Publication date: 2003-09-01
Dewey code: 796
List Price: $20.65
Price: $37.69
Review Rugby's Great Heroes and Entertainers / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:Bill McLaren's career as a rugby commentator spanned fifty years and earned him enormous respect. He is therefore well placed to choose his all-time favourites from the world of rugby in this entertaining collection. His marvellous powers of description and huge depth of knowledge ensure that this is a comprehensive insight into rugby's most memorable moments and characters.
Publication date: 2001-06-14
Dewey code: 796
List Price: $31.00
Price: $38.63
Review I Chose to Climb / Weidenfeld & Nicolson:
Publication date: 2000-03
Dewey code: 796.8153
List Price: $37.30
Price: $37.30
Review Bruce Lee: The Celebrated Life of the Golden Dragon / Topeka Bindery:The first compilation of Bruce Lee photographs published in association with the Bruce Lee estate. This book reveals the full range of Lee's talents. It includes rare photos spanning from his early stage career in Hong Kong to his worldwide success as an actor and martial arts phenomenon. Selected with the assistance of Lee's widow, Linda Lee Cadwell, Bruce Lee expert John Little presents a photographic record, accompanied by descriptive commentary, of all facets of this fascinating man, from the start of his career to his untimely death a quarter century ago. Included are photos from Bruce's personal family photos, from his childhood years, through the early years in Hollywood, to the peak of his career as an international star. On the 60th anniversary of his birth, Lee remains a legendary figure of our time, and this comprehensive collection of photographs will be a must-have for all of Lee's millions of devoted followers. - The only collection of Bruce Lee photographs compiled in complete collaboration with his estate - Culled from Linda Lee Cadwell's personal collection and the Warner Brother's vast array of on-set stills - The year 2000 is the Year of the Dragon and the 60th anniversary of Bruce Lee's birth - Time magazine named Bruce Lee one of the 100 Best Athletes of the Millennium.
Publication date: 2003-04
Dewey code: 796.357092368073
List Price: $37.60
Price: $37.60
Review Home Is Everything / Topeka Bindery:
Publication date: 1988-01-01
List Price: $5.95
Price: $39.95
Review Memoirs of a Mountain Man (Goodread Biographies) / Goodread Biography:Andy Russell has been a trapper, cowboy, bronco-buster, trail guide, grizzly hunter, nature photographer and filmmaker, lecturer, and fighter for the environment. This is the story of his adventures as a trail guide in the "standing-on-end country" of southern Alberta and British Columbia, and into the Yukon and Alaska. He recounts his experiences shepherding rich "sports" through the primeval wilderness in search of fish and game, often finding more than they bargained for. Above all, the book is about the immense changes that have transformed life in the Canadian Rockies over the past century. Memoirs of a Mountain Man is a lively, sensitively-observed account of outdoors life in some of the most awesome landscapes on the planet.
Authors
- Stanley Matthews
- David Miller
Review Stanley Matthews: The Authorized Biography / Pavilion Books:This biography recalls Sir Stanley Matthews's unparalleled career in football for Stoke, Blackpool and England, spanning four decades, during which the modest "wizard on the wing" mesmerized defenders and spectators alike.
Publication date: 2008-10-06
List Price: $48.09
Price: $38.40
Review Pele: My Life in Pictures / Simon & Schuster Ltd:Even people who don't know football know Pele. The best of a generation of Brazilian players universally acknowledged as the most accomplished and attractive group of footballers ever to play the game, he won the World Cup three times and is Brazil's all-time record goalscorer. Created by the same packager that brought us THE DYLAN CHRONICLES, THE STAR WARS VAULT, AUREY HEPBURN TREASURES, the world's greatest footballer now gives us the story of his incredible life and career with illustrations and removable memorabilia. Told with his characteristic grace and modesty, PELE: MY LIFE IN PICTURES is an essential volume for all sports fans, and anyone who admires true rarity of spirit.
Publication date: 2006-08
Review Who's Who of Preston North End / Breedon Books Publishing Co Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-11-28
Review The Trains Don't Stop There Anymore: The Life Story of a Footballing Nomad / Vertical Editions:
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:
Publication date: 2000-10-16
Review European Football Who's Who 2000/2001 / HarperCollinsWillow:With the ever increasing number of European footballers playing for English clubs over the last decade and the continuing expansion of the UEFA Champions League - and the wholesale televized coverage of these games - there has never been greater interest in the European Club soccer scene. This reference is the ultimate A-Z guide to all the leading personalities in British and European football. Players and coaches from leading clubs match officials, people who run the game, agents and other businesses involved in football are all covered.
