Publication date: 2000-03-20
Price: $43.84
Review King John / Leeds United Publishing Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-09-30
Price: $40.72
Review Arthur Pember's Great Adventures: Arthur Pember (1835-86) - Soccer Pioneer, Adventurer, Reformer, and Undercover Journalist / Blythe Smart Publications:
Creator: Gareth Edwards
Publication date: 1999-09-02
Dewey code: 796
List Price: $20.65
Price: $40.96
Review Gareth Edwards / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:He won 53 consecutive caps for Wales between 1967 and 1978 and scored 20 international tries, captained his country at 19 years of age, represented the British Lions in 1968, 1971 and 1974, appearing in 10 Test matches and recently was voted by Rugby World readers the greatest ever. He remains as familiar a name in Cardiff as Christchurch, universally respected from Suva to Sydney to Swansea. And now is the opportune moment for Gareth to look back at his life since retirement: it has been 20 years since he published his highly successful autobiography "Gareth". He speaks frankly about the changes rugby has undergone over recent years with the arrival of professionalism, and compares the rugby world of his time with that of today. Offering fascinating behind-the-scenes anecdotes about the characters and events in the game and talking about his glittering career, "Gareth Edwards" is much more than a run-of-the-mill autobiography, this is the autobiography of a rugby superstar.
Publication date: 2006-09-01
Dewey code: 629
List Price: $66.95
Price: $40.36
Review Colin Seeley: Racer ...and the rest / Redline Books:This volume, the first half of Colin Seeley’s autobiography, isn’t just the story of one man’s life and achievements, although the Seeley marque is indeed an achievement. Colin recalls bending his very first frame using the most basic of equipment in an outdoor workshop on a frosty December morning in 1965. Colin, through sheer hard work and determination built his reputation as a perfectionist in all things, respected by the rich and famous, the manufacturers, and the fans within the motorcycling fraternity then and now. Packed with photographs, news clippings, and memorabilia, the book is also one man’s vivid memories of the motorcycle racing scene. From the thrills and anxieties of sidecar racing in the 1960s with passenger ‘Gungy Wal’ to the development of CSRS and the highly regarded sponsorship and service provided to racers lucky enough to have the friendship and professional interest of Colin Seeley. If you were there you’ll love reliving the moments. If you weren’t, you’ll wish you had been!.
Edition: Expanded
Publication date: 1997-05-29
Dewey code: 796.357092
Price: $45.00
Review Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy / Oxford University Press, USA:In 1997 the American people will celebrate with great fanfare and publicity the fiftieth anniversary of Jackie Robinson's explosive entrance into major league baseball. Robinson has become a national icon, his name a virtual synonym for pathbreaker. Indeed, much has transpired between this young African-American's first bold strides around the baseball diamonds of a segregated America and General Manager Bob Watson's pride in assembling 1996 World Champion New York Yankees. Recognizing this monumental event in America's continuing struggle for integration, Jules Tygiel has expanded his highly acclaimed Baseball's Great Experiment. In a new afterword, he addresses the mythology surrounding Robinson's achievements, his overall effect on baseball and other sports, and the enduring legacy Robinson has left for African Americans and American society. In this gripping account of one of the most important steps in the history of American desegregation, Tygiel tells the story of Jackie Robinson's crossing of baseball's color line. Examining the social and historical context of Robinson's introduction into white organized baseball, both on and off the field, Tygiel also tells the often neglected stories of other African-American players-such as Satchel Paige, Roy Campanella, Willie Mays, and Hank Aaron-who helped transform our national pastime into an integrated game. Drawing on dozens of interviews with players and front office executives, contemporary newspaper accounts, and personal papers, Tygiel provides the most telling and insightful account of Jackie Robinson's influence on American baseball and society.
Creator: Matthew C. Whitaker
Publication date: 2008-04-30
Dewey code: 796.092396073
List Price: $75.00
Price: $40.95
Review African American Icons of Sport: Triumph, Courage, and Excellence (Greenwood Icons) / Greenwood Press:This title offers an examination of African Americans in sports, from a variety of perspectives and through a lively range of rhetoric styles, and illuminates the history of highly successful and influential individuals, athletes and teams who have transcended "mere" celebrity to come to represent a given Zeitgeist to a sizable part of the world. It also explores the history and lives of complex, multi-layered personages and groups. Finally, it examines the extent to which modern mass media and popular culture have contributed greatly to the rise, and sometimes fall, of the these powerful symbols of athletic, individual, and group excellence. Icons of African American Sports includes articles on:- The Williams Sisters - Shaquille O'Neal - Jim Brown - Harlem Globetrotters - Jack Johnson - Carl Lewis - Jesse Owens - Joe Louis - Magic Johnson - Wilma Rudolph - Muhammad Ali - Barry Bonds - Dominique Dawes - Negro Baseball Leagues - Arthur Ashe - George Foreman - and others. Icons of African American Sports is a worthwhile study and a desperately needed contribution to the fields of African American history, United States history and sports history.
