Bill Reynolds: 10 books
Cousy
His Life, Career, and the Birth of Big-Time Basket
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Bob Cousy is one of the greatest figures in American sports history. He was a first-team All-NBA player ten years in a row, the MVP of the 1957 season. He led the NBA in assists for eight straight years. He played in six NBA championships with the Boston Celtics. In a sense, he was the first modern...
Glory Days
On Sports, Men, and Dreams-That Don't Die
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 1998
Bill Reynolds built his youth around sports. As a boy in a blue-collar Rhode Island town, he spend his hours shooting hoops and dreaming of stardom. From his adolescence to high school fame to a scholarship at Brown University, Reynolds enjoyed the perks of athletic glory. But those days soon ended...
'78
The Boston Red Sox, A Historic Game, and a Divided City
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Now in paperback: the inside story behind a crucial chapter in Red Sox lore-and a turbulent time in a troubled city.
George Steinbrenner called it the greatest game in the history of American sports. On a bright October day in 1978, the Boston Red Sox met the New York Yankees for an epic playoff...
Hope
A School, a Team, a Dream
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Hope High School in Providence, Rhode Island was once a model city school, graduating a wide range of students from different backgrounds. But the tumult of the 1960s and the drug wars of the 70s changed both Providence and Hope. Today, the aging school is primarily Hispanic and African-American,...
Rise of a Dynasty
The '57 Celtics, the First Banner, and the Dawning of a NewAmerica
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
On a fateful day in 1957, the country saw the Boston Celtics and the St. Louis Hawks face off in one of the most dramatic NBA games in history. But the score at the final buzzer told only part of the story. Celtics rookie Bill Russell, traded by the Hawks because of his race, emerged as a new sports...
Basketball Junkie
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
I was dead for thirty seconds.
That's what the cop in Fall River told me.
When the EMTs found me, there was a needle in my arm and a packet of heroin in the front seat.
At basketball-crazy Durfee High School in Fall River, Massachusetts, junior guard Chris Herren carried his family's...
Life Real Loud
John Lefebvre, Neteller and the Revolution in Online Gambling
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
At age 50, when some people start planning for retirement, John Lefebvre hit the digital motherlode. Neteller, a tiny Canadian internet start-up that processed payments between players and online gambling arenas, rocketed into the stock market. In its early years, Neteller had been a cowboy operation,...
Art of the Western Saddle
A Celebration Of Style And Embellishment
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Winner of the American Horse Publication's Best Equine Book Award of the Year (2004)
Finalist for the 2005 Ben Franklin Award
Spanning time and technique, THE ART OF THE WESTERN SADDLE is a celebration and visual feast of the graceful artistry of the western saddler and his craft. Filled...
Three Strikes and You’re Out!
The Chronicle of America’s Toughest Anti-Crime Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
This is the story of the toughest sentencing law in America as chronicled by those who were intimately involved in the fight to see it enacted, and who believe in it passionately.
It is the story of one family’s heartbreak, of behind-the-scenes...
by Watt M. Casey Jr., Mark Seal, Joe Nick Patoski
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The evening of May 10, 1970, found a young Watt M. Casey Jr. standing awestruck, only a few feet from Jimi Hendrix as the legendary guitarist tore into his unique arrangement of “The Star-Spangled Banner” on the stage of San Antonio’s Hemisphere Arena during the Texas leg of his Cry of Love...