Best of
Sports

1992

Harvey Penick's Little Red Book: Lessons and Teachings From a Lifetime of Golf


Harvey Penick - 1992
    The legendary Harvey Penick, who began his golfing career as a caddie in Austria, Texas, at the age of eight, worked with an amazing array of champions over the course of nearly a century, dispensing invaluable wisdom to golfers of every level. Penick simplifies the technical jargon of other instructional books and communicates the very essence of the game, and his "Little Red Book" is full of inspiration and homespun wisdom that reflects at once his great love of golf as well as his great talent for teaching.

The Jordan Rules: The Inside Story of One Turbulent Season with Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls


Sam Smith - 1992
    This is the book that changed the way the world viewed Michael Jordan, while delivering nonstop excitement, tension, and thrills. The Jordan Rules chronicles the season that changed everything for Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls. After losing in the playoffs to the “Bad Boys” Detroit Pistons for three consecutive years, the Bulls finally broke through and swept the Pistons in the 1991 Eastern Conference Finals, on the way to their first NBA championship. Celebrated sportswriter Sam Smith was there for the entire ride. He reveals a candid and provocative picture of Michael Jordan during the season in which his legacy began to be defined, and seeks to figure out what drove him. The Jordan Rules covers everything from his stormy relationships with his coaches and teammates and power struggles with management—including verbal attacks on general manager Jerry Krause and tantrums against coach Phil Jackson—to Jordan’s obsessions with becoming the leading scorer, and his refusal to pass the ball in the crucial minutes of big games. Jordan’s teammates also tell their side of the story, from Scottie Pippen, to Horace Grant, to Bill Cartwright. And Phil Jackson—the former flower child who blossomed into one of the NBA’s top motivators and finally found a way to coax Jordan and the Bulls to their first title—is studied up close. “Smith takes us into the locker room, aboard the team plane and team bus, and seats us on the bench during games. Sometimes, books reflecting on a team’s success don’t reach the personal level with the people who made it happen: The Jordan Rules does” (Associated Press). Discover the team behind the man, and the man behind the living legend, in this intense, fascinating inside story of the incomparable Michael Jordan.

The Anatomy of a Golf Course: The Art of Golf Architecture


Tom Doak - 1992
    A core book for any golfer--how to read a golf course, through the eyes of a course architect.

Speed Trap


Charlie Francis - 1992
    

To the Linksland: A Golfing Adventure


Michael Bamberger - 1992
    In a sober, elegant voice, sportswriter Bamberger offers a passionate tribute to the allure of golf--its humor and history, its individualism and obsessiveness--as he tells of his introspective, inspiring pilgrimage to the Mecca of the game: "the linksland", the legendary round of Scottish courses.

Tall Tales: The Glory Years of the NBA


Terry Pluto - 1992
    Tall Tales is essential reading for any fan who understands that the history of the league does not begin and end with Michael Jordan.

Michael Jordan


Richard J. Brenner - 1992
    Flying above the rim like Superman, "Air" Jordan has slam-dunked his way to superstardom. He's won two Olympic gold medals and a room full of trophies. But the biggest thrill of all for Michael has come from leading his team, the Chicago Bulls, to six NBA Championships.

Thinking Body, Dancing Mind: Taosports for Extraordinary Performance in Athletics, Business, and Life


Chungliang Al Huang - 1992
    Using stories of success from athletes and businesspeople, the authors present techniques and exercises to promote relaxation and enhance performance.

The Charlie Francis Training System


Charlie Francis - 1992
    

Lost Ballparks: A Celebration of Baseball's Legendary Fields


Lawrence S. Ritter - 1992
    Now the author of The Glory of Their Times has brought 22 of these grand old open-air, wood-and-concrete stadiums back to life in a beautiful, big-hearted book filled with over 250 vintage photos of parks, players, games, and fans.

