Product Description: A treasure trove of fascinating history, lore, facts, and stats about the gentleman's game.What causes a golf ball to hook or slice? What are the origins of the terms “bogey” and “birdie”? Why was Jack Nicklaus called “The Golden Bear”? “Why is the Masters champion presented with a green jacket? How many tournaments did Byron Nelson win in 1945?With Golf Miscellany, the fascinating history and lore of golf are finally revealed! For example, the reason a golf ball hooks or slices is that its spin drags a layer of air across one surface of the ball faster than it does across the opposite surface...read more

Product Description: .cs95E872D0{text-align:left;text-indent:0pt;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt} .cs5EFED22F{color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; } As the New York Mets celebrate their fiftieth anniversary of National League baseball, this rollicking chronicle recounts a half century of the team’s ups and downs...read more

Product Description: "Meet the Mets, meet the Mets, step right up and greet the Mets."New York Mets: The Complete Illustrated History brings to life a half century of Mets baseball, from the lovable losers of the early years, through the championship teams of 1969 and 1986, up through the stars of today...read more

Product Description: A treasure trove of fascinating history, lore, facts, and stats about our national pastime.Why does a curveball curve? What is a “can of corn”? Why was Joe DiMaggio called the “Yankee Clipper”? “Who wrote “Take Me Out to the Ballgame”? How many times did Ty Cobb steal home? In Baseball Miscellany, the fascinating history and lore of our national pastime is finally revealed! For example, the reason a curveball curves is that its spin drags a layer of air across one surface of the ball faster than it does across the opposite surface...read more

Product Description: A lighthearted, anecdotal history, essential for every Red Sox fan.What do Rube Walberg, Mike Nagy, Kevin Millar, and Dustin Pedroia all have in common? They all wore #15 for the Boston Red Sox. Since 1931, the Red Sox have issued 74 different numbers to more than 1,500 players...read more

Product Description: A behind-the-scenes look at the Mets' final season at Shea Stadium

Product Description: A lighthearted, anecdotal history of the Chicago Cubs as told through an analysis of those numbers.What do Dizzy Dean, Catfish Metkovich, John Boccabella, Bill Buckner, Mark Prior, and Kevin Hart all have in common? They all wore number 22 for the Chicago Cubs, even though seven decades have passed between the last time Dizzy Dean buttoned up a Cubs uniform with that number and the first time reliever Kevin Hart performed the same routine...read more

Product Description: If you had to come up with a list of the 100 quintessential things about the Mets that you needed to know, what would they be? You could take the best 100 of the 800-plus players in franchise history, and weave in the managers. You could take the 100 most important games the team has played, but you'd be grasping toward the end...read more

Presents the statistics of professional American football players, coaches, and teams for each season from 1920-2006.

Presents the statistics of professional American football players, coaches, and teams from 1920-2005.

Product Description: Meet the Mets 2008 is the most comprehensive and thorough guide to the 2008 Mets season available. Most preseason annuals cover all of baseball, and they never deliver enough team-specific information, but now there’s a publication that can quench the desire of any Mets diehard with a bevy of analysis, information, interviews,and nostalgia...read more

Product Description: A one-stop record containing everything Met fans want to know about their favorite baseball team, this resource is packed with anecdotes, history, explanations of traditions, statistics, trivia, and photos.

Details statistics from American professional baseball teams and players from 1900 through the previous season, including draft information, lists of award winners and world champion teams, career records, Negro League statistics, and facts about the teams, managers, ballparks, and more. Original.

Details statistics from United States baseball teams and players from 1900 through the previous season, including draft information, and provides lists of award winners and world champion teams.

The first in what hopes to be an annual collection of great prose about baseball includes contributions from Lisa Winston, John Hunt, Bob Nightengale, Chris Colston, Buster Olney, Bob Ryan, Rob Neyer, and other notable sports journalists. Original.

Details statistics from United States baseball teams and players from 1900 through the previous season, including draft information, and provides lists of award winners and world champion teams.

Product Description: BRASSEY'S PRO FOOTBALL FORECAST is back again with what every pro football fan craves: insights, statistics, and predictions for the 2004 NFL season. Last year you asked for more research essays; we gave them to you. You wanted longer discussions of the players; we increased our already crammed section that’s full of stats and reports on every single player...read more

The most comprehensive baseball reference ever published offers readers statistics, articles, team histories, player biographies, and articles on such topics as collecting baseball memorabilia, Civil War-era baseball, and collegiate baseball history. 50,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Featuring short biographies on more than 2,000 players, this comprehensive baseball reference includes birth and death dates, major league debut dates, physical specs, career stats, and much more, covering the field from Hank Aaron to Richie Zisk. 40,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Each Total Baseball Companion is the official resource on one major league team. The statistics, history, and analysis that make Total Baseball a fixture in fans' libraries can now be found in 30 books that can fit into a back pocket...read more

The definitive football encyclopedia offers fans a register of all 17,000 NFL players, with stats provided by the Elias Sports Bureau dating back to the NFL's inception n 1920, team histories, football families, the three hundred greatest players, and much more. (view table of contents)