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  • As God's Witness

    The Death of Knute Rockne

    by Jeffrey G Harrell ...
    One day after testifying against a hit man for Al Capone charged in the murder of Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle, Father John Reynolds gave his plane ticket to legendary Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne.Three days later, the plane exploded."... dribs and drabs of this story - or theory, or rumor - have been around since Rockne's plane crashed... But I've never seen it laid out in this ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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  • Golden Boy

    by Paul Hornung ...
    Paul Hornung was football's "Golden Boy" -- handsome, talented, and fabulously successful. He had a great career at Notre Dame, where he won the Heisman Trophy (the only player ever to win it on a team with a losing record). He was the #1 draft pick in the NFL and went to the Green Bay Packers, a terrible team soon transformed by a new head coach, Vince Lombardi. Hornung's Packer teams would ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Heisman

    Great American Stories of the Men Who Won

    by Bill Pennington ...
    Close your eyes and picture theHeisman Trophy. The form is easyto conjure, a graceful, fluid posethat is football past and football presentin one dignified figure ...The story of the Heisman Trophyis an american epic.-- from the PrefaceNo sport in America can match the pageantry, raw emotion, and thrilling tradition of college football. It is a world in which a twenty-year-old kid can become a ... Read more

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  • The Worst Year in Racing

    by J Louis Frey ...
    Auto racing is one of the most popular sports in America. By live attendance, television, radio, or internet it is viewed by thousands across the nation. Whether contested locally or on the big tracks, it has also been a bloody proposition. From its earliest endeavors it has left many broken bodies and lives.However, one year appears to stand out for its spectacular brutality. Killing both young ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dan Rooney

    My 75 Years with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the NFL

    by Dan Rooney ...
    Legendary chairman of the five-time Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers, Dan Rooney, tells his life story for the first time. From growing up on Pittsburgh's notorious North Side, to vying with Johnny Unitas for top high school quarterback honors in Western Pennsylvania, from learning how to run a major sports franchise from his father, Art Rooney ("the Chief"), to helping shape the modern NFL ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Fenway Park

    A Salute to the Coolest, Cruelest, Longest-Running Major League Baseball Stadium in America

    by John Powers, Ron Driscoll ...
    A centennial celebration of the Boston Red Sox's home stadium and the city's historical landmark.Fenway Park evokes a team and a sport that have become more synonymous with a city's identity than any stadium or arena in the country. The park's instantly recognizable confines have seen some of the most dramatic happenings in baseball history, including Carlton Fisk's "Is it fair?" home run in the ... Read more

    $17.59 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

    $32.99 CAD

  • Basketball and Its Greatest Players

    by Sherman Hollar ...
    Series series Inside Sports
    Drawing crowds for its displays of both raw athleticism and spectacular showmanship, basketball has become one of the most exciting spectator sports in the United States, as well as the world. Players renowned for their maneuverability and skill—“Air” Jordan and his classic acrobatic moves, for instance—have intensified the level of competition in professional leagues and inspired everyday fans to ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The California Golden Seals

    A Tale of White Skates, Red Ink, and One of the NHL's Most Outlandish Teams

    by Steve Currier ...
    Hockey has had its share of bizarre tales over the years, but none compares to the fascinating story of the California Golden Seals, a team that remains the benchmark for how not to run a sports franchise. From 1967 to 1978, a revolving door of players, apathetic owners, and ridiculous marketing decisions turned the Seals, originally based in Oakland, into hockey’s traveling circus. The team lost ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Baseball Miscellany

    Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Baseball

    by Matthew Silverman ...
    Series series Books of Miscellany
    Why does a curveball curve? What is a can of corn”? Why was Joe DiMaggio called the Yankee Clipper”? Who wrote Take Me Out to the Ballgame”? How many times did Ty Cobb steal home?In Baseball Miscellany, the fascinating history and lore of our national pastime is finally revealed! For example, the reason a curveball curves is that its spin drags a layer of air across one surface of the ball faster ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Yucks

    Two Years in Tampa with the Losingest Team in NFL History

    by Jason Vuic ...
    Friday Night Lights meets The Bad News Bears in “a brisk, warmhearted reminder of how professional sports can occasionally reach stunning unprofessional depths” (Publishers Weekly): the first two seasons with the worst team in NFL history, the hapless, hilarious, and hopelessly winless 1976–1977 Tampa Bay Buccaneers.Long before their first Super Bowl victory in 2003, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers did ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Tales from the Pittsburgh Steelers Sideline

    A Collection of the Greatest Steelers Stories Ever Told

    by Dale Grdnic ...
    Series series Tales from the Team
    One of the oldest teams in the NFL, the Pittsburgh Steelers have carved one of the most exciting legacies in professional football. Founded as the Pittsburgh Pirates by Art Rooney in 1933 with winnings from a single day at the racetrack, the Steelers spent the next 40 years as the NFL’s “Lovable Losers.” All that changed in the early ’70s, as savvy draft choices and a smashmouth style of play ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD