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 real basketball deal--the inside story of Harlem's legendary tournament and the pros and playground legends who have made it world famous. Earl The Goat Manigault. Herman Helicopter Knowings. Joe The Destroyer Hammond. Richard Pee Wee Kirkland. These and dozens of other colorfully nicknamed men are ... more »

For an extraordinary handful of years around the turn of the millennium, the Yankees were baseball's unstoppable force. With four World Series championships in five seasons and a deep bench of legends and comers -- Clemens, Rivera, Williams, Soriano, Jeter, O'Neill -- they dominated the major leagues ... 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 »

Every year, he became so close only to fall short. Every year, the dream grew larger, only to fade away. Yet every year, his gallery of fans grew in support of his quest. Then on April 11, 2004, for the most beloved golfer of the decade, everything changed. In ONE MAGICAL SUNDAY, Phil Mickelson takes ... more »

In this delightful book that every baseball fan will cherish, ten outstanding ballplayers remember the heyday of the game in the 1930s and 1940s. It was the era of Gehrig and DiMaggio; of Foxx, Greenberg, and Williams; of Grove and Feller. Elden Auker, Tommy Henrich, Dom DiMaggio, Johnny Pesky, and Bob ... more »

In The Nicklaus Way, acclaimed golf writer John Andrisani analyzes how Nicklaus created such a powerful swing and developed near perfect shot selection. Andrisani also reveals the secrets to Nicklaus's mental and course-management games, and shows golfers how to prepare thoroughly for a round of golf ... more »

Willi Unsoeld, arguably the greatest Western climber of the Golden Age of Himalayan mountaineering, became an international hero during the Kennedy era. Unsoeld was the first to climb the West Ridge of Everest, where his go-for-broke style and near-mad fearlessness established the modern template for ... more »

A detailed plan for conquering the FEAR that sabotages swings and ruins psyches, from the pioneering psychologist whose techniques have benefited Davis Love III, Justin Leonard, and numerous other world-class golfers. As Jack Nicklaus once observed, fear is the golfer's greatest enemy, inspiring Tiger ... more »

A few years ago, the closest Mike Magnuson thought he would get to participating in a sporting event was sitting in the local bar, slamming pitchers of beer and watching the NFL playoffs on TV. He was thirty-eight years old, smoked a pack a day, drank a case or two of beer a week, and carried 250 pounds ... more »

Once upon a time, they taught us to believe. They were the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, a blue-collar bunch led by an unconventional coach, and they engineered perhaps the greatest sports moment of the twentieth century. Their "Miracle on Ice" has become a national fairy tale, but the real ... more »