This book carefully examines the careers of the fifty men who made the greatest impact on one of the most successful franchises in the history of professional sports.
As the New York Mets celebrate their fiftieth anniversary of National League baseball, this rollicking chronicle recounts a half century of the team's ups and downs.
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.
An entertaining read about the greatest baseball team, the 1927 New York Yankees, who beat up on American League rivals during the regular season and then swept the World Series.
Blending exclusive rare interviews with Rachel Robinson (Jackie's widow), Mack Robinson (Jackie's brother), Hall of Famers Monte Irvin, Duke Snider, Pee Wee Reese, Roy Campanella, Ralph Kiner, and others, celebrated author Harvey Frommer evokes the lives of general manager Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson by describing how they worked together to shatter baseballs color line.
Revised and updated, this in-depth look recounts The Ryder Cup's rich history and venerated place in sports, its champions and its characters, and its status as golf's greatest grudge match.
Separating fact from myth, Kalb attempts to determine which of these long-held conspiracy theories hold water, and which ones fall flat under scrutiny.
In every sport, in every country around the world, there are fans on the losing side who know that something other than skill and luck beat their favorite team or player.
The New York Mets fan is an Amazin creature whose species finds its voice at last in Greg Princes Faith and Fear In Flushing, the definitive account of what it means to root for and live through the machinations of an endlessly fascinating if often frustrating baseball team.
Papier-mch tigers, riots on the field, Chinese bandits, tailgating before a trip to the stadium nicknamed Death Valleyall these things and more describe the events, places, and people associated with over 100 years of football at Louisiana State University.
Monte Irvin, a New York Giants star player who got his start in the Negro Leagues, pays homage to baseball's unsung heroes and long-forgotten stars by selecting the top five players at each position and the top five managers, owners, pioneers, or organizers from the Negro Leagues.
Never one to mince words, Effa Manley once wrote a letter to sportswriter Art Carter, saying that she hoped they could meet soon because "e;I would like to tell you a lot of things you should know about baseball.
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.
The Vietnam era's tensions-between tradition and new possibilities, black and white, young and old, male and female-were played out on the field of professional and organized sports.
When high jumper Alice Coachman won the high jump title at the 1941 national championships with "e;a spectacular leap,"e; African American women had been participating in competitive sport for close to twenty-five years.
'Excellent' Simon Kuper, author of the bestselling FOOTBALL AGAINST THE ENEMY'The definitive story of how French football came of age' Christian Karembeu'Erudite and engrossing' Vincent Duluc, lead football writer, L' QUIPETHE PLAYERS, THE TEAMS, THE GOALS, THE GAMES, THE SCANDALS, THE GLOOM AND THE GLORY: THE STORY OF FRENCH FOOTBALL'S TURBULENT EVOLUTION OVER THE LAST 40 YEARS.
'Excellent' Simon Kuper, author of the bestselling FOOTBALL AGAINST THE ENEMY'The definitive story of how French football came of age' Christian Karembeu'Erudite and engrossing' Vincent Duluc, lead football writer, L' QUIPETHE PLAYERS, THE TEAMS, THE GOALS, THE GAMES, THE SCANDALS, THE GLOOM AND THE GLORY: THE STORY OF FRENCH FOOTBALL'S TURBULENT EVOLUTION OVER THE LAST 40 YEARS.
Along with the Boston Red Sox and the New England Patriots, both of which have been the subject of ';50 Greatest' treatments by Bob Cohen, the Boston Celtics is one of the most iconic professional basketball teams, representing a multi-state region rather than just a city or state.
The Boston Red Sox are one of the most iconic teams in all of professional sports, representing not just a city or a state, but an entire region--theyre New Englands sole entry into MLB.
The Boston Red Sox are one of the most iconic baseball teams, representing not just a city or a state, but an entire regionit's the only professional baseball team in New England.
"e;A powerful and poignant memoir"e; of an African American athlete who defied the establishment-decades before Colin Kaepernick (Cornel West, New York Times-bestselling author of Race Matters).
Since radio's debut in the 1920s and television's in the '30s, the baseball announcer has become entertainer, observer, and extended member of the family.
As the first great Jewish player in the major leagues and the first African American to play major-league baseball during the twentieth century, respectively, Hank Greenberg and Jackie Robinson are forever linked because of the barriers they encountered, the discrimination they endured, the athletic gifts they exhibited, and especially the courage and dignity they displayed.
It began as a Depression-era, winner-take-all challenge between two Chicago stockbrokers, one of them a flamboyant daredevil with more guts than money and the other with more money than sense.
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.
