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Sports Publishing Summer 2007 Catalog Titles:
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| Kent Hrbek's Tales from the Minnesota Twins Dugout |
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Jim Walden's Tales from the Washington State Cougars Sideline |
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Authors: Kent Hrbek with Dennis Brackin
The former big first baseman for the Minnesota Twins was one of the game's true characters, a throwback whose personal tastes were every bit as Ruthian as the monstrous homers for which he is remembered. Hrbek, who shares stories about the World Series-winning teams of 1987 and 1991, and teammates like Gary Gaetti, Tom Brunanasky, and Kirby Puckett, played the game with a passion seldom seen in modern sports, and brought fun and humor into the Twins clubhouse. This was a place where a manager had to ban the cleaning of fish in the trainer's room, and where practical jokes were commonplace...
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Author: Jim Walden with Dave Boling
Walden’s 1981 Cougars broke a 51-year bowl drought, and with victories in three of his last five Apple Cup games against Washington, Walden finally leveled the field with WSU’s cross-state rivals. In Jim Walden’s Tales from the Washington State Cougars Sideline, the coach, a Mississippi-born storyteller, looks at coaches from the colorful “Lone Star” Dietz to Bill Doba and gives readers a glimpse at the personalities of Cougar All-Americans as well as the other quirky individuals who made their way onto the WSU sidelines. Walden reveals the effective strategies and the flubs and tells what really happened on the field and in the locker rooms. He also shares the ways he was able to coax prospects into coming to remote Pullman and what he was really screaming at officials all those times. Walden tells his stories the way he coached—all out, nothing held back, with wit and humor...
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| Tales from Michigan Stadium - Volume II |
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Football's Second Season: Scouting Prep Football's Game Breakers |
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Author: Jim Brandstatter
Welcome to Tales from Michigan Stadium—Volume II. Wolverine broadcaster Jim Brandstatter takes you back to one of the greatest college football venues in the nation for his second book about the memories this great stadium holds. Brandstatter takes a little different approach this time around, as he follows some of the great names in Michigan football history on the road. While Michigan Stadium is the launching pad, the entire country is the destination. From the legendary names of Yost and Kipke, to the modern day wonders such as Carr and Braylon Edwards, this volume of tales takes you into the locker room and into the huddle for the untold stories of Michigan football. The tales Brandstatter tells never appeared in the newspapers...
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Author: Tom lemming with Taylor Bell
Tom Lemming wasn’t college football’s first “recruiting analyst”, but he definitely perfected the role. He began in 1978 – one of the first prospects he interviewed was a promising quarterback from Pittsburgh named Dan Marino – and filed his first report in 1979. In his first year, he had only one subscriber to his newsletter. Since then, Lemming has become the most celebrated, controversial, and influential player in the business. Competitors describe him as the “Godfather of recruiting.” He annually travels 55,000 miles, visits as many as 47 states, and personally interviews the top 1,500 players in the country to produce the Prep Football Report, a 300-page must-read for every college coach. This book chronicles Lemming’s journey and his passion for his profession, warts and all....
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| Tales from Penn State Football |
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Pat Jones' Tales from the Oklahoma State Sidelines |
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Author: Ken Rappoport
In Tales from Penn State Football author Ken Rappoport puts readers on the 50-yard line and sometimes in a seat on the bench or a stall in the locker room with one of college football’s most successful programs ever. From the first team in the 1880s to Joe Paterno’s celebrated teams of the 20th century, Penn State’s most entertaining and legendary football stories are chronicled. The early pioneers could hardly envision the future popularity of the game, where crowds of more than 100,000 fill Beaver Stadium to see Paterno’s nationally-ranked powers play in the second-largest stadium in America...
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Author: Pat Jones with Jimmie Tramel
Barry Sanders and Thurman Thomas were teammates at Oklahoma State in the 1980’s, when the Cowboys made history by producing three 10-win seasons in a five-year span. Pat Jones, who spent 11 seasons as Oklahoma State’s head coach, accumulated as many behind-the-scenes OSU football stories as Sanders and Jones accumulated yards. He shares his recollections in this book, which provides insight into one of the most exciting 10-year periods in Cowboy football history when the Cowboys caught lightning in a bottle...
