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The Father of Modern Sport
SHORTLISTED FOR CRICKET SOCIETY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2002 A model Victorian sporting all-rounder, Charles Alcock was a prime mover in the development of both football and cricket as the world's biggest sports. As a player, he was the first ever footballer to be ruled offside, the captain of the first FA Cup winners and and played club cricket to a high standard. As Secretary of the FA, Alcock was one of the men responsible for the first ever football international and was the driving force behind the creation of the FA Cup in 1871. In cricket, he arranged the first Test match in Britain, between England and Australia at The Oval in 1880. Close attention to detail combined with a breadth of vision to change the sporting world - this is the definitive biography of the nineteenth century's most important sports administrator.
Tim Duncan
Presents a biography of the San Antonio Spurs center, who chose to stay in school and get his college degree before joining the NBA.
Sweet Redemption
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Keith
Stanley Booth has the inside line on the drive and inspiration from the Rolling Stones' rhythmic master and most enigmatic member--Keith Richards. The author's conversations with Keith bring forth Richards' own assessment of his continuing craft, his conflicted relationship with Jagger and the Stones, and his debt to the blues' greats. Photos.
Good Enough to Be Great
The 2001-02 season was a magical one for the Maryland basketball team, culminating in the school's first-ever NCAA title. But as Washington Post sportswriter Josh Barr reveals here, it was never an easy road. Barr, who has spent four years on the Maryland beat, had unrivalled access to Terrapin coaches and players, and here he provides the extraordinary behind-the-scenes story of Maryland's rise to glory. He also reveals how, under Williams's leadership, players most observers had sneered at became the best team in college basketball. Barr offers keen insight into just what separated the Terrapins from every other team in the country-and from previous Maryland teams that always came up short...
Scorned
Lori Siegel has everything. Shes a young, attractive, blue eyed, blonde, with a lithe, athletic body most women would die for. Shes married to a wealthy, but older man who can give her everything except the passion she so desires. Enter Ray Ricci. He is young, handsome, well muscled and owns a small, but growing motorcycle dealership. A winning smile and boyish charm has given him entrance into the circle Lori operates in. He has a reputation as a heart breaker who leaves them satisfied, but, none the less leaves them. It is one thing to love em and leave em, but quite another if you feel youve been Scorned. Look for the next book by Richard Anders, No Deed Unpunished.
John Jackson: The Nottinghamshire Foghorn
John Jackson (1833-1901) was noticed at an early age by William Clarke after moving from his native Suffolk to Wellow in Nottinghamshire. He soon became an integral part of the Nottinghamshire and All-England Elevens. Bowling fast round-arm – his pace was described as ‘fearful’ – he took wickets by the dozen all over the country as well as on tours of North America in 1859 and Australia and New Zealand in 1863/64. Injury brought his career to a gradual close during the late 1860s. Having no qualifications of any kind, Jackson had nothing to fall back on after his playing days had finished. The once great fast bowler ended his days in a Liverpool workhouse in 1901. Gerald Hudd charts the life of this great bowler who in a later era would undoubtedly have had a highly successful career in Test cricket and who might have had a more dignified old age.
Jet
The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.
Dogs Are People, Too!
Doctor Allen Aaron is a world famous veterinarian and canine specialist. Governors and Presidents are among his client list. At only twenty nine he has his own large clinic in Houston, Texas. The reason for his astounding success is a genius level IQ that allowed him to graduate with honors from vet school at only nineteen, and a socially prominent and wealthy mother. The relationship between mother and son has not always been a smooth one in that the true reason for Doctor Aaron's amazing talent with dogs is his closely guarded secret ability to communicate directly with canines. Dogs Are People, Too! Chrinicles the stormy relationship between overpowering mother and determined son. Adventures abound as ten year old Allen runs away, and hitchhikes across country meeting and making friends with people and dogs along the way. The adult Doctor Aaron searches for a mysterious Mexican girl purported to be able to speak to dogs. His search takes him to Mexico City where he finds Rosalina Flores. Nineteen and beautiful, she shares Doctor Aaron's unusual talent of communicating directly with canines.
