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Fifteen of Manchester United's biggest names reflect on their most memorable games during their careers with the club. Jack Compton, John Doherty, Alex Dawson, Bill Foulkes, David Sadler, Alex Stepney, Martin Buchan, Jimmy Greenhoff, Arthur Albiston, Frank Stapleton, Lee Martin, Bryan Robson, Paul P...

Fifteen of Fulham's biggest names reflect on their most memorable games during their careers with the club. From fifties legend Tosh Chamberlain and World Cup winner George Cohen through to current club captain Danny Murphy and Europa League hero Simon Davies - others include Tosh Chamberlain, Steve...

Twelve Wolves legends have come together to tell the stories behind their favourite games from their Molineux careers. The selected games include the 1949 and 1960 FA Cup and the 1974 and 1980 League Cup Finals, the famous floodlit friendlies against Honved and Real Madrid and tussles with local riv...

Sixteen Stoke legends have come together to tell the stories behind their favourite games. Terry Conroy relives the moment his header opened the scoring in City's 1972 League Cup Final, while Mark Stein remembers another Wembley win in the 1992 Autoglass Trophy. Denis Smith recalls when Stoke took o...

"Leisure Services Financial Management" equips students and professionals with the knowledge and skills to plan, implement, analyze, and report on the financial operations of leisure service agencies, businesses, and organizations. This unique text examines financial management systems, standards, a...

The Green Bay Packers are the last of the small-town teams that were once common in the NFL. The Pack and their fans, the devoted Cheeseheads, have won 13 league championships (more than any other team in the NFL), including 9 NFL championships prior to the Super Bowl era and 4 Super Bowl victories....

The Dallas Cowboys--"America's Team"--shares the record for most Super Bowl appearances (8) with the Pittsburgh Steelers and recorded 20 consecutive winning seasons (1966-85), in which they only missed the playoffs twice (1974 and 1984), an NFL record. From owner Jerry Jones to such coaches and play...

This ultimate book for the ultimate sports fan extends far beyond classics like tennis and basketball. With the rules of engagement for an outrageous assortment of sports; from jousting and Mongolian wrestling to baseball, cricket, ultimate Frisbee and caber tossing, this book is a resource and reve...

In 1980, there were exactly four professional bike racers in America. Six years later, an American cycling team would wear the coveted yellow jersey of the Tour de France. And that same team would go on to win Italy's greatest race--the Giro d'Italia--only two years later. "Team 7-Eleven" is the ext...

The back-to-back championships in 1994 and 1995 prompted more fans and media to take notice of the football program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. For Tom Osborne, then head coach of the Nebraska Cornhuskers, the added scrutiny was at times flattering and at other times problematic. "On Soli...

If it was not all so true, you d think it was a fairy tale. A seventeen-year-old from Queens spray paints graffiti on Yankee Stadium and gets nabbed by George Steinbrenner himself. Contrary to his gruff public image, the Boss driven by a compassionate inner voice reclaims the teen at a time when the...

These are the best bikes to be found anywhere right now, giving every kind of cyclist an overview of what is out there. Whether a BMXtreme or mountain bike enthusiast, a keen tourer or racer, a city commuter or courier, or simply fascinated with the constantly advancing mechanics and engineering of ...

The official biography of one of Britain's best-loved soccer clubs - packed with stats, facts and trivia.

"This is not necessarily a sports book. It is a character-driven tale of survival and the desire to be a champion again." --Jim Dent, bestselling author Valdosta, Georgia, is home to the winningest high school football team in America and for decades has drawn the spotlight of national media--includ...

"The definitive reference to indigenous peoples' watercraft around the world." Tappan Adney (1868-1950) was an artist, writer, ethnographer, historian and modelmaker of unparalleled ability. He tirelessly documented the cultures and languages of vanishing native cultures. His most enduring legacy i...

Conceived by Colin Chapman, the Lotus 72 is one of the most successful Formula 1 cars ever made. This innovative car - with its wedge-shaped profile, side-mounted radiators and inboard front brakes - was driven during 1970 by Jochen Rindt, Formula 1's posthumous World Champion, and also gave Emerson...

BRM (British Racing Motors) was a motor racing venture created in 1950 to represent Britain in the new Formula 1 category. A symbol of Britain's post-war rebirth, the BRM car did nothing by halves: its 1.5-litre 16-cylinder supercharged engine and advanced specification made it a technical tour de f...

Cardiff City has given every generation of its supporters a roller coaster ride of emotions that continues to this day. Celebrating this great and proud club, the book charts its history with some fantastic photographs taken from the Daily Mirror's picture archive which gives an account that can be ...

For Arsenal and Spurs fans, the North London derby matches are the ones most keenly awaited when the fixture lists are published each July. Such is the intense rivalry between the two North London clubs, the pre-match build up is a mixture of trepidation and anticipation in perhaps equal measures de...

