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Ajax, the Dutch, the War: Football in Europe during the Second World Warby Simon KuperISBN 0752851497 (0-7528-5149-7)
Hardcover, Orion
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Among the Thugsby Bill BufordISBN 0679745351 (0-679-74535-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Baghdad FC: Iraq's Football Storyby Simon FreemanISBN 0719567947 (0-7195-6794-7)
Hardcover, John Murray
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Baghdad Fc : Iraq's Football Story: A Hidden History of Sport and Tyrannyby Simon FreemanISBN 0719567955 (0-7195-6795-5)
Softcover, Murray, John
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Baghdad Fc : Iraq's Football Story: A Hidden History of Sport and Tyranny'Book summary:[via]With the fall of Iraq in 2003, the despotic reign of Uday Hussein, Saddam`s son and sports minister, came to an end. For 19 years he had arrested, tortured, and murdered footballers, athletes, officials, and journalists. Yet against these odds, the Iraqi national team has long ranked in the world`s top 40. Key to Iraq`s footballing success is the story of Ammo Baba, the Arab world`s Pele or Stanley Matthews, whose playing and coaching career spans 50 years. Ammo will be one of the many characters that Simon Freeman befriends and follows as he uncovers a half-century of triumph and tragedy, together with officials, players, and sports journalists involved with the game they loved under the yoke of totalitarianism. He also assesses the team at the 2004 Olympics and in the run-up to the Asian and World Cups. What is the destiny of Iraq`s game in a post-Saddam world, where the US military park its tanks on the national stadium?More editions of Baghdad Fc : Iraq's Football Story: A Hidden History of Sport and Tyranny:
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Barca: A People's Passionby Jimmy BurnsISBN 0747545545 (0-7475-4554-5)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Barca: A People's Passion'Book summary:[via]Founded in 1898, FC Barcelona, also know as Barca, is today the world's biggest football club. Its 120,000-seat stadium, Camp Nuo, is one of the great cathedrals of the game, and its museum is the most visited in Spain. This is the story of FC Barcelona and its evolution as a social and political phenomenon. -
Bleachersby John GrishamISBN 1844134571 (1-84413-457-1)
Hardcover, Century
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bleachers'Book summary:With Bleachers John Grisham departs again from the legal thriller to experiment with a character-driven tale of reunion, broken high school dreams, and missed chances. While the book falls short of the compelling storytelling that has made Grisham a bestselling author, it is nonetheless a diverting novella that succeeds as light fiction.
The story centers on the impending death of the Messina Spartans' football coach Eddie Rake. One of the most victorious coaches in high school football history, Rake is a man both loved and feared by his players and by a town that relishes his 13 state titles. The hero of the novel is Neely Crenshaw, a former Rake All-American whose NFL prospects ended abruptly after a cheap shot to the knees. Neely has returned home for the first time in years to join a nightly vigil for Rake at the Messina stadium. Having wandered through life with little focus since his college days, he struggles to reconcile his conflicted feelings towards his former coach, and he assays to rekindle love in the ex-girlfriend he abandoned long ago. For Messina and for Neely, the homecoming offers the prospect of building a life after Rake.
Physically a narrow book, Bleachers is a modest fiction in many respects. The emotional scope is akin to that of a short story, with a single-minded focus on explorations of nostalgia and regret. The dialogue, especially that of Neely's friend Paul Curry, is sometimes wooden as characters recall Messina history in paragraphs that were perhaps better left to the narrator. But Grisham has otherwise written a well-made, entertaining--if a bit sentimental--story. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Gameby Michael LewisISBN 039306123X (0-393-06123-X)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Book of 2 Halvesby Nicholas RoyleISBN 0575400978 (0-575-40097-8)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Book of Two Halvesby Nicholas RoyalISBN 0575063238 (0-575-06323-8)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Soccerby David WinnerISBN 1585672580 (1-58567-258-0)
Hardcover, Overlook Press, The
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Soccer'Book summary:Brilliant Orange is a book about Dutch soccer that's not really about Dutch soccer. It's more about an enigmatic way of thinking peculiar to a people whose landscape is unrelentingly flat, mostly below sea level, and who owe their salvation to a boy who plugged a fractured dike with his little finger. If any one thing, Brilliant Orange is about Dutch space, and a people whose unique conception of it has led to some of the most enduring art, the weirdest architecture, and a bizarrely cerebral form of soccer-Total Football-that led in 1974 to a World Cup finals match with arch-rival Germany, and continues with its intricacy and oddity to mystify and delight observers around the world.
