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Maybe Next Year
Long-Suffering Sports Fans and the Teams That Never Deliver
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2016
Sports fans are a devoted bunch, win or lose. Millions sit in the wind and the cold, watching their team slip ever further from the playoffs—only to come back for more next year. What is it that keeps them going? This book, published just before the Cubs ended the longest active drought in pro sports,...
Hits and Misses in the Baseball Draft
What the Top Picks Teach Us About Selecting Tomorrow's Major League Stars
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
If unpredictability is so much of what makes sports compelling, the baseball draft might be the best place to look. This book explores the intricate uncertainties of the draft and the people who face it. Since the modern draft began in 1965, major league teams have attempted, with varying degrees...
by E. Bruce Geelhoed
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Under the leadership of head coach Bump Elliott, the 1964 Wolverines won Michigan’s first Big Ten championship since 1950 and their first Rose Bowl since 1951, and finished fourth in the national college football polls. They defeated four top-ten ranked teams: Navy, Michigan State, Ohio State, and...
A Scout's Report
My 70 Years in Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Many in baseball consider the scout to be the most important figure in any organization: It is the scout’s work in the high school and college bleachers that unearths future legends. Few have achieved more—and in such grand style—than George Genovese. In a game that values numbers, Genovese’s...
Joe Namath, Game by Game
The Complete Professional Football Career
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
This is a comprehensive reference work covering Joe Namath’s entire professional football career, following it season by season and game by game. After a lengthy opening chapter discussing Namath’s college career and his enormous impact on professional football after turning pro in 1965, the book...
Old Comiskey Park
Essays and Memories of the Historic Home of the Chicago White Sox, 1910-1991
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
These new essays and memories cover the history and evolution of the former home of the Chicago White Sox, as well as its importance to its surrounding neighborhoods, and to the city of Chicago. The essays cover Charles Comiskey and the location of the ballpark; the neighborhoods that surround the...
Connie Mack's First Dynasty
The Philadelphia Athletics, 1910-1914
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
More than a century ago, the Philadelphia Athletics enjoyed a glorious five-season run under legendary manager Connie Mack, winning three World Series and four pennants from 1910 through 1914. A’s stars such as Hall of Famers Eddie Plank, Eddie Collins, Albert “Chief” Bender and Frank “Home...
Ingemar Johansson
Swedish Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Ingemar Johansson’s right hand—dubbed “The Hammer of Thor”—was the most fearsome in boxing, and Johansson’s three fights with Floyd Patterson rank among the sport’s classic rivalries. Yet most fans know little about the Swedish playboy who won the world heavyweight championship with...
The Cubs and the A's of 1910
One Dynasty Ends, Another Begins
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
The Cubs were at the end of the best five-season run of any team in history. The team featured Three Finger Brown, the famed double play combination of Tinker to Evers to Chance, and the other players who together won 530 games in the 1906–1910 seasons. They won four National League pennants...
The Detroit Wolverines
The Rise and Wreck of a National League Champion, 1881-1888
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
The Detroit Tigers were founding members of the American League and have been the Motor City’s team for more than a century. But the Wolverines were the city’s first major league club, playing in the National League beginning in 1881 and capturing the pennant in 1887. Playing in what was then...
The Cadillac Northstar V-8
A History
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Cadillac has had a long history in the automotive marketplace as General Motors’ luxury car division. During the 1980s, Cadillac's management wanted to reestablish the brand as a leader in sophistication, innovation, refinement and prestige. Engineers conceived a new dual-overhead cam, four-valve-per-cylinder...
Bud Moore's Right Hand Man
A NASCAR Team Manager's Career at Full Throttle
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Greg Moore is one of three sons of NASCAR Hall of Famer Bud Moore. Bud is a highly decorated World War II veteran who landed on Utah Beach on D-Day. Greg grew up in an auto racer’s world in which his father’s cars and drivers won dozens of races and back to back championships. Those drivers were...
Of Tribes and Tribulations
The Early Decades of the Cleveland Indians
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2015
Over their first four decades in the American League, the Cleveland Indians were known more for great players than consistently great play. Its rosters filled with all-time greats like Cy Young, Nap Lajoie, Elmer Flick, Tris Speaker, and the ill-fated Addie Joss and Ray Chapman, Cleveland often found...
The Shutout in Major League Baseball
A History
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
The shutout—a game in which a team prevents its opponent from scoring—remains relatively rare. Of the roughly 200,000 regular season games that have been played since the origins of the major leagues, only about 10 percent have been shutouts. Gold Glove defense, astonishing pitching talent, and...