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The Best Buffalo Bills Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Written for every sports fan who follows the Bills, this account goes behind the scenes to peek into the private world of the players, coaches, and decision makers—all while eavesdropping on their personal conversations. From the Buffalo locker room to the sidelines and inside the huddle, the book...
Across The Great Divide
A History of Professional Football in Dundee
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Dundee. To football fans, it has been the subject of great curiosity for as long as the game has been played professionally. How does a relatively small and economically challenged city manage to sustain two senior clubs which, perversely, play across the road from one another? And why has this rivalry...
If These Walls Could Talk: New York Yankees
Stories from the New York Yankees Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
The New York Yankees are one of baseball's most iconic franchises and as much a part of New York as the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building. From Joe DiMaggio and Derek Jeter to Babe Ruth and Masahiro Tanaka, from Hall of Famers to rookie busts, the Yankees are baseball's most beloved...
by Jim McTague
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
This Element is an excerpt from Crapshoot Investing: How Tech Savvy Traders and Clueless Regulators Turned the Stock Market into a Casino (9780132599689) by Jim McTague. Available in print and digital formats. How the nerds took over Wall Street–and how their high-frequency, computer-driven trading...
The Most Memorable Games in Patriots History
The Oral History of a Legendary Team
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Tom Brady marching the team upfield in the final minute of the 2001 Super Bowl. Troy Brown playing offense, defense, and special teams. The Tuck Rule. A rogue groundskeeper plowing a path for kicker John Smith at the end of a scoreless, snowy game. Gino Cappelletti setting the AFL record for points...
by Jim Baker
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Think you know Buffalo Bills Football? Think again. It's time to find out how smart you really are about the Bills.
Anybody can tailgate, but can you make it through the whole game, playing in frozen Ralph Wilson Stadium, grinding it out in the chill of the Buffalo winter? Will you earn that...
The Common Thread
Of Overcoming Adversity & Living Your Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Personal stories from entertainers, athletes, and other successful people on how they overcame setbacks—and advice on how you can, too.
What makes the difference between the desire for success and real success? Learn from some of the world’s most successful people—including Mark Cuban,...
Courage in the Skies
The untold story of Qantas, its brave men and women and their extraordinary role in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Between 1942 and 1943, Qantas lost eight aircraft during its involvement in Australia's war against the Japanese. Over sixty passengers and crew died as a result. Yet Qantas' exemplary contribution to Australia's war effort and the courage of its people in those difficult times has been forgotten.
Courage...
The Road To HockeyTown
Jimmy Devellano's Forty Years in the NHL
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
One of the most respected executives in the NHL, Jim Devellano's phenomenal record of 13 championship rings (including three Stanley Cups for both the New York Islanders and the Detroit Red Wings) is also the story of shrewd trades and brave, if not unorthodox, business decisions. His new memoir takes...
From the Dugouts to the Trenches
Baseball during the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
2018 SABR Baseball Research Award Winner
Baseball, like the rest of the country, changed dramatically when the United States entered World War I, and Jim Leeke brings these changes to life in From the Dugouts to the Trenches. He deftly describes how the war obliterated big league clubs and...
The Most Memorable Games in Giants History
The Oral History of a Legendary Team
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
With extensive reporting and engrossing storytelling, Jim Baker and
Bernard Corbett give us the scenes of one of the NFL's most successful
and popular franchises. Interviews with Giants legends who participated
in these historic moments put us behind closed doors in the
commissioner's office during...
by Simon Nicolas Henri Linguet, Jim Chevallier
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
The Bastille is most known for being destroyed - it has endured as a symbol of absolute power that fell to popular anger. But few people, even in France, know anything about the actual prison, notably what it was like inside and the details of how the prisoners were really treated. As it happens,...
Hockey Haven
How Yale and Quinnipiac Made It to the Top of the College Game
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
On April 13, 2013, two teams separated by less than eight miles in southern Connecticut played before a packed house in Pittsburgh and a national TV audience for college hockeys national championship. Quinnipiac and Yale, different in so many ways, had one thing in common other than geography: Both...
FASTER
Demystifying the Science of Triathlon Speed
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Triathlon is among the world's most gear-intensive sports. The gear you select and how you use it can mean big results--or bigger disappointment.
FASTER takes a scientific look at triathlon to see what truly makes you faster--and busts the myths and doublespeak that waste your money and race...