‎Sports‎

‎HOMAN MARV & HORNUNG PAUL‎

‎Ohio State: 100 Years Of Football‎

‎Ohio State University Columbus: 1989. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. An exciting accurate and thorough recap of the Buckeyes' storied gridiron history. This painstakingly researched book was written by Paul Hornung long-time sports editor of the Columbus Dispatch and Marv Homan former Ohio State sports information director. In its pages you'll meet Ohio State's first coach Alexander S. Lilley and the Buckeyes' first three-time All-American the incomparable Chic Harley and many more Buckeye greats. This attractive coffee-table-size publication is filled with pictures records and facts about OSU teams coaches and players and contains a wealth of anecdotes along with probing analysis of Buckeye football. Ohio State University, Columbus: 1989 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 68114X1

‎HODGES RUSS‎

‎Baseball Complete‎

‎Grosset & Dunlap New York: 1952. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. Between the covers of this book the famous sportscaster has packed scores of breath-taking humorous dramatic inside stories of all the great baseball players past and present. The author takes you into the dugout and the clubhouse where history is made and onto the diamond itself where action is born every minute. "The grandest baseball book I have read in a long time." - Bill Stern Grosset & Dunlap, New York: 1952 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 68452X1

‎NOVAK JOE‎

‎Par Golf In Eight Steps‎

‎Prentice-Hall Inc. Englewood Cliffs: 1950. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition but dustjacket is worn. For the first time Joe Novak's method appears in book form for the golfer who wants to help himself to better golf - the 115 player who wants to score in the 90s 90s player who wants to reach the 80s and the 80s player who wants to reach par. Joe Novak was President of the Professional Golfers Association. "Joe Novak's golf instruction is so simple and natural that it makes fun out of the game." - Clark Gable Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs: 1950 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 68025X1

‎Marlene Targ Brill‎

‎Winning Women in Soccer Sport Success‎

‎Barron's Educational Series 1999-09. Paperback. New. Barron's Educational Series paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 100115010 ISBN : 0764111167 9780764111167

‎Brad Herzog‎

‎20 greatest athletes of the 20th century Sports illustrated for kids books‎

‎Sports Illustrated for Kids 2000. Paperback. New. Sports Illustrated for Kids paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 100116015 ISBN : 1886749833 9781886749832

‎Sports Publishing Inc; Rob Rains‎

‎Mark McGwire: Mac Attack Superstar Series Baseball‎

‎Sports Publishing LLC 1998-06-01. Paperback. Very Good. former library book with library markings Sports Publishing LLC paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 100124004 ISBN : 1582610045 9781582610047

‎Ernest Maglischo; Cathy Brennan‎

‎Swim For The Health Of It‎

‎McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua 1984-10-01. Paperback. Good. has underlining highlighting and writing taped spine used book stickers general wear McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 091222097 ISBN : 0874845882 9780874845884

‎PALMER ARNOLD‎

‎Arnold Palmer Golf Academy Golf Journal: A Personal Handbook Of Practice Performance And Progress‎

‎Triumph Books Chicago: 1997. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. To play like a Pro practice like one. The Arnold Palmer Golf Academy Journal is unlike any other golf book. One of the principal training tools for the internationally renowned Arnold Palmer Golf Academy the Golf Journal helps golfers identify problems and document solutions and progress. ISBN: 1572431725. Triumph Books, Chicago: 1997 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 67153X1 ISBN : 1572431725 9781572431720

‎BLOCK DAVID; WILES TIM FOREWORD‎

‎Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search For The Roots Of The Game‎

