Edition: Pocket Books Trade Pbk. Ed
Publication date: 2006-03-06
Dewey code: 796.8120922
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.07
Review WWE Legends (WWE) / Pocket Books:
Publication date: 2007-03-06
Dewey code: 796.812
RRP: £18.99
Price: £10.39
Review Hardcore Diaries (WWE) / WWE Books:
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.
Creator: James Kaplan
Publication date: 2002-06-10
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £17.99
Price: £8.99
Review Serious: The Autobiography / Little, Brown, London:Serious is McEnroe's enormously entertaining story of how a shock-haired kid from Queens grew up on the world stage. Who would have thought that John McEnroe would evolve from Grand Slamming superbrat into the most refreshingly candid and authoritative elder statesmen of tennis? He is still kicking over the statues, but with a hard-won wisdom to temper the explosiveness that characterised his oncourt personality. This book, written in collaboration with James Kaplan, grew out of a New Yorker profile of McEnroe that the journalist wrote a couple of years ago, but for the most part reads like unadulterated SuperMac, unfiltered and straight from the source-who lest we forget was one of the greatest tennis players of the modern era, and a Wimbledon legend. I don't get tired of such compliments. I feel proud of having earned them. And-I admit it-there's a part of me that's addicted to the attention. It's one reason-I'll also admit this-that I'm writing this book. It's not just to get attention, but to do some serious thinking about how much attention I need, and why I need it. This openness is occasionally a mixed blessing-there's a touch of the Oprah's about some of his attempts at self-justification-but overall McEnroe "thinking out loud" is as hugely entertaining as you might expect. Forthright opinions on just about everything, from heyday rivalries with the likes of Borg and Conners-through his battles with the tennis establishment and the media (touching on his occasionally tempestuous private life)-to what's wrong with the game today. [+]Ace. -Alex Hankin.
Publication date: 2000-09-28
Dewey code: 796.358092
RRP: £18.99
Price: £46.69
Review A Thirst for Life: With the Accent on Cricket / Hodder & Stoughton Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-05-21
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.52
Review Legends Of Rugby (General Books) / Green Umbrella Publishing:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2000-06-01
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £6.99
Price: £1.45
Review Michael Parkinson on Golf / Coronet:
Edition: Updated
Publication date: 2006-08-07
Dewey code: 796.334092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.59
Review Jimmy: The Autobiography of Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink / HarperSport:
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
- Leni Gillman
- Peter Gillman
Publication date: 2001-05-03
RRP: £7.99
Price: £4.90
Review The Wildest Dream: Mallory - His Life and Conflicting Passions / Headline:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2003-08-07
RRP: £10.99
Price: £0.01
Review Slim Jim Baxter: The Definitive Biography / Virgin Books:
Publication date: 2008-08-14
Dewey code: 968.065
RRP: £16.25
Price: £31.70
Review Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation / Penguin Press:
Publication date: 2007-11-01
RRP: £14.99
Price: £10.41
Review Nathan Astle / Hodder Moa:
Publication date: 2006-01-27
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £10.99
Price: £1.33
Review In Search of the Greatest Golf Swing: Chasing the Legend of Mike Austin, the Man Who Launched the World's Longest Drive, and Taught Me to Hit Like a Pro / Carroll & Graf Publishing:
Publication date: 2008-04-25
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.74
Review Henry's All Blacks: The 2007 World Cup Campaign / HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand):
Publication date: 1998-09-03
Dewey code: 796.358092
Price: £17.99
Review Anything But an Autobiography / Hodder & Stoughton Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2006-11-15
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £11.99
Price: £10.67
Review Charley Burley and the Black Murderers' Row / TORA BOOK PUBLISHING:
Publication date: 1995-11-09
Price: £16.99
Review Lester: The Autobiography of Lester Piggott / Partridge Press:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2008-03
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £9.38
Price: £4.12
Review The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America / Harper Paperbacks:
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.
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