Sport: general

Both a memoir and a "e;how-to"e; for anyone who aspires to a career in broadcast journalism, particularly sports, this book calls on Mercer's vast experience and name recognition in Texas to give an insider's view of everything from play-by-play to interviewing a celebrity athlete.

Coaches have played a vital yet changing role throughout basketball's professional history.

This book explores the true meaning of achievement in sports: having fun, developing athletic and social skills, and nurturing a healthy, positive sense of self-esteem.

In this collection of anecdotes from the announcers of pro football, the Voices reminisce about a time before television, when the NFL was just making its floundering start and college ball held all the attraction.

A journey throughout the world to track down former Cubs to update fans on their present-day lives and look back on their playing or managing careers.

Steve Spurrier is the epitome of a national sports figure either loved or hated with enthusiasm by millions.

Edward "e;Moose"e; Krause spent nearly sixty years as a student-athlete, coach, athletic director, and de facto ambassador to the Notre Dame's legions of fans around the world.

Early in the history of America's favorite pastime, trading baseball players was almost as easy as trading baseball cards.

Filled with stories about sports figures like Muhammad Ali, Roberto Clemente, Tony Elliot, Tiger Woods, and Venus and Serena Williams, this new edition describes the changing face of diversity in sport (the growing numbers of Latino and female college and professional athletes).

Bobby Knight spent nearly 30 years as the controversial yet incredibly successful head basketball coach at Indiana University.

Ben Hogan continues to be one of the most admired and contemplated figures in the golf world, even though he passed away in 1997 and played his last competitive round of golf 30 years ago.

In 1936, the Baseball Hall of Fame was established to honor the legends of the sport.

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Once in a great while there appears a baseball player who transcends the game and earns universal admiration from his fellow players, from fans, and from the American people.

In this delightful history of the sport, Frommer captures the flavor, smell, and craziness of the early days of baseball.

Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is most famous for his role as the first Commissioner ever to rule organized baseball.

Each generation of Pirate fans has been blessed with a pantheon of heroes: Honus Wagner, Pie Traynor, Bill Mazeroski, Roberto Clemente and Willie Stargell.

Spanning from the time he talked Babe Ruth into signing his tennis shoe at the age of 12 to his last Tiger broadcast more than 60 years later, this book is a personal scrapbook of Hall-of-Famer Ernie Harwell's life-long love of baseball.

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In Where Have All Our Cowboys Gone?

Bill Yoast is the real-life hero of Remember the Titans, the inspirational hit movie that chronicled the struggles of black and white high school football athletes to create a championship season in racially charged Alexandria, Virginia, in 1972.

The Phillies Fan's Little Book of Wisdom is chock full of quotes, humor, facts, figures, and memories about those fabulous Philadelphia Phillies.

Born out of expansion in 1962, the New York Mets have more than filled the void left by the departure of the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants.

The winningest coach in all NCAA Collegiate Volleyball history at all levels, Teri Clemens and award-winning sportswriter Tom Wheatley offer insight and instruction to young women ages 14-21 on how to be an effective competitor in all aspects of life.

Author Tom Hedrick has elicited and gathered strategic and tactical advice from the top professionals in sporstcasting.

When Harvard came back from a 16-point deficit with less than a minute to go to tie Yale in their now-famous 1968 gridiron tilt, the headline in the Harvard Crimson the following Monda proudly boasted, "e;Harvard Beats Yale, 29-29.

Combining the content of two of Frommer's previous books, Sports Roots and Sports Lingo, this book not only explains how nicknames, namesakes, trophies, competitions, and expressions in the world of sports came to be, but also serves as a useful dictionary of the language of sports-both technical and slang.

The authors combine to produce a work that addresses some of the most pressing issues in athletics today.

Home of the Game celebrates the unique position Camden Yards holds as a symbol of the modern game and a prototype for new ballparks across the country.

Research into creative and cultural organisations has proliferated, benefitting from insights from a range of disciplinary perspectives.

What distinguished the Soviet 'look'?

Blending personal narrative with practical guidance, Cornfields to Gold Medals delivers well-traveled leadership principles for on and off the court.

Canada's first Olympic gold medallist couldn't walk until he was ten, and became the greatest runner of his generation.

Canada's first Olympic gold medallist couldn't walk until he was ten, and became the greatest runner of his generation.

How Toronto FC rescued itself from misery, carved out a niche, and became a true alternative franchise in North America's most crowded sports market.

How Toronto FC rescued itself from misery, carved out a niche, and became a true alternative franchise in North America's most crowded sports market.

Blue Monday: one of the most unforgettable days in Canadian baseball history.

Blue Monday: one of the most unforgettable days in Canadian baseball history.

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.

Veteran radio and television personality John Gallagher's salacious, voracious, and dangerously delicious memoirs of a life lived on the edge in the midst of some of the world's biggest celebrities.

Veteran radio and television personality John Gallagher's salacious, voracious, and dangerously delicious memoirs of a life lived on the edge in the midst of some of the world's biggest celebrities.

Whenever I hear someone mention the year 1996, I immediately think of that magical baseball season in which a special group of young men won forty-three consecutive baseball games.

It is important that players and parents understand the culture as well as the fundamentals of softball.

Basketball is a wonderful sport enjoyed by several million people across the world.

This book is about the art of playing pick 111, a game that has been introduced in many states.

Jock Around the Clock takes you back three decades to a time when satellite broadcasting and the concept of all sports all the time were brand-new.

Football Rage!

My Hand on the Tiller is an account of the authors sailing experiences over his lifetime.