 | 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...
 |  | Baseball Sleuth
Publication Date: August 26, 2000You buried the body in the yard?These words, spoken to a man named Bob, crackle from the baby monitor. Phillip strains to hear more through the static. A murder! No one will believe him unless he finds out who Bob is, and where Bob lives.Phillip Crafts loves baseball but he is a terrible player. He loves mysteries, but his teammates laugh at him when he sees crimes where they dont exist. Meanwhile, at home, his life is even worse. After twelve years of being an only child, Phillip's newborn sister has taken all of his mother's time, energy, and maybe even her...
|  | 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. ...
|  | 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...
|  | 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 ...
|  | Barranca: An Eddie Caminetti Novel
Release Date: March 15, 2005Legendary curmudgeon and hustler extraordinaire Eddie Caminetti has taken on the Ryder Cup (The Green), unrepentant sinners (The Fourseome), and the entire golf equipment industry (Scratch).But enough with the small stuff:In Barranaca, Eddie is called upon by the U.S. government to go after a South American economic terrorist threatening the only commodity capable of destabilizing the entire Western Hemisphere.Yes, Manuel Villa Lobos de Barranca is out to corner the market on coffee.When a grande (medium) cup of Starbucks hits $20, riots break out in cities and to...
|  | Aleck Maury, Sportsman
Publication Date: November 1, 1980“It is, in a sense, a prose Aeneid, written with so much economy and constraint that the reader is only aware at the end that he has been following the wanderings of a hero.” Thus did Andrew Nelson Lytle, in a 1934 New Republic review, capture the essence of Caroline Gordon’s novel inspired by the life of her father, a supreme hunter and fisherman. Caroline Gordon wanted to call her novel “The Life and Passion of Aleck Maury,” an apt title for the story of a man passionately drawn to the rites, rituals, and excitemen...
|  | 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...
|  | 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. ...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | Titans
Publication Date: November 1, 1999Fresh off a championship season, New York Titans quarterback Hunter Logan is on the winning streak of his life. But when he places a bet that gets traced by the Mob he finds himself trapped in a scheme that will net millions for organised crime. ...
|  | 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...
|  | Darwin's Race
Publication Date: May 1, 2009In this gripping novel, the world is watching as 12 hardened racers gather to compete in an event promoted as the most ambitious adventure race ever attempted. The contestants will advance into the deepest unexplored gorge on earth, and the first climber to ascend to the top of 22,000-foot Kuk Sur, one of the last remaining unclimbed Himalayan peaks, will claim a two million dollar prize. Among the climbers are Conner Michaels, haunted by his brother's mysterious death on Kuk Sur six years earlier; Preston Child, the millionaire financier of the race; and Child...
|  | Boxing Stories (The Works of Robert E. Howard)
Publication Date: April 1, 2005| Series: The Works of Robert E. Howard Although he is best known as the creator of Conan the Barbarian and as a writer of historical fiction and fantasy, Robert E. Howard was both a successful author of popular boxing stories and an avid amateur boxer himself. The sixteen stories and three poems collected in this volume show the full range of his talents for action, humor, and fistic philosophy. Ten of the stories feature the sailor Steve Costigan, a lovable, hard-fisted, and innocent semipro pugilist, who takes on dastardly villains in exotic ports of ca...
|  | 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...
|  | Hometown Favorite: A Novel
Publication Date: September 2008Talented, handsome, and personable, Dewayne Jobe rose from humble beginnings in rural Mississippi to play college football in Southern California and beyond. One of the best wide receivers in college ball, Dewayne is assured a promising career in professional football and easily finds success both on and off the field. Not only is he a great player, he's got the wife, the kids, and the pristine white picket fence to boot.But catastrophe looms right around the corner and ultimately strikes with a crushing vengeance. Will Dewayne's faith and character stand the ...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | Judge Me Nottingham: A Nice Skates Ice Skating Mystery (Nice Skates Ice Skating Mysteries)
Publication Date: March 24, 2002| Series: Nice Skates Ice Skating Mysteries "Nice Skates," an ice arena on the very edge of the Pacific Ocean, was holding the Pacific Coast Championships in December, 1994. It was the qualifying competition for the 1995 Nationals. Many great skaters were in attendance, as well as some very important judges. One was from the Nice Skates' home town of Portugal, California, Judge Melissa Elizabeth Nottingham.Then, just minutes before the start of the final round of judging for the Senior Ladies competition, Judge Nottingham is found dead in the pros' room sittin...
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