Publication date: 2001-05-01
Dewey code: 796
Price: $13.99
Review David Lloyd: The Autobiography / HarperCollins UK:Writing from a position of intimate knowledge as coach to the England team for three years, Lloyd offers his often outspoken views on why English cricket is at its lowest ebb. Accounts of his political battles alongside his remarkable frankness about key personnel provide a fascinating and at times damning picture of the strengths and weaknesses of cricket in England. Now as he contemplates a future in television commentary, all the stories that could never be told while he was in the England job are revealed once and for all.
Authors
- The Basic Skills Agency
- Sandra Woodcock
List Price: $40.06
Price: $40.06
Review Livewire Real Lives: Michael Jordan (Livewire Real Lives) / Hodder Murray:
Publication date: 2004-01
Price: $40.76
Review Footprints in the Sea: Tales of a Marine Biologist / Ballyhay Books:
Publication date: 2002-09-23
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $22.36
Price: $40.91
Review I, George Nepia (Nepia, George) / London League Publications Ltd:
Publication date: 1991-11-11
Review Tommy Docherty: Biography of Tommy Docherty / Kingswood Press:
Edition: 2nd
Publication date: 2007-10-30
List Price: $40.07
Price: $40.07
Review Cristiano Ronaldo (Football) / A-Jot:
Publication date: 2000-07
Dewey code: 796.522092
List Price: $24.95
Price: $24.95
Review Climb to Glory: Mountaineer, Adventurer, Explorer, the Bill Hackett Story / Bookpartners:
Publication date: 2002-11-21
Price: $35.05
Review Billy Wright: A Hero for All Seasons / Robson Books Ltd:Billy Wright captained England 90 times on the way to becoming the first footballer to win 100 international caps. He was skipper of the all-conquering Wolves team that pioneered European football nights in the 1950s. In A Hero for All Seasons, Norman Giller - who was a close friend - traces his life and times. Billy was the David Beckham of his time. When he married Joy Beverly of the Beverly Sisters in 1959, their wedding stopped the traffic. It received almost as much publicity as the Posh Spice/Becks union 40 years later. A Hero for All Seasons is not only a story of a great sportsman, but also of an era of football that has disappeared from sight. Just one difference: David Beckham earns in just one week more that Billy Wright picked up as a player throughout a 20-year career. The author discusses the many other changes that have occurred to the game since Wright's time, while also exploring his career and his personal life as he rose from humble beginnings to become a folk-hero.
Publication date: 2004-10-29
List Price: $40.06
Price: $40.06
Review Michael Owen (Livewire Real Lives) / Hodder Murray:Stimulating and accessible, the titles in the "Livewire" series have been produced in association with The Basic Skills Agency to ensure a non-patronising approach towards the requirements of readers with special needs. They provide teenagers/adult interest level fiction and non-fiction for those with reading ages below 10, or adult students learning English as a second language. Each book is graded at one of the following reading ages: 6-7, 7-8, 8-9 or 9-10. All "Livewire" books are written by qualified special needs teachers, and are expertly assessed and subtly colour-coded for the appropriate reading age.
Publication date: 2002-10-03
Dewey code: 796
List Price: $48.09
Price: $40.39
Review Muammad Ali: The Glory Years / Ebury Press:This work explores and celebrates the life and career of the most famous and revered sportsperson in the world. With over 250 pages of meticulously researched text and spectacular photographs, "The Glory Years" offers a unique account of Ali's meteoric rise to fame, both as a champion boxer and controversial media icon. In preparing the text, the authors spoke extensively to family, friends and opponents, researched Ali's childhood and trailed him across the globe in order to reveal not just Ali the boxer and celebrity, but Ali the Man. Foreword by author and ex-boxing champion, Jose Torres, together with a final chapter which brings the Ali story into the present, place Ali the icon in a wider perspective and considers his lasting influence in areas way beyond the sporting arena.
Publication date: 1996-09-26
Review Meninga: My Life in Football / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd:This is an autobiography of one of Australia's most popular football players, Mal Meninga. It looks at the stories behind his achievements, the racial slurs he has faced throughout his career, and what he considers it takes to be a success in football and in life.
