Creator: Tom Parker
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-08
Dewey code: 796
List Price: $55.00
Price: $34.65
Review Hogan: Library Edition / Blackstone Audiobooks:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2002-08
Dewey code: 796
List Price: $69.95
Price: $44.07
Review Roger Maris / Blackstone Audiobooks:
Edition: Har/DVD
Publication date: 2007-04-30
Dewey code: 796.522092
List Price: $24.95
Price: $34.94
Review Brotherhood of the Rope: The Biography of Charles Houston (Legends and Lore) / Mountaineers Books:It was a failed summit attempt and a failed rescue in the Himalaya that brought Charles Houston, M. D. , fame and adulation in the mountaineering world. His leadership of the K2 expedition of 1953 is still celebrated as the embodiment of all that is right and good in the mountains. In Brotherhood of the Rope, Bernadette McDonald traces the development of an American hero. Houston is a mountaineer whose groundbreaking medical experiments on altitude and the human body helped calibrate the nation's WWII air-assault strategy and shorten the war. This is the man personally recruited by Sergeant Shriver to lead the first Peace Corps programs in India; the friend whom Bill Moyers credits with saving his life; the physician who built some of the first artificial-heart prototypes in his garage. Today, at age 93, Houston is still a leading authority in high-altitude medicine, and serves as a mentor for troubled teens. Includes DVD documentary-with historical film footage-of the epic American attempt of K2 in 1953, and the resulting rescue that remains one of mountaineering's most harrowing stories.
Publication date: 1999-02
Dewey code: 796.962092
List Price: $19.65
Price: $39.00
Review Paul Kariya (Ice Hockey Legends) / Chelsea House Publications:A biography of the Japanese-Canadian hockey player who is the high-scoring forward for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.
Creator: Turner Publishing Company
Publication date: 2004-10-25
Dewey code: 796
Price: $39.95
Review University of Kentucky Basketball, 101 Years / Turner Publishing Company (KY):
Creator: Rufus Segar
Publication date: 2002-02-11
Review Best Remembered / Third Age Press:
Edition: Large Print
Publication date: 2007-11-21
Dewey code: 796.357092
List Price: $39.95
Price: $39.95
Review Shoeless: The Life and Times of Joe Jackson / McFarland:"Shoeless" Joe Jackson was one of baseball's greatest hitters and most colorful players. Born Joseph Jefferson Wofford Jackson on July 16, 1888, in Pickens County, South Carolina, Jackson went to work in a textile mill when he was around six years old, and got his start in baseball playing for the Brandon Mill team at the age of 13 earning $2. 50 a game. He emerged as the star of the team and a favorite of fans with his hitting and throwing abilities, and moved up to play in the Carolina Association, where he received his nickname "Shoeless" because the blisters on his feet forced him to play in his stockings. He then made his move to the major leagues, signing on with the Philadelphia Athletics and rising to fame. This work chronicles Jackson's life from his poor beginnings to his involvement in the scandal surrounding the 1919 World Series to his life after baseball and his death December 5, 1951, with most of the work focusing on his baseball career.
Publication date: 2004-04-04
Price: $34.63
Review James 'Dun' Hay,1881-1940: The Story of a Footballer / Sports and Editorial Services Australia:
Publication date: 2001-10-01
List Price: $39.95
Price: $34.95
Review Kanazawa 10th Dan / Shoto Publishing:Kanazawa 10th Dan written by Dr. Clive Layton is an outstanding book on the master of masters Kancho Hirokazu Kanazawa. Filled all kinds of rare photos the 220 pages takes us from when he was born in 1931 to 1964. You will see how a master is created and how the first all Japan Champion became the #1 Japanese Karate Instructor in Shotokan in the world today came to having over one million students world wide.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-07
Dewey code: 796
List Price: $34.99
Price: $34.99
Review Babe Ruth: An American Legend, Library Edition / Playaway:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-07
Dewey code: 796.357092
List Price: $34.99
Price: $34.99
Review Joe Dimaggio: The Yankee Clipper, Library Edition / Playaway:
Publication date: 2008-10-13
Dewey code: 796
List Price: $34.99
Price: $34.99
Review The Beautiful Struggle / Xlibris Corporation:
Authors
- Walter Smith
- Ken Gallacher
Dewey code: 796.334092
List Price: $29.95
Price: $50.65
Review Mr. Smith: The Fan Who Joined the Ibrox Legends / Mainstream Publishing:
Publication date: 2006-08-10
Review Strachan: My Life in Football / Little, Brown Book Group:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2004-03
Dewey code: 796.3578
List Price: $39.99
Price: $39.99
Review From an Orphan to a King / Immortal Investments Publishing:In 1946 when an energetic, stong-armed young marine with a world of confidence laid down a challenge that would alter sports history forever. From that humble beginning, using only himself and three other players; a first baseman, catcher and shortstop, the King and His Court engaged full-team squads winning over 9,700 contests. Remarkably, over 200,000,000 fans have witness the King pitch 930 no-hitters. They marvel at his 141,000 career strikeout totals. Spectators are mesmerized while Eddie hurls the ball from second base, behind his back, and even between his legs. Incredibly, while wearing a blindfold he has whiffed over 8,600 sluggers! Eddie Feigner's life story is true Americana. He is simply the greatest softball fast-pitch player in history and one of the finest athletes of all time. Starting as an orphan, his rise to the pinnacle as the sport's greatest ambassador is extraordinary. His life is part Hollywood, part Harlem Globetrotters, and part God-given athletic genius. The stories of eight decades of international travel, memorable games and incredible obstacles that the team ovecame are sure to inspire and entertain sports fans and general readers alike.
Publication date: 2005
Review THE VILLAIN: THE LIFE OF DON WHILLANS / HUTCHINSON:
Publication date: 2000-07-03
Dewey code: 796.357092
List Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00
Review Branch Rickey in Pittsburgh: Baseball's Trailblazing General Manager for the Pirates, 1950-1955 / McFarland & Company:"The first book chronicling Rickey's final years as an executive with the Bucs"-USA Today Baseball Weekly; "a solid account"-The International Journal of the History of Sport; This work focuses on Rickey's tenure as the general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, from 1950 through 1955. In addition to contemporary accounts, Rickey's personal correspondence and interoffice memorandums are used to document his struggle to revamp the fate of a small-market team.
Publication date: 1998-07
Dewey code: 712.5092
List Price: $24.95
Price: $123.00
Review Champion in a Man's World: The Biography of Marion Hollins / Sleeping Bear Press:
Creator: Jean Todt
Edition: 5th
Publication date: 2007-05-01
Dewey code: 796
List Price: $24.95
Price: $34.33
Review Michael Schumacher: The Rise of a Genius / Chronosports Editeur:This biography of Michael Schumacher describes all of his childhood, his exceptional career, and his secrets. It exists since 1997 and has been fully updated at the end of the 2006 seasons - and possibly Michael's 8th world title.
Publication date: 2006-08-02
Review Spun Out: Shane Warne the Unauthorised Biography of a Cricketing Genius / Bantam Press:
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