Product Description: Chronicles the career of the controversial baseball manager whose energetic success was usually terminated by his exaggerated antics and combative behavior. 40,000 first printing. National ad/promo. Tour.

The star center of the Boston Celtics and five-time NBA Most Valuable Player reveals the eleven essential steps to attaining success in your professional and personal life, offering the insights, memories, and enduring philosophy that made him a star. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Jackie Robinson ended the shameful practice of racial exclusion in major-league baseball & led a social revolution through his commitment to the struggle for equality & dignity for himself & all black people. Brings to life Robinson the man, a flesh-&-blood crusader whose humanity, passion, doubts, & fears are too often overlooked in the history-book treatment of his accomplishments...read more

Portrays the life and career of the legendary baseball star, from his childhood in the mining towns of Oklahoma through his rise to baseball fame, and finally his tragic death from cancer

The Hall-of-Famer explains what made the Cincinnati's Big Red Machine the smartest team in baseball, why today's teams play so dumb, the impact of Bench, Rose, Perez, and himself on the team, and his own life history. 50,000 first printing.

Features great players' insights into defensive play, and looks at techniques, training, anecdotes, and some of baseball's most dramatic moments

The NFL's most valuable player of 1986 offers a desciptive account of his life on and off the field, including a candid discussion of his battle with drugs in 1985 and his subsequent victory over them

Major-league baseball's spring 1985 training season provides the basis for an examination of the history, activities, and personalities of spring training and the methods and hopes involved