The Official Exceptions to the Rules of Golf


Henry N. Beard - 1992
    Finally, a rule book that explains why you're allowed all those do-overs, don't counts, and minor lie improvements you've always felt entitled to. Each rule is illustrated with a helpful line drawing.

The Official National Hockey League Stanley Cup Centennial Book


Dan Diamond - 1992
    The NHL has prepared this large-format commemorative book to mark the trophy's 100th anniversary. It describes and depicts the great goals, great stars and great moments that have occurred over a century of Stanley Cup play. 140 photos.

100 Hikes In Washington's South Cascades And Olympics: Chinook Pass, White Pass, Goat Rocks, Mount St. Helens, Mount Adams


Ira Spring - 1992
    Fully detailed, best-selling hiking guides.These "best of the best" guides feature full-color photos and maps throughout.

Alex Ferguson: 6 Years at United


Alex Ferguson - 1992
    Others had flickered and then faded in the shadow cast by the legendary Busby but Ferguson couldn’t resist the call. ‘Football is a strange obsession. Winning is a drug and when I got the invitation to manage Manchester United I simply could not resist,’ he says. For nearly six years he has chased the end of the rainbow and spent millions of pounds to bring the coveted championship to Old Trafford for the first time in 25 years. Now he feels it is time to tell the inside story of the best-supported club in Britain and his struggle to fulfil the title dream of thousands of supporters.He found the famous club in disarray and he admits he came close to the sack himself. ‘No manager is prepared for the job at Old Trafford. The legend is huge. It’s different from any other club with its traditions and expectations. It took me three or four years to understand the particular politics and demands. Only through success can a manager get control of his destiny.’Ferguson fought his battles and won the trophies which slowly but surely see him now established as a manager who has laid the old ghosts to rest and created a new vision. Winning the FA cup in 1990 bought him valuable time, and success in the European Cup-Winners’ Cup, beating Barcelona in a memorable final in Rotterdam, gave him the right platform for the most convincing championship challenge since the days of Busby.After seven years at Aberdeen, Ferguson wrote A Light in the North, an account of how he broke the Glasgow stranglehold on Scottish football. Now comes the sequel of how he conquered English football at the helm of their greatest club.

Total Rugby: Fifteen Man Rugby for Coach and Player


Jim Greenwood - 1992
    Total Rugby has become one of the game's most seminal coaching manuals - it highlights Jim Greenwood's radical examination of every facet of the game and his ability to clearly convey the wealth of knowledge he has accumulated over many years. This fifth edition has been thoroughly updated and expanded.

Catamaran Racing--For the 90's


Rick White - 1992
    It covers catamaran and trimaran tuning, boat handling, sail handling (including spinnakers/reachers/hooters), tactics, and much more. Written by the Hall-of-Famer and guru of multihulls, Rick White who tells it all, and then goes the extra mile to include chapters by such greats as Randy Smyth, Carlton Tucker, Hobie Alter, JR, Larry Harteck, Bob Curry, Dave Calvert, Roy Seaman, and Wayne Schafer. Eric Sharp, National Journalist wrote, "It doesn't matter what kind of multihull you sail, or what size -- this book will make you better at it..."

America's Dream Team: The Quest for Olympic Gold


Chuck Daly - 1992
    Then came the Olympics of 1972 and defeat by the Russians in the last heartbreaking and highly disputed seconds. Boycotts and another defeat in 1988 followed. Now, with the historic decision to allow our greatest NBA stars to compete for the first time, the Dream Team is set to go for the gold in Barcelona. 275 full-color photos and illustrations.

The Best American Sports Writing 1992


Thomas McGuane - 1992
    25 pieces include David Halberstam on Michael Jordan; a tribute to Roger Maris, the Yankee hated for breaking baseball's greatest record; and Dave Barry on the NBA.

