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He Crashed Me So I Crashed Him Back: The True Story of the Year the King, Jaws, Earnhardt, and the Rest of NASCAR's Feudin', Fightin' Good Ol' Boys Put Stock Car Racing on the Map
Starred Review. Stock car racing had long been a Southern phenomenon, but 1979 changed everything. A fight at the live, nationally televised Daytona 500 between Bobby Allison and Cale Yarborough helped, especially since monstrous snowstorms over the race's weekend essentially made the East housebound, contributing to big ratings.

Sports Illustrated Hockey: Learn to Play the Modern Way
Former you-league hockey coach Jack Falla has written on hockey for numerous periodicals including Hockey Magazine , Goal magazine, Boston magazine and Sports Illustrated . He has written television features for the Canadian Broascatsing Corporation's Hockey Night in Canada. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Who's Your Caddy?: Looping for the Great, Near Great, and Reprobates of Golf
com Review.To really know someone, as the saying goes, you must walk a mile in their shoes. But to really understand a golfer, you've got to work as their caddy. Sports Illustrated columnist Rick Reilly managed to get some very intriguing golfers to let him lug their bag and write what he learned both about the game and the folks who play it.

Flip
Kevin Cook is the author of The Last Headbangers, Titanic Thompson, and Tommy’s Honor. The former editor in chief of Golf Magazine, he has written for Sports Illustrated, GQ, Playboy, Details, Men’s Journal, and many other magazines, and has appeared on ESPN, CNN, and FOX TV. He lives in New York City.

The Art of a Beautiful Game
*Starred Review* The conventional wisdom among casual NBA fans holds that the game is an improvisational, formless shoot-a-thon played by undisciplined athletes whose abilities are the product of genetics rather than practice.

Beyond the Bread Basket: Recipes for Appetizers, Main Courses, and Desserts
"With great style, Kayser reminds cooks to pursue the best, and that even the simplest food can be sublime." ~Appetiteforbooks.comAbout the Author.Éric Kayser is a food consultant and third-generation Parisian baker. His inherited taste for traditional French bread and pastries has resulted in twenty-eight bakeries worldwide.

The Machine
A senior writer at Sports Illustrated, Joe Posnanski has twice been named the Best Sports Columnist in America by the Associated Press Sports Editors for his work at the Kansas City Star. He is the author of The Good Stuff and The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America, which won the prestigious Casey Award for best baseball book of 2007.

Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback
"A continuous feast.The best book ever about football--or anything!" -- Wall Street JournalAbout the Author.George Plimpton (1927 - 2003) was the best-selling author and editor of nearly thirty books, as well as the cofounder, publisher, and editor of the Paris Review. He wrote regularly for such magazines as Sports Illustrated and Esquire, and he also appeared numerous times in films and on television.

Damn Yankees: Twenty-Four Major League Writers on the World's Most Loved (and Hated) Team
Rob Fleder was executive editor of Sports Illustrated and the editor of Sports Illustrated Books during his twenty years at Time Inc. He was the editor of Sports Illustrated 50: The Anniversary Book, The Sports Illustrated Baseball Book, and Hate Mail from Cheerleaders, among other New York Times bestsellers. He lives in the Hudson Valley.

Wallace: The Underdog Who Conquered a Sport, Saved a Marriage, and Championed Pit Bulls--One Flying Disc at a Time
Praise for The Lost Dogs: “Gorant’s fine book is a heartwarming tale of how the love and commitment of a community can heal even the deepest and most abhorrent of traumas.” —Sports Illustrated About the Author.JIM GORANT has worked as a magazine editor and writer for twenty years and is currently a senior editor at Sports Illustrated.

Ghosty Men: The Strange but True Story of the Collyer Brothers, New York's Greatest Hoarders, An Urban Historical
When 65-year-old Homer Collyer, blind and crippled by rheumatism, was found dead in his dilapidated, junk-filled Harlem brownstone in March 1947, the discovery made all of New York's newspapers, as did the subsequent hunt for his younger brother, Langley, whose body was finally located under piles of debris.

The Whore of Akron: One Man's Search for the Soul of LeBron James
“A powerful storyteller in full command of his game.wonderfully immoderate.” (New York Times )“There is more passion, anger and sublime writing in Scott Raab’s The Whore of Akron than any 50 other books you’ll read this (or any other year) combined.” (New York Post )“The book is both poem and polemic, a lyrical inventory of rage and appetite and loss.