‎University of Nebraska Press Lincoln and London: 2005. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. It may be America's game but no one seems to know how or when baseball really started. Theories abound myths proliferate but reliable information has been in short supply�until now when Baseball before We Knew It brings fresh new evidence of baseball's origins into play. David Block looks into the early history of the game and of the 150-year-old debate about its beginnings. He tackles one stubborn misconception after another debunking the enduring belief that baseball descended from the English game of rounders and revealing a surprising new explanation for the most notorious myth of all � the Abner Doubleday - Cooperstown story. Block's book takes readers on an exhilarating journey through the centuries in search of clues to the evolution of our modern National Pastime. Among his startling discoveries is a set of long-forgotten baseball rules from the 1700s. Block evaluates the originality and historical significance of the Knickerbocker rules of 1845 revisits European studies on the ancestry of baseball which indicate that the game dates back hundreds if not thousands of years and assembles a detailed history of games and pastimes from the Middle Ages onward that contributed to baseball's development. In its thoroughness and reach and its extensive descriptive bibliography of early baseball sources this book is a unique and invaluable resource�a comprehensive reliable and readable account of baseball before it was America's game. David Block is a long-time collector of early baseball books and memorabilia and is a passionate lifelong fan of the game and its history. "Given North American baseball fans' nearly inexhaustible appetite for the arcana of their favourite sport astonishingly few scholars have ever undertaken the detailed historical and anthropological research to find out where the game actually began. . . . Now through painstaking bibliographic and archival research on display in his extensive appendices Block has established . . . the true forerunner of American baseball. . . . By pushing beyond baseball's reputed origins in an English children's game David Block has discovered the game's true origins in an even older English game."�Warren Goldstein Times Literary Supplement. "The suggestion that America's Game might have originated somewhere besides America so 'inflamed passions and patriotism' writes David Block that the idea still burns us. . . . Block has produced a deliciously researched feast that lays this controversy to rest. . . . Block has assembled such a rich pile of evidence for the game's European origins that one might wonder why there ever was a controversy. . . . Once an American reader gets past the disappointment of discovering baseball's deep European roots Block's book is a perfect delight. He has unearthed magnificent medieval manuscripts . . . That show that baseball is just the latest in a very long line of stick-and-ball games."�Charles Hirshberg Sports Illustrated "As if this country doesn't have enough to worry about it turns out America's national pastime may not even be American. At least according to Baseball before We Knew It a new book by David Block. Block contends the origins of the game date to the mid-14th century and can be traced to northern Europe and parts of Africa. Hold on there pal. What about good old Abner Doubleday 'There's no evidence he even played baseball' Block says. 'It's simply a case of people passing down stories that have never been substantiated.' Now there's something we seem to be very good at." �Morty Ain ESPN: The Magazine University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London: 2005 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 58507X2

‎EDITED BY ED PAVELKA; Editor Ben Hewitt‎

‎Bicycling Magazine's Cycling for Health and Fitness‎

‎Rodale Books 2000-03-01. Paperback. Fine . excellent condition Rodale Books paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 090912054 ISBN : 157954228X 9781579542283

‎THOMSON CINDY & BROWN SCOTT; JENKINS FERGUSON FOREWORD‎

‎Three Finger: The Mordecai Brown Story‎

‎University of Nebraska Press Lincoln and London: 2008. Softcover. Brand new book. On October 8 1908 Mordecai Brown clutched a half-dozen notes inside his coat pocket. The message of each was clear: we'll kill you if you pitch and beat the Giants. A black handprint marked each note the signature of the Italian Mafia. Mordecai Brown�dubbed "Three Finger" because of a childhood farm injury�was the dominant pitcher for the great Chicago Cubs team of the early twentieth century. Brown's handicap enabled him to throw pitches with an unconventional movement that left batters bewildered�the curve ball that Ty Cobb once called "the most devastating" he had ever faced. How Brown responded to the Mafia's threats in 1908 mirrored the way he took life in general: with unflappable courage and resolve. Telling his story for the first time Cindy Thomson and Scott Brown track Mordecai from the Indiana countryside to the coal mines from semipro ball to the Majors from the World Series mound back down to the Minors. Along the way they retrieve the lost lore of one of baseball's greatest pitchers and chronicle one man's determination to attain a dream that most believed was unreachable. Cindy Thomson is the author of a historical novel Brigid of Ireland and a member of the Society for American Baseball Research SABR. Scott Brown is a charter member of the Diamond Brotherhood a SABR member Old Timers' Baseball Association of Chicago officer and the founder of the Mordecai Brown Legacy Foundation. Ferguson Jenkins a former Chicago Cub is a Hall of Fame pitcher and Cy Young Award winner. "Among the great pleasures of the narrative is the authors' ability to recreate the gritty atmosphere of early baseball. By contrast today's game seems sedate. Rivalries were intense and local within the Three I League�Indiana Illinois Iowa for example. Dangers lurked from mobsters brawling opponents and teammates and head-hunting pitchers. Umpiring was a high-risk profession." �Steve Golos Ohioana Quarterly "An excellent window into a time when sport and society were wildly different from today and it successfully reminds us of Mordecai Brown's rightful place in baseball's collective memory." �Tim Denevi Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature "Deadball aficionados baseball fans in general and those loving a well written story should read this great book."�Mark Dugo The Inside Game University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London: 2008 paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 66902X1

