Product Description: If careers are checkered, Jim Becker's is a chessboard. From Hawaii to Brooklyn, Bayreuth, Babylon and Botswana (Hawaii's Antipode) this multi-faceted newsman has crisscrossed every square on the board, collecting along the way fascinating stories about heroes, saints, sinners and celebrities...read more

Product Description: Miracles can happen to anyone. Steve Rom, a sportswriter at the Ann Arbor News, never thought his friendship with a recently retired Super Bowl champion would last. Rod Payne, a member of the 2000 world champion Baltimore Ravens, and a former All-America center at the University of Michigan, never thought the camaraderie he shared with his teammates in the NFL could be found with a rookie reporter...read more

Product Description: For 31 years, Clyde Bolton wrote four sports columns per week for the Birmingham News. By his estimation, this makes him the most widely read Alabamian in history. He may be right. In Stop the Presses (So I Can Get Off) he takes the reader along on a joyride through more than three decades of Alabama sports...read more

Re-released with a new afterword by the author, the story of the author's tour of European courses recounts how he quit a sports writing job in 1991 and strove to revive his stagnated game at the side of his wife, a journey during which he caddied on some of the world's oldest courses for players who gave him valuable game insights. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

A sports journalist reminisces about the days of Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Babe Ruth and Willie Mays, when writers hung out with ball players before the days of agents and publicists

A former sportswriter for the New York Times since 1959 reveals how much both sports and journalism have changed through the years and offers a behind-the-scenes look at what goes into creating a story. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Ira Berkow steps out from behind his New York Times reporter's notebook to spin the tales of his life as a pickup basketball player―running the court with Oscar Robertson, talking strategy with Walt Frazier, and finding fellowship and good humor across the country on playgrounds, in gyms, even in some of the world's famous arenas...read more

A senior writer for 'Sports Illustrated' magazine recounts his tour of America's sports attractions, from the locale of the film 'Field of Dreams' to basketball player Larry Bird's hometown

Recalls five decades--from the 1920s to the 1960s--of sports in New York, based on the newspaper columns of sportswriter Frank Graham, Sr. and the author's personal reminiscences

Product Description: When it was originally published in 1992, Mike Shannon's Baseball: The Writer's Game as hailed as a unique exploration of what it takes to write about the national pastime. Brassey's is proud to present this new edition, expanding upon Shannon's original interviews with baseball's top authors and historians, including Bill James, Roger Kahn, W...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Offers a look at the career of the sportswriter from his start in Nashville to his syndication in one hundred newspapers, and examines his personal relationship with such athletes at Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, and Bobby Jones (view table of contents)

The famous sports journalist recalls half a century on the sidelines and in the locker room, from shadow boxing with Muhammad Ali to verbal gymnasicts with Lenny Bruce, in an anecdotal account of his fifty-year career. Reprint.

Product Description: Muhammad Ali stretched out on a brown couch, a towel across his waist, while an air conditioner fired cool air across his body. It was a scorching Manila morning, and in thirty minutes Ali would go to war with Joe Frazier for the third and final time...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

"This is a surprising book, a terrific book. It's not about boxing, but about an odd, demanding world in which boxing is the thread, the key to existence. Wiley deftly broadens the delineation of this world and its people. Perceptive reporting is the foundation and perceptive reporting is rare enough. Wiley enhances it with clear, quick writing laced with humor and with a sensitivity that lends brilliance to this impressive work."-Robert W. Creamer, author of Baseball and Other Matters in 1941. "Ralph Wiley, with Serenity, has produced an original book about the ring. . . . He can dig beneath the surface and show us what really happened in a bout: why Thomas Hearns, with too much faith in his powerful right hand, lost to Sugar Ray Leonard in their first match. . . . Or why Roberto Durán was acting out of prudence, not cowardice, when he quit in his second fight against Leonard. . . . Yet the book is not really about boxing. Boxing in Serenity is what T. S. Eliot, speaking of plot, called the meat a burglar brings to distract the watchdog. The book is really about growing up in a world where you had to defend yourself physically to survive."-New York Times. "Wiley's rapport with boxers is profound."-Publisher's Weekly. "Wiley is one writer who really knows his way around a boxing ring. . . . [He writes] with passion and understanding about complex, violent men and their oddly redemptive sport."-Booklist. Ralph Wiley is the author or coauthor of several works, most recently Born to Play: The Eric Davis Story. (view table of contents)

An account of one man's yearlong trip describes his journey to sports shrines across America, from the boyhood home of Larry Bird, to the cornfield from Field of Dreams. Reprint. PW.

An account of the life of a legendary sportswriter shows how his writing changed the public's perception of sports, chronicles his friendships with sports figures such as Joe Louis and Babe Ruth, and offers a unique perspective on sports history. UP. (view table of contents)

Product Description: His dream was to play professional baseball. Instead, Sam Lacy became an outspoken advocate for equal opportunity, using words to pry open doors so athletes at all levels could realize their dreams. Lacy became a sportswriter during a time when blacks and whites did not mix in many aspects of American life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Part memoir, part humor, and part myth, this entertaining and inspirational volume explores the moment the author realized his high-school basketball career would not last forever and examines why women continue to be perplexed by men's fascination with sports.

Product Description: After more than a decade as a foreign correspondent for UPI and the Chicago Tribune, Joseph Reaves came home to a new career covering baseball; not just any baseball, but Chicago Cubs baseball. Warsaw to Wrigley is the story of getting reacquainted with the U...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Interviews eighteen of the writers who dominated sports reporting in the interwar period, including Dan Daniel, Paul Gallico, Red Smith, Marshall Hunt, and John Kieran

Product Description: This collection of Dick's columns tells the story of sports in America over the last 30 years while chronicling Dick's own story as a sportswriter, journalist and family man.

Product Description: Book by Henderson, Joe

Offers a look at the life of father-and-son team H.G. and William Tapply, who fished together cooperatively, and developed their relationship, which began in a teacher-pupil mode and evolved into a near equality