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The Streak: Lou Gehrig, Cal Ripken, and Baseball's Most Historic Record
John Eisenberg · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating story of baseball's legendary "Ironmen," two players from different eras who each achieved the coveted and sometimes confounding record of most consecutive games played
When Cal Ripken Jr. began his career with the Baltimore Orioles at age twenty-one,... |
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Just Tell Me I Can't: How Jamie Moyer Defied the Radar Gun and Defeated Time
Jamie Moyer · Grand Central Publishing; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Long-time fans of the National Pastime have known Moyers name for more than 25 years. Thats because hes been pitching in the bigs for all those years. With his trademark three pitches - slow, slower, and slowest - the left-handed Moyer is a pinpoint specialist whose won-lost record actually... |
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Throwback: A Big-League Catcher Tells How the Game Is Really Played
Jason Kendall · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Ever Wonder What's Being Said at Home Plate?How a Team Silently Communicates?What Goes on in the Clubhouse Behind Closed Doors?America's pastime has always left fans and amateur players alike yearning for the answers to questions about how pros play the game. Jason Kendall is an All-Star... |
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You Herd Me!: I'll Say It If Nobody Else Will
Colin Cowherd · Three Rivers Press; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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There are really two games, the one you see and the one you don't. The way I see it, the best way to use access to both worlds is to illuminate and reveal, not idolize and adore. It's better to be wrong than to be played for a fool. – Colin Cowherd In this age of billion... |
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Pete Rose: An American Dilemma
Kostya Kennedy · Little Brown & Co
Pages: 341
Format: Hardcover
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"Kennedy's book on the tarnished and enigmatic Rose is exceptional. Like the best writing about sport--Liebling, Angell--it qualifies as stirring literature. I'd read Kennedy no matter what he writes about." --Richard FordPete Rose played baseball with a singular and headfirst... |
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John Severson's SURF
John Severson · Artbook D A P
Pages: 212
Format: Book
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John Severson (born 1933) revolutionized pop culture's vision of surfing and surf culture through his prolific artistic output that transverses decades and disciplines. He began his career as a painter, selling his canvases at Long Beach State College. These first works consisted of oil paintings,... |
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Arthur Ashe: A Life
RAYMOND ARSENAULT · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 784
Format: Hardcover
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The first comprehensive, authoritative biography of American icon Arthur Ashe - the Jackie Robinson of men's tennis - a pioneering athlete who, after breaking the color barrier, went on to become an influential civil rights activist and public intellectual.
Born in Richmond, Virginia,... |
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