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The Uncrowned Champs

Author : Dave Steidel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1631440470
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book The Uncrowned Champs written by Dave Steidel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the inception of the Super Bowl—football’s faceoff of the best teams to find out who is truly superior—the two leagues (AFL and NFL) would each have their own championship game. This bad blood stuck around until the merger of the leagues in 1966. Since beginning play in 1960, the American Football League had always taken a backseat to the National Football League. It was considered a secondary league; the best and most skilled players went to the more powerful NFL, which had been around for nearly fifty years. During the 1963 NFL season, the Chicago Bears reigned supreme, commanding every team that crossed their path. But were they the best team in football? If you asked the San Diego Chargers of the AFL, that answer would be a resounding no. The Uncrowned Champs follows the incredible season of the ’63 Chargers as they transformed their roster from a 4–10 finish in 1962 to a conquering force that ripped through the AFL. With a week-to-week breakdown, Dave Steidel chronicles the team’s innovative, high-scoring, juggernaut offense and top-rated defense that featured a fearsome, foursome front-line. Unfortunately for football fans, the Bears and Chargers never met on the field that year. But thanks to new technology, we are able to conduct a computer simulation of what would have been the first Super Bowl game and answer the fifty-year-old question of who was the best football team of ’63? Featuring a foreword by Chargers Hall of Fame wide-receiver Lance Alworth, The Uncrowned Champs is a terrific look into the pre–Super Bowl era, when two rival leagues fought for dominance in the public’s eye. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. Whether you are a New York Yankees fan or hail from Red Sox nation; whether you are a die-hard Green Bay Packers or Dallas Cowboys fan; whether you root for the Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, UCLA Bruins, or Kansas Jayhawks; whether you route for the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, or Los Angeles Kings; we have a book for you. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Boxing in New Mexico, 1868-1940

Author : Chris Cozzone
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786468289
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Boxing in New Mexico, 1868-1940 written by Chris Cozzone and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On June 28, 1868, a group of men gathered alongside a road 35 miles north of Albuquerque to witness a 165-round, 6-hour bare-knuckle brawl between well-known Colorado pugilist Barney Duffy and "Jack," an unidentified fighter who died of his injuries. Thought to be the first "official" prizefight in New Mexico, this tragic spectacle marked the beginning of the rich and varied history of boxing in the state. Oftentimes an underdog in its battles with the law and public opinion, boxing in New Mexico has paralleled the state's struggles and glories, through the Wild West, statehood, the Depression, war, and economic growth. It is a story set in boomtowns, ghost towns and mining camps, along railroads and in casinos, and populated by cowboys, soldiers, laborers, barrio-bred locals and more. This work chronicles more than 70 years of New Mexico's colorful boxing past, representing the most in-depth exploration of prizefighting in one region yet undertaken.

Stars in the Ring: Jewish Champions in the Golden Age of Boxing

Author : Mike Silver
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1630761400
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Stars in the Ring: Jewish Champions in the Golden Age of Boxing written by Mike Silver and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-03-04 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than sixty years—from the 1890s to the 1950s—boxing was an integral part of American popular culture and a major spectator sport rivaling baseball in popularity. More Jewish athletes have competed as boxers than all other professional sports combined; in the period from 1901 to 1939, 29 Jewish boxers were recognized as world champions and more than 160 Jewish boxers ranked among the top contenders in their respective weight divisions. Stars in the Ring,by renowned boxing historian Mike Silver, presents this vibrant social history in the first illustrated encyclopedic compendium of its kind.

Graphic Sports

Author : Felix Abayateye
Publisher : Graphic Communications Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Graphic Sports written by Felix Abayateye and published by Graphic Communications Group. This book was released on 2005-11-04 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Grand Prix Champions

Author : Mary S. Heglar
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393600100
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Grand Prix Champions written by Mary S. Heglar and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1973-07-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grand Prix Champions affords a rare-detailed-look into the personalities of the most celebrated drivers in grand prix racing: the World Champions.

Indian Champions

Author : Chitra Garg
Publisher : Rajpal & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9788170288527
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book Indian Champions written by Chitra Garg and published by Rajpal & Sons. This book was released on 2010 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short biography of eminent Indian sportspersons.

