Product Description: In the 1960s, on the heels of the “Greatest Game Ever Played,” professional football began to flourish across the country—except in Texas, where college football was still the only game in town. But in an unlikely series of events, two young oil tycoons started their own professional football franchises in Dallas the very same year: the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys, and, as part of a new upstart league designed to thwart the NFL’s hold on the game, the Dallas Texans of the AFL...read more

Describes the epic 1823 series of match races that took place on Long Island between Eclipse, a horse representing the growing industrial power of the northern states, and Henry, a horse that embodied the values of the South.

A portrait of celebrated thoroughbred racing horse Native Dancer, nicknamed 'The Grey Ghost,' relates his competition in the 1953 Kentucky Derby, two-time win of the Horse of the Year title, and induction into the National Museum of Racing's Hall of Fame. 40,000 first printing.

Product Description: On the first Saturday in May every year in Louisville, Kentucky, shortly after 5:30 PM, a new horse attains racing immortality. The Kentucky Derby is like no other race, and its winners are the finest horses in the world. Covered in rich red roses, surrounded by flashing cameras and admiring crowds, these instant celebrities bear names like Citation, Secretariat, Spectacular Bid, and Seattle Slew...read more

Product Description: "The first great baseball book of 2001." Booklist (starred review) In this stirring account, award-winning sports writer John Eisenberg brings to life the epic saga of baseball's winningest franchise from 1960 to 1997. In From 33rd Street to Camden Yards, the Orioles' story is told using the voices of the players, managers, coaches, owners, and fans who helped make the Baltimore Orioles a secular religion in the city that calls itself Baseball City USA...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Sportswriter John Eisenberg grew up in Dallas when the Dallas Cowboys were evolving from a local team of lovable losers to national Super Bowl heroes. For everyone who lived through those days, there was something unforgettable about the Cowboys and their Cotton Bowl fans...read more