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This indispensable guide for all baseball fans is packed with scouting reports and player, manager, rookie profiles with more than 350 photos. It includes stats by the barrel along with schedules and rosters--plus features on Ken Griffey, Mike Piazza and Tony Gwynne.
From the first slam dunk to the NBA Finals, this 19th edition of the popular guide highlights all the stars and teams who bring the thrill to America's favorite indoor game. Indispensable for season-long viewing, the handbook includes expert scouting reports, 300 coach and player profiles, college draft, records, rosters, schedules, hundreds of photos, and more.
Year after year, THE COMPLETE HANDBOOK OF PRO BASKETBALL has provided fans with more basketball news, information, statistics, and scoops than the competition. Now in an all-new 24th edition, this special guide is packed with 29 NBA team scouting reports, 350 veteran, rookie, and coach profiles, and predictions for the coming season. Whether you watch the game on TV or in person, this is the most comprehensive handbook on the game available!
In his second memoir, "Five-Mountain Morning," teacher and writer William Bridges describes a life that has stretched from the Army in postwar Germany to journalism around the world to archaeology on a remote island in the North Atlantic. This book follows "Under the Heaven Tree," a childhood memoir that a critic says "did what we all should do-not only recall our lost lives and loved ones from oblivion, but also see ourselves as links in a long chain of being that reaches dimly backward and brightly forward." In "Five-Mountain Morning," Bridges writes about lost loves, marriage and children, a writer's life, travels, and encounters with people ranging from a woman who named her cat for a Kentucky Derby winner to actress Marlene Dietrich. Bridges is a storyteller and poet whose work has been called both "beautifully crafted" and "never far removed from the daily course of things."
The NHL from its first season (1917-18) to its most recent (1991-92) and one of its most dramatic---here's the whole colorful, controversial story. Now completely updated for the 100th anniversary celebration of the Stanley Cup, this directory is a must-have for the sports enthusiast. 200 photos.
The National Basketball Association used to be a unifi ed league featuring high powered teams with great players who put on explosive shows night after night to the delight of their admiring fans. The league featured great stars like Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, Elgin Baylor, and Jerry West who consistently displayed offensive versatility as well as defensive prowess. The NBA of some 50 years ago had no more than six or eight teams, but all of them were highly skilled and explosive. But today the NBA has fallen on hard timesat least in the artistic sense. In his new book How Sweet It Was: And How the NBA Can Return to Greatness, writer Joe Delmore outlines what made the league great and h...
With over 300 player profiles, year-by-year records, rosters, schedules, college draft reports, and more than 300 photographs, this handbook is the definitive way for any sports fan to kick off the hoops season. Features Bernard King's Incredible Odyssey, the NBA's Olympic Invasion, Pat Riley's TV Adventure, and more.
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Deals with the history of soccer in the USA.
This updated edition explores the vibrant community of Asian Pacific Americans through sports. This book tells intriguing tales of athletes, such as aquatic legend Duke Kahanamoku and diving gold medalist Vicki Manalo, but has been expanded to include Tiger Woods, Tim Lincicum, Troy Polamalu and other current athletes.