Sportsbiografier

Trials to Triumph is the autobiography of Arthur "Flash" Johnson. Journey with him through his physical and spiritual bouts, as he grows from poverty in East Saint Louis to prominence in the Olympic boxing ring. Sit with him as fights Leukemia in the quietness of the hospital room long after the crowds are gone, and be inspired by his faith in God, which brought him from Trials to Triumph time and time again.

Des McKeown started at the top in football and worked his way down. Don't give up the day job is a no-holes-barred account of one season in the lofe of part-time players seen through the eyes of a husband, father, salesman and left-back.

Growing up in Kinston, Alabama, Rick Wood had two goals: to play high school basketball for his role model, Creigh Purnell, and to become a high school coach and teacher himself.Though he was never able to make Coach Purnell's varsity, he enjoyed a stellar coaching career. Rick Wood retired with 662 wins -- at the time, the most by any active coach in North Carolina. His players were known for their teamwork, hustle, and sportsmanship. They were also known for being true student-athletes, receiving two awards for having the best team GPAs in the entire state.40 Seasons chronicles how one small town boy turned his dream into a lifetime of achievements. Through his eyes, we discover universal lessons about winning, losing, teaching, and living.

"The story of one man battling his demons inside the steel cage and out"--Page 1 of cover.

Les Woodland climbed aboard his old Carlton bike to take a nostalgia trip across Belgium and Holland to visit some of cycling's greatest riders. "Cycling Heroes: The Golden Years" tells the story of that journey he took in the early 1990s and the time he spent with some of the finest riders from the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Rik van Steenbergen, Rik van Looy, Jan Janssen, Wim van Est, Hennie Kuiper and Peter Post were some of the most colorful and dominating riders of an era that produced many of the sport's greatest-ever champions. In this book Woodland has collected their and other riders' precious and fascinating recollections, some going back to a time of leather saddles, cloth caps and spare tires wrapped over riders' shoulders; when screaming fans packed smoke-filled velodromes to see their heroes up close; when a stage of the Tour de France could take more than eleven hours. Woodland has filled in his portrait of racing's golden years with the stories of those riders who were either too far away or time got there first, including Fausto Coppi, Louison Bobet, Jacques Anquetil and Raymond Poulidor. Join Les Woodland on a captivating journey back to the golden age of racing.

Están todos los jugadores:- Con más de 9000 turnos legales al bat.- Con más de 1900 carreras producidas.- Con más de 500 jonrones conectados.- Con más de 600 bases robadas.Al cátcher suplemente de mi equipo ideal.Están también todos los pítcheres:- Con más de 4000 entradas lanzadas.- Con más de 300 juegos ganados.- Con más de 3000 ponches recetados.- Con más de 300 juegos salvados.Las siete ligas mayores que han existido.

When legendary Red Sox hitter Ted Williams died on July 5, 2002, newspapers reviewed the stats, compared him to other legends of the game, and declared him the greatest hitter who ever lived. Richard Ben Cramer, Pulitzer Prize winner and acclaimed biographer of Joe DiMaggio, decodes this oversized icon who dominated the game and finds not just a great player, but also a great man.In 1986, Richard Ben Cramer spent months on a profile of Ted Williams, and the result was the Esquire article that has been acclaimed ever since as one of the finest pieces of sports reporting ever written. Given special acknowledgment in The Best American Sportswriting of the Century and adapted for a coffee-table book called Ted Williams: The Seasons of the Kid, the original piece is now available in this special edition, with new material about Williams''s later years. While his decades after Fenway Park were out of the spotlight -- the way Ted preferred it -- they were arguably his richest, as he loved and inspired his family, his fans, the players, and the game itself. This is a remembrance for the ages.

