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Michael Hardcastle MBE (6 February 1933 – 17 January 2019) was a British author of sports fiction for children.He has written more than one hundred and forty books on a range of sporting subjects but is probably best known for his books about association football.
In 2002, Sports Illustrated named Friday Night Lights the fourth-greatest book ever written about sports, and its fourth place position made it the highest rated book focusing on football. [6] In 2015, the book was reissued as a 25th anniversary edition and included a new afterword by Bissinger in which he provided an update on players from ...
Kramer authored the book by reciting his thoughts into a tape recorder, with Schaap then editing the words into the final written version. [1] In Schapp's obituary in 2001, The New York Times called Instant Replay one of the "best-selling books of its era." [2] In 2002, Sports Illustrated named Instant Replay the 20th greatest sports book of ...
Uell Stanley Andersen (September 14, 1917 – September 24, 1986) [1] was an American football player and self-help and short story author during the 1950s and 1960s. He is best known for his book, Three Magic Words.
He has written books centered on snowboarding, dirt bike racing, volleyball, golf and many other sports, in addition to a number of biographies of sportsmen and women. His first children's sports book published was The Lucky Baseball Bat , a 123-page novel published with illustrations by Robert Henneberger by Little, Brown and Company in Boston ...
He is the author, co-author, or editor of 8 books, [1] including the acclaimed America's Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation. [2] [3] MacCambridge's most recent book is '69 Chiefs: A Team, a Season and the Birth of Modern Kansas City, chronicling the Kansas City Chiefs' 1969 Super Bowl championship season. [4]
Brian Lester Glanville (born 24 September 1931) is an English football writer and novelist. He was described by The Times as "the doyen of football writers—arguably the finest football writer of his—or any other—generation", [1] and by American journalist Paul Zimmerman as "the greatest football writer of all time."
The Specky Magee series is a highly popular and best-selling children’s book series in Australia. The books, written by Felice Arena and renowned Aussie Rules player Garry Lyon, chronicle the life and times of teenager Simon Magee, an aspiring Aussie Rules football champion. [1] There are currently eight books in the series.