Publication date: 2000-12
List Price: $29.99
Price: $179.50
Review Roger Byrne: Captain of the Busby Babes / Empire Publications Ltd:Manchester United have enjoyed more than their fair share of great players down the years, but none has been more committed to the cause than the subject of this biography, Roger Byrne. Brought up in Gorton, a working-class suburb of Manchester, Byrne was at first a promising wing-half, later even turning out at centre-forward, but he came into his own as a left full-back fir United and England. Indeed so committed was he to his position that he threatened to leave United unless Matt Busby returned him to the position following an experimental period on the left-wing. Moreover, Byrne was a product of his era. The 1950's were a time when footballers were woefully underpaid. Indeed, Byrne and his team-mates refused to take part in a BBC film under the working title 'training with the Champions' because the players were not going to paid enough. However despite these clashes with authority, Byrne remained fiercely loyal to his manager, team-mates and the club's growing army of supporters. By 1958 he and Matt Busby had forged a team of great talent and great resource only for the Munich air disaster to take the Babes away. Who knows how good Roger's team could have become if fate had not intervened?.
Publication date: 2007-05-08
Review The Boss: The Many Sides of Alex Ferguson / Pocket Books:
Creator: Dana R. Barnes
Publication date: 2003-08
Dewey code: 796.0922
List Price: $475.00
Price: $475.00
Review Notable Sports Figures (4 Volume Set) / Gale Cengage:
Publication date: 2000-06-01
Price: $251.30
Review Shooting Star: The Life of Richard Seaman / Transport Bookman Publications:The story of Richard Seaman, the greatest British racing driver of the 1930s. It is an ultimately tragic tale of a handsome and gifted young man whose single-minded ambition propelled him to the very top of his profession. Beginning in 1934 with a little MG, Seaman progressed swiftly with an ERA in 1935 and then Earl Howe's Delage in 1936. With this 10-year-old car Dick stunned the motor racing world and won himself a place with Mercedes-Benz one of the most successful Grand Prix teams of all time. His first season was dogged by crashes, but in 1938 he came good, winning the German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring - the first Englishman to win a Grand Prix since his hero, Sir Henry Segrave, had won the French in 1924. He followed this with a brilliant second place in the Swiss GP and finished third in the 1938 European Championship. That same year Dick fell in love with 18-year-old Erica Popp, whose father was Managing Director of BMW. It was a great romance, but one blighted by the violent opposition of Dick's mother, the formidable Mrs Lilian Beattie-Seaman who, with war between England and Germany fast approaching, had no time for a German daughter-in-law. Dick and Erica married against her wishes, but their happiness ended in tragedy with Dick's untimely death during the 1939 Belgian GP when he was leading the race. "Shooting Star" reveals much information from the two women in Dick's life, and includes many telling contributions from his school and university friends Tony Cliff and Ray Lewthwaite; fellow racing drivers Charlie Martin, Kenneth Evans, George Harvey-Noble and Mort Morris-Goodall; Mercedes team-mates Rudolf Uhlenhaut and Hermann Land; friends George Monkhouse and Rodney Walkerley; and mechanics Giulio Ramponi, Bill Rockell and Karl Bunz.
Creator: Stephen Hoye
Publication date: 2005-08-04
List Price: $81.00
Price: $163.58
Review Wilt, (Chamberlain) 1962: The Night of 100 Points and the Dawn of a New Era / Books on Tape:Includes 30 minutes of genuine radio broadcast from the 4th quarter of Wilt Chamberlin's 1962, 100-point game! On the night of March 2, 1962, in Hershey, Pennsylvania, right up the street from the chocolate factory, Wilt Chamberlain, a young and striking athlete celebrated as the Big Dipper, scored one hundred points in a game against the New York Knickerbockers. As historic and revolutionary as the achievement was, it remains shrouded in myth. The game was not televised; no New York sportswriters showed up; and a fourteen-year-old local boy ran onto the court when Chamberlain scored his hundredth point, shook his hand, and then ran off with the basketball. In telling the story of this remarkable night, author Gary M. Pomerantz brings to life a lost world of American sports. In 1962, the National Basketball Association, stepchild to the college game, was searching for its identity. Its teams were mostly white, the number of black players limited by an unspoken quota. Games were played in drafty, half-filled arenas, and the players traveled on buses and trains, telling tall tales, playing cards, and sometimes reading Joyce. Into this scene stepped the unprecedented Wilt Chamberlain: strong and quick-witted, voluble and enigmatic, a seven-footer who played with a colossal will and a dancer’s grace. That strength, will, grace, and mystery were never more in focus than on March 2, 1962. [+]Pomerantz tracked down Knicks and Philadelphia Warriors, fans, journalists, team officials, other NBA stars of the era, and basketball historians, conducting more than 250 interviews in all, to recreate in painstaking detail the game that announced the Dipper’s greatness. He brings us to Hershey, Pennsylvania, a sweet-seeming model of the gentle, homogeneous small-town America that was fast becoming anachronistic. We see the fans and players, alternately fascinated and confused by Wilt, drawn anxiously into the spectacle. Pomerantz portrays the other legendary figures in this story: the Warriors’ elegant coach Frank McGuire; the beloved, if rumpled, team owner Eddie Gottlieb; and the irreverent p. a. announcer Dave “the Zink” Zinkoff, who handed out free salamis courtside. At the heart of the book is the self-made Chamberlain, a romantic cosmopolitan who owned a nightclub in Harlem and shrugged off segregation with a bebop cool but harbored every slight deep in his psyche. March 2, 1962, presented the awesome sight of Wilt Chamberlain imposing himself on a world that would diminish him. Wilt, 1962 is not only the dramatic story of a singular basketball game but a meditation on small towns, midcentury America, and one of the most intriguing figures in the pantheon of sports heroes.