‎TOOR RACHEL‎

‎Personal Record: A Love Affair With Running‎

‎University of Nebraska Press Lincoln and London: 2008. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. Rachel Toor was a bookish egghead who ran only to catch a bus. How such an unlikely athlete became a runner of ultramarathons is the story of Personal Record an exhilarating meditation on the making and the minutiae of a runner's life. The food the clothes the races the injuries the watch and Toor loves her watch are all essential to the runner as readers discover here and discover why. A chronicle of Toor's relationship with the sport of running from her early incarnation as an Oreo-eating couch potato to her emergence as a hard-bodied marathoner this book explores the sport of running the community it brings into being and the personal satisfaction of pursuing it to its limit. Alternating with Toor's account of becoming a runner are the stories�meditations examinations celebrations�of how runners become a pack. An homage to running a literary take on how an activity can turn into a passion and how a passion can become a way of life this book runs all the way from individual achievement�a personal record�to the world of friendship and belonging the community that runners inevitably find. Rachel Toor teaches writing at Eastern Washington University is a columnist for the Chronicle of Higher Education and a senior writer for Running Times. She is the author of The Pig and I: How I Learned to Love Men Almost as Much as I Love My Pets and Admissions Confidential: An Insider's Account of the Elite College Selection Process. A graduate of Yale University she received an MFA from the University of Montana and currently lives in Spokane. "Readers who have thought about taking up running but have kept putting it off will discover that Toor has deftly taken away all of their excuses from "I don't have time" to "I'm too out of shape" to "It'll hurt too much." A book that will appeal equally to novices and experienced runners."�David Pitt Booklist "A finely written ode to the art the trial the lifestyle of marathon running. Toor an experienced runner has the ability to take you inside that niche world and make it real."�Maureen Mackey Reader's Digest "In her new essay collection Personal Record Toor immerses the reader in the world of long-distance running examining her bruised muscular body the contents of her closet her pantry jammed with energy gels and protein bars and her love life in the process of explaining what running means to her and describing the experiences the sport has given her."�Jenny Shank New West "Rachel Toor makes me want to be a runner. . . . We can all find something inspiring in this book of stories about her running experiences."�Doris Anne Roop-Benner Story Circle Book Reviews "Until I read Rachel Toor's marvelous book Personal Record I never understood the great passion of long-distance runners. She takes you on a grand tour of the running life which goes from hobby to one of the purest forms that fanaticism in sport can take�ultramarathons. As any great running book deserves Rachel Toor's writing is swift disciplined sinewy and indomitably strong. It is also hilarious. The story she tells is a marvel."�Pat Conroy author of My Losing Season and The Prince of Tides "In an unconventional inspirational and loving account of running really well done and funny as heck Rachel Toor shows how this simple activity is so powerful it sweeps us off our feet into friendships that endure. I'm a fan."�Bill Rodgers four-time winner of both the Boston Marathon and the New York City Marathon and owner of the Bill Rodgers Running Center University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London: 2008 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 66246X1

