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The Game is a book written by former ice hockey goaltender Ken Dryden. Published in 1983, the book is a non-fiction account of the 1978-79 Montreal Canadiens, detailing the life of a professional hockey player. The book describes the pressures of being a goaltender in the NHL, and gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at a team that would ...
Brosnan's first book, The Long Season, was named by Sports Illustrated as the 19th best sports book of all time and credited the work as serving as a model for Jim Bouton's book Ball Four, Jerry Kramer's book Instant Replay, and many other first-person sports memoirs.
This is a list of writers who have worked for the American magazine Sports Illustrated This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
In the mid-’80s, their Crunch Course show came along with any new Sports Illustrated subscription as a videotape freebie. Essential as it felt at the time, much of what NFL glorified is now ...
The book received positive reviews. In The New York Times book review at the time of its release, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt called it "one of the best books I've ever read about American sports." The book was also given a positive review by Sports Illustrated upon its release. In 2002 Sports Illustrated listed the book number 17 in their list ...
20 years after 'Moneyball,' the genre has been drained of its significance—and there's an important culprit to blame.
Kramer authored the book by reciting his thoughts into a tape recorder, with Schaap then editing the words into the final written version. In Schapp's obituary in 2001, The New York Times called Instant Replay one of the "best-selling books of its era." In 2002, Sports Illustrated named Instant Replay the 20th greatest sports book of all time.
André Laguerre. Marc André Laguerre (February 21, 1915 – January 18, 1979) was a journalist and magazine editor, best known as the managing editor of Sports Illustrated from 1960 to 1974, during which time he oversaw the growth in the magazine from a niche publication to become the industry leader in weekly sports magazines. It was under ...