The Genius of Desperation

Author : Doug Farrar
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN 13 : 1641250828
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book The Genius of Desperation written by Doug Farrar and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If necessity has been the mother of invention throughout the history of professional football, it could also be said that desperation is the father. Rare are the football innovations that have occurred without an owner, general manager, coach, or player up against the wall and reaching for a way to succeed anyway. In this meticulously researched, lively book, Bleacher Report lead NFL scout Doug Farrar traces the schematic history of the pro game through these "if this/then that" moments—paradigm shifts in the game from 1920 through the present. More than just a book about schemes and strategies, The Genius of Desperation: The Schematic Innovations that Made the Modern NFL also tells the stories of the game's most prominent innovators, the adversities they endured, and the ways in which they learned to exceed their own expectations on the path to true greatness. Everyone from George Halas to Greasy Neale, Paul Brown to Sid Gillman, Bill Walsh to Chip Kelly is featured, as well as many more. The Genius of Desperation is a narrative arc through the history of the game as it's never been told before.

Terror in the City of Champions

Author : Tom Stanton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493018183
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Terror in the City of Champions written by Tom Stanton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller Detroit, mid-1930s: In a city abuzz over its unrivaled sports success, gun-loving baseball fan Dayton Dean became ensnared in the nefarious and deadly Black Legion. The secretive, Klan-like group was executing a wicked plan of terror, murdering enemies, flogging associates, and contemplating armed rebellion. The Legion boasted tens of thousands of members across the Midwest, among them politicians and prominent citizens—even, possibly, a beloved athlete. Terror in the City of Champions opens with the arrival of Mickey Cochrane, a fiery baseball star who roused the Great Depression’s hardest-hit city by leading the Tigers to the 1934 pennant. A year later he guided the team to its first championship. Within seven months the Lions and Red Wings follow in football and hockey—all while Joe Louis chased boxing’s heavyweight crown. Amidst such glory, the Legion’s dreadful toll grew unchecked: staged “suicides,” bodies dumped along roadsides, high-profile assassination plots. Talkative Dayton Dean’s involvement would deepen as heroic Mickey’s Cochrane’s reputation would rise. But the ballplayer had his own demons, including a close friendship with Harry Bennett, Henry Ford’s brutal union buster. Award-winning author Tom Stanton weaves a stunning tale of history, crime, and sports. Richly portraying 1930s America, Terror in the City of Champions features a pageant of colorful figures: iconic athletes, sanctimonious criminals, scheming industrial titans, a bigoted radio priest, a love-smitten celebrity couple, J. Edgar Hoover, and two future presidents, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan. It is a rollicking true story set at the confluence of hard luck, hope, victory, and violence. .

Chicago Boxing

Author : J.J. Johnston
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439614784
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Chicago Boxing written by J.J. Johnston and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005-02-23 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Mike Donovan, Battling Nelson"The Durable Dane," and "Stockyards" Harold Smith their stories are as colorful as their names. Chicagos boxing history is as exciting and unpredictable as any prize fight within the ring. Some of the most memorable boutsgreat, infamous or otherwisetook place in the citys clubs, parks and arenas, and Chicago has seen its share of champions and top contenders over the years. The Gans-McGovern fight in 1900the "Big Fix"set the sport back 25 years in Chicago. The "Long Count" between Tunney and Dempsey, in 1927, may still be the most controversial bout of all time. Chicago Boxing is a story not only of great boxers, but of the fans who embraced them, the promoters who made them big, and even a few mob bosses who made good on their talent.

World Heavyweight Champions 1865-1965

Author :
Publisher : John Keeman
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book World Heavyweight Champions 1865-1965 written by and published by John Keeman. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of heavyweight champions from 1865 to 1965 set in the context of great inventions, social upheavals and historical events.

History of Billiards through its Champions Third part

Author : Santo La Rosa
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244831408
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (448 download)

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Download or read book History of Billiards through its Champions Third part written by Santo La Rosa and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breve storia del biliardo attraverso le biografie dei suoi protagonisti.

Boxing in the Los Angeles Area, 1880-2005

Author : Tracy Callis
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426916884
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Boxing in the Los Angeles Area, 1880-2005 written by Tracy Callis and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles has been regarded as one of the greatest boxing cities in the world for more than a century. With a large fan base, Los Angeles has also been the home of many of the best and most exciting boxers. In Boxing in the Los Angeles Area, authors Tracy Callis and Chuck Johnston provide an overview of one of the greatest pugilistic hotbeds in the world from 1880 to 2005. This comprehensive history covers the top boxers of the area who became famous both locally and worldwide such as Jim Jeffries, Solomon "Solly" Smith, "Mexican" Joe Rivers, Armando Muniz, Oscar De La Hoya, and "Sugar" Shane Mosley. Boxing in the Los Angeles Area also reviews some of the areas most notable bouts such as Tommy Burns winning the heavyweight title from Marvin Hart in 1906, Shane Mosley winning the welterweight title from Oscar De La Hoya in 2000, and Ad Wolgast retaining the lightweight title in a bout with "Mexican" Joe Rivers in 1912. Written by boxing historians and members of the International Boxing Research Organization, Boxing in the Los Angeles Area includes many photos while providing a thorough history of the boxing world in one of the greatest boxing cities.