‎Tom Stienstra‎

‎California Camping: The Complete Guide : 1995-1996 Foghorn Outdoors: California Camping‎

‎Foghorn Pr 1995-03. Paperback. Very Good. ex-library book with library markings pages look new spine is faded Foghorn Pr paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 090809055 ISBN : 0935701923 9780935701920

‎WINDERBAUM LARRY WITH MURDOCK SUSAN & HO MIN KYONG KEN CONTRIBUTORS; WOOL DAVID DRAWINGS; WELLS RUFUS D. DESIGN; BROWN ROG‎

‎The Martial Arts Encyclopedia‎

‎Inscape Washington: 1977. Hardcover no dustjacket. Fair condition. The martial arts of Asia have unbroken traditions that go back thousands of years. This encyclopedia is neither a how-to book nor a detailed history. It attempts to present both the rich cultural heritage of the arts and to survey their contemporary impact. In the process certain techniques of the various are presented by way of illustration but nowhere in the book is there a guide to practicing any single art presented. The book includes however general information on all of the martial arts including aikido iaido judo jujutsu karate kendo kung fu kyudo sumo tae kwon do t'ai chi ch'uan bando jodo and pentjak-silat. ISBN: 0879536004. Inscape, Washington: 1977 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 65897X1 ISBN : 0879536004 9780879536008

‎Feldman‎

‎MAJOR LEAGUE: HITTING PAPERBACK An Official Major League Baseball Book‎

‎Aladdin 1991-02-01. Paperback. Fine . Aladdin paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 090627036 ISBN : 0671704427 9780671704421

‎CROPPER CORRY‎

‎Playing At Monarchy: Sport As Metaphor In Nineteenth-century France‎

‎University of Nebraska Press Lincoln and London: 2008. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. For centuries sports have been used to mask or to uncover important social and political problems and there is no better example of this than France during the nineteenth century when it changed from monarchy to empire to republic. Prior to the French Revolution sports and games were the exclusive domain of the nobility. The revolution however challenged the notion of noble privilege and leisure activities began spreading to all levels of society. Games either evolved from Old Regime spectacles into bourgeois pastimes such as hunting or died out altogether as did trictrac. During this period sports and games became the symbolic cultural battlefield of an emerging modern state. Playing at Monarchy looks at the ways sports and games tennis fencing bullfighting chess trictrac hunting and the Olympics are metaphorically used to defend and subvert to praise and mock both class and political power structures in nineteenth-century France. Corry Cropper examines what shaped these games of the nineteenth-century and how they appeared as allegory in French literature in the fiction of Balzac Mrime and Flaubert and in newspapers historical studies and even game manuals. Throughout he shows how the representation of play in all types of literature mirrors the most important social and political rifts in postrevolutionary France while also serving as propaganda for competing political agendas. Though its focus is on France Playing at Monarchy hints at the way these nineteenth-century developments inform perceptions of sport even today. Corry Cropper is an associate professor of French studies at Brigham Young University and the author of several articles published in Nineteenth-Century French Studies the French Review and French Literature Series. "Anyone interested in French history or the social role of sports in Europe should find Playing at Monarchy well worth the time. Like Robert Darnton's The Great Cat Massacre Cropper investigates historical "ways of thinking" with wit and whimsy-in prose congenial to a twenty-first century American audience."�Alex Shakespeare Sports Literature Association University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London: 2008 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 66077X1