The Lords of the Rings


Andrew Jennings - 1992
    . . this must-read investigation of the secret world of the International Olympic Committee reveals how it became a refuge for crooks, spooks and fascists fleeing from discredited regimes.Translated into 13 languages The Lords of the Rings became a global media sensation. Sports Illustrated ranks it as one of the Top One Hundred Sports Books of all Time. The IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch was outraged that his secret 37-year-history of jackbooting, right-arm saluting fascist activities in Franco’s Spain had been uncovered. He had the authors’ phones hacked and then persuaded a Swiss court to impose suspended jail sentences on them. That ‘F-word’ is forbidden in Olympic circles. Officials, sponsors and sports reporters shrink from admitting the contradictions of an organisation that claims to represent the aspirations of young people - but continues to honour its former leader whose life was dedicated to delivering sport for a repugnant dictatorship and then privatised to serve the needs of the global brands. The result of years of investigations by award-winning corruption specialists, ‘Lords’ reveals how positive drugs tests were concealed so that the Olympic Games could be sold as ‘clean’ to sponsors, rebranded as ‘partners,’ while heavily doped male and female athletes were changing sex! The book reveals the beginnings of what became the gigantic ISL marketing contracts scandal and the $100 million worth of bribes and kickbacks paid to sports officials. Honest IOC members were persuaded to disclose how one close ally of Samaranch was ‘elected’ to the IOC by 13 votes to 10 – with 60 abstentions! This classic of iconoclastic journalism, first published in 1992, foreshadowed the Salt Lake City cash-and-sex for votes scandal that convulsed the Olympic world.An essential read for sports fans and has been longtime listed as mandatory reading for sports and journalism students.

Training for Cycling


Davis Phinney - 1992
    It teaches cyclists everything they need to know to improve handling skills, raise confidence, and increase competitiveness. 50 photographs.

Baseball: The Writer's Game


Mike Shannon - 1992
    Brassey's is proud to present this new edition, expanding upon Shannon's original interviews with baseball's top authors and historians, including Bill James, Roger Kahn, W. P. Kinsella, Robert Creamer, Peter Golenbock, and Lawrence Ritter. Shannon delves into their different backgrounds, writing techniques, personal insights, and the aspects of the game and its history that interest them. Whether with an analyst like Bill James or an ex-player like Jim Brosnan, Shannon lets each explain in his own words the challenge and the joy that come from writing about the game. Baseball fans, whether they want to write about the game themselves or not, will enjoy the unique observations and advice of baseball's greatest writers.

Saint Bobby and the Barbarians


Ben Brown - 1992
    16 pages of black-and-white photos.

The Hockey Handbook: The Classic Teaching Guide


Lloyd Percival - 1992
    It is still regarded as the classic reference book for hockey players, coaches and spectators. Lloyd Percival wrote this book in 1950, after studying sports coaching under Knute Rockne, and in Prague and London. It was initially scoffed at (one NHL coach called it "the product of a three-year old mind"), but Percival was unusually prophetic. European and Soviet teams adopted this book as a textbook for their hockey development, and it contributed to Russian and Czech teams dominating world hockey championships for a generation. The principles described in the original book are still valid, and Percival was so well versed in sports training that many sections needed only little alteration. Still, in this updated edition, Wayne Major and Robert Thom, along with other experts in hockey coaching, provide the most current information on techniques of play, conditioning, nutrition and power skating. This book is now a must for coaches for all age groups, players who want to improve, parents of young players and every fan who wants to learn more about the game of hockey.

Baseball Babylon


Dan Gutman - 1992
    From Frank Robinson pulling a gun to Joe DiMaggio breaking down the wrong door, here are the untold stories of major league murderers, lunatics, drug addicts, and spies in a graphic, revealing book. Photographs.

