Best Sports Stories

Author : Bruce M. Nash
Publisher : Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
ISBN 13 : 9780671759384
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greatest Sports Stories Never Told written by Bruce M. Nash and published by Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 34 sports stories that may be beyond belief but have been forgotten.

Author : Howard Liss
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780394856339
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Giant Book of More Strange But True Sports Stories written by Howard Liss and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1983 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 150 unusual occurrences in a dozen different sports.

Author : Paul D. Staudohar
Publisher : Lawrence Hill Books
ISBN 13 : 9781556524844
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sports Best Short Stories written by Paul D. Staudohar and published by Lawrence Hill Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of short stories about sports from such authors as E. Annie Proulx, P.G. Wodehouse, Ellery Queen, Jeffrey Archer, and Joyce Carol Oates.

Author : Dale Hofmann
Publisher : Kci Sports
ISBN 13 : 9780984388288
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 365 written by Dale Hofmann and published by Kci Sports. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something exceptional happens every day on Wisconsin's incredibly rich sports scene whether everyone knows about it or not. It could be a playoff game at Lambeau Field or a storied high school rivalry or an Olympic event involving a local athlete halfway around the world. There are thousands of fascinating tales, and Cliff Christl and Dale Hofmann have chosen the most intriguing of them for their book 365: The Best Wisconsin Sports Stories Day by Day. Christl and Hofmann bring more than 70 years of combined Wisconsin daily newspaper experience to the job of finding the No. 1 story fore each calendar day. Whether it's as recent as Brett Favre's return to Green Bay as a Minnesota Viking or as historical as Borchert Field opening in Milwaukee in 1889, it's all Wisconsin, and it's all there in 365.

Author : Gary Smith
Publisher : Sports Illustrated
ISBN 13 : 9781603200240
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sports Illustrated: Going Deep written by Gary Smith and published by Sports Illustrated. This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents twenty of the author's articles previously published in Sports Illustrated magazine, including reflections on the careers of Mia Hamm, Muhammad Ali, and Tiger Woods.

Author : Wright Thompson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525505660
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cost of These Dreams written by Wright Thompson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant New York Times bestseller! From one of America's most beloved sportswriters and the bestselling author of Pappyland, a collection of true stories about the dream of greatness and its cost in the world of sports. "Wright Thompson's stories are so full of rich characters, bad actors, heroes, drama, suffering, courage, conflict, and vivid detail that I sometimes thinks he's working my side of the street - the world of fiction." - John Grisham There is only one Wright Thompson. He is, as they say, famous if you know who he is: his work includes the most read articles in the history of ESPN (and it's not even close) and has been anthologized in the Best American Sports Writing series ten times, and he counts John Grisham and Richard Ford among his ardent admirers (see back of book). But to say his pieces are about sports, while true as far as it goes, is like saying Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove is a book about a cattle drive. Wright Thompson figures people out. He jimmies the lock to the furnaces inside the people he profiles and does an analysis of the fuel that fires their ambition. Whether it be Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods or Pat Riley or Urban Meyer, he strips the away the self-serving myths and fantasies to reveal his characters in full. There are fascinating common denominators: it may not be the case that every single great performer or coach had a complex relationship with his father, but it can sure seem that way. And there is much marvelous local knowledge: about specific sports, and times and places, and people. Ludicrously entertaining and often powerfully moving, The Cost of These Dreams is an ode to the reporter's art, and a celebration of true greatness and the high price that it exacts.

Author : Kevin Allen
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN 13 : 161749206X
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Then Wayne Said to Mario. . . written by Kevin Allen and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is your chance to go inside the huddle, head into the locker room, or grab a seat on the sideline. This is your exclusive pass to get on the team plane or have breakfast at the team hotel. Go behind the scenes and peek into the private world of the players, coaches, and decision makers and eavesdrop on their conversations.

Author : Irving T. Marsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best Sports Stories written by Irving T. Marsh and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul D. Staudohar
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 9781556525049
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Sports Best Short Stories written by Paul D. Staudohar and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these 25 stories about sporting contests from basketball and baseball to fishing and chess, celebrated writers from several nations spin tales of love, mystery, chicanery, luck, and perseverance. A Conan Doyle's ace detective Sherlock Holmes solves a rugby mystery; Nobel prize winner Rudyard Kipling writes on polo; P G Wodehouse brings humour to golf; and Agatha Christie spins a tale about chess. The classical Russian poet and author Alexander Pushkin builds a story around another card game, faro, and from Guy de Maupassant comes a fascinating fishing yarn. American Pulitzer Prize winners Richard Ford and Paul Horgan write about hunting, while Ring Lardner and W P Kinsella prefer baseball, and for Ethan Canin, basketball is the inspiration. Ping-pong, bullfighting, and Mark Twain's hilarious frog-jumping contest also appear in these pages, which will amuse, energise, and astonish both dedicated sports enthusiasts and lovers of short fiction.

Author : Phyllis Hollander
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780590437363
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amazing But True Sports Stories written by Phyllis Hollander and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 1986 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes unusual events from the history of sports such as baseball, football, boxing, basketball, and hockey.