‎WILEY RALPH‎

‎Serenity: A Boxing Memoir‎

‎University of Nebraska Press Lincoln: 2000. Softcover. Brand new book. Ralph Wiley is the author or coauthor of several works most recently Born to Play: The Eric Davis Story. "This is a surprising book a terrific book. It's not about boxing but about an odd demanding world in which boxing is the thread the key to existence. Wiley deftly broadens the delineation of this world and its people. Perceptive reporting is the foundation and perceptive reporting is rare enough. Wiley enhances it with clear quick writing laced with humor and with a sensitivity that lends brilliance to this impressive work."�Robert W. Creamer author of Baseball and Other Matters in 1941 "Ralph Wiley with Serenity has produced an original book about the ring. . . . He can dig beneath the surface and show us what really happened in a bout: why Thomas Hearns with too much faith in his powerful right hand lost to Sugar Ray Leonard in their first match. . . . Or why Roberto Duran was acting out of prudence not cowardice when he quit in his second fight against Leonard. . . . Yet the book is not really about boxing. Boxing in Serenity is what T. S. Eliot speaking of plot called the meat a burglar brings to distract the watchdog. The book is really about growing up in a world where you had to defend yourself physically to survive."�New York Times "Wiley's rapport with boxers is profound."�Publisher's Weekly "Wiley is one writer who really knows his way around a boxing ring. . . . He writes with passion and understanding about complex violent men and their oddly redemptive sport."�Booklist University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln: 2000 paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 66110X1

‎RYAN BOB TEXT; RAPHAEL DICK PHOTOGRAPHS; AUERBACH RED FOREWORD‎

‎The Boston Celtics: The History Legends And Images Of America's Most Celebrated Team‎

‎Addison-Wesley Publishing Company Reading: 1989. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. Walter Brown and Ted Auerbach; "The Cooz" and his remarkable passing and dribbling; Russ vs. Wilt; "Sudden Sam" Jones "stopping and popping"; "Havlicek stole the ball"; the Cowens look; "Siggy's in his shirt"; Wayne "The Wall" Embry; standing ovations for Hank Finkel and Terry Duerod; Henderson's steal; the Chief; Larry Bird who somehow embodies them all. To any Boston Celtics fan these names and memories are the stuff of legend. But so is the team. Bob Ryan and Dick Raphael have captured - in words and photographs - the players who have brought the Celtics such fame. Their memorable history of the team covers forty-three years. It recounts whole eras and unforgettable moments: great heights and occasional depths; heroes and folk heroes. ISBN: 0201153262. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading: 1989 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 66133X1 ISBN : 0201153262 9780201153262

‎Ottensener Turnverein von 1878. Turnen Gymnastik Leichtathletik Spielen Wandern. Vereinszeitschrift. Konvolut von 4 Heften: Sept. u. Dez.1963 und März u. Mai 1964.‎

‎Hamburg 1963/1964. . (Hamburg, 1963/1964). unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 34239

‎Scudamore Peter; Lee Alan‎

‎Scudamore on Steeplechasing 1ST EDITION HARDBACK WITH PHOTOS‎

‎Partridge 1988. First Edition. Hardback. Collectible; Very Good/Good. VG/G 1ST EDITION 1988 PARTRIDGE PRESS HARDBACK WITH ORIGINAL COVER AND PHOTOS INSIDE UNCLIPPED DJ. IMPRESSIVE OVERVIEW OF JUMPS RACING BY DISTINGUISHED JOCKEY SCUDAMORE. REAR CORNER MINOR TEAR TO DJ O/W VG THROUGHOUT IMMEDIATE 1ST CLASS/AIRMAIL DISPATCH WORLDWIDE Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Sport/Games; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 012602. Partridge hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 012602

‎Steve Wulf‎

‎0:01: Parting Shots From the World of Sports‎

‎ESPN 2006-10-10. Paperback. New. ESPN paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 090609012 ISBN : 1933060220 9781933060224

