Profiles the Pulitzer Prize-winning sportswriter whose career spanned decades and whose peers included such literary and sports legends as Damon Runyon, Babe Ruth, Ernest Hemingway, and Muhammad Ali

Red: A Biography of Red Smith

Biographies & Memoirs

Berkow, Ira

Professionals & Academics

McGraw-Hill Book Co.

Assembles the best of the syndicated columnist's sports journalism of the 1980s, including stories about Pete Rose's record-breaking hit, the Chicago Bears at the Superbowl, and an imagined Freudian analysis of George Steinbrenner

Pitchers Do Get Lonely (Penguin Sports Library)

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

Lists one hundred Yiddish words and phrases, provides the pronunciation and definition of each, and offers examples of appropriate usage

How to Talk Jewish

Humor & Entertainment

Mason, Jackie

Humor

St Martins Pr

A collection of the wisdom of baseball's Casey Stengel features quotes about players, the game of baseball, pitching, fielding, batting, baserunning, and attitude and includes commentary by DiMaggio, Mantle, and others.

The Gospel According to Casey: Casey Stengel's Inimitable, Instructional, Historical Baseball Book

Kaplan, Jim

Sports & Outdoors

Jackie Mason has built his Tony Award-winning career out of the culture and language of Jewish people, so who better to instruct the unindoctrinated in the joys of Yiddish? How to Talk Jewish, a guide to 100 Yiddish words, phrases, and expressions, includes pronunciations, definitions, and examples of usage, along with Jackie's incomparable wit. Is your blind date haimish? Uh oh. A zhlub, worse. A doctor? The naches are almost inexpressible! Jackie Mason brings all the vivacity, spunk, and chutzpah of Yiddish to the tongues of the less fortunate. Don't be a meshugenner, buy it already!

St. Martin's: Griffin

A baseball manager for over 30 years, Stengel is best known for his convoluted, yet insightful, comments about players and the game. Here, for the first time, is the collected wisdom of Stengel and reflections from his former players--all in one of the most accessible treatises ever written on baseball. Over 30 rare photographs.

Reference

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Hardcover, DJ with edge wear ans a tear near spine, owner name in front cover, pages good

Maxwell Street: Survival in a Bazaar

History

Americas

DOUBLEDAY

A sportswriter describes the role of basketball in his own life, discussing his love for the game, his life as a pickup basketball player, and some of the legendary players and coaches he has known

To The Hoop: The Seasons Of A Basketball Life

Basic Books

A firsthand look at how jewel thieves work, this book reveals the story behind the heist of New York's famous Pierre Hotel told through the eyes of its mastermind, Bobby Comfort

The Man Who Robbed The Pierre

Random House Value Publishing

Brief biographical sketches of personalities from every aspect of sports.

Beyond the Dream: Occasional Heroes of Sports

Children's Books

Macmillan Pub. Co.

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Books by Berkow, Ira

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Red: A Biography of Red Smith

Pitchers Do Get Lonely (Penguin Sports Library)

How to Talk Jewish

The Gospel According to Casey: Casey Stengel's Inimitable, Instructional, Historical Baseball Book

How to Talk Jewish

The Gospel According to Casey: Casey Stengel's Inimitable, Instructional, Historical Baseball Book

Maxwell Street: Survival in a Bazaar

To The Hoop: The Seasons Of A Basketball Life

The Man Who Robbed The Pierre

Beyond the Dream: Occasional Heroes of Sports