Biography: sport books

The greatest relief pitcher of all time shares his extraordinary story of survival, love, and baseball. Mariano...  Read More >>

""Forgotten Tales and Vanished Trails"" gathers together Roosevelt's many writings on game hunting and the outdoors...  Read More >>

Written in the late nineteenth century and first published in ""Harper's Round Table"" magazine in 1896, this collection...  Read More >>

Originally published: New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1914.  Read More >>

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Playing the White Man's Games tells the extraordinary tales of Native American athletes who overcame tremendous...  Read More >>

Most baseball fans know Tom Candiotti as a knuckleballer but he began his career as a conventional pitcher in 1983--after...  Read More >>

"""It is thanks to Simone that interest in this highly challenging type of alpinism [winter climbing] has been renewed.""...  Read More >>

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Demythologizing Michael Phelps is the first seriously critical biography of the world's most decorated Olympic athlete....  Read More >>

It was deep in the Fall of 1978. All progressive sportsmen of our city, including the coaches of wrestling and boxing,...  Read More >>

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New edition of the bestselling biography of the England football legend.  Read More >>

Imagine that you're lying down, completely immobile-you can't move a muscle. The only part of your body that you...  Read More >>

A pair of kestrels flying around an old church tower in the dappled evening sunshine mesmerised the young Gary Cope....  Read More >>

A nine-and-a-half-year-old boy was stricken with paralytic polio. He spent almost a year in bed, unable to move...  Read More >>

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For any football fan, this is the definitive biography of the man known during his Celtic days as 'Martin the Magnificent'....  Read More >>

At 18 months he went on his first hike. At 3, he climbed his first mountain. At 26, he plans to run up Everest -...  Read More >>

Encompassing cultural history, autobiography, travel writing and natural history, Waterlog is a personal journey,...  Read More >>

Proud owner of 14 prestigious college football programs, producing seven consecutive national championships, twelve...  Read More >>

A narrative of how Gordon Gronkowski raised five sons, three of whom are now pro-athletes.  Read More >>

""A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2013 by Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.""--Title...  Read More >>