beloved, and highest-rated sports radio personalities, a bold and hilarious memoir of sports, manhood, and what it is to be a fan.
The defensive end for the Dallas Cowboys--the only player to win five Super Bowl rings--discusses the NFL, the teams he has played on, and his fellow players.
High and wild places have dominated Stephen Venables' life and now he has written a full autobiography which explores how and - more importantly - why he became a mountaineer, and reveals a series of never-recorded adventures on four continents.
WINNER OF THE CRICKET SOCIETY AND MCC BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD'I doubt there will be a better book written about this period in West Indies cricket history.
Ronald Reng traces German footballer Lars Leese s stratospheric rise from computer software salesman to Premiership goalie, and his equally alarming descentPlucked from obscurity and playing in one of the most important leagues in the world, Leese experienced in real life what thousands of boys - and men - can only dream of: stepping out of the crowd and onto a Premiership pitch.
When a man walks on to a pitch there s always a chance something magic can happen, that s what keeps us coming back In A Man Walks On To a Pitch, Harry shares a lifetime s experience of obsessing over football, during which he has seen it all first hand the good, the bad and the unbelievable.
WINNER OF THE FIRST WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK AWARD Strikingly reminiscent of Chariots of Fire, this classic bestseller tells the story of the sporting event which shook both Oxford University and its Boat Club to the very foundations during the harsh winter of 1986/7.
