New Releases by Mike Lupica

Thirteen-year-old Danny must prove himself all over again for a disapproving coach and against new rivals at a summer basketball camp.

The #1 Bestseller! Twelve-year-old Danny Walker may be the smallest kid on the basketball court -- but don''t tell him that. Because no one plays with more heart or court sense. But none of that matters when he is cut from his local travel team, the very same team his father led to national prominence as a boy. Danny''s father, still smarting from his own troubles, knows Danny isn''t the only kid who was cut for the wrong reason, and together, this washed-up former player and a bunch of never-say-die kids prove that the heart simply cannot be measured. For fans of The Bad News Bears, Hoosiers, the Mighty Ducks, and Mike Lupica''s other New York Times bestselling novels Heat, The Underdogs, and Million-Dollar Throw, here is a book that proves that when the game knocks you down, champions stand tall.

The biggest thing that''s ever happened to South Shore is its high-school basketball team. When a kid on the school paper begins to hear stories of brutalities at a team retreat, of hazing--and murder--the threats begin to get ugly.

The owner of the New York Knights, the worst team in the NBA, will try anything to turn his team around. He discovers Dee Gerard, the first woman to play in the NBA.

Jack Molloy inherits half of the New York Hawks, and "over the course of a single season, Molloy will get a crash course in steroids, gambling, crooked quarterbacks, idiot sportswriters, control-freak coaches, and philandering announcers."--Jacket.

A funny, moving, unconventional exploration of a glorious baseball season. In 1998, the conversation of the country was about baseball. Lupica recaptures that season, telling how Roger Maris''s boyhood best friend in Fargo, ND, watches McGwire hit 62; Kerry Wood''s high school assistant coach in Texas refuses to believe the reports of Wood''s strikeout record, until the phone starts ringing; Joe DiMaggio talks as he watches the Yankees have the kind of year he always had; Yogi Berra watches highlights of David Wells''s perfect game & remembers the perfect game he caught from Don Larsen -- all the boys of summer come alive in special ways. It is also about fathers & sons -- about the golden thread that stretches through baseball.

The tale of the season of competition between McGwire and Sosa to break the hitting record.

The sports commentator explores how agents, owners, commissioners, the media, and the players themselves have alienated the fans who support their teams

"The new Peter Finley mystery".