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Sports Publishing Fall 2007 Catalog Titles:
Football
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| The Boys from Old Florida (Updated!) |
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Vince Dooley's Tales From the 1980 Georgia Bulldogs |
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Author: Buddy Martin
The University of Florida celebrated the centennial season of its storied football program in 2006, capping it off by winning the BCS Championship. In this new softcover edition of his acclaimed book, award-winning author Buddy Martin provides a unique and interesting look at the school’s long journey to gridiron glory. The Boys From Old Florida is full of interesting insights and revelations about the legendary Gator program, and is updated to include the amazing 2006 season. Numerous interviews with storied coaches and players of the past, like Steve Spurrier, Ray Graves, Doug Dickey, Danny Wuerffel, Jack Youngblood, Scot Brantley, Kerwin Bell, Carlos Alvarez, and John Reaves; help readers learn the stories behind the stories. Martin sheds light on many subjects that illuminate the past, while also telling much about the present, including current coach Urban Meyer.
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Author: Vince Dooley with Blake Giles
Legendary football coach Vince Dooley of the University of Georgia tells his favorite stories from the 1980 season, when the Bulldogs football team won the national championship. Featuring the incomparable Herschel Walker, Georgia went undefeated in 1980, beating Notre Dame, 17-10, in the Sugar Bowl.
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| Tales from the New York Giants Sidelines |
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Tales from the Jets Sideline |
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Author: Paul Schwartz
In this book, memories, anecdotes, names, faces, games, cheers, and tears come rushing back, with new twists to old fables and old remembrances revitalized with fresh insight. There are so many great players, and so many great tales about legends like Phil Simms, Y.A. Tittle, Sam Huff, Frank Gifford, Lawrence Taylor, and Phil McConkey’s heart. This updated softcover edition adds the latest layers of the Giants’ history – the highs and lows experienced by young quarterback Eli Manning, the surprising retirement of star running back Tiki Barber, and the new leadership style of head coach Tom Coughlin.
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Author: Mark Cannizzaro
The New York Jets have not basked in an abundance of pride and glory. Sure, they were led to the “promised land” by Joe Namath with the stunning Super Bowl VII upset victory that capped the magical 1969 season. Since then, however, the Jets have careened through life alternating between bumbling and embarrassing, maddening and entertaining, while all along the way teasing their ardent fan base so tantalizingly that, rather sadistically, it has become a way of life...
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| Hawkeyes for Life |
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Fame of My Life: Florida |
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Author: Steve Roe
Hawkeyes for Life shares the passion of devoted University of Iowa sports fans. From watching Nile Kinnick lead the renowned Ironmen in 1939 to following the Hawkeyes to Florida bowl games in recent years, the book takes readers inside Hawkeye Nation, getting to know fans and how they have shown their strong support for the Black and Gold. It also visits with former members of the Hawkeye marching band, cheerleaders, and those who have dressed the part of Herky.
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Author: Pat Dooley
Some of the games described by these University of Florida football legends involve championships, while others have extraordinary personal meaning. Heisman Trophy winners Steve Spurrier and Danny Wuerffel, along with many other of the great names in Gator history, like John Reaves, Larry Smith, Carlos Alvarez, Wilber Marshall, Kerwin Bell, Jack Youngblood, Shane Matthews, and Chris Doering, are featured in this in-depth look into the men and games that helped shape and build the Florida Gator football tradition and heritage.
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| One Moment Changes Everything: The All-America Tragedy of Don Rogers |
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Pittsburgh Steelers Glory Days |
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Author: Sean Harvey
Don Rogers was a three-sport phenomenon who energized a forgotten corner of the world (North Sacramento). He could run, jump and tackle better than anyone in California. A role model to children, he became both an honor student and a consensus All- American football player for UCLA, where he dominated two Rose Bowls and was a favorite of fans and sportswriters alike. Rogers went on to become a first-round draft pick of the Cleveland Browns and was voted rookie of the year in 1984. Then it fell apart. Just one week after the overdose death of basketball star Len Bias, and only one day before his marriage to his college sweetheart, while in the upstairs bedroom of his mother’s home Rogers made the incomprehensible decision to use cocaine, and died just hours later. This All-American story is about a good man whose life transcended sports, and whose death continues to spur important debate about burden, love, addiction, responsibility, and what constitutes happiness in the material world.
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Author: Dale Grdnic
Readers are offered unique stories about the players and coaches who took part in many of the greatest and most euphoric victories in the Pittsburgh Steelers’ legendary history. Among the games covered are Franco Harris’ “Immaculate Reception” that beat the Oakland Raiders in the playoffs, the four Super Bowl and AFC Championship Game victories in the glorious decade of the 1970’s, and the incredible 2005 playoff run that was capped by the team’s fifth Super Bowl title. Among other games reviewed are Bill Cowher’s first victory as Steelers head coach in 1992 and Ben Roethlisberger’s first win as a starting quarterback in Miami after Hurricane Jeanne.