"In the hot summer of 1975 Wim van Hanegem was offered the chance to leave his beloved Feyenoord and join the French club Olympique Marseilles. . . He couldn't decide what to do. . . So he turned to his dog: 'We can't decide. It's up to you now. If you want to go to Marseilles, bark or show me.' For several minutes the dog and Van Hanegem stared at each other. The dog didn't move. 'OK' said Wim, 'he doesn't want to go. We're staying."
The cast stretches from anarchists and church painters to rabbis and skinheads, and of course, to Holland's beloved soccer players, whose eccentricities are wryly detailed by David Winner through hilarious anecdotes that call to mind Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch. As idiosyncratic as its subject, quirky and provocative, Brilliant Orange reaches out to the reader from an unsuspected place and never lets go.
"Occasionally a book comes along that you fall in or out of love with on the basis of nothing more than the contents page . . . Brilliant Orange is one of those strangely informative books that will even entertain those who have little interest in either soccer or the Netherlands." (The Economist) [via]More editions of Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Soccer:
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By My Brother's Sideby Robert Burleigh, Tiki Barber, Ronde Barber, Barry RootISBN 0689865597 (0-689-86559-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'By My Brother's Side'Book summary:Tiki and Ronde were each other's best friends. Together from the start, these twins might not have been the strongest or the tallest, but they were fast and worked hard at what they loved. And they loved sports, especially football.
Then one day Tiki badly hurt his knee in a biking accident, and he was sure he'd never be able to play again. Their mother had always told them, "You are each other's best friends. Stick together, believe in yourselves, and you can do anything." They kept her words in their hearts and never gave up.
Based on the childhood of National Football League superstars Ronde and Tiki Barber, this inspiring book about the values of family, hard work, and determination is the story of what it takes to be a champion. [via]
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A Civil War Army Vs. Navy: A Year Inside College Football's Purest Rivalryby John FeinsteinISBN 0316278246 (0-316-27824-6)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Crackbackby John CoyISBN 0439697336 (0-439-69733-6)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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Dairy Queenby Catherine Gilbert MurdockISBN 0618683070 (0-618-68307-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dairy Queen'Book summary:When you dont talk, theres a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.[via]
Harsh words indeed, from Brian Nelson of all people. But, D. J. cant help admitting, maybe hes right.
When you dont talk, theres a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.
Stuff like why her best friend, Amber, isnt so friendly anymore. Or why her little brother, Curtis, never opens his mouth. Why her mom has two jobs and a big secret. Why her college-football-star brothers wont even call home. Why her dad would go ballistic if she tried out for the high school football team herself. And why Brian is so, so out of her league.
When you dont talk, theres a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.
Welcome to the summer that fifteen-year-old D. J. Schwenk of Red Bend, Wisconsin, learns to talk, and ends up having an awful lot of stuff to say.More editions of Dairy Queen:
The Damned Utdby David PeaceISBN 0571224261 (0-571-22426-1)
Softcover, Faber and Faber
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The Education of a Coachby David HalberstamISBN 1401308791 (1-4013-0879-1)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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Everywhere We Go : Behind the Matchday Madnessby Dougie Brimson, Eddy BrimsonISBN 0747252254 (0-7472-5225-4)
Softcover, Headline Book Publishing
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The Far Cornerby Harry PearsonISBN 0349108374 (0-349-10837-4)
Softcover, Little Brown Uk
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Fever Pitchby Nick HornbyISBN 1573226882 (1-57322-688-2)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fever Pitch'Book summary:In the States, Nick Hornby is best know as the author of High Fidelity and About a Boy, two wickedly funny novels about being thirtysomething and going nowhere fast. In Britain he is revered for his status as a fanatical football writer (sorry, fanatical soccer writer), owing to Fever Pitch--which is both an autobiography and a footballing Bible rolled into one. Hornby pinpoints 1968 as his formative year--the year he turned 11, the year his parents separated, and the year his father first took him to watch Arsenal play. The author quickly moved "way beyond fandom" into an extreme obsession that has dominated his life, loves, and relationships. His father had initially hoped that Saturday afternoon matches would draw the two closer together, but instead Hornby became completely besotted with the game at the expense of any conversation: "Football may have provided us with a new medium through which we could communicate, but that was not to say that we used it, or what we chose to say was necessarily positive." Girlfriends also played second fiddle to one ball and 11 men. He fantasizes that even if a girlfriend "went into labor at an impossible moment" he would not be able to help out until after the final whistle.