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| Game of My Life: Minnesota Gophers |
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Game of My life: Auburn Tigers |
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Authors: Joel A. Rippel
With more than 600 victories, six national championships, and 16 former players in the College Football Hall of Fame, the University of Minnesota boasts one of the top programs in the history of college football. They gained national prominence when they won five national titles in an eight-year span (1934- 1941). The Gophers won another national title and went to two Rose Bowls in the early 1960’s. Game of My Life: Minnesota Gophers connects some of the most memorable Gophers and some of the most memorable games from those “Golden” times, with contributions from George “Sonny” Franck, Bill Daley, Murray Warmath, Tom Brown, future NFL Hall of Famer Carl Eller, and former Gopher quarterback and future NFL head coach Tony Dungy...
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Author: Mark Murphy
Several prominent Auburn football players of the past 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, that moment in time that to him is the most defining of his Auburn Tiger football career. Included are Heisman Trophy-winner Pat Sullivan, All-Americans Jackie Burkett, Jimmy “Red” Phillips, Buddy McClinton, Ken Rice, Steve Wallace, Gregg Carr, Ed Dyas, and “Cadillac” Williams; and fan favorites such as Lionel “Little Train” James and Joe Cribbs...
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| Game of My Life: South Carolina Gamecocks |
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Joe DeLamielleure's Tales from the Buffalo Bills |
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Rick Scoppe and Charlie Bennett
Several prominent South Carolina players of the past share their fondest singlegame experience and memories, largely in their own words. Each player has his own unique story, but together they weave a tapestry of South Carolina Gamecock football history. Included are Heisman Trophy winner George Rodgers, as well as other legendary Gamecocks like Alex Hawkins, ponytailed quarterback Steve Tannyhill, record-setting quarterback Todd Ellis, Dan Reeves – a Gamecock quarterback who went on to a distinguished NFL career as a running back with the Dallas Cowboys and then as a Super Bowl head coach; running back Brandon Bennett, tight end Willie Scott, and running back Rob DeBoer...
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Author: Joe DeLamielleure with Michael Benson
In the 1970’s, Joe DeLamielleure led a Buffalo Bills offensive line affectionately called the “Electric Company,” because they “turned the Juice loose.” The Juice, of course, was running back O.J. Simpson. A starter from the first game of his rookie season in 1973, DeLamielleure led the way for Simpson’s 2,000-yard season – the first in NFL history. He takes readers behind the scenes and into the locker room with one of the most exciting teams in Bills history. He shares how his Hall of Fame career almost never started, memories of Bills owner Ralph Wilson, the experience of being elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and much more...
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| Tales from the Oregon Ducks Sideline |
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Tom Flores' Tales from the Oakland Raiders |
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Author:
Brian Libby
Readers are taken on a fun-filled trip through Oregon’s gridiron history, with compelling and anecdotal stories from the program’s start in 1894 to the current era. Dan Fouts, Joey Harrington, Kenny Wheaton, Bill Musgrave, Rich Brooks, and many others are among the former players and coaches who provide tales and perspective about the Ducks. Off-the-field stories, such as the team’s much talked about uniform designs by Nike, are also part of this first-of-a-kind book about Oregon Ducks’ football...
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Author: Tom Flores with Matt Fulks
Not only did Tom Flores coach the Oakland Raiders to two Super Bowl championships, he was also the first starting quarterback in the team’s history. During his three and a half decades in the game he has come into contact with innumerable characters and colorful personalities from around the world of professional football. In Tom Flores’s Tales from the Oakland Raiders he provides behind-thescenes humor from greats such as former coach and owner Al Davis and coach Eddie Erdelatz, as well as players such as Marcus Allen, George Blanda, Howie Long, Jack Tatum, Billy Cannon, Jim Otto, John Matuszak, and Bo Jackson. Featuring a foreword written by Super Bowl XV Most Valuable Player Jim Plunkett, Tom Flores’s Tales from the Oakland Raiders also offers details on the franchise’s Super Bowl championships, making it essential reading for followers of the Silver and Black...
