Sports

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398451421Author Ian MartinFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544227873Author Terry FranconaFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 135mm *...

Lawrence"Yogi" Berra was never supposed to become a major league ballplayer.That's what his immigrant father told him. That's what Branch Rickey told him, too-right to Berra's face, in fact. Even the lowly St. Louis Browns of his youth said he'd never...

In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a slew of...

Controversial, confrontational and driven, Geno Auriemma - the long-time head coach of the Univ of Connecticut's highly successful womens' basketball team - is a force to be reckoned with. Now 55, Geno just guided the UConn Huskies to its sixth national...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401310929Author Rafael NadalFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595098088Author Charlotte MijaresFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Writers Club PressPublisher Writers Club PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525434023Author Marc SkeltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 200mm *...

Fifty matches that shaped the career of one of football's greatest entertainers... Thierry Henry has come a long way since he was first spotted playing for local sides in the Paris suburb of Les Ulis where he grew up. Via Monaco, Turin, London,...

The candid autobiography of all-star pitcher "Sudden Sam" McDowell, whose alcohol-fueled life quickly and famously spiraled out of control, and his ultimate redemption as a counselor for other athletes suffering from addiction. Sam McDowell...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501126444Author Jeff BenedictFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780912165Author Mick WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312311179Author Bob KnightFormat PaperbackImprint St. Martins Press-3plPublisher St. Martins Press-3plWeight(grams) 612g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398438224Author Dan StainsFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938545702Author David CataneoFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Summer Game BooksPublisher Summer Game BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Theodore 'Tiger' Flowers rose above the racist bigotry of the Deep South to become the first African-American middleweight champion of the world. To do it, this Christian family man beat a boxing legend, Harry Greb, in the first of the great sporting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936617333Author Jon BroderickFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Lemon PressPublisher Lemon PressWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623365240Author Michael SilverFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Harmony/RodalePublisher Harmony/RodaleWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

The perfect gift for baseball fans, now with a new epilogue by author R.A. Dickey, winner of the 2012 Cy Young award. "An astounding memoir-haunting and touching, courageous and wise."-Jeremy Schaap, bestselling author, Emmy award-winning journalist,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228828020Author Jerry HackFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Former Major League pitcher and mental skills coach for two of baseball's legendary franchises (the Boston Red Sox and San Francisco Giants) Bob Tewksbury takes fans inside the psychology of baseball. In Ninety Percent Mental, Bob Tewksbury shows readers...

The story behind Shohei Ohtani's legendary MVP season as baseball's greatest two-way player-dominant pitcher and DH with otherworldly power at the plate-from his early days in Japan to his historic 2021 season, the 2023 World Baseball Classic, and...

From forehands to fashions, this book covers the careers of 35 champions who made significant contributions to the sport both on and off the court. Suzanne Lenglen, Helen Wills Moody, Maureen Connolly, Billie Jean King, Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306831188Author Mirin FaderFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette Books

Craig has written this book with Trinity Mirror journalist and close friend Oliver Holt. Oliver brings a national, multi-award winning level of quality writing to Craig's story. Oliver also has a personal following on Twitter of more than 177,000...

Didier Drogba...the name strikes fear into defenders throughout football and excites fans around the world. The giant forward's life story is as amazing as some of the goals which have turned him into a hero on two continents.Born in 1978 in Abidjan, the...

A major in-depth biography of Sven-Goran Eriksson – the first foreign manager of the England football team – which chronicles his time in the hot seat, from taking over from Kevin Keegan, the story of the 2002 World Cup Finals in Japan and South Korea,...

Sussex and England superstar Maurice Tate's story is one of triumph and fame, controversy and tragedy. In the 1920s and 1930s, the all-rounder was the world's most popular cricketer, famed for his brilliant bowling and broad smile - unlike his infamous...

Al Simmons, at top form in the Roaring Twenties, sparked one of baseball's greatest dynasties, the Philadelphia Athletics, to multiple championships--before becoming just another ballplayer. Why? While his achievements demonstrated greatness, he was not...

Bestselling author Ian Stafford has run, boxed, putted, rowed, wrestled and kicked balls with the finest sportsmen in the world. Which is why he finds the doubt about his driving technique particularly galling. After one too many arguments with his wife...

"You might say that the provision of heroes is the basic point of sport. If sport didn't provide heroes, sport wouldn't command our imaginations..." Everyone's lives will, at some time, have been touched by a moment of sporting heroism. Whether...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD ADVENTURE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDOn 1 April 2011, rower and adventurer Sarah Outen set off in her kayak from Tower Bridge for France. Her aim was simple: to circle the globe entirely under her own steam -...

Seventy-five per cent of the world's single-seater racing cars are designed and built in Britain. Thanks to this technical know-how, most Grand Prix teams are based in the UK, and many of them have British managers and designers. Through interviewing the...

Mark Ramprakash is arguably the greatest English batsman of his generation, but he is also an enigma. He is among an elite group of players who have scored 100 first-class centuries, yet has never flourished as he should have done at Test level. To many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780964346017Author Krista QuinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 219Imprint The Bradford Book CoPublisher The Bradford Book CoWeight(grams) 140g

This book presents in-depth interviews with 24 'motor sport greats', all characters with a story to tell. The idea was to get them to suggest their favourite pub or restaurant for a good meal and a half-decent bottle, and gently prod them into opening up...

This is the thrilling, warts-engine-oil-and-all autobiography of the only racing driver Ayrton Senna ever feared - the 200mph flawed genius of Tommy Byrne.It tells the surreal tale of a poverty-stricken Dundalk kid's rise to become the only racing driver...

This is the personal story of a champion in the making. Physiologically CadelEvans has the best numbers of any cyclist tested at the Australian Institute ofSport, the organisation that is behind Australia's super stars in international sport. He was...