Kevin Cook
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Description
277 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The untold story of a national trauma-NASA's Challenger explosion-and what really happened to America's Teacher in Space, illuminating the tragic cost of humanity setting its sight on the stars"--
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Description
253 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The dramatic story of a legendary 1979 slugfest between the Chicago Cubs and the Philadelphia Phillies, full of runs, hits, and subplots, at the tipping point of a new era in baseball history"--
May 17, 1979. Nobody expected an afternoon game to be much more than a lazy early-season contest matching two teams heading in opposite directions-- the first-place Phillies and those lovable losers, the Cubs. Cook provides a vivid account of a game that...
3) The last headbangers: NFL football in the rowdy, reckless '70s - the era that created modern sports
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Description
vi, 278 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Description
x, 283 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In The Tiger Slam, Kevin Cook delivers a gripping, inside-the-ropes account of an astonishing streak of victories that left Woods's rivals scrambling to keep up. Readers will hear from many of golf's biggest names--Tiger's caddie, his coach, his opponents, his idols, and others, all offering fresh insight into the electrifying highs of his victories and the obstacles on and off the course that threatened his relentless pursuit of perfection."--
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Description
242 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"At last, the true story of a crime that shocked the world. New York City, 1964. A young woman is stabbed to death on her front stoop--a murder the New York Times called "a frozen moment of dramatic, disturbing social change." The victim, Catherine "Kitty" Genovese, became an urban martyr, butchered by a sociopathic killer in plain sight of 38 neighbors who "didn't want to get involved." Her sensational case provoked an anxious outcry and launched...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Description
x, 289 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of six unlikely heroes and the epic World Series that changed their lives forever. The 1947 World Series was 'the most exciting ever' in the words of Joe DiMaggio, with a decade's worth of drama packed into seven games between the mighty New York Yankees and the underdog Brooklyn Dodgers. It was Jackie Robinson's first Series, a postwar spectacle featuring Frank Sinatra, Ernest Hemingway and President Harry Truman in supporting roles. It...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Description
242 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Chronicles Wilson's meteoric rise through the Chitlin' Circuit of segregated nightclubs to his breakthrough on Johnny Carson's Tonight show to his hit variety show, on which he created such outrageous characters as the sassy Geraldine and flock-fleecing Reverend Leroy.
12) Tommy's honour
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An intimate, powerfully moving tale of the real-life founders of the modern game of golf.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Description
viii, 261 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The first third-generation baseball player in Major League Baseball history provides a sometimes moving, always candid look at his family's 70 years in the world of professional baseball."--NoveList.
14) The golf book
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Description
296 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
Language
English