More Sports Books
- Adventure
- Auto Racing
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Bicycling
- Bodybuilding & Weight Training
- Boxing & MMA
- Equestrian
- Fishing
- Football
- Golf
- Hiking & Camping
- History
- Hockey
- Horse Racing
- Hunting
- Martial Arts
- Mountaineering
- Running & Jogging
- Sailing & Boating
- Shooting & Firearms
- Soccer
- Sports Psychology
- Survival Skills
- Tennis
- Training
- Audiobooks
- Sports Staff Picks
- BROWSE ALL Sports & Recreation
- BACK TO New & Noteworthy Books
Foreword by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The longtime Commissioner of Major League Baseball provides an unprecedented look inside professional baseball today, focusing on how he helped bring the game into the modern age and revealing his interactions with players, managers, fellow owners, and fans nationwide.
Written with verve and enthusiasm, Higher Calling explores why mountains have such a magnetic appeal to cyclists the world over. But Max Leonard, himself an accomplished amateur cyclist, does not forget the pain, the glory, the sweat, and the tears that go into these grueling climbs. After all, cycling up a mountain is hard. So hard that, to many, it can seem absurd.
Tales of a champion surfcaster: the education of a young woman hell-bent on following her dream and learning the mysterious and profound sport, and art, of surfcasting, on the island of Martha’s Vineyard.
In 1968, a few women, mockingly labeled "jockettes" by a skeptical press, had begun demanding the right to apply for jockey licenses, citing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which banned discrimination in hiring based on race, religion, sex, or national origin.
On the central and north coast of British Columbia, the Great Bear Rainforest is the largest intact temperate rainforest in the world, containing more organic matter than any other terrestrial ecosystem on the planet.
Throughout history, potters, sculptors, painters, poets, novelists, cartoonists, song-writers, photographers, and filmmakers have recorded and tried to make sense of boxing. From Daniel Mendoza to Mike Tyson, boxers have embodied and enacted our anxieties about race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.
$17.99ISBN: 9780062699879Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: Ecco - May 14th, 2019A NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
ONE OF JANET MASLIN’S MUST-READ BOOKS OF THE SUMMER
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE
ONE OF OUTSIDE MAGAZINE’S BEST BOOKS OF THE SUMMER
$30.00ISBN: 9780316421102Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: Little, Brown and Company - May 7th, 2019In the wake of the 50th anniversary of his legendary Super Bowl "Guarantee," the NFL icon who first brought show business to sports shares his life lessons on fame, fatherhood, and football.
$17.00ISBN: 9781476754291Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: Simon & Schuster - June 4th, 2019NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “One of the best golf books this century.” —Golf Digest
Tom Coyne’s A Course Called Scotland is a heartfelt and humorous celebration of his quest to play golf on every links course in Scotland, the birthplace of the game he loves.$35.00ISBN: 9780307701541Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: Knopf - May 14th, 2019An exhilarating, splendidly illustrated, entirely new look at the history of baseball: told through the stories of the vibrant and ever-changing ballparks where the game was and is staged, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic.
$30.00ISBN: 9781501192593Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: Scribner - May 7th, 2019In the tradition of The Boys in the Boat and Seabiscuit, a fascinating portrait of a groundbreaking but forgotten figure—the remarkable Major Taylor, the black man who broke racial barriers by becoming the world’s fastest and most famous bicyclist at the height of the Jim Crow era.
In the 1890s, the nation’s promise of equality had failed spectacularly$26.95ISBN: 9781493039678Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: Lyons Press - June 2019In more than a century of American Thoroughbred racing, only thirteen horses have won the Triple Crown (the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont Stakes, all won in the same season). Veteran turf writer and racing historian Edward L. Bowen takes us through the rich history of one of the most formidable and exciting challenges in all of sport.
