The San Francisco 49ers have one of the best records in NFL history, with 20 division championships, seven conference titles, and five Super Bowl championships.
Shortened Seasons recounts the stories of some of the baseball players who never made it back for the next game, who died with the suddenness of a walk-off homerun.
The day of the Ice Bowl game was so cold, the referees whistles wouldnt work; so cold, the reporters coffee froze in the press booth; so cold, fans built small fires in the concrete and metal stands; so cold, TV cables froze and photographers didnt dare touch the metal of their equipment; so cold, the game was as much about survival as it was about skill and strategy.
Described by famed baseball scribe Roger Angell as looking like ';a festive prison yard' during the 1962 World Series, Candlestick was loved and hated by sports teams and fans alike for its 43 years of existence.
Few remember that Shea Stadiumand indeed the Mets baseball club itselfarose out of a dispute between two oversized egos: New York City official Robert Moses and Brooklyn Dodgers owner Walter OMalley.
On the sixtieth anniversary of the Dodgers' move to Los Angeles, the full story of the controversial building of Dodger Stadium and how it helped transform the city.
The Immaculate Inning shines a light on the miracle of baseball's endless possibilitythe way that on any given day, someone (maybe a star, or maybe a scrub) could perform the rarest of single-game feats or cap off a seemingly unobtainable chase for a record.
Around 1863, William "e;Candy"e; Cummings discovered he could make clamshells curve when thrown-a skill he transferred to baseball as a pitcher for the New York Excelsiors.
A century before Lance Armstrong captured headlines around the world by winning a record seventh consecutive Tour de France, another American dominated the world of competitive cycling.
Nineteen sixty-two-it's been called "e;the end of innocence,"e; as America witnessed the Cuban Missile Crisis and the following year saw the Kennedy assassination and the early stirrings of Vietnam.
Focusing on the ten most influential baseball books of all time, this volume explores how these landmark works changed the game itself and made waves in American society at large.
Having already penned Getting in the Game, his inside scoop on the mayhem within baseball's winter meetings, Josh Lewin once again gives baseball fans a window into the big leagues.
In the nearly 120-year history of the New York Yankees, fans have been treated to countless firststhe first Yankee to hit a home run in the original Yankee Stadium (Babe Ruth), the first to hit a homer in the current stadium (Jorge Posada), the first Cy Young Award winner (Bob Turley), the first to hit for the Triple Crown (Lou Gehrig), and the first to amass 3,000 hits (Derek Jeter).
This updated edition of a NEW YORK TIMES best seller includes a final chapter, which chronicles the last years of his life and examines his enduring legacy.
This book presents the most comprehensive mapping and analysis of women's football in Oceania and is the first to examine the game's historical development alongside social, political, and cultural issues, weaving origin stories with players' day-to-day challenges.
Clint Castleberry was already an Atlanta-area football sensation when he arrived at Georgia Tech in 1942, and in one meteoric college season he became a national sports hero as well.
*Shortlisted for Cycling Book of the Year at the Sports Book Awards 2024*From award-winning author Matt Rendell, an examination of the phenomenal success of Alejandro Valverde and the moral decay at the heart of Spanish cycling.
This book presents the most comprehensive mapping and analysis of women's football in Oceania and is the first to examine the game's historical development alongside social, political, and cultural issues, weaving origin stories with players' day-to-day challenges.
Between 1984 and 2021, elite athletes from the member regions of Greater China - China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong - competed at each of the ten Summer Olympics.
Between 1984 and 2021, elite athletes from the member regions of Greater China - China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong - competed at each of the ten Summer Olympics.
In 1957, when very few Mexican-Americans were familiar with the game of golf, and even less actually played it, a group of young caddies which had been recruited to form the San Felipe High School Golf Team by two men who loved the game, but who had limited access to it, competed against all-white schools for the Texas State High School Golf Championship.
Part history, part memoir, part statistical analysis, this book tells the remarkable and largely forgotten story of how the baseball hotbed of Canada's northeastern Maritime provinces evolved into "e;NCAA North"e; during the 1940s and 1950s.
Part history, part memoir, part statistical analysis, this book tells the remarkable and largely forgotten story of how the baseball hotbed of Canada's northeastern Maritime provinces evolved into "e;NCAA North"e; during the 1940s and 1950s.