Fever Pitch is not a typical memoir--there are no chapters, just a series of match reports falling into three time frames (childhood, young adulthood, manhood). While watching the May 2, 1972, Reading v. Arsenal match, it became embarrassingly obvious to the then 15-year-old that his white, suburban, middle-class roots made him a wimp with no sense of identity: "Yorkshire men, Lancastrians, Scots, the Irish, blacks, the rich, the poor, even Americans and Australians have something they can sit in pubs and bars and weep about." But a boy from Maidenhead could only dream of coming from a place with "its own tube station and West Indian community and terrible, insoluble social problems."
Fever Pitch reveals the very special intricacies of British football, which readers new to the game will find astonishing, and which Hornby presents with remarkable humor and honesty--the "unique" chants sung at matches, the cold rain-soaked terraces, giant cans of warm beer, the trains known as football specials carrying fans to and from matches in prisonlike conditions, bottles smashing on the tracks, thousands of policemen waiting in anticipation for the cargo of hooligans. The sport and one team in particular have crept into every aspect of Hornby's life--making him see the world through Arsenal-tinted spectacles. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
Football Against the Enemyby Simon KuperISBN 1857992490 (1-85799-249-0)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Football Against the Enemy'Book summary:Throughout the world football is a potent force in the lives of billions of people. Focusing on national, political and cultural identities, football is the medium through which the world's hopes and fears, passions and hatreds are expressed. Simon Kuper travelled to 22 countries from South Africa to Italy, from Russia to the USA, to examine the way football has shaped these countries. At the same time he tried to find out what lies behind each nation's distinctive style of play from the carefree self-expression of the Brazilians to the anxious calculation of the Italians. During his journeys he met an extraordinary range of players, politicians and - of course - the fans themselves, all of whom revealed in their different ways the unique place football has in the life of the planet. [via]
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Football for Dummiesby Howie Long, John CzarneckiISBN 0764539361 (0-7645-3936-1)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Friday Night Lightsby H. G. BissingerISBN 0306813742 (0-306-81374-2)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Friday Night Lights'Book summary:Secular religions are fascinating in the devotion and zealousness they breed, and in Texas, high school football has its own rabid hold over the faithful. H.G. Bissinger, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, enters into the spirit of one of its most fervent shrines: Odessa, a city in decline in the desert of West Texas, where the Permian High School Panthers have managed to compile the winningest record in state annals. Indeed, as this breathtaking examination of the town, the team, its coaches, and its young players chronicles, the team, for better and for worse, is the town; the communal health and self-image of the latter is directly linked to the on-field success of the former. The 1988 season, the one Friday Night Lights recounts, was not one of the Panthers' best. The game's effect on the community--and the players--was explosive. Written with great style and passion, Friday Night Lights offers an American snapshot in deep focus; the picture is not always pretty, but the image is hard to forget. [via]
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, a Dreamby H. G. BissingerISBN 0306809907 (0-306-80990-7)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, a Dream'Book summary:Secular religions are fascinating in the devotion and zealousness they breed, and in Texas, high school football has its own rabid hold over the faithful. H.G. Bissinger, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, enters into the spirit of one of its most fervent shrines: Odessa, a city in decline in the desert of West Texas, where the Permian High School Panthers have managed to compile the winningest record in state annals. Indeed, as this breathtaking examination of the town, the team, its coaches, and its young players chronicles, the team, for better and for worse, is the town; the communal health and self-image of the latter is directly linked to the on-field success of the former. The 1988 season, the one Friday Night Lights recounts, was not one of the Panthers' best. The game's effect on the community--and the players--was explosive. Written with great style and passion, Friday Night Lights offers an American snapshot in deep focus; the picture is not always pretty, but the image is hard to forget. [via]
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Softcover, Harpercollins - Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream: ISBN 0201196778 (0-201-19677-8)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group - Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, a Dream: ISBN 0833593269 (0-8335-9326-9)