It's 1639, King Charles I is on the throne of England and is about to make a grave error of judgment that would lead to his death in 1649 after an armed struggle with both Parliament and the Scots; commonly known as the English Civil War. Far from London, in the North East of England, two rival comm...

From humble beginnings, the rise and fall and rise again of Southampton FC has been a real rollercoaster ride. The early days were a success in the Southern League but two FA Cup Final defeats were heartbreakers. But the Ted Bates era of the 60s were halcyon days for the club and they were promoted ...

Of the greatest rivalries in world football, few stir the emotions more than the Manchester derby - City v United. 'Rivals - Classic Manchester Derby Games' is a comprehensive look at more than a century of bitter battles between the Blues and the Reds and the players who achieved immortality by...

This laugh-out-loud comedic memoir of life as an overweight runner moves along at a five-minute-per-mile pace. Jennifer Graham doesn't run to lose weight--she runs because she loves it. And as much as she runs, her excess poundage never leaves. So she accepts her body type for what it is, and runs f...

"The Pro Tours's hottest coach" ("Golf Digest") scores the perfect follow-up to his bestselling golf guide, "Unconscious Putting." Dave Stockton is hotter than ever. The 2011 U.S. Open winner, Rory McIlroy, studied with the renowned instructor and two-time former PGA champion, and credits Stockton's...

Eileen Ramsay was at the centre of a unique period in yachting history, and this wonderful book, featuring her classic photography, celebrates an extraordinary woman and her extraordinary subjects. Eileen's heyday was between 1957 and 1970 - a time when eccentrics ruled, records were there for the s...

This companion volume to Yachtmaster for Sail and Power, by the same author, provides further navigation practice for anyone studying the RYA Yachtmaster syllabus, as well as Day Skipper candidates. It is packed with practice questions and test papers, and comes with a free practice chart which, tog...

Yachtmaster for Sail and Power is a major reference book that has proved invaluable for the many sailors following the RYA Coastal Skipper/Yachtmaster Offshore course. This highly respected and refreshingly practical study guide covers the whole syllabus in detail, all illustrated with colour photog...

'My Decade in the Premier League' is Wayne's first hand account of his 10 years playing at the highest level in English football -- and for the biggest club in the world. This is his inside story of life on the pitch for Manchester Utd; the League titles, FA Cups, League Cups and Champions League ad...

'My Decade in the Premier League' is Wayne's first hand account of his 10 years playing at the highest level in English football -- and for the biggest club in the world. This is his inside story of life on the pitch for Manchester Utd; the League titles, FA Cups, League Cups and Champions League ad...

One of early baseball's most popular celebrities, Arlie Latham played for the St. Louis Browns in the 1880s. A brainy hitter and base-runner, he was also the sport's brashest, funniest player, his "fresh" personality bringing him as much trouble as reward. He played with the 19th century's greatest ...

Between October 1961 and October 1962, the Yankees and the Mets shared the city for the first time, their front offices located on opposite sides of Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan, and their playing fields--Yankee Stadium and the Polo Grounds--situated on opposite sides of the Macombs Dam Bridge....

Widely regarded as the best manager of his time, Bill McKechnie built winners at every stop, took four teams to the World Series and became the only man to do it in three different cities. He tamed roughneck players with a fatherly approach to leadership and a scholarly approach to strategy. This bi...

BMW cafe racers? You bet! There have been many books published about BMW motorcycles, but until now none has covered the evolution of the BMW sportsbike to the BMW cafe racer. A marque not commonly associated with the cafe racer scene, the growing trend of custom BMW cafe conversions is illustrated ...

The stirring story of the 1958 undefeated Army football team and the controversial coach who inspired Vince Lombardi It was the end of an era, the last season before the surge of professional football began to lure the nation's best young student-athletes away from the military academies. That fall,...

"Breaking Parallel" is a detailed body movement and strength-training guide designed to challenge your limits and develop solid, functional strength. Created by Jeff Tucker (director for the CrossFit Gymnastics Trainer Course), the book offers hundreds of bodyweight movements rooted in elemental gym...

Cover will have a leatherette flexibound that is made to look like and feel like an actual football. Interior will be imbedded with facts, stats, player profiles, history of the sport, teams, and more.

From behind the Iron Curtain onto hockey's biggest stageThe incredible true story of the trailblazing men who risked everything to pass through the Iron Curtain and become NHL superstars, "Breakaway" is a thrilling look at the untold stories that changed hockey forever. From midnight meetings in sec...

This selection of the very best, and most intriguing, writing on cricket, drawn from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day, adopts a fresh approach. It is arranged around the theme of the many things that must happen simply for a day's play to happen - from creating a clearing in a Malaysian...