For readers of The Boys in the Boat, the remarkable story of the unlikely Canadian hockey team that clinched Olympic gold in 1948The announcement was shockingCanada, the birthplace of hockey, would not be sending a team to the 1948 Winter Olympics in Switzerland.
In the spirit of Moneyball, the voice of the Toronto Blue Jays offers cutting insights on baseballBuck Martinez has been in and around professional baseball for nearly fifty years as a player, manager and broadcaster.
Top Ten Things You'll Learn When You Read This Book:10) Jay was beaten up by an MMA fighter on live television9) Interviewing Will Ferrell can be a harrowing experience8) Jay once ruined a perfectly good pair of underwear on Christmas Eve7) Failing as a stand-up comedian can lead to a job in broadcasting6) Jay ran a marathon to get a ticket for the 2010 men's Olympic gold-medal hockey game5) Jay was sexually harassed at TSN by a senior citizen every day for ten years4) Jay appeared as the Phantom of the Opera on national television3) Jay was entertained nightly by free live sex shows throughout university2) Jay was single-handedly responsible for Winnipeg's second NHL team being called "e;The Jets"e; (he claims)1) Running around in a full-body unitard at the London Olympics is a bad ideaAll this and more awaits you inside Anchorboy!
The inspirational memoir of the Canadian boxer who fought some of the greatest heavyweights in history, including Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, but lost everything outside the ring.
The ultimate guide to becoming an expert player of no limit hold'em poker from one of the game's ';premier players' (Erik Seidel, World Series of Poker winner) Phil Gordon.
Its Whats Inside the Lines That Counts brings together ballplayers, managers, an umpire, and the first head of the players union to describe the momentous changes to the game that took place in the 1970s and 1980s.
The official learn-to-sail manual of the American Sailing Association and the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary, with over 150 line drawings and photographs.
An eye-opening biography of baseball legend Buck O'Neil, first baseman and then manager of the Kansas City Monarchs, who witnessed the heyday of the Negro leagues and their ultimate demise.
Every golfer dreams of making a pilgrimage to the British Isles, and it sometimes seems as though every golfer is in fact making that pilgrimage, especially when you're trying to book a tee time.
As a serious player, a high handicapper, or simply a baffled onlooker to the awesome nonsense that is golf, have you ever wondered why, say, the golf balls have dimples, and the tee is both the thing you stick in the ground and the place you hit from, and the hole is so small, and the courses have all these big pits full of sand where any sane person would put grass?
An unprecedented look behind the scenes at one of the most intriguing controversies in golf history, when a fascinating clash of values, tactics, and political power comes to a head during a fight over Augusta National.
When Bill James published his original Historical Baseball Abstract in 1985, he produced an immediate classic, hailed by the Chicago Tribune as the holy book of baseball.
The inside story of one football club's astonishing revivalFeaturing exclusive interviews with Jack Grealish, John McGinn, Ollie Watkins, Tyrone Mings and Ezri Konsa, along with many other key figuresIn early July 2018, Aston Villa were staring into the abyss.
In the 1940s, before March Madness, the frenzy of the NBA draft, and multi-million dollar professional contracts, college basketball players played simply because they loved the game.
