Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2000-06-01
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £6.99
Price: £1.45
Review Michael Parkinson on Golf / Coronet:
Publication date: 2007-08-02
Dewey code: 796.334092242143
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.00
Review Who's Who of Arsenal / Mainstream Publishing:
Publication date: 1999-10-08
Dewey code: 629
RRP: £19.99
Price: £19.99
Review Hitler's Grands Prix in England: Donington 1937 and 1938 / J H Haynes & Co Ltd:
Authors
- Gianfranco Josti
- Manuela Ronchi
Dewey code: 796.62092
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.49
Review Man on the Run: The Life and Death of Marco Pantani / Robson Books Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-05-21
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.52
Review Legends Of Rugby (General Books) / Green Umbrella Publishing:
Publication date: 2003-11-23
RRP: £14.99
Price: £12.23
Review The Complete Centre Forward: The Authorised Biography of Tommy Lawton: The Story of Tommy Lawton / SportsBooks Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2005-01-06
Dewey code: 364
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.32
Review Fighters: The Sad Lives and Deaths of Freddie Mills and Randolph Turpin / Time Warner Paperbacks:
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2007-10-15
Dewey code: 910
RRP: £39.99
Price: £26.39
Review Diving Pioneers and Innovators: A Series of In-Depth Interviews / New World Publications:
Publication date: 2004-03-01
Dewey code: 796.352092
RRP: £14.99
Price: £19.95
Review Afternoons with Mr. Hogan: A Boy, a Golf Legend, and the Lessons of a Lifetime / Gotham Books:
Publication date: 2007-11-01
RRP: £14.99
Price: £10.41
Review Nathan Astle / Hodder Moa:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2001-07-02
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.83
Review John Gregory: The Boss / Andre Deutsch Ltd:
Publication date: 1999-03-25
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.79
Review When You Walk Through the Storm / Mainstream Publishing:On April 15, 1989, 96 football fans tragically perished following events at Hillsborough. One of the Liverpool supporters to lose their life was 15-year-old Kevin Williams. In the years after that fateful day Anne Williams, Kevin's mother, has fought a long and often despairing battle to uncover the truth about the events of that day and the last hours of her son's life. Her story is inherently a sad and personal one and, as one would expect, much thought is given to the subject of bereavement and reflection on the unjust and nature of the tragedy. Yet Williams also has an individual story to tell and touches all the important points of the controversy which ensued. The blame for the tragedy is not apportioned neatly, but is more than gently pushed in one direction. Williams points to the police force as the culprits. As Lord Justice Taylor's report pointed out, a number of gross errors of judgement were made. Nonetheless, as the evidence that the witnesses subsequently met by Williams show, it is hard to lay the responsibility at the door of members of a single group. One can only receive the impression that there were many who suffered in Sheffield that day from all the different groups involved. [+]It is the testimony of the police officers, ambulance workers and members of the public involved which best portray the true horror of the events. Their sense of helplessness is apparent, as are the effects that day has had on them for the rest of their lives. Of course, for Wiiliams, the story is also a study on the often seemingly unfair nature of the British judicial system. She seems destined never to get the bottom of her struggle. Yet, convinced and apparently armed with evidence that Kevin's life could have been saved, her battle for justice continues. -Trevor Crowe.
Publication date: 2008-07-23
RRP: £12.20
Price: £11.70
Review The Eddie Lewis Story: from Manchester to Soweto / Derwent Press:
Publication date: 2006-08-10
RRP: £18.99
Price: £1.30
Review Strachan: My Life in Football / Little, Brown Book Group:
Publication date: 1999-02
Dewey code: 796.323092
RRP: £16.99
Price: £22.06
Review Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made / Alfred A Knopf:One of the finest non-fiction writers in any line-up, Halberstam likes to alternate what he's deemed his serious work-books like The Best and the Brightest, The Fifties, and The Children-with his sporting interludes, though in his hands, sports are much, much more than fun and games. Books like The Breaks of the Game and October 1964 use sports as a prism. Culture, race, society, and history are all filtered through it, and Halberstam refocuses-and interprets-what comes out the other side. That he would now turn his considerable abilities to exploring Michael Jordan is not surprising. Halberstam loves hoops, and Jordan not only defines the game, he defines an era. His fame crosses international borders as easily as he dribbles past half-court lines. In focusing on Jordan-as athlete and force of nature-and his osmosis from a young hoop dreamer to product pitchman to the world, Halberstam is really examining intangibles like myth and legend, celebrity and fame, wealth and image, excellence and genius, race and style, the qualities of heroism and the pursuit of perfection. "That there had been even one Michael Jordan seemed in retrospect something of a genetic fluke," he writes, "and the idea that anyone would arrive in so short a span of time and do what he did both on and off the court seemed highly unlikely. " But the phenomenon that is Jordan did just that. Understanding, even admiring, what he did, how he did it, and what it means in a basketball context and a larger one is Halberstam's goal, and, despite Jordan's lack of cooperation-or maybe because of it-Halberstam's muscular prose and thinking scores powerfully. [+]Yet, there is a wistfulness, in the end, to Playing for Keeps; the game doesn't seem as much fun and collegial as it used to for Halberstam, and Jordan, great as he may be, emerges with less of the historic grace exhibited by Jackie Robinson, Ali, and Arthur Ashe than with a quality that Halberstam deems the athlete-explorer "in terms of going beyond previously accepted limits of what was humanly possible, and somehow by dint of physical excellence and unmatched willpower, pushing those limits forward that much more. " Dazzling, certainly, but not necessarily heroic. Playing for Keeps is also available on audiocassette. -Jeff Silverman.
Publication date: 2008-11
Dewey code: 796.332092
RRP: £16.90
Price: £10.53
Review Running for My Life: My Journey in the Game of Football and Beyond / HarperEntertainment:
Publication date: 2008-05
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £19.51
Price: £49.42
Review Sam Langford: Boxing's Greatest Uncrowned Champion:
Publication date: 2004-09-01
Dewey code: 796.333092
RRP: £17.99
Price: £10.62
Review Immortal Harlequin: The Story of Adrian Stoop / The History Press Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2004-08-27
Dewey code: 796.334092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £4.25
Review Jackie Milburn: A Man of Two Halves (Mainstream Sport) / Mainstream Publishing:
Creator: Rick Cooke
Publication date: 2005-02-25
RRP: £8.99
Price: £5.98
Review Dixie Dean Uncut: The Lost Interview / Trinity Mirror North West and North Wales:
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