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Why does an international footballer with the World at his feet decide to take his own life? On 10 November 2009 the German national goalkeeper, Robert Enke, stepped in front of a passing train. He was thirty two years old. Viewed from the outside, Enke had it all. Here was a professional goalkeeper...

Today's rugby players are bigger, faster and stronger than ever before. A focused conditioning programme has become essential to on-field success. "Complete Conditioning for Rugby" features a comprehensive training approach that builds players' physical abilities as well as the rugby-specific skills...

"Australian Football: Steps to Success" provides the essential skills players and coaches need to master the game and build successful teams. This book contains comprehensive instruction on the techniques and tactics that have helped top player Andrew McLeod become a two-time Norm Smith medallist an...

Softcover reprint of Spalding's Football Guide for 1892 includes photographs of Walter Camp and 1891 All Americans. The introduction to the book is a basic explanation of the game for beginers written by Walter Camp. The rules to be in effect for the 1892 season comprise an entire chapteras does the...

This memoir of Coach David Vince is an inspirational walk through his 29-year coaching career. He is a double amputee from birth who never was able to play sports, yet he coached baseball and other sports at the high school and college level and was names Coach of the Year ten times.

This book is a biography of the life and times of an enigmatic and unforgettable high school football coach in the 1950's as told by one of his players, Gale Maag. The book recounts the exploits of both coach and student as they negotiate life's challenges.

Kristina Lansing is a Harvard educated MBA employed as an executive for the Boston Bobcats, a professional baseball team. As the lone woman in management working at Arborway Park, she struggles to prove herself daily, even though - or maybe because - her family owns the team. To complicate matters, ...

Emily loves to play on her Little League baseball team. She visits the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York and learns about the Negro Leagues that were formed when black players were banned from major league teams. Emily's report includes information about the early players, the greatest ...

This pioneering study of amateur futbol (soccer) clubs in Chile reveals how the world's most popular sport has served to engage citizens in local and national politics and support democratic practices.

Over the last several decades, one of the most frustrating problems facing bowlers who are looking to get better at the sport has been the lack of a simple, universally accepted system that works for everyone. Enter Mark Baker and his revolutionary approach to coaching -- an approach that has made h...

This is a humourous and touching account of an Everton fans unexpected move abroad. It is loaded with adventure and surprise, a true journey of self-discovery. Football fans passionate about their team will relate to the intense need to 'get the result' no matter where they are in the world. On Frid...

Colin Shindler was dealt a cruel hand by Fate when he became a passionate Manchester City supporter. In this brilliant sporting autobiography he recalls the great characters of his youth, like his eccentric Uncle Laurence, as well as his professional heroes. Threaded through these sporting events is...

With the thoughts of Sir Alex Ferguson, Zinedine Zidane, Didier Drogba, Tim Cahill and many others! A highly unusual and thought-provoking book by France and Tottenham Hotspur football star Louis Saha. Personally written by Saha without the assistance of a ghostwriter, rather than a straight autob...

This collection of more than 300 graphic biographies (bio-illustrations) of baseball players is a throwback to the illustrated biographies/cartoons seen regularly in newspaper sports sections of the 1930s to 50s. All manner of ballplayers are included from the Hall of Famers (the Legends), to the ev...

It's a scandal that began in a place called Happy Valley. But it's not as happy as it once was, as the child-sex-abuse charges against a longtime coach have rocked America and Division 1 college sports. The shocking stories started to pour out after the November 6, 2011, arrest of Jerry Sandusky, a...

For a hundred years most supporters watched football from terraces, a culture that was an integral part of the game. By the 1980s though, neglected stadia, hooliganism and a lack of concern for safety meant that football had to change, and after 96 Liverpool fans tragically died at Hillsborough, Lor...

Beginning readers follow along as one family experiences the fun and excitement of a trip to the ballparkfrom the first bite of a hot dog to the last home run. This fictionalized approach to a common childhood experience helps young readers find enjoyment on each page while strengthening vocabulary ...

Beginning readers follow along as one family experiences the fun and excitement of a trip to the ballparkfrom the first bite of a hot dog to the last home run. This fictionalized approach to a common childhood experience helps young readers find enjoyment on each page while strengthening vocabulary ...

I wasn't afraid to fail. It's really as simple as that. As a seven-year-old kid pitching a ball against a brick wall, John Smoltz decided to be a professional baseball player when he grew up. And from that simple decision until his last season on the mound in the major leagues, it was his faith, wo...

The Inspirational Story of a Coach, a Baseball Team, and the Season They'll Never Forget In 1971, a small-town high school baseball team from rural Illinois playing with hand-me-down uniforms and peace signs on their hats defied convention and the odds. Led by an English teacher with no coaching exp...

