 | The Other Kingdom
Publication Date: January 1, 1999Classic running novel about a young miler and his quest for excellence. ...
 |  | A Ticket for a Seamstitch (Bison Paperbacks)
Publication Date: April 1, 1985| Series: Bison Paperbacks This is the third novel narrated by Henry Wiggen, a six-foot three-inch, 195-pound, left-handed pitcher for the New York Mammoths. Henry, who began as a rookie in The Southpaw and developed into a pro in Bang the Drum Slowly, is a mature veteran in A Ticket for a Seamstitch. A seamstress from "somewhere out West" writes to Henry, her hero, that she will be in New York to watch the Mammoths play on the Fourth of July. When she arrives in New York, both the married Henry and his pal, the very unmarried Thurston "Piney" Woods, are a...
|  | Addled: A Novel
Publication Date: May 15, 2007Eden Rock Country Club is a grand New England institution, a lush haven of leisure and cocktails, where gossip and intrigue lurk discreetly behind a veil of old-world propriety. But one Fourth of July, a flock of geese descends on the club's manicured lawns; never fond of outsiders, the Eden Rock denizens find these new guests distinctly unwelcome.When Charles Lambert, a bond trader with a strong portfolio but a weak golf game, accidentally kills a goose with a wayward drive, he sets in motion a series of events that will leave the club and its members changed f...
|  | This Ain't No Rodeo
Publication Date: November 13, 2008Sweat, Blood Dirt, Bulls Pain, Glory Some people think this is a rodeo This Ain't No RodeoThis is Bull Riding! Inside these covers you will find stories about one of the toughest individual sports there is -- bull riding and those who participate. This exciting sport pits the riding skills, ability to read and interpret the animal athlete's movements, strength and sheer determination of the rider against the brute force,power and determination of a bull who doesn't want that rider on his back. As exciting as the sport is to watch, it is very dangerous. This...
|  | Home, Away
Publication Date: August 1, 2010Praise for Home, Away:"This is a charming tale filled with sounds, scenes, and sensibilities that are real and vivid. Fatherhood, childhood, baseball, and marriage are all portrayed with profound and moving truthfulness."--Mario M. Cuomo, former governor of New York"Inspiring, outrageous, soaring, devastating. Anyone who's ever played baseball or watched it, anyone who's ever been a father or had one, is in for a treat."--Mike Farrell, actor (M*A*S*H, Providence) and author of Just Call Me MikeHow much is a father's love worth? Jason Thibodeaux has a $42 ...
|  | 4th and Fixed
Publication Date: August 1, 2004When the mob tackles football, it’s no longer a gameWritten with authenticity that could only come from a former NFL player, Denver Bronco Reggie Rivers weaves a page-turning story of how two charming and unscrupulous wiseguys fix an entire season of football games. And no one, including NFL’s high-powered security force, has a clue.Praise for 4th and Fixed“Fix the Super Bowl? I never thought it possible, but 4th and Fixed is so chock full of NFL skinny that it sweeps you along from the field to the front office and makes you believe. It...
|  | Double Reverse
Publication Date: August 1, 1999The bestselling author of "The Dark Side of the Game" tackles the unspoken taboos in sports today in this fast-paced and gripping thriller set in the world of pro football. ...
|  | Tyrus
Publication Date: July 19, 2002Tyrus Raymond Cobb. Elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in a nearly unanimous vote. Highest lifetime batting average in baseball. Highest lifetime number of runs scored. Second highest lifetime number of hits. The run of statistics goes on, making it clear that Ty Cobb was baseball's greatest overall player. But before Ty Cobb was a legend, he was a young man trying to escape from his famous father's lengthy shadow. William H. Cobb, former state senator, renowned educator, champion of the Southern cause in the late 1800s and early 1900s, a gentleman and a scho...
|  | Beyond Birkie Fever
Publication Date: October 1, 2011What is Birkie Fever? Cross-country skiers are hearty folk. The compulsion to race marathon-length distances in subfreezing conditions requires an eternally optimistic and fiercely independent spirit. The fear of blinding snow or paralyzing cold does not deter them, and it has been said that skiers do not merely laugh at adversity; they are completely oblivious to its existence. America's greatest cross-country ski race is the American Birkebeiner or "Birkie" for short. Every year, thousands of people journey from all over the globe to Hayward, Wisconsin, for...
|  | Basepaths (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction)
Publication Date: April 1, 1995| Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction The author of "Short Season" and "Writing Baseball" presents poetry and short fiction on America's pastime. "I have known Jerry Klinkowitz only as one of this country's most interesting and responsible literary critics. It comes as a complete surprise that he writes first-rate baseball stories as well."--Kurt Vonnegut. (Poetry/Fiction) --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | The Caddie Who Played with Hickory
Release Date: April 29, 2008Before there were titanium woods and graphite shafts, golf clubs were made from the wood of hickory trees and had intriguing names like cleek, mashie and jigger. Golf was a game played not with high-tech equipment but with skill, finesse, and creativity. And the greatest hickory player of all time was Walter Hagen---until the day he met a teenage caddie at a country club outside Chicago. America's first touring golf professional, Hagen made (and spent) more prize money than his friends Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey earned from baseball and box...
