New Releases by Glenn Stout

Offers a compelling narrative about the construction workers who toiled tirelessly on the site of Ground Zero following the attack on the World Trade Center to clear away the massive piles of debris and help recover lost victims.

In a career that spanned more than 30 years, George Herman Babe Ruth changed the way the sport of baseball was played. There has never been another player like the Babe. The creator of this series is Matt Christopher. Legends in Sports/Baseball.

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Traces the life of the young woman who entered professional tennis at age fourteen and won a gold medal at the 1992 Olympics, but soon after had a fall from grace only to return to win the Australian and French Opens in 2001. Original.

In the annals of baseball, the history of few other teams can compare to the rich legacy of the Dodgers. Stout provides their definitive story, from their birth in Brooklyn in 1884 to their move to Los Angeles to present day.

With Pulitzer Prize-winning editor Cramer at its helm, this collection brings together the best writing on sports from the past year. Not just for readers of the sports pages, this year''s selections embrace the world of sports in all its drama, humanity, and excitement.

To mark the 100th anniversary of the most celebrated team in history, this collection features a century''s worth of the best writing on the New York Yankees.

Features articles spanning over a century of Red Sox baseball.

ance Armstrong has won the Tour de France, the world''s most challenging race, four consecutive times. He''s been the World Road Cycling Champion three times and claimed a medal at the Sydney Olympics. Yet before these accomplishments, when he was 25 years old, Lance Armstrong was diagnosed with cancer. How he fought back against this life-threatening disease and went on to take the cycling world by storm is a story that continues to amaze and inspire fans worldwide.

From his appearance on the Mike Douglas Show at age three (he putted for Bob Hope and Jimmy Stewart) to his winning the U.S Junior Amateur title at fifteen (he was the youngest champion ever) to his recent victories in four Grand Slam events in a row (though not in the same year), Tiger Woods has pursued with single-minded determination his dream of becoming the greatest golfer in history. But who is the real Tiger Woods? From his Nike commercials to his conflicting statements on race, Tiger has stirred up plenty of controversy off the golf course. And now in Chasing Tiger—an up-to-date collection of profiles, commentary, and reporting on Tiger''s career by both U.S. and British writers from the late 1980s to now –we chart the trajectory of "the chosen one" from young prodigy to the most popular athlete in the world. With stellar profiles by esteemed sports writers such as Gary Smith and Charles Pierce, reportage by Pulitzer Prize–winning sportswriters Tom Boswell and the late Jim Murray, and pithy commentary by Ellen Goodman, Maureen Dowd, and Frank Deford, Chasing Tiger is a multi-dimensional portrait of the making of a legend.

Matt Christopher Sports Biographies.

Photographs and essays help chronicle one hundred years of history for the New York Yankees professional baseball team, profiling key players, coaches, and moments in the team''s history.

One of America''s premier sports journalists selects the best sports writing of the year by such authors as H.G. Bissinger, Charles P. Pierce, Jim Harrison, Rick Reilly, and others.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian selects the 50 best pieces of sports writing of the century, capturing the great moments in baseball, boxing, horse racing, golf, and tennis.

A full-length biography of the legendary Yankee Clipper examines his astonishing career and also includes five essays, by Ted Williams and other notable figures, that consider his place in baseball history.

The 1995 edition covers a wide variety of sports topics: a humorous commentary on NFL end-zone celebrations, the frequency of anorexia among female gymnasts, and a surprising review of Ken Burns''s Baseball documentary. This book is sure to delight both the general reader and the serious sports fan.