Sportsbiografier

"Dr. Jack on Winning Basketball" will take fans on a 55-year journey as Jack recounts an endless array of basketball tales, legends and lore. Students of the game as well as coaches will revel in Jack's insights on basketball and what it takes to be a winner.

When he stopped playing professional baseball in 1947, Rick Ferrell retired as the longest playing catcher of all time. This biography includes highlights of Ferrell's career, confidential letters written as the Tiger's General Manager, 15 interviews with Ferrell's associates, and thirty-four photographs.

A biography of Hall of Fame catcher Ray Schalk, once described as the yardstick against which all other catchers were measured. For years the top defender at his position, Schalk was also a fiery leader on the field, and he guided two teams to the World Series.

Charlie Gehringer is regarded by many as the best two-strike hitter of all time. This work follows Gehringer's career from the day a scout spotted him on the sandlots of Michigan in 1923 to his induction into the Hall of Fame in 1949 and into his life after baseball.

The authorized life of Britain's best boxer, former WBA world heavyweight champion and twice shortlisted BBC Sports Personality of the Year.

In 1941, his first full season, Pete Reiser became the youngest batting champion in history, winning the NL title with a.343 average, and led the league in runs, doubles, triples, total bases, and slugging average. By July of 1942, the popular Brooklyn outfielder was flirting with.400 and was easily baseball's fastest rising star.

Armando Marsans joined the Cincinnati Reds in 1911, the first Cuban to play Major League baseball. Part biography, part sociological study, this is an introduction to a physically gifted player that also examines a young, powerful America struggling to find its own identity in a new ethnic makeup.

The author is a one-of-a-kind Irish sportsman, the iconic hurler of his generation. He became synonymous with Cork hurling during a period when the Rebel County reached the highest of highs and was regularly gripped by controversy. All of this would have seemed pretty unlikely when he was born in 1977. This book tells his story.

When Sal Maglie began pitching, batters used to tremble. He was a feared and respected player for his tenacity and off the pitch he was an amiable man. James D. Szalontai's biography reveals a truly great American sportsman.

Branch Rickey was one of the most important and charismatic figures in all of baseball. This volume concentrates on his time with the Pittsburgh Pirates, and includes use of his personal correspondence to document his story.

Winner of the 2010 Hawaii Ironman Champion and many other Ironman competitions across the world, Chris 'Macca' McCormick has earned the title of the "World's Greatest Athlete'. In I'M HERE TO WIN he tells the story of his rise to the top, from the roads of Australia to the front of a Wheaties box.

Babe Ruth is the most recognised figure in baseball and a true American icon. This biography describes the highlights of Ruth's career and examines the reasons for the unprecedented impact Ruth had on the game. It draws insights into Ruth's life and career through interviews conducted with members of Ruth's family and with other baseball players.

Barry Bonds has emerged, statistically, as the most feared hitter since Babe Ruth. Bonds, winner of a record six MVP awards, holds the single-season record for home-runs, slugging percentage, on-base percentage, and walks, and is the only player ever to have hit 500 home-runs and stolen 500 bases.

Lou Gehrig's record for consecutive games played stood for decades until Cal Ripken Jr.

African Americans and Latino Americans have played an increasingly significant role in the ongoing saga of American sports-and not just in popular sports like basketball and baseball.

A general introduction traces the historic struggle of African-American athletes in professional and Olympic sports and appendices provide alphabetical listings of biographical entries and entries by sport.

Donncha O'Callaghan is one of Ireland's leading international rugby players, and a stalwart of the Munster side. In this book, he talks candidly about how he brought discipline to his game, and about his relationships with the coaches who had overlooked him and the second row rivals who had kept him on the bench.

JONNY is the unrelenting, brutally honest account of one of the most revered, successful and complex athletes ever to play rugby for England.

The rise of Jack Wilshere is one of the foremost success stories of Arsenal FC, England and the Premier League. His vision, creativity, imagination and intelligence has led him to become an invaluable member of Arsenal's first team, and his heart, grace and sublime left foot has already drawn comparisons with Arsenal legend, Liam Brady.

This readable biography of Lance Armstrong surveys his legendary cycling career as well as the details of his life outside of cycling. The son of a single mother and born in a run-down housing project, American athlete Lance Armstrong emerged from decidedly modest beginnings.

Women have made significant strides in the US sports world over the past 30 years, one of which has been moving into the ranks of coaching on both the collegiate and professional levels. This work lists 42 women coaches in the sports world, many of whom had to overcome major obstacles to succeed.

They said it couldn't be done. Sceptics warned that as a car approached 750 mph the shock waves generated when it hit the sound barrier would either force it off the ground like an aeroplane or tear it apart. Richard Noble, the modern embodiment of the swashbuckling British speed seeker of yesteryear, was used to that kind of blinkered thinking.

The sixth volume of the Biographical Dictionary of American Sports, this supplement provides biographies for 616 athletes, coaches, managers, officials, administrators, writers, and broadcasters who have played an active role in American sports or helped to promote them.

Aerobatic pilots pull through impossibly elegant figures, twisting their planes at hundreds of miles per hour.

In 2008, Mark Beaumont smashed the world record for cycling around the world, by an astonishing 81 days.

the removal of one English talisman - Beckham - and the irresistible instalment of another - Rooney. Throughout, award-winning journalist Patrick Barclay has been pitch-side and spoken to all those who know Ferguson best - fellow managers, former players, colleagues and commentators.

Anthony Daly was the most successful captain in the history of Clare hurling, leading the county to two All-Irelands and three Munster titles. This book is interlaced with drama, tragedy, his love of other pursuits, and his immense wit. It offers an insight into a unique personality in Irish sport.