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Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream'Book summary:Secular religions are fascinating in the devotion and zealousness they breed, and in Texas, high school football has its own rabid hold over the faithful. H.G. Bissinger, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, enters into the spirit of one of its most fervent shrines: Odessa, a city in decline in the desert of West Texas, where the Permian High School Panthers have managed to compile the winningest record in state annals. Indeed, as this breathtaking examination of the town, the team, its coaches, and its young players chronicles, the team, for better and for worse, is the town; the communal health and self-image of the latter is directly linked to the on-field success of the former. The 1988 season, the one Friday Night Lights recounts, was not one of the Panthers' best. The game's effect on the community--and the players--was explosive. Written with great style and passion, Friday Night Lights offers an American snapshot in deep focus; the picture is not always pretty, but the image is hard to forget. [via]
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Futebol: Soccer, the Brazilian Wayby Alex BellosISBN 0756785030 (0-7567-8503-0)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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Futebol: The Brazilian Wayby Alex BellosISBN 1582342504 (1-58234-250-4)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Lifeby Alex BellosISBN 1582342873 (1-58234-287-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Greatest Footballer You Never Sawby Paul McguiganISBN 1840181087 (1-84018-108-7)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Greatest Footballer You Never Saw'Book summary:Robin Friday was a footballer bent on self-destruction. Always in trouble with the referee, in and out of prison, owner of a drug habit, he never fulfilled his potential, and died in 1990. This book provides a full appreciation of the football genius of Robin Friday. [via]
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Hand of God: Life of Diego Maradona, Soccer's Fallen Starby John Harney, Jimmy BurnsISBN 1585742422 (1-58574-242-2)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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How Soccer Explains The World: An Unlikely Theory Of Globalizationby Franklin FoerISBN 0060731427 (0-06-073142-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Soccer Explains The World: An Unlikely Theory Of Globalization'Book summary:The global power of soccer might be a little hard for Americans, living in a country that views the game with the same skepticism used for the metric system and the threat of killer bees, to grasp fully. But in Europe, South America, and elsewhere, soccer is not merely a pastime but often an expression of the social, economic, political, and racial composition of the communities that host both the teams and their throngs of enthusiastic fans. New Republic editor Franklin Foer, a lifelong devotee of soccer dating from his own inept youth playing days to an adulthood of obsessive fandom, examines soccer's role in various cultures as a means of examining the reach of globalization. Foer's approach is long on soccer reportage, providing extensive history and fascinating interviews on the Rangers-Celtic rivalry and the inner workings of AC Milan, and light on direct discussion of issues like world trade and the exportation of Western culture. But by creating such a compelling narrative of soccer around the planet, Foer draws the reader into these sport-mad societies, and subtly provides the explanations he promises in chapters with titles like "How Soccer Explains the New Oligarchs", "How Soccer Explains Islam's Hope", and "How Soccer Explains the Sentimental Hooligan." Foer's own passion for the game gives his book an infectious energy but still pales in comparison to the religious fervor of his subjects. His portraits of legendary hooligans in Serbia and Britain, in particular, make the most die-hard roughneck New York Yankees fan look like a choirboy in comparison. Beyond the thugs, Foer also profiles Nigerian players living in the Ukraine, Iranian women struggling against strict edicts to attend matches, and the parallel worlds of Brazilian soccer and politics from which Pele emerged and returned. Foer posits that globalization has eliminated neither local cultural identities nor violent hatred among fans of rival teams, and it has not washed out local businesses in a sea of corporate wealth nor has it quelled rampant local corruption. Readers with an interest in international economics are sure to like How Soccer Explains the World, but soccer fans will love it. --John Moe [via]
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Instant Replayby Dick Schaap, Jerry KramerISBN 0451146301 (0-451-14630-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Instant Replay: The Green Bay Diary of Jerry Kramerby Jerry KramerISBN 0385517459 (0-385-51745-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Instant Replay: The Green Bay Diary of Jerry Kramer'Book summary:In 1967, when Jerry Kramer was a thirty-one-year-old Green Bay Packers offensive lineman, in his tenth year with the team, he decided to keep a diary of the season. Perhaps, by setting down my daily thoughts and observations, he wrote, Ill be able to understand precisely what it is that draws me back to professional football. Working with the renowned journalist Dick Schaap, Kramer recorded his day-to-day experiences as a player with perception, honesty, humor, and startling sensitivity. Little did Kramer know that the 1967 season would be one of the most remarkable in the history of pro football, culminating with the legendary championship game against Dallas now known as the Ice Bowl, in which Kramer would play a central role. Nor could he have anticipated that his diary would evolve into a book titled Instant Replay, first published in 1968, that would become a multimillion-copy bestseller and be celebrated by reviewers everywhere, including the Washington Posts Jonathan Yardley, who calls it to this day, the best inside account of pro football, indeed the best book ever written about that sport and that league.