|  | Dead Balls and Double Curves: An Anthology of Early Baseball Fiction (Writing Baseball)
Publication Date: March 11, 2004| Series: Writing Baseball Dead Balls and Double Curves: An Anthology of Early Baseball Fiction collects twenty-two classic stories from baseball’s youth, presented in chronological order to capture the development of this most American of sports. Many of these tales have never before been reprinted, adding historical value to the rich literary merits of this anthology. Editor Trey Strecker’s collection begins with an informal village match in an excerpt from James Fenimore Cooper’s Home as Found (1838), published the year prior to Ab...
|  | First Round Lottery Pick
Publication Date: November 11, 2005From the author of several Bestselling novels- comes another page turning offering about a potential high school First Round Lottery Pick who is forced to deal with life living in the projects and the prospect of getting out the hood forever. A fast-paced, story about Langston Holiday- a premier high school basketball star who has decided to pass up college for the once in a lifetime chance of playing in the league.But on his journey to leave the projects once and for all, he is forced to deal with major problems that could keep him from ever reaching a bet...
|  | Desire the Kingdom: A Story of the Last Plantagenets
Publication Date: April 4, 2002Desire The Kingdom A Story of the Last Plantagenets Was Richard III of Shakespeare fame an evil hunchback? Did Richard III forcibly usurp the throne of England? What part did Richard III's Queen, Anne of Warwick, play in the assumption of the throne by Richard Plantagenet? Why did Richard III have his brother, the Duke of Clarence, drowned in a vat of wine? Did Richard III kill the princes in the tower? Why did Richard III make his fatal charge at Bosworth? These are some of the questions still being asked about the last Plantagenet King, Richard III, and answe...
|  | The Cutting Season
Publication Date: May 18, 2007Dr. Xenon Pearl cuts brains for a living, and he's as good as it gets. His direct, sometimes abrasive style is forgivable in light of his skill with a scalpel, and tempered by his compassion for his patients and his friends. He is a dutiful son to his widower father, a doting grandchild to a grandfather who was once a rabbi, and he has even met the girl of his dreams. Everything is on-track for this medical golden boy. The other side of this motorcycle-riding, brilliant doctor facade is a side that Xenon (aka Zee) hides even from his father. Secretly trained sin...
|  | GOON - Micah Hayes Illustrated Edition
Publication Date: September 15, 2005Six-foot-nine and four hundred pounds, GOON is a one-man gore-machine of the Wrestling Conference. Police captain Philip Straker isn't a wrestling fan. The bodies pile up like dirty laundry: sex-obsessed tramps used as playthings by some unspeakable creature. Straker is determined to solve the rash of rape and mutilation murders with trimmings that beggar description. Reporter Melinda Pierce will do anything to find out, by offering herself up in order to infiltrate the arcane and lust-drenched warrens of backstage wrestling. This human juggernaut, this ma...
|  | A Gentleman's Game: A Novel
Publication Date: May 10, 2001With a soaring, lyrical prose that grips you from the first page and never lets you go, first-time novelist Tom Coyne brings to life an unforgettable story of a young man and the game he loves that is like no other -- A Gentleman's Game. It is the summer of 1985, and on the shaded fairways and immaculate greens of exclusive Fox Chase Country Club in suburban Delaware, Timmy Price is a young man whose mastery of the game of golf inspires awe among the adult membership and envy among his peers. Under the tutelage of the enigmatic guru Foster Pearse, he is beginnin...
|  | More Sports Best Short Stories (Sporting's Best Short Stories series)
Publication Date: October 1, 2003| Series: Sporting's Best Short Stories series In these 25 stories about sporting contests from basketball and baseball to fishing and chess, celebrated writers from several nations spin tales of love, mystery, chicanery, luck, and perseverance. A. Conan Doyle's ace detective Sherlock Holmes solves a rugby mystery; Nobel prize winner Rudyard Kipling writes on polo; P. G. Wodehouse brings humor to golf; and Agatha Christie spins a tale about chess. The classical Russian poet and author Alexander Pushkin builds a story around another card game, faro, and from G...
|  | Outerbridge Reach
Publication Date: March 16, 1992Now in his early forties, Annapolis graduate and Vietnam vetOwen Browne sees his final chance for greatness in an upcoming yachtrace. By the author of Dog Soldiers. 75,000 first printing.$100,000 ad/promo. BOMC Main. Tour. ...
|  | Shupton's Fancy
Publication Date: August 1, 1996(Synopsis) An author and connoisseur of fine food has traveled to England to begin work on his latest culinary collection. But the research is a mere justification for indulging his other passion, fly-fishing. Heavy rain postpones his time on the stream, so he decides instead of heading for the Itchen to dig into medieval manuscripts at the British Museum. Among auld recipes, a cryptic reference to a legendary local fisherman named Shupton leads him on a hunt for the pattern of the legend's perfect fly. This clever mystery pokes fun, satirizes, and even lambas...
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