‎ZAREMBA ALAN JAY‎

‎The Madness Of March: Bonding And Betting With The Boys In Las Vegas‎

‎University of Nebraska Press Lincoln and London: 2009. Softcover. Brand new book. Every spring the first four days of the NCAA men's basketball tournament attracts a horde of basketball bettors to Las Vegas. From the tip-off of the tournament's first game on Thursday morning to the final whistle on Sunday throngs of bettors�overwhelmingly male�sit in smoky casinos obsessively watching as many as forty-eight college basketball games. This book immerses readers in that action. In The Madness of March: Bonding and Betting with the Boys in Las Vegas Alan Jay Zaremba travels to The Strip and gives us a front-row view of the betting culture that surrounds the frenzied first weekend of the tournament. Alternating between humorous accounts of gamblers' exploits and cultural theories on sports in society Zaremba provides an engaging analysis of the sporting ritual that such gambling has become. With forays into the history of the tournament the background of sports betting and a little betting of his own Zaremba raises the question of whether this subculture of March Madness is a blessing or a curse�and what finally it all means. Alan Jay Zaremba received his BA from the University of Albany and PhD from the University of Buffalo. He is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northeastern University in Boston Massachusetts. Dr. Zaremba was the keynote speaker at the Eighth International Conference on Knowledge Culture and Change in Organisations. "The seasonal madness of the NCAA basketball tournament played against the ongoing folly that is Las Vegas: it's hard to find a more combustible admixture in sports but Zaremba . . . conveys it all with cool wit. . . . Although the action takes place in Las Vegas the book makes it easy to extrapolate this subtext of March Madness playing itself out nationwide. A sleeper of a book."�Alan Moores Booklist "Alan Jay Zaremba . . . has captured the excitement the color the flavor and craziness of college basketball betting in Las Vegas in his new book The Madness of March. . . . This book itself is like a travelogue of places people concepts conspiracy theories and if Hunter Thompson were alive today he'd embrace the author who captures the moments and rides the roller coaster of emotions with the bettors."�Howard Schwartz. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London: 2009 paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 64990X1

‎TURNBULL JOHN; SATTERLEE THOM & RAAB ALON EDITORS‎

‎The Global Game: Writers On Soccer‎

‎University of Nebraska Press Lincoln and London: 2008. Softcover. Brand new book. The world's most popular sport soccer is also one of the planet's prevalent cultural expressions celebrated and debated as an art form observed with ritual and passion. Thus it has inspired literary efforts of every sort from every corner of the globe by women and men. The writings gathered in this volume reflect the universal and infinitely varied ways in which soccer connects with human experience. Poetry and prose from Ted Hughes Charles Simic Eduardo Galeano G�nter Grass Giovanna Pollarolo Mario Vargas Llosa and Elvis Costello�to name but a few�take us to a dizzying array of cultures and climes. From a patch of ground in Missoula Montana to a clearing in a Kosovo forest from the stadiums of Burma and Iran to the northern lights over Greenland to remotest Sierra Leone these writers show us soccer's stars and fans politics and rituals as well as the game's power to encourage resistance inspire faith and build community. John Turnbull is a freelance writer on soccer and an editorial consultant. He maintains theglobalgame a soccer Web site with an accent on women's soccer media and culture. Translator and author Thom Satterlee is associate professor of English at Taylor University. Alon Raab is a lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California Davis and the author of articles reviews and interviews. Contributors: Rafael Alberti Eduard Bass Nalinaksha Bhattacharya Hebe de Bonafini Lawrence Cann Bridget Carson Hernan Casciari Elvis Costello Edilberto Coutinho Erik Eggers Friedrich Christian Delius Gy�rgy Dragoman Philippe Dubath �lvaro Enrigue Eduardo Galeano G�nter Grass Einar Mar Gu��mundsson William Heyen Miroslav Holub Ted Hughes Ian Jack Elisabet J�kulsdottir Ephraim Kishon Simon Kuper Anatoly Kuznetsov Driton Latifi Donna J. Gelagotis Lee Mario Vargas Llosa Subcomandante Marcos Javier Marias Andrew Marshall Stanley Matthews Christopher Merrill Massimo Moratti Lady Murasaki Mark Nuttall Giovanna Pollarolo Julio Ramon Ribeyro Paul Richards Klaus Rifbjerg Nelson Rodrigues Maria Graciela Rodriguez Umberto Saba Matilde Sanchez Thom Satterlee Rogelio Ramos Signes Charles Simic Antonio Skarmeta Osvaldo Soriano David Starkey Gay Talese Crispin Thomas Bea Vidacs Luiz Vilela Sarah Wardle Ch'ao Yueh-chih and Uros Zupan. "As much social commentary as a compendium of soccer tales and soccer reflections this delightful collection is essential reading for the soccer fan and those interested in soccer and sport generally in a global environment. . . . Bringing a variety of writings together in one volume is a credit to the editors who provide an excellent introduction for each entry."�Library Journal "The first truly global survey of writing on the global game. . . . The collection gives a powerful reminder to Anglo-Saxon literary cultures that football�the most global cultural phenomenon of all�has a rich multivocal literary tradition."�David Goldblatt Times Literary Supplement University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London: 2008 paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 65359X1

