Football category: 4223 books
What It Takes
Fighting For My Life and My Love of the Game
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
*In 2011, he became starting linebacker for the New York Giants and triumphed in the Super Bowl—after being told his cancer diagnosis meant he would never play football again.... *
As a child, Herzlich found an inspiring and grounding force in football, eventually turning his passion into a first-team...
Under Pressure
How Playing Football Almost Cost Me Everything and Why I'd Do It All Again
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
In Under Pressure, Ray Lucas provides fans with a timely, uncensored look at pro football’s play-at-all-costs culture. Overcoming questions about his size and skills as a quarterback, Lucas persevered and went on to play seven seasons in the NFL. His professional football career, however, came to...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Gary Speed Remembered is a fascinating and moving tribute to one of the greats of British football. It is the story of a player who enjoyed two decades at the top of his profession. Few men have earned more solid reputations in football than Gary Speed and the football world mourned his passing when he died in November 2011.
Back from the Brink
The Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Paul McGrath is Ireland's best loved sportsman and also its least understood. An iconic football presence during a professional career stretching over 14 years, he played for his country in the European Championship finals of 1988 and the World Cup finals of 1990 and 1994. But, behind the implied...
Dr. Z
The Lost Memoirs of an Irreverent Football Writer
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
During his nearly 50 years of sportswriting, including 28 at Sports Illustrated, readers of Dr. Z came to expect a certain alchemical, trademark blend: words which were caustic and wry, at times self-deprecating or even puzzling, but always devilishly smart with arresting honesty. A complex package,...
Tales from the Minnesota Vikings Sideline
A Collection of the Greatest Vikings Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
Take a journey from the infant stages of football in Minnesota up through the Vikings four Super Bowl appearances in Bill Williamson and Eric Thompson’s Tales from the Minnesota Vikings Sideline. For more than fifty years the Vikings have been established as one of the premier teams in all of sports....
by Robert Beasley
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
The gripping biography of one of the most successful managers in the game, José Mourinho, giving a rare insight into Mourinho the man as well as Mourinho the manager. José Mourinho is undoubtedly one of the most charismatic and controversial characters in football today. Never far away from the...
by Belmont and Belcourt Biographies
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
It's been said that Eli Manning is one of the most overanalyzed, discussed, dissected and criticized quarterback New York has ever had. But, in order to truly understand Eli Manning, you must first understand where he came from. Eli Manning: An Unauthorized Biography explores Manning's upbringing,...
by Daniel Silva
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Soccer was an essential part of the Brees family society. Drew's grandpa, Ray Akins, was a fabulous high school coach in the Lone Star State. His mother's brother, Marty Akins, was the start quarterback for the University of Texas throughout the Earl Campbell age. Both of those tasks appeared respectable...
Bart Starr
When Leadership Mattered
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2007
Bart Starr was the quarterback of the Green Bay Packers from 1956 to 1971, the most meaningful and successful era of one of football's most storied franchises. Starr was named MVP of the first two Super Bowls and to the Pro Bowl four times. He threw for more than 24,000 yards in his career and holds...
Junior Seau
The Life and Death of a Football Icon
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
“Few people knew Junior Seau like Jim Trotter . . . he took a sports book and artistically crafted it into a lyrical narrative about dreams, love, and, ultimately, heart-wrenching loss.”—Lars Anderson, author of The All Americans
“Leave it to Jim Trotter, who knew Junior Seau better...
When the Game Stands Tall, Special Movie Edition
The Story of the De La Salle Spartans and Football's Longest Winning Streak
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Revised and updated edition of the book to accompany the major motion picture directed by Thomas Carter and starring Jim Caviezel, Alexander Ludwig, Laura Dern, and Clancy Brown.
This insider’s account of the greatest winning streak in sports history brings to life the tragedies, triumphs,...
Tony Waddington
Director of a Working Man's Ballet
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
Tony Waddington: Director of a Working Man's Ballet is a biography of the former Stoke City manager, Tony Waddington, one of the most underrated figures in 60s and 70s football. It charts how a man with the appearance of an urbane bank manager belied the stereotype of the hard-nosed football manager...
by Edward Giles
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Notts County's Tommy Lawton Era came in three parts first as player from November 1947 to March 1952, then as manager from May 1957 to July 1958, and finally as coach and chief scout from October 1968 to December 1969. Lawton was one of the biggest names in football when he sensationally left Chelsea...