This groundbreaking look inside the world of professional football is one of the first books ever to take readers into the locker room and reveal the inner workings of a professional sports franchise. From training camp, through the historic Ice Bowl, then into the locker room of Super Bowl II, Kramer provides a captivating players perspective on pro football when the game was all blood, grit, and tears. He also offers a rare and insightful view of the teams storied leader, Coach Vince Lombardi.
Bringing the book back into print for the first time in more than a decade, this new edition of Instant Replay retains the classic look of the original and includes a foreword by Jonathan Yardley and additional rarely seen photos from the celebrated Lombardi era. As vivid and engaging as it was when it was first published, Instant Replay is an irreplaceable reminder of the glory days of pro football. [via]More editions of Instant Replay: The Green Bay Diary of Jerry Kramer:
It Had to Be Youby Susan Elizabeth PhillipsISBN 0380776839 (0-380-77683-9)
Softcover, Avon Books
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The Junction Boys: How Ten Days in Hell With Bear Bryant Forged a Championship Teamby Jim DentISBN 031226755X (0-312-26755-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Junction Boys: How Ten Days in Hell With Bear Bryant Forged a Championship Team'Book summary:When Bear Bryant took over the Texas A&M football program in 1954, he inherited a team that had lost its last five games by a combined score of 133-41. That season more than 100 Aggie hopefuls arrived in the small town of Junction for the first practice of a now legendary training camp. The sun bore down. The drills escalated. Trainers doled out water like gold, and meals and accommodations were horribly spartan. Ten hellish days later, only 34 remained to form the 1954 team that would only win one game, but those survivors--and that's what they were--formed the nucleus of the squad that would go undefeated just two years later.
This is the story of that team, that coach, the 10 days that shook their world, and the seasons they played together. "We lost alot (sic) of games," recalls Gene Stallings, who endured those days as a player and eventually followed Bryant as head coach both at A&M and Alabama, "but Coach Bryant knew what he was doing. Out of the yellow dust and the broiling heat of Junction, he forged a team of champions." Jim Dent's evocative recounting is so real and immediate you'll feel your throat getting scratchy as you read. You'll also feel remarkable respect for the players who toughed it out--and for Bryant, who begins as a man possessed, but, day after day, as he breaks the backs of some and helps instill true grit in others, transforms into a human being. --Jeff Silverman [via]
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Keane : The Autobiographyby Roy Keane, Eamon DunphyISBN 0141009810 (0-14-100981-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Life on the Flyby John SchreiberISBN 1599268108 (1-59926-810-8)
Softcover, Xlibris Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life on the Fly'Book summary:Broadcast on the evening news: "Hillcrest English teacher and former football star was shot in the back while fly-fishing. David Browning leaves behind a wife and two young children. Authorities have ruled it a hunting accident." Matthew Blake has only o [via]
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Managing My Lifeby A. FergusonISBN 0340728558 (0-340-72855-8)
Hardcover, Hodder & Stoughton Canada
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Managing My Life: My Autobiographyby Alex FergusonISBN 0340728566 (0-340-72856-6)
Softcover, Hodder & Stoughton
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The Miracle of Castel Di Sangroby Joe McGinnissISBN 0767905997 (0-7679-0599-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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My Favourite Year: A Collection of New Football Writingby Nick HornbyISBN 0575058412 (0-575-05841-2)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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- My Favourite Year: A Collection of New Football Writing: ISBN 0575400633 (0-575-40063-3)
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My Favourite Year: A Collection of Football Writingby Nick HornbyISBN 0753814412 (0-7538-1441-2)
Softcover, Orion Pub Co
