Messi
Una biografia
Written by Leonardo Faccio

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 28, 2012
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-94776-5 (0-307-94776-9)

El perfil definitivo del incomparable Lionel Messi, una de las más brillantes estrellas del fútbol internacional

En la historia del fútbol sólo cuatro jugadores tienen plaza en el primer escalón: Pelé, Di Stéfano, Cruyff y Maradona. Desde hace cuatro años, el argentino Lionel Messi llama con insistencia a la puerta de ese... Read more >

The Duke of Havana
Baseball, Cuba, and the Search for the American Dream
Written by Steve Fainaru and Ray Sanchez

Format: Trade Paperback, 376 pages
Publisher: Villard
On Sale: March 20, 2001
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-9256-4 (0-8129-9256-3)

In 1998, a mysterious right-handed pitcher emerged from the ashes of the Cold War and helped lead the New York Yankees to a World Championship. His origins and even his age were uncertain. His name was Orlando El Duque Hernandez. He was a fallen hero of Fidel Castro's socialist revolution.

The chronicle... Read more >

River
One Man's Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea
Written by Colin Fletcher

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 5, 1998
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70182-5 (0-375-70182-6)

At age sixty-seven, Colin Fletcher, the guru of backpacking in America, undertook a rigorous six-month raft expedition down the full length of the Colorado River--alone. He needed "something to pare the fat off my soul...to make me grateful, again, for being alive."

The 1,700 miles between the Colorado's source in Wyoming... Read more >

Game Face
What Does a Female Athlete Look Like?
Written by Jane Gottesman
Foreword by Penny Marshall

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: May 13, 2003
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6868-2 (0-8129-6868-9)

On playing fields and street corners, in backyards and gyms, the people in this arresting array of pictures are unselfconsciously exploring the physical and emotional pleasures of competition and play. Each image offers an affirming and satisfying answer to the question at the heart of Game Face: What do girls and... Read more >

The Baseball
Stunts, Scandals, and Secrets Beneath the Stitches
Written by Zack Hample

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 8, 2011
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-47545-9 (0-307-47545-X)

The holy grail, the fountain of youth, the golden fleece, and the baseball: rarely do objects inspire such madness. The Baseball is a salute to the ball, filled with insider trivia, anecdotes, and generations of ball-induced insanity.

Which Hall of Famer once caught a ball dropped from an airplane?
Why do balls... Read more >

Sweet Thunder
The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson
Written by Wil Haygood

Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4497-9 (1-4000-4497-9)

From the author of the critically acclaimed In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr., comes another illuminating socio-historical narrative of the twentieth century, this one spun around one of the most iconic figures of the fight game, Sugar Ray Robinson.

Continuing to set himself apart as one of our... Read more >

Blues

Written by John Hersey

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 12, 1988
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-75702-5 (0-394-75702-5)

"Almost no one has answered 'why fish?' better than Mr. Hersey...what he does best of all is evoke wonder." — The New York Times Book Review

"Blues is, of course, about much more than the pleasures and techniques of fishing; it is, as Fisherman tells Stranger, about interconnections -- the ties between... Read more >

The Rivals
Chris Evert vs. Martina Navratilova Their Epic Duels and Extraordinary Friendship
Written by Johnette Howard

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: June 13, 2006
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-7679-1885-5 (0-7679-1885-1)

Praise for THE RIVALS:

“For all our seeming familiarity with Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova, Johnette Howard takes us deep inside the greatest rivalry in tennis history to reveal how it took the two champions the length of their twenty year tennis war to truly know and love each other and themselves... Read more >

The Most Expensive Game in Town
The Rising Cost of Youth Sports and the Toll on Today's Families
Written by Mark Hyman

Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0144-8 (0-8070-0144-9)

mining the youth sports economy from many sides–the major corporations, the small entrepreneurs, the coaches, the parents, and, of course, the kids–Hyman probes the reasons for rapid changes in what gets bought and sold in this lucrative marketplace. He reveals the effects on kids and profiles the individuals and communities bucking... Read more >

The Most Expensive Game in Town
The Rising Cost of Youth Sports and the Toll on Today's Families
Written by Mark Hyman

Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0136-3 (0-8070-0136-8)

Building on the eye-opening investigation into the damaging effects of the ultra-competitive culture of youth sports in his previous book, Until It Hurts, Mark Hyman’s new book looks at the business of youth sports, how it has changed, and how it is affecting young Americans. Examining the youth sports economy from... Read more >

Until It Hurts
America's Obsession with Youth Sports and How It Harms Our Kids
Written by Mark Hyman

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: March 1, 2010
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-2119-4 (0-8070-2119-9)

Every year, more than 3.5 million children under age fifteen require medical treatment for sports injuries, nearly half of which are the result of simple overuse. Journalist Mark Hyman investigates the evolution of youth sports from mere games to full-on quests to turn children into tomorrow’s superstar athletes by pushing them... Read more >

More Than a Game

Written by Phil Jackson and Charley Rosen

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: April 3, 2001
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-060-3 (1-58322-060-7)

More than a Game is the odyssey of Jackson’s journey–from New York Knick and world champion, to CBA coach, to six-time Chicago Bulls world champion, to this year’s L.A. Lakers world champion–and the lessons in leadership he learned each step of the way. It is the tale of Rosen’s journey as... Read more >

The Real All Americans

Written by Sally Jenkins

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-7679-2624-9 (0-7679-2624-2)

Sally Jenkins, bestselling co-author of It's Not About the Bike, revives a forgotten piece of history in The Real All Americans. In doing so, she has crafted a truly inspirational story about a Native American football team that is as much about football as Lance Armstrong's book was about a bike.


