Sylvester loved baseball, but he wasn't what you'd call a good hitter. He had decided against joining the team, when he met George Baruth. He promised Sylvester he would help him become one of the best players ever. Before long he was hitting homers. [More..] | |
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Every morning more than three million listeners tune in to Mike and Mike in the Morning on ESPN Radio—mostly to hear the Mikes’ (Golic and Greenberg) riotous back-and-forth on everything from why baseball managers should dress like real people to how to lose a fight with the wife with dignity. In Mike and Mike’s Rules for Sports and Life, the beloved mic jockeys put their unique stamp on, well, the rules for sports and life. In years on the road, in the studio, and at home, Greeny and Golic have learned that it’s all about the big stuff: separating order from chaos, ensuring our survival as a species, and keeping peace. For instance: • The Fourth of July should be eliminated and replaced with an Independence Day that falls on the [More..] | |
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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Halberstam selects the fifty best pieces of sports writing of this century. The Best American Sports Writing of the Century showcases the best sports journalists of the twentieth century, from Jimmy Cannon, Red Smith, William Mack, Gary Smith, and Frank Deford to A. J. Liebling, Tom Wolfe, and Hunter S. Thompson, and includes such classics as "What Do You Think of Ted Williams Now?" by Richard Ben Cramer, "Louis Knocks Out Schmeling" by Bob Considine, and "The Rocky Road of Pistol Pete" by W. C. Heinz. This outstanding collection captures not only the century's greatest moments in baseball, boxing, horseracing, golf, and tennis, but some of the finest writing of our time. Guest editor David Halberstam [More..] | |
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When Melody Forbes butts heads with Reese Torrin at a hockey game, the last thing she expects is to be pinned against a wall, breathless, hot and needy less than twelve hours later. But he's the only one around when her life takes one devastating turn after another. She isn't looking for a relationship, but casual, no strings, no promises sex...now that's something she can handle. Then things start to change. Reese doesn't believe in love, but one look at Melody has him wondering if he's wrong. The woman is hot! She's also the sister of a close friend. He should keep his hands off her, but when she literally jumps him, demanding he take her, how can he be expected to say no? And when she reaches a part of him that no woman has ever touched [More..] | |
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Want to know what really happened? Stan Isaacs knows. He was there!"The Shot Heard Round the World," in 1951. "The Fight of the Century," in 1971. The horror of the 1972 Munich Olympics. Secretariat's legendary win at the 1973 Belmont Stakes. Stan Isaacs saw them all live. Isaacs covered thousands of sports stories in his more than fifty years as a journalist. But ten moments stand out in his memory. Ten Moments That Shook the Sports World offers Isaacs' eyewitness accounts of the events that changed sports history. This collection offers those old enough to remember these events a chance to relive them, and younger sports lovers will get to hear this history from someone who was there. Isaacs makes sports history live again. [More..] | |
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Hunter is a man who has everything, or so he thinks. Money, success, looks, brains, he believes they are all he needs for a happy life. But love? That’s a sucker’s game. Pro athletes fall to his charms, but he never lets any of them get too close.Then life throws him a curve when his best friend, the pitcher for his baseball team The Legends, comes to him for help. Life, he finds, gets complicated when feelings get involved. But he is not one to back down from a challenge. From the author of Wild Horses comes Hunting For Sport-- a story of love, sex, and the murky places of the human heart.Novel length: 110K wordsContains: Graphic sex and mild bondage and dominance themes [More..] | |
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Who holds the record for most career rushing yards? Which NFL coach has won the most games? What are some wacky ways the pros have celebrated touchdowns? Learn the answer to these questions and more in The Best of Everything Football Book. [More..] | |
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Guaranteed to make you say, "Wow!"THE POP-UP BOOK OF SPORTS takes you up-close and personal with some of the greatest athletes of all time. The action in this attention-grabbing photo book literally jumps out at you, bringing to life David Tyree's miraculous catch fhr the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLII and skateboarder Danny Way's leap over the Great Wall of China. Buckle up - WOW! THE POP-UP BOOK OF SPORTS brings the world of sports to life in a whole new way. Take a Look Inside This Book (Click on each image below to see a larger view) [More..] | |
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Colorful artwork and rhyming riddles help introduce the game of baseball. Kindle textbooks are functionally equivalent to the print textbook. In some cases, individual items such as ancillary images or multimedia have been removed for digital delivery due to rights restrictions. [More..] | |
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In this action-packed baseball story, the Backyard Bombers, a pick-up team, go up against their biggest rivals?the Sluggin? Tigers. There?s just one problem?Joey, the Bombers? first baseman, thinks he has to be the boss to get his team to win, and the rest of the Bombers aren?t too happy about being bossed around and yelled at. Can the Backyard Bombers all come together for an edge-of-your-seat showdown against the Sluggin? Tigers? [More..] | |
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