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Triumph Books (IL), November 2025. Hardcover. A captivating memoir of New York sports radio from the legendary host who saw it all On July 1, 1987 The city that never sleeps debuted the first 24-7 all-sports radio station in the USA. Steve Somers was here--and perhaps you, there--in WFAN's earliest.....
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Bison Books, February 1997. Trade Paperback. For more than fifty years Red Barber was the voice of baseball. The game was broadcast sporadically until the late 1930s, when Barber burst into prominence by bringing it home to radio listeners, play by play. More than half a century later, he could.....
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Rutgers University Press, August 2024. Hardcover. While sportswriters rushed into Major League Baseball locker rooms to talk with players, MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn barred the lone woman from entering along with them. That reporter, 26-year-old Sports Illustrated reporter Melissa Ludtke, charged Kuhn with gender discrimination, and after the lawyers argued.....
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Twelve, October 2012. Hardcover. A collection of essays by today's preeminent writers on significant Jewish figures in sports, told with humor, heart, and an eye toward the ever elusive question of Jewish identity. Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame is a timeless collection of biographical musings, sociological riffs about.....
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Picador, April 2004. Trade Paperback. Bestselling author Joe Queenan's True Believers explores the world of sports fans in an attempt to understand the inexplicable: What does anyone get out of it? For Yankee, Cowboy, and Laker fans the answer is fairly clear: the return on investment is relatively high. But.....
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Harper Perennial, May 2011. Paperback. "A cutting edge dissection--and ultimate destruction--of the myth of innate talent in the pursuit of excellence. Syed synthesizes his evidence with the precision of an academic, writes with the fluidity of a journalist, and persuades with the drive of a sportsman. Read this book now--before.....
Simon & Schuster, September 1989. Hardcover.
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Knopf, May 2024. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR - From the nine-time women's basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist--a raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home. "Compelling . . . An intimate, honest recollection of.....
From the Heart Pr, February 1991. Paperback.
Chatto and Windus, July 1990. Hardcover.
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University of Nebraska Press, October 2005. Hardcover. On the court and on the field, they are the world's winners, exhibiting a natural grace and prowess their adoring fans can only dream about. Yet so often, when off the field, our sports heroes lose: their perspective, their balance, their place. In.....
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University Alabama Press, March 2003. Paperback.
HarperCollins Publishers, October 1986. Paperback.
Grosset & Dunlap. Hardcover.
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Putnam Adult, October 1996. Hardcover.
Dodd, Mead, January 1985. Hardcover.
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Mariner Books, October 2015. Paperback. For twenty-five years, The Best American Sports Writing has built a solid reputation by showcasing the greatest sports journalism of the past year, culled from hundreds of national, regional, and specialty print and digital publications. Wright Thompson, many times included in this volume over the.....
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Xlibris, July 2007. Paperback.
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Harper, April 2008. Hardcover.
FAWCETT PUBLISHING, NA. Mass Market Paperback.
MACMILLAN. Hardcover.
Bloch Publishing Company. Hardcover.
QUADRANGLE. Hardcover.
PRENTICE-HALL Publishing. Paperback.
BARNES PUBLISHING. Hardcover.