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| Game of My Life: Memorable Stories of Packers Football |
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Tales from the Chicago Bears Sidelines |
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Author:
Chuck Carlson
When Bart Starr snuck across the goal line in the withering cold of Lambeau Field to beat the Dallas Cowboys in 1967, “The Ice Bowl” became the greatest game in Green Bay Packers history. Unless, of course, it was the NFC championship win over the Carolina Panthers in 1997 that sent the Packers back to the Super Bowl for the first time in 30 years. Maybe it was that mind-bending 48-47 Monday night win over the Washington Redskins in 1983, or perhaps it was the Western Conference title win over the Baltimore Colts in 1965 on an overtime field goal that Colts players to this day say was no good. It could also have been any one of Green Bay’s three Super Bowl wins or the victory over the San Francisco 49ers in 1995 that cemented the Packers as a force in the NFL once again. Maybe it was any one of a number of games against their ancient rivals...
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Author: John Mullin
The famous and infamous, funny and not-so-funny stories, anecdotes, incidents, and quips weaved throughout the history of the National Football League’s first franchise are told in Tales from the Chicago Bears Sidelines. The tales begin with George Halas, the founder of the Bears and the architect of the NFL, and span more than eight decades of Bears lore, on into the era of Coach Dick Jauron. The book features tales from every era of Bears football, but sub-divides into sections to focus particularly on several major figures, including Halas, Mike Ditka, Walter Payton, and Dick Butkus...
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| Vikings for Life |
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Game of My Life: Denver Broncos |
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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 Vikings for Life...
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Author:
Jim Saccomano
20 Broncos football legends reveal details about the greatest game of their Bronco careers. Included are Hall of Fame quarterback John Elway, Frank Tripucka (the Broncos’ first-ever signal caller), and Charley Johnson, one of pro football’s most accomplished citizens ever; along with Craig Morton and Haven Moses, the famed “M and M” connection of Denver’s first Super Bowl team. Super Bowl MVP Terrell Davis has a prominent role in this tome, while running back Floyd Little, known to Broncos fans as “The Franchise,” also describes his greatest game, as does tight end Shannon Sharpe, linebackers Randy Gradishar and Karl Mecklenburg, and Red Miller, who coached the 1977 Broncos to that first Super Bowl...
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| Tales from Pennsylvania High School Football |
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Bill Rosinski's Tales from the Carolina Panthers |
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Author:
Kevin Gorman
High school football in the state of Pennsylvania has long been considered legendary in prep football circles around the nation. Many of the truly legendary names in football history – Johnny Unitas, Babe Parilli, Joe Montana, Tony Dorsett, Joe Namath, Dan Marino, Mike Ditka, and Jim Kelly – began their storied football careers in the state’s legendary prep ranks. Author Kevin Gorman provides readers with tales, stories, and anecdotes about the many great coaches, teams, players, and moments in the treasured and renowned history of prep football in the Keystone State...
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Author: Bill Rosinski with Pat Yasinskas
Bill Rosinski was the Carolina Panthers’ first radio play-by-play broadcaster when the franchise began NFL play in 1995, and held that post for a decade. In his first book, the highly popular and humorous Charlotte media celebrity relays many behind-the-scenes stories and anecdotes about the Panthers briefbut- successful tenure in the NFL, which has included three appearances in the NFC title game and one Super Bowl appearance...
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| 2007 NCAA Basketball Champions |
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2007 NBA Champions |
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Author:
TBD
. Sports
Publishing's “instant” books are jam-packed with
eye-popping full-color photos, along with stats,
game recaps, stories, columns, and profiles
from the pages of some of America’s greatest
daily newspapers. Featuring the writings of some
of the industry’s finest sportswriters and photos
that can be found in no other place, these books
are most often the FIRST titles available on the
market after a team has won a championship
or completed a memorable season.
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Author: TBD
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Publishing's “instant” books are jam-packed with
eye-popping full-color photos, along with stats,
game recaps, stories, columns, and profiles
from the pages of some of America’s greatest
daily newspapers. Featuring the writings of some
of the industry’s finest sportswriters and photos
that can be found in no other place, these books
are most often the FIRST titles available on the
market after a team has won a championship
or completed a memorable season.
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2007 Stanley Cup Champions |
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