Product Description: Winners of twenty-seven World Series titles, the New York Yankees are the quintessential sports dynasty. Love them or hate them, they cannot be ignored by anyone who professes to be a fan of the great game of baseball.With Damn Yankees, Rob Fleder, former Executive Editor for Sports Illustrated magazine, offers a timeless collection of original essays by some of the most prominent contemporary writers in America—from Pete Dexter to Jane Leavy, from Roy Blount Jr...read more

Highlighted by dozens of photographs, a celebration of America's college and professional basketball from some of Sports Illustrated's finest writers captures the great teams, players, games, memorabilia, artifacts, and important moments throughout the more than one hundred years of basketball history. 200,000 first printing.

Product Description: hen Sports Illustrated was launched in 1954, baseball was, indisputably, the national pastime, its stars America`s epic heroes, its rivalries the era`s mythology. As baseball`s fortunes rose and fell over the next 50 years-and then rose again to new heights, drawing more than 65 million fans to ballparks in 2004-the game never failed to produce great drama and inspired storytelling...read more

Highlighted by more than three hundred photographs, a celebration of America's National Pastime captures the great teams, players, games, memorabilia, artifacts, and important moments throughout the more than one hundred years of baseball history. 200,000 first printing.

An anthology of acclaimed articles, essays, and other writings from the pages of Sports Illustrated explores various facets of the popular collegiate and professional sport, in works by John O'Hara, Jack Kerouac, Dan Jenkins, George Plimpton, Don DeLillo, Frank Deford, Rick Reilly, John Ed Bradley, Paul Zimmerman, and other noted authors.

Covering nineteen major sports with stats, records, and probing essays from the nation's top sports writers, this fan's guide to the wide world of sports offers player photographs and profiles, hard facts, tables, trivia, cross-era player analysis, anecdotes, quotes, and a complete update of the year's key sporting events. Original. 100,000 first printing.

A richly illustrated survey of NFL football captures some of the most memorable moments and athletes in the history of the sport in compelling action photographs and essays from the pages of Sports Illustrated. 100,000 first printing.

A superlative anthology of the finest sports writing from the past fifty years of Sports Illustrated brings together the work of such acclaimed talents as Frank Deford, Rick Reilly, Dan Jenkins, Jimmy Breslin, Pete Dexter, Thomas McGuane, Budd Schulberg, Geroge Plimpton, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, and other acclaimed authors who reflect on important moments in American sports history. Original. 30,000 first printing.

Honoring the fiftieth anniversary of Sports Illustrated, this collection of memorable stories and essays captures some of them most compelling moments in sports history and offers profiles on many of the larger-than-life sports figures, including works by Bob Creamer, Frank Deford, Dan Jenkins, Ed Swift, Tex Maule, and other notable writers. 50,000 first printing.