Publication date: 2006-03-10
Dewey code: 796
List Price: $49.95
Price: $46.45
Review Walt Hansgen: His Life and the History of Post-War American Road Racing / David Bull Publishing:Walt Hansgen was a star in both sports cars and single-seaters, and his meteoric career carried him from the early days of amateur road racing to the very highest level of professional competition in America and Europe. As the lead driver on Briggs Cunningham’s dominant team, and later John Mecom’s team, Walt evaluated and developed race cars working closely with Jaguar, Lister, Maserati, and Ford. At different points in his career he paired with Dan Gurney, Stirling Moss, John Fitch, Archie Scott Brown, and Augie Pabst on circuits as far-flung as Watkins Glen, Le Mans, Silverstone, Sebring, and Road America. Walt was a relentless competitor, but his sense of fairness and camaraderie made him respected by his peers and a leader in the sport. For many up-and-coming racers, including Mark Donohue, Walt was a crucial mentor. The 1950s and 1960s were a time of tremendous change in racing. In this exciting, fast-paced biography author Michael Argetsinger shows how Walt’s life encompassed the conflict between amateur and professional racing, the extraordinary advances in technology, and the joyful ambition of his era. The result is a vivid account of the remarkable history of post-war American road racing.
Publication date: 1998-08
Review Deadly! / Sports Projects Ltd:
Publication date: 1989-10-30
Review Sparky / Hutchinson Radius:
Creator: Marc Serota
Publication date: 1999-08
Dewey code: 796
List Price: $39.95
Price: $54.99
Review Favre: Most Valuable Player / Triumph Books:Join Brett Favre at home with family and friends and in the midst of battle on the field. Captured in photos and his own words, Favre produces a unique snapshot of a legend in the making.
Publication date: 1996-02-15
Review Bill Shankly / Virgin Books:
Publication date: 2002
Review CLIMBING FREE: MY LIFE IN THE VERTICAL WORLD / HARPERCOLLINS ENTERTAINMENT:
Publication date: 2000-11-01
Price: $42.15
Review Kicking Out, Heading in: A Junior Coach's Diary of the 1999-2000 Football Season / Parrs Wood Press:
Publication date: 2003-10-01
Review David Beckham: My Side - The Autobiography / HarperCollinsWillow:
Edition: Airport / Export Ed
Publication date: 2008-05-06
Price: $41.33
Review Tomaz Humar / Hutchinson:The remarkable story of one of the world’s most famous mountain climbers — from his involvement in the Balkans wars and his desperate escape, to how he came to be such an audacious and notorious climber of high-risk routes. From the Hardcover edition.
Creator: E.W. Swanton
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1997-06
Dewey code: 796
List Price: $22.70
Price: $41.39
Review Last Over / CSA WORD:
Creator: Craig MacInnis
Publication date: 2003-09
Dewey code: 796
Price: $16.95
Review Remembering the Golden Jet: A Celebration of Bobby Hull / Raincoast Books:The man with the blistering slapshot was the ultimate combination of power, speed, and intimidation. Bobby Hull, the leader of the great Chicago Black Hawks, remains one of the sport's most colorful characters, a master in a game with few new superstars. Dozens of vintage photographs and complete stats complete this tribute to an amazing athlete from hockey's golden era.
Publication date: 1998-09-28
Dewey code: 796.357092
List Price: $47.50
Price: $47.40
Review Baseball's Radical for All Seasons: A Biography of John Montgomery Ward (American Sports History Series) / The Scarecrow Press, Inc.:The first biography of one of the most adventurous and influential figures in baseball history.
Publication date: 2004-10-11
Dewey code: 635
List Price: $31.00
Price: $42.10
Review An Evening with Alan Titchmarsh / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Publication date: 2004-09-15
Dewey code: 629
List Price: $45.84
Price: $41.30
Review Bill Lomas World Champion Road Racer (Redline Motorcycles) / Redline Books:
Creator: Joseph Romain
Publication date: 1999-10
Dewey code: 796.72092
Price: $8.95
Review Jacques Villeneuve (Champion Sport Biogragphies) / Warwick House Pub.:Jacques Villeneuve avoided motor racing when his famous father was alive. It's surprising that he became a race car driver soon after Gilles Villeneuve's tragic death in a racing crash. After trying different types of racing, Jacques moved to Formula One racing in l996. He performed very well that year as a rookie and then won the world championship in l997. Jacques' story is quite a remarkable journey. Ken Sparling wrote "Michael Schumacher," another book in the "Champion Sports Biography" series.
