The Manchester United team in the fifties seemed destined to dominate soccer for many years. The average age of the side that won the Championship in 1955-56 was just 22, the youngest ever to achieve such a feat. But then came February 6, 1958, the day that eight Manchester United players died on a German airfield—a date forever etched in the annals of sporting tragedy. Jeff Connor traces the rise of the greatest Manchester United side of all time, alongside a vibrant portrait of England in the 1950s, but he also paints a dark picture of a club that enriched itself on the myth of Munich while neglecting the families of the dead and the surviving players. Drawing on extensive interviews with the Munich victims and players of that era, The Lost Babes is the definitive account of British football's golden age, and a poignant story of the protracted effects of loss.

The Lost Babes: Manchester United and the Forgotten Victims of Munich

Sports & Outdoors

Connor, Jeff

Soccer

HarperCollins, UK

A moving story of how a legendary football team was lost to tragedy – and how this disaster irrevocably altered the lives of the survivors and the bereaved families, and ultimately brought shame on the biggest football club in the world.The Manchester United team Matt Busby had built in the fifties from the club's successful youth policy seemed destined to dominate football for many years. Such was the power of the ‘Busby Babes’ that they seemed invincible. The average age of the side which won the Championship in 1955-56 was just 22, the youngest ever to achieve such a feat. A year later, when they were Champions again, nothing, it seemed, would prevent this gifted young team from reigning for the next decade.But then came 6 February 1958, the day that eight Manchester United players died on a German airfield in the 'Munich Air Disaster' – a date to be forever etched in the annals of sporting tragedy.Duncan Edwards, Eddie Colman, Tommy Taylor, Roger Byrne…the names were already enshrined in legend before the air crash, but Munich in many ways earned them immortality. They have never grown old.Jeff Connor traces the rise of the greatest Manchester United side of all time, alongside a vibrant portrait of England in the 1950s, but he also paints a dark picture of a club that enriched itself on the myth of Munich while neglecting the families of the dead and the surviving players. The repercussions and the toll the disaster took on so many linger to the present day.Drawing on extensive interviews with the Munich victims and players of that era, The Lost Babes is the definitive account of British football's golden age, a poignant story of the protracted effects of loss and a remorseless dissection of the how the richest football club in the world turned its back on its own players and their families.

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

HarperSport

The British and Irish Lions are one of the most famous and recognized teams in world rugby. Every four years, the Lionsselected from the national sides of England, Wales, Scotland, and Irelandhead to the southern hemisphere to do battle with either New Zealand, Australia, or South Africa. Acclaimed sportswriter Jeff Connor interviews a host of playersfrom the oldest surviving Lions from the 1946 tour and the icons of the game to those who have become mere footnotes in historyand draws out the compelling human stories from each Test series. The ups and downs of tour life are capturedthe pride of being a Lion, the numerous personal feuds, and the many humorous anecdotes, taking in the historic wins and the ignoble losses. Many Lions had their lives enriched by having worn the famous red jersey; an equal number had their lives changed irrevocably in the opposite direction. Full of previously unchronicled storiesDes O’Brien was away from home for nine months on the 1946 tour which almost cost him his marriage; while in 1966 one well-known English winger went off tour with a woman he met in a bar and reappeared only for the last two matchesthe book will conclude with the disastrous 2005 New Zealand tour and trenchant opinions from the players on the controversial Clive Woodward. Thanks to a host of amusing and heartbreaking anecdotes about life with the Lions, the book will offer a fascinating insight into how touring, sport and life has changed in the last 60 years.

Once Were Lions

Hannan, Martin

Other Team Sports

Harpercollins Pub, Ltd.