‎DEAVER PHILIP F. EDITOR & INTRODUCTION; ABBOTT LEE K. FOREWORD‎

‎Scoring From Second: Writers On Baseball‎

‎University of Nebraska Press Lincoln and London: 2007. Softcover. Brand new book. Why do accomplished writers and grown-ups like Ron Carlson Rick Bass and Michael Chabon to name but a few of those represented here still obsess over their baseball days What is it about this green game of suspense that not only moves us but can also move us to flights of lyrical writing In Scoring from Second: Writers on Baseball some of the literary lights of our day answer these questions with essays reminiscences and meditations on the sport that is America's game but also a deeply personal experience for player observer and fan alike. Here writers as different as Andre Dubus and Leslie Epstein Chabon and Floyd Skloot Michael Martone and William Least Heat-Moon reflect on the game they grew up with the players who thrilled them and the lessons that baseball holds for us all. From the one-season wonder to the long-haul heroes to the hall of fame the game that has framed so many American summers�and lives�comes to quirky instructive and always entertaining life in these pages. Philip F. Deaver is the author of How Men Pray and Silent Retreats and winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. He is writer-in-residence and associate professor of English at Rollins College in Winter Park Florida. Lee K. Abbott is the author of seven collections of short stories including Wet Places at Noon and All Things All at Once: New & Selected Stories. He is a professor of English at The Ohio State University in Columbus. Contributors: Jocelyn Bartkevicius Rick Bass Larry Blakely Earl S. Braggs Christopher Buckley Rick Campbell David Carkeet Ron Carlson Michael Chabon Mick Cochrane Hal Crowther Andre Dubus Leslie Epstein Gary Forrester Lee Gutkind Jeffrey Hammond Jeffrey Higa Peter Ives Richard Jackson William Least Heat-Moon Lee Martin Michael Martone Cris Mazza Kyle Minor Dan O'Neill Susan Perabo Rachael Perry Kurt Rheinheimer Louis D. Rubin Jr. Luke Salisbury Floyd Skloot Tom Stanton Michael Steinberg Tim D. Stone and Robert Vivian. "Another winner from the University of Nebraska Press."�Library Journal "These pieces by such noted writers as Christopher Buckley Andre Dubus and Chris Mazza address not just a sport but a sport's place in the fabric of our lives. . . . The writing is polished and the sentiments will touch a chord."�Library Journal Xpress "Baseball fans who yearn for the days of Ring Lardner will find in this collection ample evidence that gifted writers still celebrate America's national pastime. . . . There are numerous other double-play delights here. . . . Predictably some contributors betray passions for a favorite team�Yankees or Red Sox Cardinals or Cubs. But the heavy hitters hit the ball over all these partisan fences reminding readers that a great game unites us all. Fans will treasure this book."�Booklist "Enjoyable and insightful observations about a sport that has a richer literary tradition than any other sport in the US. . . . The entries' ability to remain fresh and entertaining speaks well of their quality and Deaver's discernment."�Todd Starkweather American Book Review University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London: 2007 paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 65362X1

‎OLMSTEAD BILL EDITOR‎

‎Knickerbockers Playoff Magazine 1969‎

‎Harry M. Stevens New York: 1969. Softcover. Good condition. Harry M. Stevens, New York: 1969 paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 63635X1