Hardwood Heroes

Hardwood Heroes
Author: John Smallwood
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780439788045

A biography of nine NBA players.

Tricksters in the Madhouse

Tricksters in the Madhouse
Author: John Christgau
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2007-08-15
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780803215993

The story of the pivotal first meeting between the all-white Minneapolis Lakers and the black Harlem Globetrotters in 1948 re-creates the game play by play and demonstrates how it represented an important step toward equality.

The NBA Finals

The NBA Finals
Author: Tyler Dean Omoth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 18
Release: 2020
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1496672909

The clock ticks down. The point guard sets up the play at the top of the key while his center jockeys for position at the hoop. A quick toss into the lane, and the center sinks the shot. The home fans roar. The National Basketball Association's ultimate prize is on the line. The NBA Finals are full of amazing shots, legendary games, and star players. Readers will discover it all in this book.

Marvels of the Texas Plains: Historic Chronicles from the Courthouse to the Caprock

Marvels of the Texas Plains: Historic Chronicles from the Courthouse to the Caprock
Author: Chuck Lanehart
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2022-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1467152803

Assemble a composite portrait of the Texas plains through these historic tales. Many thousands of years ago, Clovis Man hunted huge mammoths here. More recently, Waylon Jennings drew his musical inspiration here. In the intervening time, the Texas prairie has been the backdrop for the wildest of Wild West shootouts, landmark legal battles and epic achievements in sports, music and medicine. Familiar icons like Roy Orbison and Dan Blocker, as well as forgotten characters like Charlie "Squirrel-Eye" Emory and John "the Catfish Kid" Gough all helped shape the colorful history of the Texas Plains. Who shot the sheriff? Who was the earliest American? Who invented the slam dunk? Author Chuck Lanehart answers these questions and many more in a wide-ranging collection of stories.

Rivals

Rivals
Author: David K. Wiggins
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781610753494

The sixteen original essays in this collection cover influential and famous rivalries from a variety of sports, including track and field, golf, boxing, basketball, tennis, ice skating, baseball, football, soccer, and more. The essays are diverse, but together they illustrate what is common to any rivalry: equally matched opponents that often have decidedly different backgrounds, styles, and personalities. These differences may center on race and culture, political and societal ideologies, personality, geography, or religion—a mix intensified by fans and the media. From highly publicized and emotionally charged individual competitions to bitterly fought team contests, Rivals illuminates what one-of-a-kind opponents and the passion they inspire tell us about ourselves and our society.

All-Star Sports Trivia

All-Star Sports Trivia
Author: Matt Chandler
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2017
Genre: Sports
ISBN: 1623709369

Collection of weird sports trivia.

Hardwood Heroes

Hardwood Heroes
Author: Ross Bernstein
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780931714931

Hardwood Heroes tells the tale of Minnesota basketball, including high school, college and professional male and female teams. It is a great book full of wonderful stories, along with personal memories and photos.

Sweet 'stache

Sweet 'stache
Author: Jon Chattman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2009-03-18
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1440520054

"I am personally offended by this book because my mustache wasn't included. However, I endorse it because I am, and always will be, a huge fan of Tom Selleck's 'stache." --Meredith Vieira, The Today Show If a man has a mustache, it's hands-down his most distinguishable facial feature. Whether it's a handlebar, pencil-thin, fu Manchu, toothbrush, or horseshoe--it's how he's identified and described. This book recognizes this fact and celebrates the most famous mustaches--and the faces behind them. From politicians and ball players to pop stars and actors, this book covers them all with wit and humor. Authors Jon Chattman and Rich Tarantino have provided profiles and 'stache-analysis for the forty-nine men and one woman who made the cut. (One can't count out Frida Kahlo's artistic bigote!) It also includes sidebar lists that rank the top 'staches in all sorts of categories as well as mustache trivia and a timeline that traces the facial hair's evolution. It's hip again to rock full on facial hair. And Sweet 'Stache is the guide for anyone looking to get in on the must-have mustache action.

55 Years 55 Heroes

55 Years 55 Heroes
Author: Ross Bernstein
Publisher:
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2002-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780931714986

Minnesotaís sports history comes to life like never before in a celebration of achievements. Ross Bernstein has taken 55 of the greatest moments during a span of 55 years and tied them into interviews and biographies of the athletes involved.

Rusted Heroes

Rusted Heroes
Author: Andrew Post
Publisher: Medallion Media Group
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2016-08-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1605426547

Anoushka Demaine and her fearsome tank squad know war. Thirty years ago, for a reasonable rate, they could be hired to fight for anyone. Now, with the war between Rammelstaad and the orcs threatening to spread, Anoushka wants to get the team back together. But it was a lot easier to be a hero back then. Because not only does Rammelstaad’s queen want her enemies vanquished; now she wants the story of her victories read far and wide. Any would-be champions for the realm must be joined by a bard who will write their story—with enough spin to inspire awe and fear. Anoushka’s squad trust the slippery bard Ruprecht LeFevre about as far as they can throw him, but she knows she and her squad can get the job done—even if the bard turns their efforts into pulpy trash. They’ll cooperate if it lets them go back to the good old days of bullets, blood, and rock ’n’ roll. Five squaddies, a bard, and a dog. Their target: some necromancer. Great. Got it. Get in the tank.