The Hurt Business

Author : Oliver Mayer
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1879691841
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book The Hurt Business written by Oliver Mayer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Top of His Game: The Best Sportswriting of W. C. Heinz

Author : W. C. Heinz
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 159853419X
Total Pages : 787 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book The Top of His Game: The Best Sportswriting of W. C. Heinz written by W. C. Heinz and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Littlefield (NPR's Only a Game) presents the second installment in the Library of America series devoted to classic American sportswriters, a defintive collector’s edition of the pathbreaking writer who invented the long-form sports story. Like his friend and admirer Red Smith, W. C. Heinz (1915–2008) was one of the most distinctive and influential sportswriters of the last century. Though he began his career as a newspaper reporter, Heinz soon moved beyond the confines of the daily column, turning freelance and becoming the first sportwriter to make his living writing for magazines. In doing so he effectively invented the long-form sports story, perfecting a style that paved the way for the New Journalism of the 1960s. His profiles of the top athletes of his day still feel remarkably current, written with a freshness of perception, a gift for characterization, and a finely tuned ear for dialogue. Jimmy Breslin named Heinz’s “Brownsville Bum”—a brief life of Al “Bummy” Davis, Brooklyn street tough and onetime welterweight champion of the world—“the greatest magazine sports story I’ve ever read, bar none.” His spare and powerful 1949 column, “Death of a Race Horse,” has been called a literary classic, a work of clarity and precision comparable to Hemingway at his best. Now, for this essential writer’s centennial, Bill Littlefield, the host of NPR’s Only A Game, presents the essential Heinz: thirty-eight columns, profiles, and memoirs from the author’s personal archive, including eighteen pieces never collected during his lifetime. Though Heinz’s great passion was boxing—the golden era of Rocky Graziano, Floyd Patterson, and Sugar Ray Robinson—his interests extended to the wide world of sports, with indelible profiles of baseball players (Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio), jockeys (George Woolf, Eddie Arcaro), hockey players, football coaches, scouts and trainers and rodeo riders.

Leo Houck

Author : Randy L. Swope
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476675341
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Leo Houck written by Randy L. Swope and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many of his peers began their careers as farmers and factory workers, Leo Florian Houck became a boxing sensation at age 14, enabling him to support his mother and six siblings after his father's death. Houck's career really took off in 1911 with a 20-round victory over world-class welterweight Harry Lewis in Paris. During 1913 Leo became the leading middleweight contender in America. This biography details Houck's early years in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, his long career in the ring--including 200 fights--and his 27 years as Penn State's legendary boxing coach.

The New Human Revolution, vol. 10

Author : Daisaku Ikeda
Publisher : Middleway Press
ISBN 13 : 1946635227
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (466 download)

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Download or read book The New Human Revolution, vol. 10 written by Daisaku Ikeda and published by Middleway Press. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through this novelized history of the Soka Gakkai—one of the most dynamic, diverse, and empowering movements in the world today—readers will discover the organization's goals and achievements even as they find inspiring and practical Buddhist wisdom for living happily and compassionately in today's world. The book recounts the stories of ordinary individuals who faced tremendous odds in transforming their lives through the practice of Nichiren Buddhism and in bringing Buddhism's humanistic teachings to the world. This inspiring narrative provides readers with the principles with which they can positively transform their own lives for the better and realize enduring happiness for themselves and others.

The Brilliant Path of Worldwide Kosen-rufu

Author : Soka Gakkai
Publisher : Middleway Press
ISBN 13 : 1946635650
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (466 download)

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Download or read book The Brilliant Path of Worldwide Kosen-rufu written by Soka Gakkai and published by Middleway Press. This book was released on 2021-05-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with stories of people achieving their human revolution,surmounting obstacles, and fulfilling their vow to create peaceand happiness in the world, Daisaku Ikeda's The New Human Revolution recounts the true history of the Soka Gakkai's worldwide movement for peace. Its thirty volumes will allow generation after generation to learn,to be inspired, and to continue the story into the future.This study guide, which covers the first ten volumes, offers highlights, key passages, historic photos, andother material to enhance your own study of this essential work.