Product Description: Harvey Araton writes, with keen insight, of a time when power was ebbing fast from both newspapers and their unions. It’s an especially bittersweet tale he tells of the people who had grown up in newspapers and unions, as they struggle to adapt to this evolving new order...read more

Product Description: “Funny, revealing, and surprising . . . anything that brings new Yogi Berra stories is a good book." —MLB.comDriving Mr. Yogi is the story of how a unique friendship between a pitcher and catcher is renewed every year. It began in 1999, when Yogi Berra was reunited with the Yankees after a long self-exile, the result of being unceremoniously fired by George Steinbrenner fourteen years before...read more

Product Description: In the tradition of The Boys of Summer and The Bronx Is Burning, New York Times sports columnist Harvey Araton delivers a fascinating look at the 1970s New York Knicks—part autobiography, part sports history, part epic, set against the tumultuous era when Walt Frazier, Willis Reed, and Bill Bradley reigned supreme in the world of basketball...read more

Product Description: It happens every spring. Yankees pitching great Ron Guidry arrives at the airport to pick up Hall of Fame catcher and national treasure Yogi Berra. Guidry drives him to the ballpark. They watch young players. They talk shop. They eat dinner together...read more

Product Description: It happens every spring. Yankees pitching great Ron Guidry arrives at the Tampa airport to pick up Hall of Fame catcher and national treasure Yogi Berra. Guidry drives him to the ballpark. They watch the young players. They talk shop...read more

Product Description: The revolution began with the simple act of a mother kicking a ball to her daughter. An English soccer trainer noticed, and praised her form. "Too bad," she replied, "there's no soccer league for mothers." Who could know that so many lives would change as a result of that simple exchange?In the suburban enclave of Montclair, New Jersey, as in so many communities around America, there was nothing new in the sight of mothers driving their minivans to soccer practice...read more

A controversial examination of the factors that are compromising the sport of basketball as it is played in America today describes the racial divisions on college campuses that carry over to the NBA, citing a growing gulf between spectators and millionaire athletes whose careers have been orchestrated by universities, sponsors, the media, and other factors. By the author of Alive and Kicking. 50,000 first printing.

A history of the rivalry between the Yankees and the Red Sox features incisive essays by some of the game's most famous writers, archival photography, and key articles, in a volume that covers such topics as the sale of Babe Ruth in 1918 and the battle for the American League pennant in 2003. 30,000 first printing.

Chronicles one season in the NBA to expose a systematic and shocking cover-up of high-level, big-money corruption that has been years in the making, as presented by three of America's top sports journalists. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The high-stakes action you never get to see The New NBA is the hottest game in town, a showcase for big men and bigger money. But the real games have always taken place off the court. Now, three of America's top sports journalists have teamed up to create a fascinating, thoroughly documented behind-the-scenes portrait of the NBA...read more

Examines the sports dynasty whose spectacular successes on the court have often been overshadowed by a marketing strategy that plays to America's latent racism