Fighting back from potentially deadly cancer, Lance Armstrong didn't just try to get better--he worked to become the best. In just a few short years, he beat the cancer and went on to become the four-time champion of the Tour de France. 8-page full-color photo insert.
Complemented by more than five hundred photographs, illustrations, and diagrams, this easy-to-follow how-to handbook introduces the fundamentals of rock and water gardening and includes a variety of projects, complete with step-by-step instructions and illustrations, shopping lists, plant directorie
Profiles of seven notable football players of the NFL: Alan Page, George Blanda, Larry Little, Jim Plunkett, Jan Stenerud, Bruce Taylor, Willie Lanier.
While this no-holds-barred biography of Bill Parcells examines and assesses the career of this consummate coach, it also explores the force that defines the public personality and drives the private man. Gutman gives the whole story of the record-breaking coach who has remade three major pro football teams in the image of his legendary self. Index ...
In this biography, the author praises Sammy Sosa for his athletic achievements in the United States and presents fans with a glimpse of the baseball player's impoverished childhood in the Dominican Republic.
Which player was the center for two teams in the same game? Which Hall of Fame player missed a record ten free throws in one game? Basketball fans will have the answers at their fingertips with this book of strange-but-true basketball stories.
Seventy million people watch extreme sports on ESPNUs X-Games. This volume includes interviews with top athletes in the world of extreme sports including Jeff Grell, Jimmy Scott, and Circe Wallace (snowboarding); Dave Duncan and Runbe Glifburg (skateboarding); Rick Thorne and T.J. Lavin (BMX).
Profiles the two female African American tennis players, describing the early successes that led them to the Grand Slam, their relationship with each other and their father, and the controversial obstacles they continue to face.
He makes the impossible possible, defying gravity with his leaping, driving moves to the hoop. Michael Jordan has been the NBA's scoring leader every year since the 1986-87 season. From his start in Brooklyn, to an all-American college career at North Carolina, to the Chicago Bulls, here is the biography of one of the most extraordinary sports ...
Illustrated with photos, sidebars, and analytical charts, the story of football is told by the man who defined the game. Full-color photos and illustrations.
Shaquille O'Neal, the 7'1" NBA rookie center for the Orlando Magic, is already being touted as the next Michael Jordan. This fascinating portrait of "Shaq" is sure to answer everyone's questions about this rising basketball star.
Sure to generate controversy, fifteen fascinating alternative histories from the diamond, gridiron, court, rink, course, and prize ring. What if Babe Ruth had not been sold to the Yankees in 1920 and instead played his entire career in Boston? What if Joe Namath had decided to sign with the St. Louis Cardinals instead of the New York Jets? What ...
How did a pitcher throw a no-hitter and lose? How did a 12-year-old boy help the Yankees win a championship game? Baseball fans young and old will find out in this book of wacky-but-true baseball stories. Photos. Digest.
At 3:58 p.m. EDT, on a dusky afternoon at the Polo Grounds in New York City, Bobby Thomson swung at a fastball thrown by Brooklyn Dodger pitcher Ralph Branca and hit a home run that won the National League pennant for the Giants. Now, for the first time, Bobby Thomson tells the complete story of that dramatic event and of a golden era of baseball ...
Gutman takes a close look at the records and players that are identified with the homerun, such as Babe Ruth, Roger Maris, Barry Bonds, and Mark McGuire.
Through hard work, dedication, honesty, and perseverence, Robinson has become one of the best basketball players in the world. He was a member of the 1992 Olympic Dream Team and is a top scorer in the NBA.
Detroit Pistons superstar Grant Hill is one of the NBA's most talented and respected players--on and off the court. When he's not jamming the ball through the hoop, Hill is seen in numerous public service announcements for kids, as well as advertisements for Sprite, Fila, Schick, and GMC. Now, Gutman tells Hill's complete inspiring story--from his ...
Featuring 2002 ESPN X-games gold medallist Mike Metzger (Freestyle Motorcross), this volume includes interviews with top athletes in the world of extreme sports.
This look back at ballplayers who played the game more for love than for money includes more than twenty first-person accounts and photos of the players as they were then and as they are today. These proud men reveal their disappointments and fears when it came time to hang up those spikes for good.
"Race for the record!" At the Sydney Games, Marion Jones strove to become the first person ever to win five gold medals in track and field at a single Olympics, making headlines for simply believeing she could do it. Driven to succeed at a very early age, Marion won multiple titiles at the Junior National Championships and set a junior record in ...
Here's the guide for current and prospective coaches that covers every aspect of effectively coaching youth basketball: teaching good sportsmanship, running an effective practice, coaching to a player's age and skill level, teaching offensive and defensive skills and drills, rules of the game, executing winning plays and strategies, dealing with ...
The inside story of one of baseball's best all-around players, here is a young man who overcame difficult obstacles on his path to a record-breaking career and superstardom!
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