Football category: 4223 books
Kick the Football, Charlie Brown!
With Audio Recording
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Charlie Brown is determined to outsmart Lucy’s tricks and finally kick the football in this 8x8 storybook based on a classic Peanuts theme!
It’s time for football! Charlie Brown is determined to kick the football higher and farther than anyone in the world. But Lucy enjoys pulling the football...
by The National Alliance of Youth Sports
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
Few experiences are more rewarding than coaching a youth football team. Your journey through the season will be packed with moments that make you smile and that you and your players will remember for the rest of your lives. But what if you’ve never coached before?
No worries! Coaching Football...
4th and Goal Every Day
Alabama's Relentless Pursuit of Perfection
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
With a Preface by Alabama Football Coach Nick Saban and a Foreword by ESPN's College Gameday Host Rece Davis.
**In 2017, Alabama won its fifth national title during Coach Nick Saban's tenure. This is Saban's sixth national title win as a coach. He'**s now tied with Bear Bryant for coach with...
Season of Saturdays
A History of College Football in 14 Games
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
From an award-winning sports journalist and college football expert: “A beautifully written mix of memoir and reportage that tracks college ball through fourteen key games, giving depth and meaning to all” (Sports Illustrated), now with a new Afterword about the first ever College Football Playoff.
Every...
We Ate All the Pies
How Football Swallowed Britain Whole
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
In Who Ate All the Pies?, the gonzo sports journalist explores and celebrates the things we love about the whole culture of the game, tries to explain how we got to where we are now and speculates where we the game is headed. Amongst other things, he explores the history of the football shirt in style...
Playing Through the Whistle
Steel, Football, and an American Town
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
From a Sports Illustrated senior writer, “a richly detailed history of Aliquippa football . . . A remarkable story of urban struggle and athletic prowess” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).
In the early twentieth century, down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh, the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company...
Jumping at the Chance
From the Court to the Field, How NBA Hopefuls are Changing Australian Rules Football
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
The true story of how professional Australian Rules Football found an unlikely new source of talent in the United States.
Though most Americans automatically think “rugby” when they hear or read the phrase “Australian football,” the two sports actually have very little in common besides...
by Football Playbooks
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Every year at this time hundreds of thousands of coaches are getting ready to start training camp for their local Pop Warner or youth football team It doesn't matter if you're coaching tackle or flag football since many organizations have a player draft. If you do not know what you're...
The Billionaires Club
The Unstoppable Rise of Football’s Super-rich Owners WINNER FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR, SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Once upon a time football was run by modest local businessmen. Today it is the plaything of billionaire oligarchs, staggeringly wealthy from oil and gas, from royalty, or from murkier sources. But who are these new masters of the universe? Where did all their money come from? And what do they want...
by David Squires
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This is football comic-ery, but not as you know it. Welcome to the inimitable work of illustrator David Squires.
Football and comics. Once a hearty Saturday combination to match cartoons and cereal, in recent years they’ve drifted apart. Thankfully for us, Squires is here to change all that.
In...
by Lee Price
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
German Football is on a roll: winners of the 2014 World Cup, club sides leading the way in Europe, a production line of superb talent coming through the system. Yet, fifteen years ago – at Euro 2000 – it was all so different. Germany suffered one of their most humiliating tournament exits as dismal...
The Everything Kids' Football Book, 6th Edition
All-time Greats, Legendary Teams, and Today's Favorite Players--With Tips on Playing Like a Pro
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Everything you need to know about America’s favorite sport, in a revised edition of The Everything Kids’ Football Book, complete with up-to-date stats and the latest information on your favorite players and teams!
The Everything® Kids’ Football Book, 6th Edition is full of the fun, action,...
The Last Headbangers: NFL Football in the Rowdy, Reckless '70s--The Era that Created Modern Sports
NFL Football in the Rowdy, Reckless '70s: the Era that Created Modern Sports
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
The inside story of the most colorful decade in NFL history—pro football’s raging, hormonal, hairy, druggy, immortal adolescence.
Between the Immaculate Reception in 1972 and The Catch in 1982, pro football grew up. In 1972, Steelers star Franco Harris hitchhiked to practice. NFL teams...
by Adam Goldstein
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Despite a global recession, Englishman Adam Goldstein felt 2008 was the perfect time to invest in his lifelong passion. So he sold his flat and left his job and girlfriend in London for American football.Goldstein's goal was to achieve what no other fan of American football has accomplished: to attend...