Edition: Ltd Sgd
Publication date: 1997-12-01
Dewey code: 796
Price: $250.00
Review Byron Nelson, Limited Edition / Broadway:Byron Nelson was the top player in the game for several years during and immediately after World War II. For a writer, formula can be dangerous. For a marketer, there's no harm in perpetuating what works. Martin Davis, a marketer par excellence in this niche, continues his run of golf tribute aces with a lovely appreciation of Lord Byron of the links. Like Davis's previous oversized homages to Ben Hogan and Bobby Jones, Byron Nelson is as big as a Tiger Woods drive, and as thoughtful as Ben Crenshaw eyeing a putt. Crenshaw doesn't do any putting here, but he does contribute a companion forward to the astute, if friendly, essays by Dave Anderson, Tom Watson, Nick Seitz, and Dan Jenkins. While the volume is large enough to accommodate the totality of Nelson's long, stellar career-a U. S. Open victory to accompany his pair of Masters and PGA titles-it zooms in strongly on his remarkable 1945 feat of 11 consecutive tournament victories, a standard matched only by Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak in its unapproachable majesty.
Publication date: 1996-12-31
Review A Miller's Tale / Middlesbrough Football Club:
Publication date: 2003-06
Dewey code: 796.357092
List Price: $47.00
Price: $43.01
Review Mel Ott: The Gentle Giant (American Sports History Series) / The Scarecrow Press, Inc.:Beyond the statistical record of this truly great baseball player, this book focuses on Mel Ott's personal life, his strong family ties, and the contributions that he made to the game of baseball. This volume is enhanced by intimate contact with the Ott family, particularly his daughters Lyn and Barbara, both of whom contributed to the story.
Authors
- Len Fiorito
- Richard Marazzi
Dewey code: 796.3570922
List Price: $55.00
Price: $42.95
Review Baseball Players of the 1950s: A Biographical Dictionary of All 1,560 Major Leaguers / McFarland & Company:The playing and post-playing careers of all 1,560 players who appeared in a major league box score between 1950 and 1959 - the "golden age," many say - are profiled in this exhaustive work. From Aaron to Zuverink: this treasure-trove of anecdotes, many gathered from personal interviews by the authors, are full of historical facts, controversy, and trivia. For example, readers will learn, or be reminded, that Humberto Robinson, a Milwaukee Braves pitcher, was approached by a gambler and asked to fix a game against the Phillies, that Joe Adcock chased Giants' pitcher Ruben Gomez with a bat around the field, Bob Turley reached the top of the corporate ladder after his playing days, Casey Wise became an orthodontist, Bobby Brown became a heart surgeon and president of the AL, and that Chuck Conners became an actor. All of this and much more can be found here.
Publication date: 2004-12-31
Dewey code: 796
List Price: $42.50
Price: $42.50
Review Confessions of a Speedway Promoter!: John Berry Reveals the Truth About Speedway in the 70s And 80s / Football World:
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Walt Hansgen: His Life and the History of Post-War American Road Racing, Deadly!, Sparky, Favre: Most Valuable Player, Bill Shankly, CLIMBING FREE: MY LIFE IN THE VERTICAL WORLD, Kicking Out, Heading in: A Junior Coach's Diary of the 1999-2000 Football Season, David Beckham: My Side - The Autobiography, Tomaz Humar, Last Over, Remembering the Golden Jet: A Celebration of Bobby Hull, Baseball's Radical for All Seasons: A Biography of John Montgomery Ward (American Sports History Series), An Evening with Alan Titchmarsh, Bill Lomas World Champion Road Racer (Redline Motorcycles), Jacques Villeneuve (Champion Sport Biogragphies), Byron Nelson, Limited Edition, A Miller's Tale, Mel Ott: The Gentle Giant (American Sports History Series), Baseball Players of the 1950s: A Biographical Dictionary of All 1,560 Major Leaguers, Confessions of a Speedway Promoter!: John Berry Reveals the Truth About Speedway in the 70s And 80sTop headlines: Obamas to green the White House?: While hanging new drapes isn't high on the Obamas' list of priorities as they prepare to move into the White House, design experts wonder if the next first family will use the nation's most famous house as a way to back a serious agenda: going green. ›16:57 Just dating him in the meantime? 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