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Moneyball

Moneyball

by Michael Lewis

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game is a book by Michael M. Lewis, published in 2003, about the Oakland Athletics baseball team and its general manager Billy Beane. Its focus is the team's modernized, analytical, sabermetric approach to assembling a competitive baseball team, despite Oakland's disadvantaged revenue situation.
The Breaks Of the Game

The Breaks Of the Game

by David Halberstam

Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1981.
A Civil War Army Vs Navy

A Civil War Army Vs Navy

by John Feinstein

Brings to life one of college football's oldest and most heated rivalries through the 1994 season, explaining the struggles faced by each team, including player deaths, close games, and coach strategies.
Bo Knows Bo

Bo Knows Bo

by Bo Jackson

Bo Knows Bo is the autobiography of Bo Jackson, who excelled in both professional football and professional baseball, before injuries ended his careers. Co-authored with Dick Schaap, Bo Knows Bo covers Bo Jackson's life from his childhood in Bessemer, Alabama to the peak of his athletic abilities in 1990. Late in 1990, Jackson suffered a dislocated hip injury that ended his NFL career, and eventually led to the end of his MLB career also.
When Pride Still Mattered

When Pride Still Mattered

by David Maraniss

Includes bibliographical references (p. [517]-518) and index.
Playing For Keeps

Playing For Keeps

by David Halberstam

David Halberstam is the author of fifteen books, including The Best and the Brightest, The Powers That Be, The Reckoning, The Breaks of the Game, Summer of '49, October 1964, and The Amateurs. He has received every major journalistic award, including the Pulitzer Prize, and is a member of the Society of American Historians.
The Glory Of Their Times

The Glory Of Their Times

by Lawrence S Ritter

The Glory of Their Times: The Story Of The Early Days Of Baseball Told By The Men Who Played It is a book, edited by Lawrence Ritter, telling the stories of early 20th century baseball. It is widely acclaimed as one of the great books written about baseball.
Summer Of '49

Summer Of '49

by David Halberstam

Chronicles the 1949 pennant race between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees, profiling the players, owners, and fans as major league baseball was poised on the brink of major changes.
Season Of Life

Season Of Life

by Jeffrey Marx

Joe Ehrmann, a former NFL football star and volunteer coach for the Gilman high school football team, teaches his players the keys to successful defense: penetrate, pursue, punish, love. Love? A former captain of the Baltimore Colts and now an ordained minister, Ehrmann is serious about the game of football but even more serious about the purpose of life. Season of Life is his inspirational story as told by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jeffrey Marx, who was a ballboy for the Colts when he first met... Read more about this item
Ball Four

Ball Four

by Jim Bouton

Ball Four is a book written by former Major League Baseball pitcher Jim Bouton in 1970. The book talks about Bouton's career with the New York Yankees, the Houston Astros, and primarily his season with the Seattle Pilots (the club's only year in existence). Despite its controversy at the time, with baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn's attempts to discredit it and charging it detrimental to the sport, it is considered to be one of the most important sports books ever written.
The Game

The Game

by Ken Dryden

Widely acknowledged as the best hockey book ever written and lauded by Sports Illustrated as one of the Top 10 Sports Books of All Time, The Game is a reflective and thought-provoking look at a life in hockey. Intelligent and insightful, former Montreal Canadiens goalie and former President of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Ken Dryden captures the essence of the sport and what it means to all hockey fans. He gives us vivid and affectionate portraits of the characters -- Guy Lafleur, Larry Robinson, Guy... Read more about this item
Bo Knows Bo

Bo Knows Bo

by Bo and Dick Schaap Jackson

Bo Knows Bo is the autobiography of Bo Jackson, who excelled in both professional football and professional baseball, before injuries ended his careers. Co-authored with Dick Schaap, Bo Knows Bo covers Bo Jackson's life from his childhood in Bessemer, Alabama to the peak of his athletic abilities in 1990. Late in 1990, Jackson suffered a dislocated hip injury that ended his NFL career, and eventually led to the end of his MLB career also.
Resilience

