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  • Bullpen Diaries

    Mariano Rivera, Bronx Dreams, Pinstripe Legends, and the Future of the New York Yankees

    by Charley Rosen ...
    "Delightful and insightful." —John Thorn, author of Total BaseballBaseball is the only sport where the defense has the ball, and there is no lonelier in the world of sports than the pitcher's mound. Which makes Yankee relievers among the most scrutinized and intriguing group of athletes in the game. In Bullpen Diaries, Charley Rosen, lifelong Yankees fan and co-author of the bestseller More Than ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • More Than a Game

    by Phil Jackson, Charley Rosen ...
    More than a Game covers the years that follow the one featured in the ESPN documentary series "The Last Dance."After leaving the Bulls at the end of the 1997-1998 season—the year featured in the new ESPN documentary series "The Last Dance"—Phil Jackson had one year off and started to write this book—together with his old friend, fellow player and coach, the basketball novelist Charley Rosen. Then ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

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  • Dribbling a Basketball on the Road to Damascus

    A Novel

    by Charley Rosen ...
    A coming-of-age novel that takes us from a very tall boy’s discovery of his love of basketball to a young man who engages in point-shaving while a college player on his way to NBA brilliance with a shadow hanging over him—a book that sheds light on both the sheer beauty and some of the ugliness in the game.A bildungsroman and the most autobiographical yet of Charley Rosen’s many works of fiction, ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • Trouthe, Lies, and Basketball

    by Charley Rosen ...
    Elliot Hersch is given a basketball on his tenth birthday and cuts a deal with his disapproving father: if he makes straight As, he is allowed to play. Modeling his game on the basketball heroes of his time--Clyde Frazier, Oscar Robertson, Magic Johnson, and especially Larry Bird--Elliot becomes one of the finest high school basketball players in New York.Trying to steer clear of the corruption ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Wizard of Odds

    How Jack Molinas Almost Destroyed the Game of Basketball

    by Charley Rosen ...
    In The Wizard of Odds, renowned and best-selling basketball writer Charley Rosen brings us for the first time the full life story of Jack Molinas, one of the greatest basketball players of his era, a man whose gambling addiction and hubris caused his ultimate demise. Drawing on numerous, previously unavailable first-person accounts, including Jack Molinas’s own journal and trial transcripts, Rosen ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • Sugar

    Micheal Ray Richardson, Eighties Excess, and the NBA

    by Charley Rosen ...
    The 1980s were arguably the NBA’s best decade, giving rise to Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, and Michael Jordan. They were among the game’s greatest players who brought pro basketball out of its 1970s funk and made it faster, more fluid, and more exciting. Off the court the game was changing rapidly too, with the draft lottery, shoe commercials, and a style driven largely by excess.One player who ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • The Chosen Game

    A Jewish Basketball History

    by Charley Rosen ...
    A few years after its invention by James Naismith, basketball became the primary sport in the crowded streets of the Jewish neighborhood on New York’s Lower East Side. Participating in the new game was a quick and enjoyable way to become Americanized. Jews not only dominated the sport for the next fifty‑plus years but were also instrumental in modernizing the game.Barney Sedran was considered the ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • The Emerald Diamond

    How the Irish Transformed America's Favorite Pastime

    by Charley Rosen ...
    "The Emerald Diamond is a must read. It is a remarkable story about the achievements of the Irish throughout the history of baseball in America."-Jay P. DolanNew York Times bestselling sportswriter Charley Rosen, author of The Bullpen Diaries and More than Just a Game, delivers a one-of-a-kind instant classic perfect "for anyone who is Irish and loves baseball."The history of the Irish in ... ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Perfectly Awful

    The Philadelphia 76ers' Horrendous and Hilarious 1972-1973 Season

    by Charley Rosen ...
    During the 1972–1973 basketball season, the Philadelphia 76ers were not just a bad team; they were fantastically awful. Doomed from the start after losing their leading scorer and rebounder, Billy Cunningham, as well as head coach Jack Ramsay, they lost twenty-one of their first twenty-three games. A Philadelphia newspaper began calling them the Seventy Sickers, and they duly lost their last ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The First Tip-Off: The Incredible Story of the Birth of the NBA

    by Charley Rosen ...
    "Charley Rosen has undertaken the challenge of documenting the latest and greatest history of the game professionally--and has done so to great success. . . . . When I finished the book it seemed as if I had gone through another season, injuries and all. . . . Rosen skillfully leads readers through the NBA's first steps along its journey toward what it has become today.”--Phil Jackson, from the ... Read more

    $31.69 CAD

  • The House of Moses All-Stars

    A Novel

    by Charley Rosen ...
    A New York Times Notable BookCharley Rosen writes the story of an all-Jewish basketball team traveling in a hearse through Depression-era America in search of redemption and big money. A hilarious road novel,The House of Moses All-Stars is a passionate portrayal of a young Jewish man, Aaron Steiner, struggling to realize his dreams in a country struggling to recover its ideals. The former college ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

  • Sammy Wong, All-American

    by Charley Rosen ...
    A basketball novel about a shy, big man and his triumphs and troubles on and off the court.Sammy Wong, All-American tells the tale of a very talented Asian basketball player's rise and stumble in the all-American sport of basketball—among the most international of team sports, yet one where, until very recently, Asians were completely unrepresented. The novel unwinds in spectacular fashion. On his ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD