Sport Books

Bob Breitbard: San Diego's Sports Keeper, chronicles the life and accomplishments of a visionary sportsman and great San Diego icons. An all-star in San Diego's sports lineup for more than half a century, Breitbard was involved in the local sports scene...

Cy Taillon was the molasses-voiced king of rodeo announcers. When he died in 1980, newspapers in the West canonized him as the dean of rodeo and compared him to John Wayne. A reformed rake, handsome and charming and flashy, he was also difficult, often...

Wally Yonamine was both the first Japanese American to play for an NFL franchise and the first American to play professional baseball in Japan after World War II. This is the unlikely story of how a shy young man from the sugar plantations of Maui...

Memoirs of Thom Harinck, Kickboxing and Muay Thai LegendCelebrity kickboxing coach of countless national and international champions and mastermind behind three K-1 championships.Thom Harinck trained world champions such as Peter Aerts, Branko Cikatic,...

***Short-listed for the English Chess Federation 2024 Book of the Year Prize!!***The second volume of Elk and Ruby's treatise on Viktor Korchnoi, penned by FM Hans Renette and IM Tibor Karolyi, covers the period 1969-1980. This encompasses Korchnoi's...

The baseball life of Jim Campanis Jr. has been anything but ordinary. His father, Jim Sr., was a long-time pro catcher who spent several years on the Pirates where a 6-year-old Jim Jr. shagged flies next to major leaguers.  His grandfather Al was...

For rugby or football fans, "This is what we are" catapults you into experiencing the unaskable: what happens to you when your club suddenly dies? Meet Jack. Jack was born in Trinidad and lives in Bologna, Italy, which he has made his home. But his...

The year was 1947. A talented young minor-league baseball player was called up to the majors to join the Brooklyn Dodgers. But this was no ordinary man, nor any simple achievement. This was Jackie Robinson: an all-around star athlete, a U.S. Army...

Jürgen Said to Me is a human-interest story centred around Liverpool FC's most successful and charismatic leader of recent times. It charts Jürgen Klopp's impact on Liverpool through the voice of the author and those at the heart of his revival.In...

     Ever wonder what it was like to be a baby boomer and live a childhood period that saw automobiles prior to seat belts, jet engines become standard, black and white TV go to color, civil rights become law, and women's lib go...

Les Robinson grew up propitiously in St. Alnbans, West Virginia, where his father organized and hosted the best college basketball players in America to a summer tournament.  The Charleston (WV) Sportsmens' Classic brought in players like Hot...

For anyone who writes biographically about these heroes, it’s vital to provide some little-known, surprising facts to give the reader a better idea of what they were really like and give a fuller picture of their lives. I hope I have succeeded in...

Before Shohei Ohtani and Babe Ruth there was Robert Lee "Parisian Bob" Caruthers (1865-1911). A wunderkind pitcher and right fielder known throughout the country, he was the star on the mound for five league championships in 10 years, and one of two...

Gene Mingo grew up as a mischievous kid in Akron, Ohio, with a challenging childhood and love for high school football. After a stint in the US Navy, he found his way back to football. In 1960, he joined the American Football League as a placekicker,...

Author Cornel Vena was just a teenager when World War II ended, changing life in the tiny Transylvanian village of his childhood forever. A ruthless Bolshevik army swarmed over the land, and his family faced an uncertain future living under a communist...

A coach is part teacher, part parent, part student, part mentor, and part guru. He must possess a stern hand and a comforting touch—and the wisdom to discern when each is needed. Each decision he makes is a part of a perilous high wire act that can...

If you thought you were too over the hill to have a go at a grueling sport, think again. Grant Maughan didn't even consider age when he dove headfirst into ultra-endurance events at the mature age of 47.A kid from Australia with energy to burn, Grant...

This book covers a pro football fact that has been buried for years. A fact that is the first triathlon in pro football. This event details how the city of Sacramento was part of history when they played in three different pro football leagues,...

Petr Izmailov was considered to be one of the top four players of the Soviet Union in 1929 according to Yuri Averbakh, and he was ranked around number 50 in the world at the time based on Chessmetrics methodology. Izmailov won the 1928 Championship of...

Life is very complex and intricate. Every decision we make is made for a reason, either consciously or, more often than not, subconsciously. This includes your choice of school friends, your hobbies, your career pathway, your car (not just because it is...

At long last, comes the true story behind one of the most memorable chapters in Texas high school football history: The 1964 Class A State Champion Archer City Wildcats. This enthralling account follows the team from its humble beginnings to its...

WHAT A TRIBUTE for all the great martial artists of the world! This book serves as a source of inspiration for all of our young men, women, and children, both present and future, to strive to be one of the world's greatest and most illustrious martial...

An Unexpected HonorIt happened on May 1, 2011 on Sunday afternoon with about seventy-five friends, former kickers and families of former kickers, coaches, my family, and other friends from the church and community. The Thomasville Athletic Boosters Club,...

Sweet, Sweet Addiction relates the story of a family man driven by his passion to learn tennis at an age when most professional players retire. George Newton is age 33 when he finds the game. He plunges into the sport and pursues it as if he is addicted...

Huddle with Rudy into the heart of college football in this true story of a young athlete achieving success against all odds. A story that will be familiar to athletes, coaches and everyone that listens and pursues that inner voice that tells you never...

At a time when the sporting world seems to be losing its perspective, author John Clendening provides another viewpoint. In Love Letters to Sports, he celebrates sports at its best-its moments in time that capture our hearts and remind us of the role it...

'One of the best sports biographies ever; Smelser beautifully evokes the life of baseball's most wondrous player and the times he lived in' - Donald Honig, author of "Baseball When the Grass Was Real". 'Although many books have...

Das Buch ""Leben Johann Ernsts Des Jungern Herzogs Zu Sachsen Weimar Etc. Ein Beitrag Zur Geschichte De Dreissigjahrigen Teutschen Kriegs"" wurde im Jahr 1784 von Bernhard Gottlieb Von Hellfeld verfasst. Es beschreibt das Leben von Johann Ernst, dem...

Dissertatio Historico-Critica De Prioratu Auranae est opus a Georgio Pray anno 1773 compositum. In hoc libro, auctor historiam et criticam prioratus Auranae, quod in Hungaria situm est, tractat. Pray disputationem de historia prioratus exponit, eiusque...

As people of color, we arrived on a nightmare and never stop praying for the dream. George did not fret because of any evildoers neither envious against the workers of iniquities, asking God to give him grace to accept with serenity of the things that...

"A snowflake is the most beautiful form of water"That is one of the observations of a lifelong skier who:Discovered a skiing paradise in the Canadian RockiesExperienced a few hard lessons in a snow schoolSurvived his first descent of a double...

Follow the Saints through their amazing 2009 Super Bowl Championship season, and re-experience every game, relive every score, and savor every victory. Travel with The Saints on their long, often trying 43 years on the road to success. Compare the stats...

New York Times Best Seller 2015 RFK Book Awards Special Recognition 2015 Lillian Smith Book Award 2015 AAUP Books Committee "Outstanding" Title When Strong Inside was first published ten years ago, no one could have predicted the impact the book would...

In the Olympics, some countries are historically or exceptionally dominant in certain sports. However, Rio 2016 proved that China dominated table tennis like no other country did any other sports. According to the International Olympic Committee (IOC),...