Resilience

by Alonzo; Wetzel, Dan Mourning

Resilience. It's not just the title of Alonzo Mourning's stirring memoir; it's the stuff he's made of. Whether petitioning himself into foster care as an eleven-year-old, tirelessly studying his way onto the dean's list at Georgetown University, making it as an all-star center in the NBA, or returning to peak form after organ-transplant surgery, Mourning has shown enormous inner strength. His faith, his determination, and his courage are what have driven and sustained him throughout his extraordinary... Read more about this item
The Catcher Was a Spy

The Catcher Was a Spy

by Nicholas Dawidoff

Nicholas Dawidoff is the author of The Catcher was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg and In the Country of Country: A Journey to the Roots of American Music, and is the editor of the Library of America’s Baseball: A Literary Anthology. He is also a contributor to The New Yorker, The American Scholar, and The New York Times Magazine. A graduate of Harvard University, he has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Berlin Prize Fellow of the American Academy. He and his wife live in New York.
Instant Replay

Instant Replay

by Jerry Kramer

jerry kramer was a right guard for the Green Bay Packers from 1958 to 1968. During his time with the team, the Packers won five National Championships and Super Bowls I and II. He was inducted into the Green Bay Packer Hall of Fame in 1977, and his jersey has been retired. He lives in Boise, Idaho. dick schaap (1934–2002), a sportswriter, broadcaster, and author or coauthor of thirty-three books, reported for NBC Nightly News, the Today show, ABC World News Tonight, 20/20, and ESPN and was the... Read more about this item
Fifth Quarter

Fifth Quarter

by Jennifer Allen

Jennifer Allen is a freelance journalist and the author of Better Get Your Angel On, a collection of stories. She has contributed pieces to numerous magazines, including Rolling Stone, Mirabella, and The New Republic. Allen lives in Los Angeles with her husband, the author Mark Richard, and their sons, Roman and Deacon.From the Hardcover edition.
My Nine Innings

My Nine Innings

by Lee MacPhail

Baseball Is a Funny Game

Baseball Is a Funny Game

by Joe Garagiola

Willies Time

Willies Time

by Charles Einstein

Bo

Bo

by Bo; Albom, Mitch Schembechler

Paper Lion

Paper Lion

by George Plimpton

Men At Work

Men At Work

by George F Will

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Meat On the Hoof

by Gary Shaw

Team Sports Books & Ephemera

The Game

The Game

by Dryden, Ken

Widely acknowledged as the best hockey book ever written and lauded by Sports Illustrated as one of the Top 10 Sports Books of All Time, The Game is a reflective and thought-provoking look at a life in hockey. Intelligent and insightful, former Montreal Canadiens goalie and former President of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Ken Dryden captures the essence of the sport and what it means to all hockey fans. He gives us vivid and affectionate portraits of the characters -- Guy Lafleur, Larry Robinson, Guy... Read more about this item
Summer Of \'49

Summer Of '49

by Halberstam, David

Chronicles the 1949 pennant race between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees, profiling the players, owners, and fans as major league baseball was poised on the brink of major changes.
The Baseball Codes

The Baseball Codes

by Turbow, Jason, Duca, Michael

Jason Turbow has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, SportsIllustrated.com, and Slam magazine. He is a regular contributor to Giants Magazine and Athletics, and for three years served as content director for “Giants Today,” a full-page supplement in the San Francisco Chronicle that was published in conjunction with every Giants home game. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two children.Michael Duca was the first chairman of the board of Bill... Read more about this item
Great Baseball Pitchers

Great Baseball Pitchers

by Brosnan, Jim

The Crunch

The Crunch

by Toomay, Pat

Men At Work

Men At Work

by Will, George F

The Official Encyclopedia Of Baseball

The Official Encyclopedia Of Baseball

by Thompson, Hy Turkin and S C

Cricket Country

Cricket Country

by Blunden, Edmund

The Sports Encyclopedia

The Sports Encyclopedia

by Neft, David S and Cohen, Richard M

Billyball

Billyball

by Billy Martin

The Sports Encyclopedia

The Sports Encyclopedia

by Neft, David S