Publication date: 2000-09-25
Price: $37.81
Review My Name is Len Davies, I'm a Football Scout / Firebird Books Ltd:
Creator: Julian Rhind Tutt
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1999-10
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $69.95
Price: $48.72
Review Fever Pitch / Chivers Audio Books:In the States, Nick Hornby is best know as the author of High Fidelity and About a Boy, two wickedly funny novels about being thirtysomething and going nowhere fast. In Britain he is revered for his status as a fanatical football writer (sorry, fanatical soccer writer), owing to Fever Pitch-which is both an autobiography and a footballing Bible rolled into one. Hornby pinpoints 1968 as his formative year-the year he turned 11, the year his parents separated, and the year his father first took him to watch Arsenal play. The author quickly moved "way beyond fandom" into an extreme obsession that has dominated his life, loves, and relationships. His father had initially hoped that Saturday afternoon matches would draw the two closer together, but instead Hornby became completely besotted with the game at the expense of any conversation: "Football may have provided us with a new medium through which we could communicate, but that was not to say that we used it, or what we chose to say was necessarily positive. " Girlfriends also played second fiddle to one ball and 11 men. He fantasizes that even if a girlfriend "went into labor at an impossible moment" he would not be able to help out until after the final whistle. Fever Pitch is not a typical memoir-there are no chapters, just a series of match reports falling into three time frames (childhood, young adulthood, manhood). While watching the May 2, 1972, Reading v. Arsenal match, it became embarrassingly obvious to the then 15-year-old that his white, suburban, middle-class roots made him a wimp with no sense of identity: "Yorkshire men, Lancastrians, Scots, the Irish, blacks, the rich, the poor, even Americans and Australians have something they can sit in pubs and bars and weep about. [+]" But a boy from Maidenhead could only dream of coming from a place with "its own tube station and West Indian community and terrible, insoluble social problems. " Fever Pitch reveals the very special intricacies of British football, which readers new to the game will find astonishing, and which Hornby presents with remarkable humor and honesty-the "unique" chants sung at matches, the cold rain-soaked terraces, giant cans of warm beer, the trains known as football specials carrying fans to and from matches in prisonlike conditions, bottles smashing on the tracks, thousands of policemen waiting in anticipation for the cargo of hooligans. The sport and one team in particular have crept into every aspect of Hornby's life-making him see the world through Arsenal-tinted spectacles. -Naomi Gesinger.
Authors
- Bev Buckingham
- Murray Mottram
Dewey code: 796
Price: $19.95
Review Beating the Odds: The Fall and Rise of Bev Buckingham / Allen & Unwin:In this riveting autobiography, jockey Bev Buckingham tells her story of triumph and tragedy on and off the racetrack. Buckingham had conquered the entrenched sexism of the horse racing industry to become her state's leading rider and the first woman in the world to win a jockey's premiership. When a dramatic fall left her with a broken back, she was told she would never walk again. This is a remarkable story of recovery from both a broken back and a broken heart.
Publication date: 2003-12-01
Dewey code: 799
List Price: $41.25
Price: $37.96
Review Some of it Was Fun / Medlar Press:
Authors
- Alan E. Ravenhill
- Neilson N. Kaufman
Dewey code: 796
List Price: $50.00
Price: $37.99
Review Leyton Orient Football Club (The Men Who Made) / Tempus:This book is part of The Men Who Made series, which presents some of the most well-known and important players in various sporting clubs and teams. Founding team members and post-war players are profiled alongside some of each team's modern legends.
Creator: Dan Jenkins
Publication date: 1997-12
Dewey code: 796
List Price: $29.95
Price: $37.45
Review Sam Baugh: Best There Ever Was (Texas Legends Series) / Masters Press:
Edition: Limited ed.
Publication date: 1995-12-01
Dewey code: 796
List Price: $49.95
Price: $37.96
Review Bob Huggins: Pressed for Success (Limited Edition) / Sports Publishing LLC:Limited Leatherbound Edition. Limited to 500 copies. Signed by Bob Huggins. Includes certificate of authenticity. Since taking over an embattled basketball program at the University of Cincinnati in 1989, Bob Huggins has inspired almost as many debates as victories. He has returned the team to its heritage as a national power, taken the school to the Final Four and Elite Eight, and earned so much respect that he was almost swept away by an offer from the NBA's Miami Heat. Yet, for all his accomplishments, he cannot escape the controversy and questions about his style.
Publication date: 2003-09
Dewey code: 796
List Price: $37.30
Price: $37.30
Review Golf: The Legends Of The Game / Topeka Bindery:In the few years that he has played golf on the pro circuit, Tiger Woods has done more to popularize the game of golf than Arnold Palmer has in a lifetime. Today, school-aged children around the country, from exclusive suburbs to inner city communities, are taking up golf. The game now has its own cable television station with 24 hour-a-day programming. Golf is big. It's appropriate then that Tiger Woods graces the cover of Golf. Here are the great players who have repeatedly proven themselves on the course. These are the men and women with the nerve and skill to win. They are the champions who have worn the cloak of victory with grace. Golf is an essential reference for all golf fans and the perfect tribute to the game's top 300 men and women: Bobby Jones, the great American, true-blue amateur Arnold Palmer, voted best known and loved Gene Sarazen, first to win all four grand slam events Mildred Zaharias, the beloved, all-around "Babe" Walter Hagen, ever flamboyant Severiano Ballesteros, swashbuckling Spaniard Jack Nicklaus, perhaps the most celebrated golfer Tiger Woods, the breathtaking young player, plus Fred Couples Greg Norman Ben Crenshaw Nick Price Ernie Els Chi Chi Rodriguez Nick Faldo Sam Snead Tom Watson Relive some of the greatest moments in golf, such as: Francis Ouimet, an unknown, shocks the golf world with his 1913 win of the US Open Gene Sarazen hits his most famous shot in the 1935 Masters Doug Sanders makes his 1970 Open famous miss Nicklaus' 1986 win - his sixth Masters Seve Ballesteros becomes a legend in the 1976 Open Bob Tway blasts Norman in the 1986 USPGA The book includes the history of the four Major Championships. The player profiles and fact boxes give name, date of birth, career highlights, major championship titles plus Ryder/Curtis Cup appearances for 280 of the world's greatest golfers. [+]Photos and stories relive the most celebrated and unforgettable moments of all the major championships.
Creator: Matthew C. Whitaker
Publication date: 2008-04-30
Dewey code: 796.092396073
List Price: $75.00
Price: $36.95
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.
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