Sports & Recreation:

An Incomplete and Inaccurate History of Sport
With random thoughts from childhood. And with random thoughts from times other than childhood . . .
Written by Kenny Mayne

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: February 3, 2009
Price: $13.95

Part sports dictionary, part memoir, part factual, and part completely made up–a history of the world’s most beloved sports.

Kenny Mayne is the little man who seems to live inside your TV. From hosting ESPN’s SportsCenter since 1995, announcing major events like the Kentucky Derby, his weekly pregame segments for ESPN’s Sunday... Read more >

An Incomplete and Inaccurate History of Sport
. . .and Other Random Thoughts from Childhood to Fatherhood
Written by Kenny Mayne

Format: eBook
On Sale: April 22, 2008
Price: $13.95

Painstakingly faithful to its title, Kenny Mayne’s book is neither complete nor is it particularly accurate. Ostensibly an A-to-Z encyclopedia of all known sports, many sports are never mentioned. There’s not a word about rugby, volleyball, Roller Derby, swimming, or (shockingly) Basque pelota or shinty. There is a chapter about sliding... Read more >

The Mad Dog 100
The Greatest Sports Arguments of All Time
Written by Chris Russo and Allen St. John

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 4, 2004
Price: $12.95

The essential book for any sports fan, from one of the reigning kings ofsports talk radio, Christopher “Mad Dog” Russo
Sports fans

Which was the greater achievement, Ted Williams’s .406 season or Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak?

Who would dominate the ultimate Pebble Beach showdown? Ben Hogan or Tiger Woods?

Who was really the most...

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The Mad Dog 100
The Greatest Sports Arguments of All Time
Written by Chris Russo and Allen St. John

Format: eBook
On Sale: May 13, 2003
Price: $12.95

THE ESSENTIAL BOOK FOR ANY SPORTS FAN, FROM ONE OF THE REIGNING KINGS OF SPORTS TALK RADIO, CHRISTOPHER “MAD DOG” RUSSO

Which was the greater achievement, Ted Williams’s .406 season or Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak?

Who’d be left standing in a battle between Joe Louis and Mohammed Ali?

Which NBA team was the... Read more >

Last Breath
The Limits of Adventure
Written by Peter Stark

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2002
Price: $14.95

“Forget the edge of your seat. Last Breath takes you to the edge of your life, for a pulse-pounding glimpse into the Great Beyond. There are many ways to risk your life in the out-of-doors, and Stark has captured them in exquisite and harrowing detail.”
–JIM ROBBINS
Author of A Symphony... Read more >

Dangerous Games
Ice Climbing, Storm Kayaking, and Other Adventures from the Extreme Edge of Sports
Written by Andrew Todhunter

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2001
Price: $12.00

In this elegant and exciting collection Andrew Todhunter, himself an extreme sportsman and the author of the critically acclaimed Fall of the Phantom Lord, takes readers along as men and women push themselves to their limits in the world’s riskiest sports.

In several of these essays Todhunter writes from... Read more >

The Longest Silence
A Life in Fishing
Written by Thomas McGuane

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2001
Price: $15.00

From the highly acclaimed author of Ninety-Two in the Shade and Nothing but Blue Skies comes this collection of breathtakingly exquisite essays borne of a lifetime spent fishing.

The thirty-three essays in The Longest Silence take us from the tarpon of Florida to the salmon of Iceland, from the bonefish of Mexico... Read more >

On Bullfighting

Written by A. L. Kennedy

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2001
Price: $11.00

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 >