The British and Irish Lions are one of the most famous and recognized teams in world rugby. Every four years, the Lionsselected from the national sides of England, Wales, Scotland, and Irelandhead to the southern hemisphere to do battle with either New Zealand, Australia, or South Africa. Acclaimed sportswriter Jeff Connor interviews a host of playersfrom the oldest surviving Lions from the 1946 tour and the icons of the game to those who have become mere footnotes in historyand draws out the compelling human stories from each Test series. The ups and downs of tour life are capturedthe pride of being a Lion, the numerous personal feuds, and the many humorous anecdotes, taking in the historic wins and the ignoble losses. Many Lions had their lives enriched by having worn the famous red jersey; an equal number had their lives changed irrevocably in the opposite direction. Full of previously unchronicled storiesDes O’Brien was away from home for nine months on the 1946 tour which almost cost him his marriage; while in 1966 one well-known English winger went off tour with a woman he met in a bar and reappeared only for the last two matchesthe book will conclude with the disastrous 2005 New Zealand tour and trenchant opinions from the players on the controversial Clive Woodward. Thanks to a host of amusing and heartbreaking anecdotes about life with the Lions, the book will offer a fascinating insight into how touring, sport and life has changed in the last 60 years.

Once Were Lions: The Real Stories Behind the British and Irish Lions

A fast-paced, fly-on-the-wall story of courage, endurance, bungling,  rows and cheating in sport's greatest marathon  In  1987, the Tour de France was won by Irishman Stephen Roche. It was the  first time the champion had hailed from outside the Continent or the  States and the first time in 20 years a British team - ANC Halfords -  had competed in the world's toughest and craziest race. Jeff Connor not  only stayed with the British team but also found himself an unofficial  team member.  In this long-awaited new edition of Wide-Eyed and Legless,  now widely regarded as a classic, Connor describes what it takes to  compete, survive and win during those 26 days of gruelling effort.  Alongside the heroism and athleticism, he reveals the extraordinary  amounts of chicanery, from pulling riders along to illicit drug use.  Time has not dimmed the impact of this eye-opening and entertaining close-up look at the supreme endurance event, and Wide-Eyed and Legless is destined to be acclaimed by a new generation of cycling enthusiasts.  Jeff Connor's other books include the definitive story of the Busby Babes, The Lost Babes, and Up and Down Under, an account of the 2001 British Lions tour.

Wide-eyed and Legless: Inside the Tour De France (A Sportspages Book)

Business & Money

Industries

SIMON SCHUSTER (TRADE DIVISION)

An insider's view of life with Severiano Ballesteros, told by his caddie of the last three years, Ian Wright. The book is written with Jeff Connor, a journalist and broadcaster.

Summers with Seve

Wright, Ian

Literature & Fiction

Pelham

The inside, in-depth and indiscreet story of a season with Britain's worst football club - East Stirlingshire. The Shire are lucky if all eleven players make it to a game, they have an average home attendance at their dilapidated Firs Park ground of 200 and they ended the 2004/05 season bottom of the Scottish Third Division - for the third consecutive year. Granted access to all areas, Jeff Connor gets into the dressing room, the board room and the dug-out. But, above all, he gets into the spirit of the club. He began the season a scoffing cynic and finished it lost in admiration for one of the dottiest sporting institutions in Britain as the Shire attempted to reach the promised land - SECOND bottom of the Scottish Third Division. At times funny, sad, heart-warming and embarrassing, as events on and off the pitch unfold, Pointless is an unmissable insight into a unique football team

Pointless

Headline Book Publishing

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The Crow: The Movie

Humor & Entertainment

Zuckerman, Robert

Movies

Kitchen Sink Pr

The Crow: City of Angels : A Diary of the Film

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The Lost Babes: Manchester United and the Forgotten Victims of Munich

The Lost Babes: Manchester United and the Forgotten Victims of Munich

Once Were Lions

Once Were Lions: The Real Stories Behind the British and Irish Lions

The Lost Babes: Manchester United and the Forgotten Victims of Munich

Wide-eyed and Legless: Inside the Tour De France (A Sportspages Book)

Summers with Seve

Pointless

The Crow: The Movie

The Crow: City of Angels : A Diary of the Film