Sportsbiografier

Sylvia Hatchell longed to play little league baseball and, later, high-school basketball, but both were closed to her because she was a girl. In college, she discovered a passion for coaching. In this book, Coach Hatchell's life story unfolds against the backdrop of Title IX and the struggle for equal opportunities in athletics.

From legendary wrestling announcer Jim Ross comes a candid memoir about the inner workings of the WWE and the personal crises he weathered at the height of his career.

A biography celebrating the life of the legendary cricketer Bob Willis, with tributes from key figures in sports and media and a foreword by Sir Ian Botham.

The biography of Bobby Jones, the only golfer to win the Grand Slam and a key figure in America's Golden Age of Sports.

From toddler fan to Life President, John Breckin's association with his beloved Rotherham United stretches beyond 50 years. In Breck: My Life in Football, he has plenty of stories and anecdotes to tell; gives insight into players, managers, transfers, incidents and lots more with profits going to Rotherham Hospice, a cause close to his heart.

Dick Stuart began as a minor league first baseman, notable for his outsized ego and terrible fielding. In 1958, he came up to the majors in Pittsburgh and played some fine seasons with the Pirates, and later the Boston Red Sox. His great hitting ability, quick wit and love for the limelight made him one of the most interesting players of his era.

The inspiring story of Brad Snyder's journey from the Naval Academy to Afghanistan, where he was blinded, to winning Paralympic gold.

Benny Leonard was arguably the greatest lightweight champion of all time. With superb boxing skills and potent punching power, he fought over 200 times and suffered just five defeats. He spent his boyhood in a crime-ridden ghetto in Manhattan's Lower East Side and was the greatest of a long line of Jewish boxers to emerge from the slums. Leonard was still only 19 when he knocked out Freddie Welsh to become world lightweight king in 1917. He defended the title eight times and retired as undefeated champion in 1925, to please the only woman he loved, his mother. But the 1929 Wall Street Crash wiped out his fortune and he was forced to make a comeback at 35. Leonard fought the best of his era: Johnny Dundee, Johnny Kilbane, Rocky Kansas, Jack Britton, Ted Kid Lewis, and Lew Tendler among them. Apart from being a sublime boxer, Benny was a first-class showman who helped to put boxing on a higher plane. He died as he lived - in the ring - while refereeing a fight at age 51. This is the definitive account of his remarkable life and career.

A complete study of the American prodigy whose career seemed to be crashing as spectacularly as it had soared until relocating to England redeemed him. His streamlined seat and acute judgement of pace - validated by the innovative sectional timings of the author, a trailblazing advocate of their value to race analysis - inspired others.

The only person ever to win a Division 1 national championship as a player (twice), as an assistant coach, and as a head coach.

Legendary chairman of the five-time Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers, Dan Rooney, tells his life story for the first time.

One wild read (Rick Reilly, Sports Illustrated) about a unique city trying to find itselfand about three gamblers who win, lose, and risk everything during the college basketball season

A wide-ranging, multi-faceted collection of profiles, commentary, and reportage tracing the career of the most popular athlete in the world today--Tiger Woods

Shortlisted for Biography of the Year at the 2018 Sports Book Awards, this is the biography of Laurie Cunningham, the first black footballer to play professionally for England

Macho Time will be the first definitive biography of Hector Camacho Sr., who lived a life as fast as his fists flew in the ring. Camacho's son, Hector Camacho Jr., also a professional boxer, has worked closely with author Christian Giudice to give him unprecedented access and insight into this complex man, who was tragically murdered in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 2012.

In 1973, Scottish mountaineering legend Hamish MacInnes alongside climbing notoriety Don Whillans, Mo Anthoine and Joe Brown trekked through rainforest and swamp to climb the great prow of Mount Roraima. Climb to the Lost World is MacInnes' story of their climb.

John D. Burns, bestselling author of The Last Hillwalker, rediscovers Scotland's mountains, bothies and wildlife in the stormiest months. Wild Winter is a reminder of the wonder of nature and the importance of caring for our environment. As he travels through the Highlands, John finds adventure, humour and a deep connection with this wild land.

A clever and insightful analysis of one of the most curious and complicated forces in national European football.

In this book,The Baseball Gods are Real: Volume 3 - The Religion of Baseball, I chronicle the origins, history and religiosity of baseball.

A very personal and deeply-moving collection of life-affirming and inspirational real-life stories from which Chelsea and Italy football legend Gianluca Vialli has drawn great strength and resolve during his battle with pancreatic cancer.