This title focuses on the two most famous baseball pioneers in the areas of religion and race. It examines the social milieu of religion, race, and sport in the American century. It captivates the reader with accounts of these players' astounding talent. As the first great Jewish player in the major...

"The Ball" takes us to the farthest reaches of the globe and the deepest recesses of our ancient past to answer a question asked by every child on Earth: Why do we play ball? Inspired by the curiosity of his sports-obsessed 8-year-old son, anthropologist John Fox sets off on a global adventure to ex...

Mike Babcock is the only hockey coach in the history of the game to lead teams to victory in the Stanley Cup, the World Championship, and the Olympic Games. Currently head coach for the Detroit Red Wings, he is arguably the best coach in the game today. In this book, against the dramatic backdrop of...

In 1967 Celtic manager Jock Stein stepped from the tunnel of Lisbon's Estadio Nacional and took up a position pitch-side as his team of home-grown journeymen trotted out to face Inter Milan, the charismatic superstars of Italian football, in the European Cup final. Celtic were a team forged in Stein...

Colin Shindler has previously written of his deep love for Manchester City in the bestselling Manchester United Ruined My Life and three other previous books. Now he tells the story of his sorrowful disenchantment with his home town club as, on the instruction of its new foreign owners, it turns its...

With this volume, David Nemec completes his remarkable trilogy of 19th-century baseball biographies, covering every major league player, manager, umpire, owner, and league official. It provides in-depth information on those figures unnoticed by most historians, men noted in the historical record onl...

The perfect game is one of the rarest accomplishments in sports. No hits, no walks, no men reaching base. Twenty-seven up, twenty-seven down. In nearly four hundred thousand contests in more than 130 years of Major League Baseball, it has only happened twenty times. On June 2, 2010, Detroit Tigers p...

Reflecting on his accomplishments, his colleagues, and the future of baseball, Andre Dawson tells the story of his four-decade career as a player and executive in this intimate memoir. Seriously injured at a young age, Dawson struggled with chronic pain throughout his career and was only seriously s...

Going behind the scenes with Ozzie Guillen, baseball's most colorful and irrepressible manager, to reveal the hidden factors that create a winning teamWhen Ozzie Guillen opens his mouth, nobody knows what's going to come out. And that has made the manager of the Miami Marlins endlessly entertaining ...

For the Baltimore Orioles, the glory days stretched to decades. Through the 1960s and 1970s, the team arguably had the best players, the best manager, the best Minor League teams, the best scouts and front office-and, unarguably, the best record in the American League. But the best of all, and one o...

At the dawn of the roaring twenties, baseball was struggling to overcome two of its darkest moments: the death of a player during a game and the revelations of the 1919 Black Sox scandal. At this critical juncture for baseball, the two teams that emerged to fight for the future of the game were also...

Of all the teams in the annals of baseball, only a select few can lay claim to historic significance. One of those teams is the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers, the first racially integrated Major League team of the twentieth century. The addition of Jackie Robinson to its roster changed not only baseball but...

In 1937, when local beer baron Emil Sick stepped in, the Seattle Indians were a struggling minor-league baseball team teetering on collapse. Moved to mix baseball and beer by his good friend and fellow brewer, New York Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert, Sick built a new stadium and turned the team into a ...

Though it burst into public consciousness only with the 1999 World Cup, women's soccer has been around almost as long as its male counterpart, flourishing in England during and after World War I. From the rise of women's soccer following Title IX legislation in the early seventies to the watershed 1...

How to achieve powerlifting success? The greatest 148-pound powerlifter of all time is bringing his expertise to competitive powerlifters everywhere to help them increase their bench press, squat and deadlift. Dan Austin, winner of nine World Powerlifting Championships and 15 US National Championshi...

This title features 100 full-colour drills for football the American way. Now in full colour and updated with new drills that reflect current playing and coaching styles, this second edition of "Football Skills & Drills" continues to be a complete guide for developing and mastering techniques and sk...

Attack is the new order. There is an old saying in sports that 'Attack sells tickets while defence wins games'. In the sport of fastpitch softball, the belief has always been that good pitching will beat good hitting. That may have been the case in yesteryear, but the modern game is much more focuse...

In the tradition of "Tuesdays With Morrie, " Dan Ewald pens a memoir of his friendship with legendary Tigers manager Sparky Anderson, the man who taught him not only the nuances of baseball, but the importance of life's unwritten rules. Few sports figures, regardless of their position, have generate...

Before Bryce Harper was the top pick in the Major League Baseball draft, before he signed the sport's biggest contract ever for a first-year pro, he gambled his future on one make-or-break season. The Las Vegas High School sophomore already had dominated the competition like Mickey Mantle on the pla...