Last Dance: Behind the Scenes at the ...
John FeinsteinAn in-depth portrait of the NCAA Final Four competition is presented from the perspectives of schools, coaches, and players who have made it to college basketball's final weekend, in a collection of dramatic and inspiring stories that...
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Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robi...
Jonathan EigApril 15, 1947, marked the most important opening day in baseball history. When Jackie Robinson stepped onto the diamond that afternoon at Ebbets Field, he became the first black man to break into major-league baseball in the twentiet...
The Last Season: A Team in Search of ...
Phil JacksonNine-time NBA Champion coach Phil Jackson knows all about being in the spotlight-about high-profile, high-pressure seasons coaching gigantic personalities through adversity and controversy in the middle of a media hothouse in which ev...
The Blind Side: The Evolution of a Ga...
Michael LewisIn football, as in life, the value we place on people changes with the rules of the games they play.When we first meet the young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addi...
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superath...
Christopher McDougallAn epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? Isolated by Mexico's deadly Copper Canyons, the blissful Tarahumara Indians have honed the ability to run hundreds of miles without rest or injury. In a ri...
Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s, becoming the first American home for scores of families in flight from the world's war zones. Suddenly its streets we...
Epic: Stories of Survival From The Wo...
VariousEpic a mountaineering term that evokes a sense of treacherous disaster. The climb that went wrong: fighting blinding snowstorms and horrific avalanches; days spent tentbound running low on food, water and oxygen; surviving broken bone...
The Limit: Life and Death on the 1961...
Michael CannellThe true story of Phil Hill, a lowly California mechanic who, defying all expectations, became the first American to win the Grand Prix championship. In the tradition of Seabiscuit and The Right Stuff, Cannell's high-octane narrative ...
Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet's...
Peter HellerThe Tsangpo Gorge in southeastern Tibet has lured explorers and adventurers since its discovery. Sacred to the Buddhists, the inspiration for Shangri La, the Gorge is as steeped in legend and mystery as any spot on earth. As a river-r...
The Champion's Mind: How Great Athlet...
Jim AfremowEven amongst the most elite performers, certain athletes stand out as a cut above the rest, able to outperform in clutch, game-deciding moments. These athletes prove that raw athletic ability doesn't necessarily translate to a superio...
The System: The Glory and Scandal of ...
Jeff BenedictAN EXPLOSIVE AND REVELATORY PORTRAIT REPORTED FROM DEEP BEHIND THE SCENES OF BIG-TIME NCAA COLLEGE FOOTBALL: THE PASSION, THE THRILLING ACTION—AND THE SHOCKING REALITIES THAT LIE BENEATH THIS COLOSSAL, MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR BUSINESS ...
When first published in 1970, Ball Four stunned the sports world. The commissioner, executives, and players were shocked. Sportswriters called author Jim Bouton a traitor and "social leper." Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn ...
The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts,...
Mark BowdenOn December 28, 1958, the New York Giants and Baltimore Colts met under the lights of Yankee Stadium for that season's NFL Championship game. Football, growing in popularity amid America's post-war economic boom, was still greatly ove...
The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts,...
Mark BowdenOn December 28, 1958, the New York Giants and Baltimore Colts met under the lights of Yankee Stadium for that season's NFL Championship game. Football, growing in popularity amid America's post-war economic boom, was still greatly ove...
The Boys of Dunbar: A Story of Love, ...
Alejandro DanoisAs the crack epidemic swept across inner-city America in the early 1980s, the streets of Baltimore were crime ridden. For poor kids from the housing projects, the future looked bleak. But basketball could provide the quickest ticket o...
Imagine running like a child once again?effortless, free, boundlessly energetic, without injury or soreness. Ultramarathoner Danny Dreyer combines the wisdom of T?ai Chi with the insights of a champion runner to present ChRunning, a s...
Moment of Glory: The Year Underdogs R...
John FeinsteinIn 2003, after winning six of the twelve majors from 2000 to 2002, Tiger Woods struggled with his swing, leaving him lagging behind the field at both the U.S. Open and the PGA Championship. With Woods out of the picture, the stage wa...
The Legends Club: Dean Smith, Mike Kr...
John FeinsteinThe riveting inside story of college basketball's fiercest rivalry among three coaching legends—University of North Carolina's Dean Smith, Duke's Mike Krzyzewski, and North Carolina State's Jim Valvano—by the king of college baske...
Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life In...
John FeinsteinFrom the acclaimed #1 bestselling author . . . a riveting journey through the world of minor-league baseball"No one grows up playing baseball pretending that they're pitching or hitting in Triple-A." —Chris Schwinden, Tr...
From famed manager Terry Francona, a lively, unvarnished narrative of his tenure withthe storied Boston Red Sox From 2004 to 2011, Terry Francona managed the Boston Red Sox, the most talked about, scrutinized team in all of sports. In...
Drama in the Bahamas: Muhammad Ali's ...
Dave HanniganOn December 11, 1981, Muhammad Ali slumped on a chair in the cramped, windowless locker room of a municipal baseball field outside Nassau. A phalanx of sportswriters had pushed and shoved their way into this tiny, breeze-blocked space...
Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet's...
Peter HellerTibet’s Tsangpo Gorge, inspiration for Shangri La and one of the world’s most insurmountable stretches of river, remained unconquered until a team of seven world-class kayakers rose to the challenge, a journey chronicled i...
A no-holds-barred memoir from the most legendary first baseman to ever play the game As a champion St. Louis Cardinal and New York Met, Keith Hernandez revolutionized the role of first baseman, partying hard and playing harder. A five...
Breakthrough Training in the Zone
Kelly HowellPump up your performance Increase energy and motivation Boost Beta-endorphin production Burn fat Look forward to exercise You know aerobic exercise is important for your health and weight, but you dread getting on the treadmil...
Sixty Feet, Six Inches: A Hall of Fam...
Reggie JacksonReggie Jackson and Bob Gibson offer a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to understand America's pastime from their unique insider perspective./Legendary. Insightful. Uncompromising. Candid. Uncensored. Mr. October and Hoot Gibson unfortu...
The Road to Sparta: Reliving the Anci...
Dean KarnazesThe Road to Sparta is the story of the 153-mile run from Athens to Sparta that inspired the marathon and saved democracy, as told-and experienced-by ultramarathoner and New York Times bestselling author Dean Karnazes. In 490 BCE, P...
Pitching in a Pinch: Baseball from th...
Christy MathewsonThis insiders account blends anecdote, biography, instruction, and social history to celebrate baseball as it was played by its early heroes. Matty makes us feel that tense moment when a player in a pinch must use his head.
Boys Will Be Boys: The Glory Days and...
Jeff PearlmanThey were America's Team-the high-priced, high-glamour, high-flying Dallas Cowboys of the 1990s, who won three Super Bowls and made as many headlines off the field as on it. Led by Emmitt Smith, the charismatic Deion "Prime Time&...
Joe Posnanski's biography of the late Penn State football coach Joe Paterno follows in the tradition of works by Richard Ben Cramer on Joe DMaggio and David Maraniss on Vince Lombardi. Having gained unprecedented access to Paterno, as...