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Namath: A Biographyby Mark KriegelISBN 0670033294 (0-670-03329-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Next Man Up: A Year Behind the Lines in Today's NFLby John FeinsteinISBN 0316013285 (0-316-01328-5)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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No More Dead Dogsby Gordon KormanISBN 0786816015 (0-7868-1601-5)
Softcover, Disney Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'No More Dead Dogs'Book summary:Eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the play but his life as well. [via]
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North Dallas Fortyby Peter GentISBN 1892129892 (1-892129-89-2)
Softcover, Total/Sports Illustrated
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One Knee Equals Two Feet: And Everything Else You Need to Know about Footballby John MaddenISBN 0515091936 (0-515-09193-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Paper Lionby George PlimptonISBN 1599210053 (1-59921-005-3)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paper Lion'Book summary:Through the course of a long and distinguished career in letters, George Plimpton has crafted an art form from participatory journalism, and Paper Lion is his big touchdown. In the mid-'60s, Plimpton joined the Detroit Lions at their preseason camp as a 36-year-old rookie quarterback wannabe, and stuck with the club through an intra-squad game before the paying public a month later. What resulted is one of the funniest and most insightful books ever written on the game; 30 years later it remains a major model of what was then blossoming into New Journalism. Plimpton's breezy style wonderfully captures the pressures and tensions rookies confront in trying to make it, the hijinks that pervade the atmosphere when 60 high-strung guys are forced to live together in close quarters, and the host of rites and rituals with which football loves to coat itself. Of course, Plimpton didn't make it as a football hero; he barely accounts himself with dignity on the field, which is just as well. You don't have to be a lion when you've got a typewriter that can roar. [via]
Passovotchka: Moscow Dynamo in Britain, 1945by David DowningISBN 0747548137 (0-7475-4813-7)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Passovotchka: Moscow Dynamo in Britain, 1945'Book summary:The Russians were eager to know about British training methods--they obviously couldn't bring themselves to believe that running round the pitch was the only one--and shamelessly enquired about player's private lives. In return the British learned several things about Soviet football. It turned out that Soviet linesman's flags were bigger, and varied in colour according to the conditions.
David Downing recalls the 1945 tour of Britain by Dynamo Moscow--cream of Soviet football--in a fascinating, often hilarious account of two cultures clashing during the honeymoon of affection for the Russians--and communism--that would cease with the Cold War.
The characters are straight out of an Ealing comedy--Moscow's own Raymond Glendenning, Soviet tour radio commentator Vadim Sinyavsky ("He's through! He has scored! Yes, comrades, you can kiss him."); the bemused "men from the ministry" (in this case the FA) struggling to comprehend the eccentric requirements of their honoured guests; the monosyllabic female tour interpreter, who would not accompany journalists to interview players in the Dynamo dressing room, leaving the helpless hacks to file reams of increasingly desperate copy.
But the sporting facts were to seem less amusing to hosts who still talked happily about showing the world how to play. After four games--wins over Cardiff City and Arsenal, draws with Chelsea and Glasgow Rangers--it was crystal clear that the journalist who had reported the training Dynamo players as being "so slow you can see them thinking", had been leading his readers astray.
Passovotchka is a remarkable tale, an intriguing glimpse into social history and a sparkling sporting comedy.--Alex Hankin [via]
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Pro Football Prospectus 2006by Aaron Schatz, Jim Armstrong, Ben Alamar, Bill BarnwellISBN 0761142177 (0-7611-4217-7)
Softcover, Workman Pub Co
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Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer: A Road Trip Into The Heart Of Fan Maniaby Warren St JohnISBN 0609807137 (0-609-80713-7)
Softcover, Three Rivers Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer: A Road Trip Into The Heart Of Fan Mania'Book summary:What is it about sports that turns otherwise sane people into raving lunatics? Why does winning compel people to tear down goal posts, and losing, to drown themselves in bad keg beer? In short, why do fans care?
