E-Book Extras: ONE: Stats, Facts and Highlights; TWO: An Interview with Tom Stanton Commemorating the 30th anniversary of Aaron's historic #s 714 & 715! Baseball has witnessed more than 125,000 major-league home runs. Many have altered the outcomes of games, but none has played a more significant ... more »

The best players know that golf is a game of confidence, and most important, concentrationthe ability to focus and block out distraction. The goal of achieving clear thought is also at the heart of Buddhist teachings. In his highly original and groundbreaking book, noted PGA coach and Buddhist instructor ... more »

He intimidated people on and off the football field. He was brutal yet brilliant, narcissistic yet magnanimous, relentless yet unyielding. Most of all, he was the greatest football player of all time. He was Jim Brown. Jim Brown was an astonishing physical specimen with tremendous skills and intelligence ... more »

The town of Dornoch, Scotland, lies at nearly the same latitude as Juneau, Alaska. A bit too far removed for the taste of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, the Royal Dornoch Golf Club has never hosted a British Open, but that has hardly diminished its mystique or its renown. In an influential ... more »

Quick Tips The best of the best Getting Started: Pre-Swing Fundamentals Off the Tee: Longer & Straighter Drives From the Fairway: More Consistency Hitting More Greens: Accurate Iron Play Around the Green: Saving Strokes Bunker Shots: Get It Out, Get It Close One the Green: More One-putts, No Three ... more »

A BRILLIANTLY WRITTEN ACCOUNT OF THE NBA'S GLORY DAYS, AND THE RIVALRY THAT DOMINATED THE ERA In the mid-1950s, the NBA was a mere barnstorming circuit, with outposts in such cities as Rochester, New York, and Fort Wayne, Indiana. Most of the best players were white; the set shot and layup were the sport ... more »

E-Book Extra: Bill Belichick: Snapshots and Stats An unprecedented look at the inner workings of a pro football team and the rise, fall, and rise of a champion When Bill Belichick arrived in New England, the Patriots were a laughingstock, an organization with a losing record, spiraling morale, salary ... more »

This book is an energetic examination of one of sport's most powerful franchises, the original Baltimore Oriolesthe team that gave birth to modern baseball, whose players were later absorbed by Brooklyn and were known later as the Highlanders. It stands as a mute testimony to show that a team can simply ... more »

Go Spanning the World with Len Berman in this wildly entertaining, insightful, and often hilarious book that takes sports fans behind the scenes and inside locker rooms. One of the most popular television sports personalities -- known for his Spanning the World segments on NBC's Today show -- Len Berman ... more »

Butch Harmon is the world's number one golf coach. He taught Tiger Woods through one of the greatest stretches of victories in golf history (and, perhaps even more conspicuously, did not teach Tiger Woods following his unprecedented run), as well as superstars like Greg Norman, Adam Scott, Fred Couples ... more »

It is a basketball rivalry that simply has no equal. Duke vs. North Carolina is Ali vs. Frazier, the Giants vs. the Dodgers, the Red Sox vs. the Yankees. Hell, it's bigger than that. This is the Democrats vs. the Republicans, the Yankees vs. the Confederates, capitalism vs. communism. All right, okay ... more »

Golf is sometimes referred to as the wicked game because it is fiendishly difficult to play well. Yet in the parlance of the Tiger Woods generation, it's also a wickedly good game -- rich, glamorous, and more popular than ever. When we think about golf -- as it is played at its highest level -- we think ... more »