If... Read more >

On Bullfighting

Written by A. L. Kennedy

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 20, 2001
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72081-6 (0-385-72081-5)

An Anchor Books Original

One day, on the brink of despair and contemplating her own mortality, novelist A. L. Kennedy is offered an assignment she can’t refuse–an opportunity to travel to Spain and cover a sport that represents the ultimate confrontation with death: bullfighting.

The result is this remarkable book, which takes Kennedy... Read more >

Instant Replay
The Green Bay Diary of Jerry Kramer
Written by Gerald L. Kramer and Dick Schaap
Foreword by Jonathan Yardley

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-74338-1 (0-307-74338-1)

This classic sports book takes readers inside the 1967 season of the Green Bay Packers, following that storied team from training camp to their dramatic victory in Super Bowl II.

Candid and often amusing, Jerry Kramer describes from a player’s perspective a bygone era of sports, filled with blood, grit, and... Read more >

Fall Classics
The Best Writing About the World Series' First 100 Years
Written by Bill Littlefield and Richard Johnson

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: August 24, 2004
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4900-4 (1-4000-4900-8)

Long before there was the Super Bowl, the NBA Championship, the Final Four, or the World Cup, there was the World Series. In the beginning, men in derbies sat in the outfield and marveled at Mathewson and McGraw. Today, fans congregate in sports bars, staring at screens big enough to see... Read more >

Godforsaken Sea
The True Story of a Race Through the World's Most Dangerous Waters
Written by Derek Lundy

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 6, 2000
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72000-7 (0-385-72000-9)

"The best book ever written about the terrifying business of single-handed sailing--. Lundy tells a harrowing tale, as tight and gripping as The Perfect Storm or Into Thin Air."—San Francisco Chronicle

A chilling account of the world's most dangerous sailing race, the Vendée Globe, Godforsaken Sea is at once a hair-raising adventure... Read more >

America's Game

Written by Michael MacCambridge

Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 18, 2005
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72506-7 (0-375-72506-7)

It’s difficult to imagine today—when the Super Bowl has virtually become a national holiday and the National Football League is the country’s dominant sports entity—but pro football was once a ramshackle afterthought on the margins of the American sports landscape. In the span of a single generation in postwar America, the... Read more >

The Fight

Written by Norman Mailer

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 30, 1997
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70038-5 (0-375-70038-2)

In 1975 in Kinshasa, Zaire, at the virtual center of Africa, two African American boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to fight each other until one was declared winner. One was Muhammad Ali, the aging but irrepressible “professor of boxing” who vowed to reclaim the championship he had lost. The... Read more >

Class A
Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere
Written by Lucas Mann

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-90754-7 (0-307-90754-6)

An unforgettable chronicle of a year of minor-league baseball in a small Iowa town that follows not only the travails of the players of the Clinton LumberKings but also the lives of the dedicated fans and of the fading town itself.

Lucas Mann strikes gold as he tells the unforgettable story of... Read more >

Beyond Glory
Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink
Written by David Margolick

Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72619-4 (0-375-72619-5)

Nothing in the annals of sports has aroused more passion than the heavyweight fights in New York in 1936 and 1938 between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling—bouts that symbolized and galvanized the hopes, hatreds, and fears of a world moving toward total war.

David Margolick takes us into the careers of both... Read more >

Born to Run
A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Written by Christopher McDougall

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 29, 2011
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27918-7 (0-307-27918-9)

An epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt?

Isolated by Mexico's deadly Copper Canyons, the blissful Tarahumara Indians of have honed the ability to run hundreds of miles without rest or injury. In a riveting narrative, award-winning journalist and often-injured runner, Chris McDougall sets out to... Read more >

Born to Run
A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Written by Christopher McDougall

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26630-9 (0-307-26630-3)

Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world’s greatest distance... Read more >

Bat Boy
Coming of Age with the New York Yankees
Written by Matthew McGough

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27864-7 (0-307-27864-6)

Most of us have dreamed of sitting in the dugout with our favorite baseball team, and at sixteen Matt McGough was no different. A few months after sending a blind application letter to George Steinbrenner, on Opening Day 1992 Matt found himself walking into the legendary Yankee clubhouse. There, amid the... Read more >

The Lives of Conn Smythe
From the Battlefield to Maple Leaf Gardens: A Hockey Icon's Story
Written by Kelly McParland

Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Publisher: FENN-M&S
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $32.99
ISBN: 978-0-7710-5683-3 (0-7710-5683-4)

The first full-length biography of one of hockey’s - and Canada’s - most influential forces, Conn Smythe.

While the story of the Toronto Maple Leafs has been told many times, there has never been a full biography of the man who created, built and managed the team, turning it from a small-market... Read more >