I know a lot about the history of the game of baseball, and yet Joe took me to exciting games and plays and players I knew nothing about, and he did it in such a clever way that I found myself loving this book. As an author myself, I am rarely surprised by the way a book is written. The way Joe put this book together was just short of genius. His is a rare talent.
Winner of the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year
National Sports Media Association Sports Book of the Year
An NPR "Book of the Day"
#1 New York Times bestselling author Joe Posnanski is back with a masterful ode to the game: a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to make you fall in love with the sport all over again.
Posnanski writes of major moments that created legends, and of forgotten moments almost lost to time. It's Willie Mays’s catch, Babe Ruth’s called shot, and Kirk Gibson’s limping…
James Mitchner and Leon Uris were always my favorite writers, but after reading Prince of tides, My Losing Season, Beach Music, and South of Broad, Conroy joins that list. He is a Southerner who takes you to the Deep South, where he experiences tragedy and joy, and you live through it too. You become so engrossed in what he is writing about that it becomes almost painful to put the book down. My one regret is that I never had the opportunity to tell him how special a writer he is.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A big sweeping novel of friendship and marriage” (The Washington Post) by the celebrated author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini
Leopold Bloom King has been raised in a family shattered—and shadowed—by tragedy. Lonely and adrift, he searches for something to sustain him and finds it among a tightly knit group of outsiders. Surviving marriages happy and troubled, unrequited loves and unspoken longings, hard-won successes and devastating breakdowns, as well as Charleston, South Carolina’s dark legacy of racism and class divisions, these friends will endure until a final test forces them…
Bill Parcells is legendary football coach. He is highly respected throughout the National Football League. But when I picked up his book and started reading it, I was hooked. He and Nunyo Demasio have written one of the best-written sports autobiographies I have ever read. I can't praise it highly enough. I even called Nunyo, who I didn't know, to tell him how great it is. If you are a pro football fan, you need to read this book.
Bill Parcells may be the most iconic football coach of our time. During his decades-long tenure as an NFL coach, he turned failing franchises into contenders while training future head coaches such as Bill Belichick, Tom Coughlin and Sean Payton. Parcells led the ailing New York Giants to two Super Bowl victories, turned the New England Patriots into an NFL powerhouse, brought the New York Jets back to life, rejuvenated the Dallas Cowboys, and was most recently enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The comprehensive biography -- written by Nunyo Demasio -- takes readers behind the scenes with…
Whispers of the Gods features the reminiscences of baseball's legends pulled from hundreds of hours of taped interviews with the author. The players interviewed are All Stars, Hall of Famers, and heroes to many, and their impact on the national pastime is still felt to this day. Baseball history comes alive. Whispers of the Gods offers a fascinating account of the golden age of baseball.
