Bums narrates the colorful history of this beloved team with recollections from the players, the writers who covered them, and fans.

    Comprehensive introduction to "new statistics" in baseball.

    Far from a dry compendium of names, numbers, and scoring systems, this book also contains a summary history of every event at each of the 26 modern Games, enriched with an extraordinary wealth of Olympic lore and anecdote. The authors provide thought-provoking analysis of issues and controversies from shamateurism to drug-taking and corruption, and they have sieved through more than a century of Olympic history to assemble a mind-boggling collection of stories that range from the inspiring, through the comic, to the bizarre. Such long-forgotten characters are included as the boy who was plucked from the streets of Paris to navigate for two Dutch oarsmen in the paired-oar event in 1900 and, after steering them to victory and a Gold Medal, returned to obscurity, his name unknown to this day; or the 72-year-old winner of a silver medal for target-shooting.

    

    Part memoir, part golf instructional, it is a must-read for all who care about this most fascinating sport.

    Sparky Anderson, the Tigers' colorful manager and 1984 American League Manager of the Year, tells all in this, his day-by-day diary of the making of a championship ball club.

    Illustrations.

    A funny and scientific account of the author's attempt to become a nationally-ranked swimmer.

    Here is the brilliant manager stripped naked—the person underneath all the clowning, mugging, and double-talking. Robert Creamer shows us Casey at twenty-two, famous from his very first day in the big leagues. We see Casey’s playing career fall apart as he is traded, shunted to last-place teams, hampered by injuries, considered finished—until he bats a glorious home run in the 1923 World Series. Here are Casey’s managing successes and failures—dismissed by the Yankees, he returns to the limelight with his new and inept New York Mets, the team he single-handedly lifts into the nation’s consciousness.“I’m a man that’s been up and down,” Casey said in a serious moment. Certainly his knack for bouncing back made him a legend in our national pastime. Here are the stories and gags, the Stengelian style, the full dimensions of the man.

    This best-seller is an outrageous, irreverent collection of cartoons, epic adventures, unusual new outdoor products, and unsolicited advice.

    Kerrane is a professor of English at the University of Delaware.

    Color photographs of great moments and great players of the past twenty years in baseball, accompanied by an essay on the sport and the photographer.

    The thrilling story of how the US hockey team, against great odds, won the gold in the 1980 Olympics.

    

    Now, critics, sports writers and fans across America are cheering The NEW Thinking Man's Guide to Pro Football as the worthy heir to Zimmerman's 1971 classic The Thinking Man's Guide to Pro Football, which Howard Cosell called "the best book of its kind I've ever read." Far more than a revision, The NEW Thinking Man's Guide to Pro Football is virtually a brand-new book (in 1984) prompted by, as Zimmerman writes in his introduction, "a whole new generation of players and coaches (who have) given rise to a new set of reflections about a world that is ever changing." Zimmerman examines positions, tactics, the great players and moments of peak performance, football scouting, broadcasting, minor leagues, the rule changes of the pst decade and how they have inspired new playing stategies (crisply illustrated with diagrams). And with characteristic verve, insight and no-nonsense prose, Zimmerman pays close attention to the effect of football''s pounding nose-to-nose competition on the everyday player's personality.

    Fly fishing's most recognized and respected author returns to print with the hardcover reissue of his classic work.

    In a unique blend of satire and cartoon art, William Nealy (author of best selling Whitewater Home Companion) opens up with both barrels on the sport and people which turns picturesque streams into jungle gyms.

    

    The Dr. Z system will teach you how to beat the racetrack time after time after time, using a proven scientific method originated in the stock market, even if you know nothing about the rules and methods of thoroughbred handicapping.

    

    

    Everything you always wanted to know about the balisong is featured in this book, with concise text and hundreds of detailed photos showing: carrying, drawing and flipping manipulation techniques; self-defense techniques; the knife and the law; knife-fighting philosophy; care and maintenance; and striking areas.

    Each Huddle represents a team in the National Football League and loves to live a life full of sportsmanship, fair play, and good, clean, healthy fun. Through the exciting adventures of the Huddles, young readers will enjoy themselves and learn some important lessons about the game of life.In RUNNERS TO THE RESCUE, the Huddles are very excited about the first annual Huddlestown marathon, and will not let anyone ruin their fun...

    Behind this fascinating blend of biography and history lies an impressive framework of cultural, social, and psychological theories skilfully employed to interpret the creation and symbolism of the modern Olympic Games. Hailed as both a classic in sport history and as a paradigmatic study in the anthropology of the past, This Great Symbol helped launch the new collaboration between historians and cultural anthropologists that continues to mark the human sciences worldwide. For this 25th anniversary edition, Professor MacAloon adds a new preface evaluating subsequent scholarship on Coubertin and the Olympic origins and a highly personal afterword describing the impact of This Great Symbol on his own subsequent career as an Olympic anthropologist and cultural performance theorist.

    

    Since the Huddles always follow the rules given them by the Coach, Charlie Cheater decides to confuse them by substituting a new rule book while the Coach is away.