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Hoffer is the author of five books. [7] [8] [9] His 1998 book about Mike Tyson, A Savage Business: The Comeback and Comedown of Mike Tyson, which chronicled Tyson's release from prison and subsequent return to the ring, was named one of the top 100 sports books of all time by Sports Illustrated.
Sugar wrote more than 80 books, focusing on his favorite sports of boxing and baseball. Among his boxing books are Great Fights, Bert Sugar on Boxing, 100 Years of Boxing, Sting like a Bee (with José Torres), The Ageless Warrior (Preface, with Mike Fitzgerald) and Boxing's Greatest Fighters. Sugar was ranked as "The Greatest Boxing Writer of ...
At Indiana, he published seven books and many articles and reviews. His books have won various awards: Sports Illustrated placed Beer & Circus on its list of "100 Best Sports Books of All-time" (Dec. 16, 2002) and Frank DeFord named Shake Down the Thunder as the second best sports history book (Dec. 16, 2002).
The Baseball Encyclopedia is a baseball reference book first published by Macmillan in 1969. Nine further editions of the book were released between 1974 and 1996. The Baseball Encyclopedia features statistical summaries for Major League Baseball (MLB) players.
Recently christened one of the New York Times’ “Best Books of the 21st Century,” this award-winning novel from the author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf recounts 30 of the most dramatic and ...
His best-known book is The Boys of Summer (1972), which examines his relationship with his father as seen through the prism of their shared affection for the Brooklyn Dodgers. In 2002, a Sports Illustrated panel placed The Boys of Summer second on a list of "The Top 100 Sports Books of All Time". [3]
Pat Jordan (born April 22, 1941) is an American sports writer. His work has been included in the Best American Sports Writing anthology series seven times. [1] He is also the author of A False Spring, a bittersweet memoir about his minor league baseball career, which is ranked #37 on Sports Illustrated's Top 100 Sports Books of All Time and which Time called “one of the best and truest books ...
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 all time. [3] The Washington Post's Jonathan Yardley called the book "the best inside account of pro football, indeed probably the best book ever ...