Backfield Package


Thomas J. Dygard - 1992
    When he and his three football friends first agree to attend the same college next year and keep the backfield intact, it seems like a terrific idea to Joe. So what if the only school offering all four of them football scholarships is small and little-known Ryder State College? At least he'll get to play winning ball with his friends for four more years!But as the football season progresses, a college scout from bigleague Randolph University appears in the stands to watch Joe play. Then a sportswriter credits him with almost single-handedly carrying Hillcrest High to its victories, and letters from top football schools start coming in. Now Joe begins to wonder if his decision to go to Ryder State just to stick with his friends was too hasty, and whether, just maybe, his first loyalty should have been to his potential. But what can he do about it now -- a promise is a promise, right?Exciting you-are-there football action and compelling conflicts on and off the field make Backfield Package an undisputed winner.

Mortal Engines: The Science of Performance and the Dehumanization of Sport


John M. Hoberman - 1992
    Hoberman also reflects on the future of sport as we enter a new era of unprecedented developments in genetic engineering and hormonal manipulation, with important implications for the science of human performance. Great sport begins where good health ends. Bertolt Brecht. "John Hoberman has written another magisterial study of sport... [a] brilliantly crafted narrative." ..". I heartily recommend Hoberman's book to serious students and enthusiasts of sport alike. It is a highly readable book that treats some of the most salient and delicate problems that have plagued high-performance sport since its inception. It is, to put it quite simply, one of the most intelligent and perceptive analyses of elite sport that I have had the pleasure of reading." -- William J. Morgan, Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 19 (1992): 101, 106 "Two previous books by John Hoberman, Sport and Political Ideology (1984) and The Olympic Crisis (1986), demonstrated his mastery of the European -- and, to a lesser degree, the American -- literature relevant to the history of modern sports. This mastery has enabled him to probe deeply and insightfully into the instrumentalization of the human body in the service of sports performance." "Hoberman's splendidly researched and unusually thoughtful book should be an important contribution to the public debate of this issue. Will it be read by those who have the power to influence events?" -- Allen Guttmann, International Journal of the History of Sport 11 (1994): 516, 517 "Mortal Engines is a horror story. For almost 300 pages John Hoberman presents the reader with evidence that our view of sports and athletes and the attitude athletes have about themselves have become hopelessly and dangerously warped. The lure of money and the determination to establish national prestige have led trainers, scientists and doctors to endanger athletes. Sometimes the athletes have known what was going on, and sometimes they have simply swallowed what they were told was good for them and then kept their mouths shut.... "But the remarkable achievement of Mortal Engines is the extent to which it demonstrates that doped competitors are not so much freaks, cheats or unfortunate victims as they are the logical consequence of a dangerous and destructive set of assumptions which most of us make about our athletes." -- Bill Littlefield on Morning Edition, National Public Radio (NPR), July 27, 1992 "John Hoberman has written a continually fascinating, ingenious and well-narrated book about sport, athletes and the use of science in modern sport from its origins at the end of the nineteenth century. It is a book that should be read by anyone who is interested in sports and physiology or, as one might put it, physiopolitics." -- Mats Gellerfelt, Svenska Dagbladet [Stockholm], February 12, 1994

Object-Oriented Analysis and Design


James Martin - 1992
    It goes back to first principles and building an object-oriented foundation, and teaches both the underlying philosophy of object orientation and its practical usage.

Grand Prix Showdown!: The Full Drama of Every Championship-Deciding Grand Prix Since 1950


Christopher Hilton - 1992
    All the great drivers are here – from Farina, Fangio, Hawthorn, Clark and Stewart right through to today’s young aces – and all the great moments, in a fully updated second edition that includes season-by-season statistics.

Fritz Pollard: Pioneer in Racial Advancement


John Martin Carroll - 1992
    This is the inspiring story of an African American whose athletic and entrepreneurial achievements -- from being the first black quarterback and head coach in the National Football League to founding one of the first all-black investment securities companies -- were equaled by his courage in confronting racial barriers.