Authors
- Mark Donohue
- Paul Van Valkenburgh
Publication date: 2000-09
Dewey code: 796.72092
Price: $49.95
Review The Unfair Advantage - Special Edition Hardcover / Bentley Publishers:In 1974 Mark Donohue took a year off from driving at the height of his racing career and wrote a candid and revealing book about his journey through the world of auto racing - from amateur races in his own '57 Corvette to winning the Indy 500 in Roger Penske's McLaren M16. Now, 25 years after it's original publication, The Donohue sons and Bentley Publishers have re-released a new edition of The Unfair Advantage. The new edition contains all of the original text. Expanded content includes photographs and separately appended material that fills out the Donohue story in words and pictures and provides historical context. The Unfair Advantage captures a uniquely American blend of intellect and scrappiness. A graduate in engineering from Brown University, Donohue integrated creativity, openness to new ideas, humor, and his persistent will to win into every part of his approach to racing. When Donohue puts that formula into words in The Unfair Advantage the result is as much an attitude and perspective as anything else. As such, it has had wide reaching and particularly personal impact for almost 30 years in the world of motorsport participants and enthusiasts.
Publication date: 2004-09
Dewey code: 796.357092
List Price: $29.95
Price: $65.39
Review Joe: Rounding Third & Heading for Home / Orange Frazer Press:He has been cursed since age 15, carrying always the appositive affixed eternally to his name-the youngest pitcher in major league baseball. And yet the Joe Nuxhall story neither begins nor ends with the appositive. Baseball, in fact, may not even have been his best sport. He was a high school fullback, big and fast and good enough to be All-State, and he was unquestionably the best schoolboy basketball center in Ohio. He had pitched ten no-hitters before he was 15, however, and when he pitched for the Cincinnati Reds that historic time, he first had to get permission from his 9th grade principal, and ferried himself to Crosley Field and back, alone, on the bus. It was not, as history tells us, an auspicious occasion (an ERA of 67. 50), but it launched the remarkable career of perhaps the best-loved and most enduring sports figure Cincinnati has ever seen. Noted sportscaster Greg Hoard's new biography, Joe, dramatically paints the Depression era background of "Hamilton Joe," closing industrial league games for his athletic father when the boy was barely a teenager, facing feared veteran slugger Stan Musial his first time up, and on to Birmingham, where he watched, astounded, while a lanky Negro pitcher named Satchel Paige warmed up by throwing strikes across a piece of chewing gum tinfoil. "The Old Left-Hander" pitched twenty-two seasons of professional baseball, including an All-Star year in 1955 when he led the league in shut-outs, and even when he retired to the broadcasting booth, he was still pitching batting practice. Greg Hoard's tale of baseball's last great innocent is the story of a charmed life, in which a blue-collar kid from a gritty industrial town, by great athleticism and a disarming guilelessness, found himself an enduring legend.
Publication date: 2003-09
Dewey code: 629
List Price: $39.95
Price: $140.85
Review Nuvolari / Breedon Books Publishing:Vivid biography of possibly the greatest racing driver of all time. - Uses dramatic contemporary reports to recreate Nuvolari's great races, including his remarkable victory in the 1935 German GP and his heartrending last stand in the 1948 Mille Miglia. - Author PR; book signings; reviews/features in Motor Sport, F1 Racing and other motorsport press as well as the Telegraph Magazine and national sport supplements. Tazio Nuvolari (1892-1953) is widely regarded as the greatest racing driver of all time. Through the 1930s and into the 1940s his reputation for skill and bravery eclipsed a whole generation of rivals. Even today his name alone evokes a classic era in the history of road and Grand Prix racing. Yet there is no current affordable biography of him in the English language. In this fascinating assessment of Nuvolari's life, Christopher Hilton seeks to understand Nuvolari the man - and the Nuvolari legend as it unfolded. Using original documentary material, race reports of the time from several countries and the recollections of Nuvolari's contemporaries, the author recreates the excitement generated by his driving and the impact it made on motorsport. Nuvolari's virtuosity at the wheel came with a competitive instinct so fierce that he repeatedly broke cars and his own body. [+]The author captures many aspects of Nuvolari's strong personality, a personality which, in the days before intrusive journalism, was virtually unknown. The extraordinary performances that decorated Nuvolari's long career form the backbone of the narrative - the 1930 Mille Miglia, the 1935 German GP, the 1938 British GP at Donington, the 1948 Mille Miglia. Marking the half century after Nuvolari's death, this new biography is an invaluable addition to motor racing history and essential reading for anyone interested in the sport - even if they are followers of modern Formula 1 heroes like the Schumachers, Coulthard and Montoya.
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