Robert Lindley ¿Lin¿ Murray, a middle-distance runner and tennis player and a Phi Beta Kappa chemical engineer at Stanford University, went east after graduating in 1914 to play tennis. He beat the top intercollegiate players, won several tournaments, and earned a fourth place national ranking. Murray won the 1916 U.S. Indoor title and joined Hooker Electrochemical in Niagara Falls, New York. Reluctant to play in the 1917 and 1918 national championships due to wartime contracts, Murray was persuaded by Hooker¿s president to play and he won them both, the latter over Bill Tilden. Murray rose through the ranks of Hooker to president, CEO, and chairman of the board and was elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame a year before retiring. Leading into Murray¿s exploits is a concise history of tennis, when and where the game was introduced to the United States, and American tennis through Lin Murray¿s brief but brilliant career. Also included is a review of California tennis and the significant impact of its players during the second decade of the twentieth century. The book concludes with short biographies of Murray¿s female and male contemporaries, before shorts and skirts replaced flannels and petticoats.

As a coaching neophyte attempts to navigate the scurrilous underbelly of professional basketball, he encounters a number of fascinating characters along the way--some of whom shape his journey and others who impede it. He becomes a fly on the wall to the swirling world around him and reports his voyage as it takes him from the comfortable suburbs of the Pacific Northwest, across the U.S. and back.

Over the years, I have reviewed and edited many types of writing, as well as written many articles for papers and magazines. Creating a Story Line and maintaining a continuing sense of continuity throughout can be a difficult dilemma. However, some authors don't seem to understand or comprehend that...they just can't seem to smell the coffee!!Bud Grounds can smell the Coffee ! Bud Grounds has enough material to fill several books if he would choose to do so. His writing is informative, yet, interesting, thought provoking. From the beginning of the editing process, his Romantic side could be seen and his writing style is fresh, alive, here-and-now, real life stuff. From the first page, where he admits his trepidation at writing, to the last Romantic paragraph about Sara, the real love of his life, we see him chat about the joys and sorrows of both the Civilian life and the Military life in a plethora of situations, all of which, for those not having ever been in the Military, are both informative and true to the real events of his life.....some of them rather Romantic, some disturbing, some just dumb! His dilemmas with the numerous Civilian jobs he had are occasionally funny, often cute, but always filled with interest. His chatter about his children invoke the typical Grandfather. But the conversations about Sara are always fresher, clearer and you can almost see her!As you engorge yourself in its pages, let your mind travel with Bud as he journeys about - enjoy the trip with him; see and hear what he saw and heard......I did. And I had a good trip!......Hope yours is just as fun and informative as mine.Get a drink, something to munch on, sit back, and.....ENJOY !! Dr.David Abe

Tells the story of how Michael Francis McTigue left Kilnamona, Co Clare, to seek fame and fortune in the United States, only for circumstances to bring him back to Dublin where he would win one of the strangest world title fights in boxing history.

Stella Walsh was a Polish-American Olympic track and field icon of the 1930s. When Walsh was murdered years after her track career had ended, the autopsy brought her sex-and her legacy-into question. This first biography of Walsh reveals in detail her personal struggles, athletic triumphs, and tragic death.

Experience what it felt like to face Ali in the ring, through accounts of the people that were there.

In Distant Snows, mountaineer John Harding recollects his worldwide adventures spanning sixty years. He climbed many classic peaks, explored obscure ranges, and pioneered ski mountaineering expeditions in Turkey, Spain and Greece. A must-read for mountaineers, lovers of the natural world and those with aspirations of adventure.

This new edition of the universally acclaimed 1997 book is edited and completely redesigned. A classic of motor racing, it celebrates the life and achievements of Jim Clark, World Champion 1963 and 1965. Forewords by Sir Jackie Stewart, David Coulthard, Dario Franchitti and Allan McNish, patrons of the Jim Clark Trust.

Born in Austin, Texas in 1899, Bibb August Falk was a classic stereotype of a tall Texan; a man who brimmed with confidence and played the game of baseball with a swagger. Retiring from major league baseball after a brilliant playing career following the 1931 season, Falk returned to the University of Texas in 1940 as head baseball coach and proceeded to become a Longhorn legend.