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Rooney: A Sporting Life

Rooney: A Sporting Life


Maggie Jones Patterson, Michael P. Weber, Rob Ruck



Review "One of the best books on football written so far this century. . . . Assiduously researched, Rooney is more than ...
Cool Runnings and Beyond: The Story of the Jamaica Bobsleigh Team

Cool Runnings and Beyond: The Story of the Jamaica Bobsleigh Team


Chris Stokes



Cool Runnings and Beyond: The Story of the Jamaica Bobsleigh Team...
Alex Haley's Autobiography of Malcolm X (Bloom's Guides)

Alex Haley's Autobiography of Malcolm X (Bloom's Guides)


Harold Bloom



Alex Haley's Autobiography of Malcolm X (Bloom's Guides)...
Hacker Cracker: A Journey from the Mean Streets of Brooklyn to the Frontiers of Cyberspace

Hacker Cracker: A Journey from the Mean Streets of Brooklyn to the Frontiers of Cyberspace


David Chanoff, Ejovi Nuwere



From Publishers Weekly By age 21, Nuwere had grown from a precocious child in Brooklyn's embattled Bed-Stuy neighborhood ...
Emmy Noether: The Mother of Modern Algebra

Emmy Noether: The Mother of Modern Algebra


M. B. W. Tent



Review How appealing to teenage girls that a homely girl finds fame and happiness not with Prince Charming but with makin...
Sporting lives: metaphor and myth in American sports autobiographies

Sporting lives: metaphor and myth in American sports autobiographies


James W. Pipkin



Review “Sporting Lives is unfailingly well written and engaging. Drawing on an amazing range of sports autobiographi...
King of Shadows

King of Shadows


Susan Cooper



From Publishers Weekly Cooper (The Dark Is Rising) brilliantly weaves past and present together, using London's Globe The...
Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball

Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball


Bill Madden



From For longtime baseball fans, this biography of the mercurial owner of the New York Yankees is as painful to read as ...
Sports heroes, fallen idols

Sports heroes, fallen idols


Stanley H. Teitelbaum



From Publishers Weekly Drugs, gambling, domestic abuse, even-occasionally-murder-all are part of the day-to-day existence...
Venezuelan bust, baseball boom: Andrés Reiner and scouting on the new frontier

Venezuelan bust, baseball boom: Andrés Reiner and scouting on the new frontier


Milton H. Jamail



Review “If you know nothing about Andrés Reiner—and chances are you don’t—know this: Wit...
I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to The Blind Side, and Beyond

I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to The Blind Side, and Beyond


Michael Oher



Review "I''d understand if some people out there felt like another re-telling of the Oher story was flogging a dead horse...
Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend

Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend


Timothy M. Gay



From Publishers Weekly Tristam "Spoke" Speaker sits, statistically, alongside baseball's greatest sluggers and fielders, ...
How the Web Was Won: The Inside Story of How Bill Gates and His Band of Internet Idealists Transformed a Software Empire

How the Web Was Won: The Inside Story of How Bill Gates and His Band of Internet Idealists Transformed a Software Empire


Paul Andrews



Amazon.com Review In a brilliant--and, at times, overwhelming--display of research and perspicacity, Paul Andrews chroni...
Barry Bonds: A Biography (Baseball's All-Time Greatest Hitters)

Barry Bonds: A Biography (Baseball's All-Time Greatest Hitters)


John Bloom



Review ?An intriguing coverage.?- MBR Bookwatch/Donovan's Bookshelf Book Description This biography examines the ca...
Lou Gehrig: A Biography (Baseball's All-Time Greatest Hitters)

Lou Gehrig: A Biography (Baseball's All-Time Greatest Hitters)


William Kashatus



Review "Lou Gehrig played his last complete season in 1938, while unknowingly suffering from his dread disease. Although ...
Arab-American and Muslim Writers (Multicultural Voices)

Arab-American and Muslim Writers (Multicultural Voices)


Rebecca Layton



From School Library Journal Gr 7 Up–Layton discusses the work of Khalil Gibran, Malcolm X, Samuel Hazo, Amiri Bara...
Wink: The Incredible Life and Epic Journey of Jimmy Winkfield

Wink: The Incredible Life and Epic Journey of Jimmy Winkfield


Ed Hotaling



From Publishers Weekly In mid- and late-19th-century America, horse racing led American sports, and within that world, bl...
You Never Forget Your First: Ballplayers Recall Their Big League Debuts

You Never Forget Your First: Ballplayers Recall Their Big League Debuts


Josh Lewin



Review "Great stories plus great memories equals great reading." --Tim McCarver From the Publisher Players descri...
Professor Baseball: Searching for Redemption and the Perfect Lineup on the Softball Diamonds of Central Park

Professor Baseball: Searching for Redemption and the Perfect Lineup on the Softball Diamonds of Central Park


Edwin Amenta



Review "At one level, Professor Baseball is a straightforward diary of Amenta''s successes and failures over one summer s...
Wayne Gretzky (Sports Heroes and Legends)

Wayne Gretzky (Sports Heroes and Legends)


Matt Doeden



Wayne Gretzky (Sports Heroes and Legends)...
An Autumn Remembered: Bud Wilkinson's Legendary '56 Sooners

An Autumn Remembered: Bud Wilkinson's Legendary '56 Sooners


Gary T. King



About the Author Gary T. King is Professor of Psychology at Rose State College in Midwest City, Oklahoma. ...
Ghosts of Manila: The Fateful Blood Feud Between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier

Ghosts of Manila: The Fateful Blood Feud Between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier


Mark Kram



Amazon.com Review Muhammad Ali once admitted to former Sports Illustrated writer Mark Kram that he and Joe Frazier went ...
You Can Observe A Lot By Watching: What I've Learned About Teamwork From the Yankees and Life

You Can Observe A Lot By Watching: What I've Learned About Teamwork From the Yankees and Life


Yogi Berra



From Publishers Weekly Notorious for his run-ins with the English language, baseball great Berra has become an improbably...
Open Ice: Reflections and Confessions of a Hockey Lifer

Open Ice: Reflections and Confessions of a Hockey Lifer


Jack Falla



Review Praise for Jack Falla’s Previous Collection of Essays, Home Ice “literary hot chocolate that will wa...
The Greatest Fight of Our Generation: Louis vs. Schmeling

The Greatest Fight of Our Generation: Louis vs. Schmeling


Lewis A. Erenberg



From In 1938, radio announcer Clem McCarthy called the rematch between German Max Schmeling and American Joe Louis "the ...
Matty: An American Hero: Christy Mathewson of the New York Giants

Matty: An American Hero: Christy Mathewson of the New York Giants


Ray Robinson



From Publishers Weekly At the turn of the century, the great American sports hero was the fictional Frank Merriwell, ever...
Hans Christian Andersen (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)

Hans Christian Andersen (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)


Harold Bloom



Hans Christian Andersen (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)...
The Lombardi Rules: 26 Lessons from Vicni Lombardi--The World's Greatest Coach (The McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series)

The Lombardi Rules: 26 Lessons from Vicni Lombardi--The World's Greatest Coach (The McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series)


Vince Lombardi



From the Back Cover The Lombardi Rules Vince Lombardi--loved by some, feared by others, but respected by all--was first and...
Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith (Sporting)

Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith (Sporting)


David Steele, Tommie Smith



From Tommie Smith raised his black-gloved right fist after receiving the 200-meter gold medal at the 1968 Mexico City Ol...
W. E. B. Dubois (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)

W. E. B. Dubois (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)


Harold Bloom



From School Library Journal Gr 9 Up-During his long life, the controversial DuBois, who eventually embraced communism and...