Rare Air: Michael on Michael

Stunning full-color, never-before-published photographs, accompanied by Jordan's own thoughts and observations, provide a revealing look at what it means to be a sports legend, important moments in his life, and career highlights. 25,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo.

Sports & Outdoors

Jordan, Michael

Iooss, Walter

Vancil, Mark

Biographies

Harpercollins

Like many working class children growing up in the war, the young Jim Riordan would fantasize his way out of his devastated surroundings with dreams of Wembley and FA Cup glory for his local team, Portsmouth FC. Spartak Moscow, the team he would end up playing for, wasn't even on his radar. Taught Russian and trained as a spy in the same institution that nurtured the likes of Alan Bennett and Michael Frayn, he was posted to Berlin as part of his National Service to listen in on Soviet military communiqués. But, unbeknownst to his seniors, he began mixing with Russian servicemen, mostly through informal kick-abouts, and the passion of these idealistic young men would cultivate his interest in Russian culture, and especially communism, until it blossomed into a full grown love affair. From the shambolic outfit that was the British Communist Party in the 1950s, to Cold War Moscow at its coldest, to his friendship with the Cambridge Five and meetings with Brezhnev and Gregarin, and his eventual debut in front of 50,000 Spartak fans at the Lenin stadium, here is the remarkable true story of the only Englishman to have played—and survived—Russian league soccer; told with grace, humor, and lashings of vodka.

Comrade Jim: The Spy Who Played for Spartak

Riordan, Jim

HarperCollins, UK

Jeff Stelling is a legend among soccer fans. To the millions unable to get to their teams' games on Saturday afternoons, the next best thing is undoubtedly the pleasurable company of Jeff and the Sky Sports videprinter for a cozy marathon on the sofa. If someone's got to reveal that your beloved team have just gone 3–0 down away from home and had a man sent off, it's best if it's consummate professional Jeff who breaks the news to you. Avid Hartlepool fan Jeff knows our pain and shares our joy—but mostly he knows our pain. The long-time host of SkySports' iconic Soccer Saturday show has become a cult figure, universally admired for his encyclopedic knowledge of the game, his genuine and unlimited enthusiasm for all levels of soccer, and his wicked sense of humor which makes the six-hour long show simply whiz by. This deliciously chaotic, hugely entertaining, anecdote-ridden, humorous taste of life in the Soccer Saturday studio reveals what Jeff has to say about some of the show's legendary pundits over the years—ex-players such as George Best, Rodney Marsh, Chris Kamara, Charlie Nicholas, and Matt Le Tissier. Get the inside track on all those great one-liners: "Mansfield Town's Gareth Jellyman has been shown the red card for dissent. Looks like Jellyman's thrown a wobbly." "Darlington's equalizer has been scored by Guyain Ndumbu-Nsungu. Very much a case of local boy makes good." "They'll be dancing in the streets of Total Network Solutions tonight." "James Brown's grabbed a second for Hartlepool. I feel good!" Jellyman's Thrown a Wobbly goes a long way to demonstrate how a six-hour long, studio-based show with no live action pictures and featuring men gazing into TV monitors which the viewer can't see, can hold a huge audience enthralled every Saturday afternoon between August and May.

Jellyman's Thrown a Wobbly: Saturday Afternoons in Front of the Telly

Stelling, Jeff

Basketball

This study of a game between the Boston Celtics and the Cleveland Cavaliers provides an in-depth look at the plays, the players, the strategies--and the business concerns behind them all--in the world of professional basketball

Forty-Eight Minutes: A Night in the Life of the NBA

Pluto, Terry

Ryan, Bob

Collier Books.

Coach Wooden, more than anything else, is a teacher. Basketball just happens to be his subject. This book outlines a pattern, a theory, a strategy, and a course for how to develop as a basketball player and as a person. It organizes and dispenses the knowledge that Coach Wooden has accumulated over a lifetime in the game of basketball. It gives the reader an understanding of the delicate balance of the simple reality of the game and the incredibly demanding effort and dedication needed to master basketball. This timeless book will help everyone who is interested in improving their life and their basketball game. This book is so well thought out, well planned, well organized, and well written that it is perfectly applicable thirty-two years after its first publication. Reading it will make you feel like a member of the team.

Practical Modern Basketball

Wooden, John R.

Macmillan Pub. Co.

Recounts the 1985-1986 basketball season at Indiana University, describes the complex personality of coach Bob Knight, and examines the coaching methods which make him one of the best of all time

A SEASON ON THE BRINK

John Feinstein

Biographies & Memoirs

Macmillan/

Traces the 1992-1993 basketball season for the three schools, all within a twenty-eight-mile radius, and describes their intense rivalry

Three Paths to Glory: A Season on the Hardwood With Duke, N.C. State, and North Carolina

Jacobs, Barry

Gathers essays and selections from novels and stories dealing with basketball

The Schoolyard Game: An Anthology of Basketball Writings

Literature & Fiction

United States

"...in this comprehensive guide, these two greats look at the game from all angles and explain how to set picks, make defensive switches, fire quick passes-in short, anything and everything that will make an individual and a team play a better game."

The Wooden-Sharman Method: A Guide To Winning Basketball

John R. Wooden

Bill Sharman

MacMillan Publishing Company.

The author recounts his automobile trip around the country to attend a game in the home arenas of each team in the National Basketball Association

Traveling: Three Months on the Nba Road

Nordahl, John E.

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

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