In search of answers, Warren St. John seeks out the roving community of RVers who follow the Alabama Crimson Tide from game to game. A movable feast of Weber grills and Igloo coolers, these are hard-core football fans who arrive on Wednesday for Saturdays game: The Reeses, who skipped their own daughters wedding because it coincided with a Bama game; Ray Pradat, the Episcopal minister who watches the games on a television beside his altar while performing weddings; and John Ed, the wheeling and dealing ticket scalper whose access to good seats gives him power on par with the governor. In no time at all, St. John buys an RV (a $5,500 beater named The Hawg) and joins the caravan for a full football season, chronicling the world of the extreme fan and learning that in the shadow of the stadium, it can all begin to seem strangely normal.
Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer is not only a hilarious travel story, but a cultural anthropology of fans that goes a long way toward demystifying the universal urge to take sides and to win. [via]More editions of Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer: A Road Trip Into The Heart Of Fan Mania:
Rashby Pete HautmanISBN 0689868014 (0-689-86801-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Rothmans Football Yearbook 2000 2001ISBN 0747272328 (0-7472-7232-8)
Softcover, Headline Book Pub Ltd
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Rothmans Football Yearbook 2001-2002by Glenda Rollin, Jack RollinISBN 0747272603 (0-7472-7260-3)
Softcover, Headline Book Publishing
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Rothmans Football Yearbook 2002-2003by Jack Rollin, Glenda RollinISBN 0755311000 (0-7553-1100-0)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Rothmans Football Yearbook, 1998-99by RollinISBN 0747221251 (0-7472-2125-1)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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A Season With Verona: Travels Around Italy in Search of Illusion, National Character and Goals!by Tim ParksISBN 1559706813 (1-55970-681-3)
Softcover, Arcade Pub
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Semi-Toughby Dan Jenkins, Sally JenkingsISBN 1560258594 (1-56025-859-4)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Semi-Tough'Book summary:Made into a hilarious and timeless film starring Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, and Jill Clayburgh, and recently named number seven on Sports Illustrated's Top 100 Sports Books of All Time, Semi-Tough is Dan Jenkins's masterpiece and considered by many to be the funniest sports book ever written. The novel follows the outsize adventures of Billy Clyde Puckett, star halfback for the New York Giants, whose team has come to Los Angeles for an epic duel with the despised "dog-ass" Jets in the Super Bowl. But Billy Clyde is faced with a dual challenge: not only must he try to run over a bunch of malevolencies incarnate, but he has also been commissioned by a New York book publisher to keep a journal of the events leading up to, including, and following the game. Infused with Dan Jenkins's characteristic joie de vivre and replete with cigarettes, whiskey, and wild women, Semi-Tough is an uproarious romp through a lost era of professional sports that will have any armchair quarterback falling out of his or her recliner in hysterics on a semi-regular basis.[via]More editions of Semi-Tough:
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Soccer Against the Enemy: How the World's Most Popular Sport Stars And Stops Wars, Fuels Revolution And Keeps Dictators in Powerby Simon KuperISBN 1560258780 (1-56025-878-0)
Softcover, Nation Books
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Simon Kuper traveled to twenty-two countries to discover the sometimes bizarre effect soccer can have on politics and culture. At the same time he tried to discover what makes different countries play a simple game so differently.
Kuper meets a remarkable variety of fans along the way, from the East Berliner persecuted by the Stasi for supporting his local team, to the Argentine general with his own views on tactics. He also illuminates the frightening intersection between soccer and politics, particularly in the wake of the attacks of 9-11, where soccer is obsessed over by the likes of Osama bin Laden. The result is one of the world's most acclaimed books on the game, and an astonishing study of soccer and its place in the world.More editions of Soccer Against the Enemy: How the World's Most Popular Sport Stars And Stops Wars, Fuels Revolution And Keeps Dictators in Power:
Soccer in Sun and Shadowby Eduardo Galeano, Mark FriedISBN 1859844235 (1-85984-423-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cupby Matt Weiland, Sean WilseyISBN 0061132268 (0-06-113226-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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When Pride Still Matteredby David MaranissISBN 0684872900 (0-684-87290-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardiby David MaranissISBN 0684870185 (0-684-87018-5)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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El Futbol a Sol y Somberaby Eduardo GaleanoISBN 9682319714 (968-23-1971-4)
Hardcover, Siglo XXI de Espana Editores, S.A.
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