Elevating the Game: Black Men and Basketball


Nelson George - 1992
    He and many others who have played the game over the last 50 years form the foundation of Nelson George's Elevating the Game. . . . George] has brought his own love of basketball to this folksy yet scholarly study. . . . He] examines the sport's origin . . . and charts its evolution from a kind of indoor football to an American passion. Basketball has been called life in short pants, and Mr. George recounts how, for the first black players in a game once reserved for whites, the phrase was no idle bromide. The author tells how black players from colleges around the nation advanced the game, sometimes in cities where people were opposed to the integration of basketball. Understanding the way in which black cultural expressions often knit together, Mr. George even likens basketball to jazz and to the nervous, insistent rhythms of rap. It all makes for a rich and welcome addition to sports literature."-New York Times Book Review. Nelson George is a former columnist for Billboard and the Village Voice. His most recent book, Hip Hop America, was a finalist in the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Awards.

Behind the Mask: The Ian Young Goaltending Method


Ian Young - 1992
    Combining the first two volumes in the Ian Young Goaltending series, here is everything a coach or goalie needs to develop, practice, and improve goaltending skills.

The Ultimate Adventure Sourcebook: The Complete Resource for Adventure, Sports, and Travel


Paul Mcmenamin - 1992
    With 400 breathtaking full-color photographs by the world's best adventure photographers, this is a comprehensive action sports and exotic travel guidebook to 300 world-class adventures.

Autocourse: The World's Leading Grand Prix Annual 1992-93 (Autocourse)


Alan Henry - 1992
    

This is Next Year


Philip Goldberg - 1992
    As the Brooklyn Dodgersmarch into another World Series with their nemesis, the Yankees, one boy, believing the fate of his parent's marriage hinges on victory, tries to end the Bums' curse by himself. This exuberant tale of love and redemption "captures the joys and terrors of childhood in the period with wit, charm and intelligence," said Publisher's Weekly.

Fenway Park: Legendary Home of the Boston Red Sox


John Boswell - 1992
    Baseball fans rejoice! Now you can 'own' the most revered stadium in baseball history, right down to its hand-operated scoreboard.Fenway Park combines in one extraordinary package both a full-color model of Fenway that rises before your eyes when the book is opened and a detailed, illustrated history of America's most beloved baseball venue.

Playing The Great Game Of Golf: Making Every Minute Count


Kenneth H. Blanchard - 1992
    It was founded by Ken Blanchard, co-author of the multimillion-copy One-Minute Manager. Blanchard explains how to take the same methods that are highly effective in business and adapt them to the self-management and mental aspects of one's golf game.

Fenway: An Unexpurgated History of the Boston Red Sox


Peter Golenbock - 1992
    A tale of triumph and heartbreak, heroes, goats, injuries, miracles, and devoted fans, Fenway is told from the point of view of the players, the fans, and the sportwriters of the day. Photographs.

The Philadelphia Phillies: An Illustrated History


Donald Honig - 1992
    From the "greatest outfield of all time" in the 1890s to "the Whiz Kids" of the 1950s, up to the thrilling 1980 play-offs and World Series, this book covers it all. Photographs throughout.

Satchel Paige: The Best Arm in Baseball


Patricia C. McKissack - 1992
    After more than twenty years pitching fast balls, Leroy Satchel Paige crossed the color line in baseball. As the first black pitcher in the American League, 42-year-old Paige was past the prime of most ballplayers, but the crowds still packed the stands to witness his famed shutouts and no-hitters. In an inspiring account, the McKissacks describe the hardships and hard work that created this pitching genius.

Nolan Ryan The Ryan Express


Ken Rappoport - 1992
    A biography of Nolan Ryan, the pitcher for the Texas Rangers who is the all-time leader in no-hitters and strikeouts.

The Cincinnati Reds: An Illustrated History


Donald Honig - 1992
    Formed by a couple of cricket-playing brothers, the Reds have spanned the history of "America's sport", have included many of the game's most memorable players, and have been part of many of its celebrated moments. 499 photos.