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Lew Freedman
Hoyt Wilhelm's baseball career lasted two decades. A veteran of the Battle of the Bulge, the All-Star from Huntersville, North Carolina was a standout for the New York Giants, Baltimore…
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Told through profiles of the men who have made it a reality, this is the complex story of the triumphs achieved by-and challenges faced by-Latinos who have risen to the…
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The Red Sox have been blessed with many legends and great plays. Ted Williams, Cy Young and Babe Ruth are considered some of the best players among fans. Players such…
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When Jackie Robinson became the first African American player in major league baseball in 1947, elbowing aside the league’s policies of segregation that had been inviolate for 60 years, he…
Roger Robinson has been Denali mountaineering for over forty years and has worked as a ranger for most of this time. Year after year, Robinson has studied the mountain and…
This two-volume encyclopedia is the Daytona 500 of stock car racing books-an essential Bible that provides an all-encompassing history of the sport as well as an up-to-date examination of modern-day…
Traces football’s passing game from its inception to the present, telling the tale through the stories of the quarterbacks whose arms carried (and threw) the changes forward. Lew Freedman relies…
The Indianapolis 500 celebrates more than a century of high speed racing in May 2016, andthe 100th running of the Indianapolis 500 will be the most spectacular event of the…
Philadelphia Fighters chronicles the golden era of American boxing in the pugilistic Quaker City, where top contenders settled and where many great fighters grew up during the epic period from…
The behind-the-scenes story of one of professional basketball’s most respected and beloved teams.
George Attla, the little-known Athabaskan Indian from the tiny Koyuk River village of Huslia, Alaska, limped to the starting line in the 1958 Fur Rendezvous World Championship, his record-setting victory…
Since 1919 the Cody Night Rodeo has thrilled audiences with a rodeo every night from the beginning of June through the end of August. The city where it is held…
A small group of mushers conceived a gutsy idea for a new sled dog race that would be more challenging than any other marathon race in the Far North.
Presents the story of how the hapless Chicago White Sox, decimated by the banning of players after the 1919 Black Sox Scandal, floundered until the 1950s when they were finally…
In a series that explores the logic-defying comebacks and tough losses, the dramatic interceptions, fumbles, game-winning field goals, and touchdowns that shape a fan’s greatest memories of their beloved team…
Ages 9 to 13 years. Amelia Earhart was a pioneer pilot and was known as the best aviator of her time. This was very rare for a woman. She was…
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*Popular historic sports hero thanks to recent features in Sports Illustrated and Denver Post
*Book released in time for NCAA March Madness
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This book provides readers with an abundance of information and historical perspective as well as entertaining and memorable anecdotes about professional wrestling. Readers will also learn unusual snippets of trivia…
This engaging and informative work highlights the 100 biggest moments in the history of American sports, illustrating powerful connections between sporting events and significant social issues of the time.
Ernie Banks, Ron Santo, and other legendary Cubbies share their greatestmoments newly updated!
The Chicago Bears have carried the hearts and souls of football fans throughout the country. In this book, the author opens the doors to players’ private remembrances of how it…
Relive the greatest moments in WhiteSox baseball newly…
Relive the greatest moments in Reds baseball!
A season that the NFL would never forget.
While the Cleveland Indians are known more lately for being cellar dwellers than world champions, that wasn’t the case in 1948. Ranked by the Sports News as the 9th-best team…
Follow along with award-winning sportswriter Lew Freedman as he journals an unforgettable season of fly fishing along the Kenai River.
Just as you never know what kind of fish and…
How did a young boy born into poverty become not only an international soccer star but a celebrity who visited and dined with kings and presidents? Where did the passion…
The Pittsburgh Pirates have a long and glorious tradition spanning more than 100 years of baseball and the Pirates have been blessed with some of the best players in the…
Details the 1963 NCAA championship run of the Loyola University’s basketball team, with four African-American starters, a team of underdogs defying the ills of racial discrimination and prejudice. –Provided by…
In a place where respect is not easily earned, the name of this homesteader, pilot, and visionary dog-musher generates awe.
New Zealand adventurer, Edmund Hillary, spent his life exploring and climbing the tallest mountain ranges in the world. In 1953, Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa climbing partner, Tenzing Norgay, were…
Illustrated encyclopedia of 150 American football stadiums, at both professional (NFL) and amateur (college) level.
The Detroit Tigers date to the founding of the American League in 1901 and the club has a long and glorious baseball tradition spanning more than 100 years of baseball…
Southpaw Harvey Haddix had logged an unspectacular career by the time he took the mound on May 26, 1959. Haddix faced the Milwaukee Braves and set down the first 36…
Provides a history of Major League Baseball’s first All-Star Game, originally conceived in 1933 as a one-time Game of the Century to lift the spirits of the nation and its…
This history of New York Yankees from 1936 to World War II details the team’s swift recovery from losing Babe Ruth, reintroduces unheralded players, examines the personal styles of the…
Joe Louis held the heavyweight boxing championship longer than any other fighter and defended it a record 25 times. During the 1930s and 1940s, the owner of the heavyweight title…
Presents the story of the seven baseball-playing brothers from Western Missouri who in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s signed professional contracts. Led by oldest brother Cloyd, a pitcher, third baseman…
More than a century ago, the Philadelphia Athletics enjoyed a glorious five-season run under legendary manager Connie Mack, winning three World Series and four pennants from 1910 through 1914. A’s…
William F. Buffalo Bill Cody rose from humble origins in Iowa to become one of the most famous and most photographed people in the world. Cody’s most important legacy may…
Nowhere else is there an event like the annual Midnight Sun Game. Played in Fairbanks on June 21, the longest day of the year, it starts at 10:30 p.m. and…
Tells the stories of some of the players, coaches, managers and broadcasters who had the most fun in the Major Leagues and made fans laugh out loud. The author recounts…
Ernie Banks is the best-known ballplayer in the history of the Chicago Cubs - a man as famous for his personality and trademark phrases as for his accomplishments on the…
An early celebrity pitcher, Denton Cy Young established supreme standards on the mound. A small-town Ohio farmer made good, he set Major League pitching records in the late 19th and…
Follows Johnny Vander Meer, the only pitcher in Major League history to hurl two consecutive no-hitters, and the Cincinnati Reds through the triumphs of two National League pennants and one…
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