Creator: Emily Hines
Publication date: 1993-12
Price: $9.95
Review A Dixie Farewell: The Life and Death of Chucky Millins / Eggman Publishing:
Publication date: 2003-10-01
Dewey code: 796.3340942871
Review Why Do I Do it? / Braiswick:
Publication date: 1998-01-01
Dewey code: 796
Price: $10.00
Review The Brule River: A Guide's Story / Savage Press (WI):After many decades of fishing and guiding trout fisherman in northern Wisconsin, Lawrence Berube decided to write about his experiences. 22 illustrations from the famous Brule and other rivers. Funny and wise. Published by Berube in association with Savage Press.
Publication date: 1990
Review Mick O'Dwyer - The Authorized Biography / MOD Publications, Ltd:Irish footballer (soccer)
Creator: Scott Young
Publication date: 1986-01-01
Review Heaven and Hell in the NHL (Goodread Biographies) / Goodread Biography:"I recognize that I am a stubborn, tough bastard to deal with," writes hockey legend Punch Imlach. This no-holds-barred story of his second time round with the Leafs lets you decide for yourself. Imlach is one of the game's great coaches. He made the Toronto Maple Leafs the best team in the NHL in the Sixties, winning four straight Stanley Cups. Here he picks up his story from the day he was fired by the Leafs in 1969, recounting his happy years as coach of the Buffalo Sabres, building the team up and having fun as he does it. Then came the offer he couldn't refuse-a second chance with the Leafs. Imlach tells his story of how he tried to bring the Leafs back to glory, describing his many battles with players like Darryl Sittler, owner Harold Ballard, and lawyers like Alan Eagleson. Heaven and Hell in the NHL tells the story straight, making this one of the best hockey books of all time.
Edition: Collector's
Publication date: 2002
Review The Jack Fleck story: : the legacy of "the playoff of the century" and the "Greatest upset in sport history!" / JC Publishing, Ltc:
Publication date: 1991-07
Dewey code: 016.794.1
Price: $130.00
Review Chess: An Annotated Bibliography : 1969-1988 / Mansell:An annotated bibliography of English-language books and articles on all aspects of chess (except fiction and works on other games derived from chess). It covers the period from 1968-88 and represents a continuation of Betts' "Chess - An Annotated Bibliography of Works Published in the English Language 1850-1968" (G K Hall, 1974). Lists all editions and reprints, and all known periodicals active in the period covered. Includes several hundred entries not listed in standard bibliographical sources. The need for such a work is indicated by the explosion of chess publishing since the publication of Betts. The present work contains more entries for the 20-year period than Betts covered over 120 years.
Creator: Kit Bauman
Publication date: 2001-02-06
Dewey code: 796
Price: $15.95
Review Hooker : An Authentic Wrestler's Adventures Inside the Bizarre World of Professional Wrestling. / Wrestling Channel Pr:
Publication date: 1993-06
Price: $39.50
Review Baseball & the American Jewish Experience / Mecklermedia Corporation:
Publication date: 1997-02
Dewey code: 796
Price: $35.00
Review Bottom of the Ninth / Diane Pub Co:"I came into baseball with a strikeout," Kirk Gibson readily admits in his autobiography, "and I went out with a strikeout. I came in being humbled, and I went out being humbled. " In between his humiliations, though, the former Tiger and Dodger outfielder played some of the most passionately charged baseball in recent memory, his apotheosis coming in the opening game of the 1988 World Series with the most improbable-and memorable-home run since Babe Ruth's called shot. What makes this autobiography so intriguing is its opulence. With his fiery temperament, his uniform constantly dirty, and a pair of bad legs in constant need of repair, Gibson was like an old junker that wouldn't stop running. His book, on the other hand, is a glitzy, photo-filled, coffee-table-sized Mercedes, beautifully designed and written with insight.
Creator: Michael Cable
Publication date: 2003-05
Review The Choice of Champions / Live Wire Books:
Publication date: 1991-02-07
Review Harry Vardon / Hutchinson:The story of Harry Vardon, winner of the British Open Golf Championship a record six times.
Publication date: 1997-03
Dewey code: 796
List Price: $35.00
Price: $300.00
Review The Captain: George C. Thomas Jr. and His Golf Architecture / Gale Group:
Publication date: 1998-10-30
Review And Up Steps Michael Gray / ST Publishing:
Publication date: 1995-07-14
List Price: $191.97
Price: $191.97
Review Heading for Victory / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC:
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