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| Game of My Life: Philadelphia |
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Game of My Life: New York Giants |
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Author: Bob Gordon
Several legendary Eagles players share their fondest single-game experience and memories. Some of these games involve championships, while others seem ordinary save for extraordinary personal meaning. In each case, it is the player who singles out the game, the moment in time that to him ranks as the most defining of his Philadelphia career. Chuck Bednarik and Tommy McDonald are among the former Eagles players profiled, along with other big names like Bill Bergey, Seth Joyner, Keith Jackson, Mike Quick, Vai Sikahema, Gary Cobb, William Thomas, Brian Baldinger, Claude Humphrey, Bill Bradley, Lito Sheppard, and Vince Papale, the subject of a recent blockbuster Hollywood movie.
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Author: Ken Palmer
Several legendary Giants players share their fondest single-game experience and memories – largely in their own words. Some of these games involve championships, while others seem ordinary save for extraordinary personal meaning. In each case, it is the player who singles out the game, the moment in time that is the most defining of his Giants career. Lawrence Taylor, Phil Simms, Otis Anderson, and Tiki Barber are among those former players profiled in this unique book. It provides an in-depth look into the men and games that helped shape and build the New York Giants franchise into the elite status it now holds in the NFL.
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| Game of My Life: San Francisco 49ers |
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Mike Ditka: Reflections on the 1985 Bears and Wisdom From Da Coach |
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Author: Dennis Georgatos
Some of the games described in this unique book involve championships, while others seem ordinary save for extraordinary personal meaning. In each case, it is the legendary 49ers player who singles out the game, the moment in time that to him is the most defining of his professional football career. Each player has his own unique story, but together they weave a tapestry of pro football and 49ers history in San Francisco. Steve Young, Jerry Rice, Roger Craig, John Brodie, Garrison Hearst, and R.C. Owens are just a few of the former players profiled. The book provides an in-depth look into the men and games that helped shape and build the 49ers franchise into one of the most successful in NFL history.
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Author: Mike Ditka with Rick Telender
The 1985 Chicago Bears set a standard for success that has not been matched over the past two decades. The Monsters of the Midway not only demolished the New England Patriots 46-10 in Super Bowl XX, they dominated the NFL that season in a way few other teams ever have. In a span of three games in November, the Bears defeated Detroit, Dallas, and Atlanta by a combined score of 104-3.The Bears finished the regular season with a gleaming 15-1 record, perfect but for a late-season slipup in Miami. In Mike Ditka: Reflections from the 1985 Bears and Wisdom from Da Coach, fans get a revealing look at Chicago’s last Super Bowl champion through the eyes of that team’s wildly popular head coach. Mike Ditka vividly describes the emotion, humor, and inner turmoil of his team, from quarterback Jim McMahon’s arrival in training camp with a Mohawk haircut through the team’s hit single, “The Super Bowl Shuffle,” and their eventual Super Bowl triumph.
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| Game of My Life: Washington Redskins |
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A Tradition of Purple: An Inside Look at the Minnesota Vikings |
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Author: Tom Mackie
Several prominent players who have worn the legendary Redskins’ helmet share their fondest single-game experience and memories. Sam Huff, Billy Kilmer, Larry Brown, Pat Fischer, Len Hauss, Mike Bass, Roy Jefferson, Ron McDole, Ken Houston, Diron Talbert, Don Bosseler, “Bullet” Bill Dudley, Joe Jacoby, Rick Walker, Hoe Washington, Jeff Bostic, Joe Theismann, Ken Harvey, Mike Nelms, Doug Williams, and Dexter Manley are among the former players profiled in this unique book. It provides an in-depth look into the men and games that helped shape and build the legendary Washington Redskins’ franchise.
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Author: Jim Bruton
This heart-warming and inspirational look at the Minnesota Vikings shows what the organization has meant to the fans and community over the past four decades. The book encompasses the positives and great moments of a storied and historic franchise that has held a major place in the hearts of Minnesota and surrounding region admirers since its inaugural season in 1961. The fans, the players, the coaches, the history, the owners, the front office, the new ownership, the new coaches, the charities, the Hall of Famers, the Ring of Honor, the names behind the scenes, the great games of the past, and the faces of the franchise, as told from a fan perspective, make up the heart and soul of A Tradition of Purple: An Inside Look at the Minnesota Vikings.
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| Tiller: Not Your Average Joe |
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Author: Chris Scelfo and Benjamin Hochman
Fourth and New Orleans is the touching, true story of Tulane University’s 2005 football season—played in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Just as their season was due to get underway, New Orleans’ only college football team was forced by Katrina to relocate several times before settling in the tiny northeast Louisiana town of Ruston for the balance of their season. For four months, the team battled doubt, fear, and uncertainty, playing “home” games on the road while they pondered if New Orleans would ever feel like home again. While each of Tulane’s players dealt with a distinct sense of loss that season, several of the players native to the New Orleans were hit the hardest as family homes were left uninhabitable and families were scattered across the South. Led by their strong-willed head coach, Chris Scelfo, the team learned the definition of perseverance as they struggled to stoke their competitive fires on the field as their lives remained in disarray off the field. Benjamin Hochman, an award-winning journalist for The Times-Picayune, spent the 2005 Tulane season on the road with the team.
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