Biography & Autobiography : Sports

Based on interviews by Ashley Mallet with Ian Chappell, this book presents Ian Chappell's reflections on his career, players he played with and against, and on current and past cricketing issues. more...

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Chuck Taylor is one of the most famous names in basketball history that no one knows anything about. His name is synonymous with the Converse tennis shoes ("Chucks") that bear his name. In 2001, while researching a story on the bankruptcy of Converse, Inc., the oldest continuous sport shoe manufacturer in America, newspaper reporter Abraham Aamidor discovered that little was truly known about the company's famous personality, and it sparked an interest to know more. The result is the first-ever biography of Taylor. more...

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Legendary University of North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith tells the full story of his fabled career, and shares the life lessons taught and learned over forty years of unparalleled success as a coach and mentor. For almost forty years, Dean Smith coached the University of North Carolina men's basketball program with unsurpassed success- on the court and in shaping young men's lives. more...

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Deep Drive: A Long Journey to Finding the Champion Within is an inspirational memoir by Red Sox third baseman Mike Lowell. Lowell became the hero of the Red Sox Nation during the 2007 World Series when he hit an extraordinary home run (7th inning, Game 4), for which Major League Baseball ultimately named him the Most Valuable Player of the series. Co-authored by the Boston HeraldÕs Rob Bradford, Deep Drive is more than a great sports story. It touches upon many factors of the acclaimed infielderÕs career, including MikeÕs cancer, the inspiration he obtained from his Cuban family, and steroids in baseball. more...

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On his deathbed, Alex Roy’s father reveals a secret history of the notorious Cannonball Run of the 1970s, the utterly illegal high-speed non-stop races from New York to LA that featured a field of wealthy international participants. Inspired by his father’s dying words, Roy enters the high-octane world of semi-legal road rallies and illegal underground races—trying both to find himself in a mysterious and hazardous world, and to locate “The Driver”—the anonymous organizer of the world’s ultimate illegal race, neither of which may exist. Roy must first become a force to be reckoned with. In this riveting story, Roy straps you into his highly modified BMW M5, takes you on a terrifying 120 mph lap of Manhattan, through the exhilaration of a West Coast professional racing school, then tackles the Gumball 3000 and the Bullrun—the two most infamous road rallies in the world. The official line is “It’s not a race, it’s a rally.” But among those who pay $15,000 to enter—millionaire playboys, software moguls, Arab princes, movie stars, leggy Czech supermodels, gearheads, and tech whizzes—a select few, Alex Roy among them, compete as if these are full-on honest-to-god road races. May the best driver win. By day, those secretive few ignore rally rules and the law to race each other city-to-city on public roads, all the while evading police and abiding by an odd code of honor. By night, the drivers and their entourages struggle against fatigue to attend outrageous parties with some of the world’s richest and most glamorous people. Though some drivers spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on exotic cars and useless cosmetic modifications, Roy utilizes a far greater weapon: his brain. Armed with his BMW M5 painted like a German police car, with the help of America’s most creative techs and BMW mechanics, deploying myriad radar detectors, laser jammers, police scanners, and a variety of fake uniforms more...

Price: $11.99