Best of
Sports

1981

The Breaks of the Game


David Halberstam - 1981
    "Among the best books ever written on professional basketball." The Philadelphia InquirerDavid Halberstam, best-selling author of THE FIFTIES and THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST, turns his keen reporter's eye on the sport of basketball -- the players and the coaches, the long road trips, what happens on court, in front of television cameras, and off-court, where no eyes have followed -- until now.

The Game of Our Lives


Peter Gzowski - 1981
    These were the days when the young Oilers, led by a teenaged Wayne Gretzky, were poised on the edge of greatness, and about to blaze their way into the record books and the consciousness of a nation. While the story of the early Oilers embodies the book, The Game of Our Lives is much more than a retelling of one season in the life of an NHL team.Unlike any book ever written in the annals of hockey, Gzowski beautifully weaves together the anatomy of a modern NHL team with the magnificent history of the game to create one of the best books about hockey in Canada. Here are the great teams and the great players through the ages—Morenz, Richard, Howe, Orr, Hull—the men whose rare and indefinable genius on the ice exemplified the speed, grit and innovation of the game.The Game of Our Lives is the best book on the Canadian passion for hockey; a wondrously perceptive account of the hold the game has on Canadians. —Jack Granatstein, The National Post

Basketball: Multiple Offense and Defense, Revised Printing


Dean Smith - 1981
    This book is a brilliant distillation of the game. The reader will learn the thoughts, insights, techniques, and strategies that guided the University of North Carolina to victory after victory over a span of thirty years. This book is timeless, tested, and proven to be the playbook of a winning coach.

Best Karate, Vol.8: Gankaku, Jion


Masaroshi Nakayana - 1981
    The three kata in this volume are on the Japan Karate Association recommended list and are notable for the sticklike use of the arms-Jitte, the circular movements of hands and feet coordinated with breathing-Hangetsu, and easy, agile movements, combined into continuous techniques-Empi.

The Fighting Fisherman: The Life of Yvon Durelle


Raymond Fraser - 1981
    Anne to within a heartbeat of being light-heavyweight boxing champion of the world.Durelle emerges in this book as a man of contradictions. His lifelong nickname was "Doux"--gentle--but he mastered a spectacularly brutal profession. Accounts of his fighting career reveal a man of incredible toughness and audacity: in 1952 he fought Olympic gold medalist Floyd Patterson with a broken hand. His life outside the ring was equally audacious: in 1977 he was charged with shooting and killing a man outside a Miramichi drinking club. This biography follows Durelle's painful progress through both worlds."The Fighting Fisherman" is a remarkably frank portrait of a complex man and a punishing sport. This edition replaces the Goodread edition of this title, ISBN 0-8878-0114-5.

Vince Lombardi on Football


Vince Lombardi - 1981
    

Five O'Clock Comes Early: A Young Man's Battle with Alcoholism


Bob Welch - 1981
    "Bob Welch has written about his war against alcoholism as courageously as he waged it".--The New York Times Book Review.

Champion's Story


Bob Champion - 1981
    

The Soccer Tribe


Desmond Morris - 1981
    A coffeetable book around the sport of soccer and the world cup.

Sybervision: Muscle Memory Programming for Every Sport


Steven Devore - 1981
    

Total Golf Techniques


Jack Nicklaus - 1981
    Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. Whether You Are A Budding Open Winner Or Simply Want To Improve Your Game Then This Book Will Help In Many Ways From The World's Greatest Golfer.