THE BLACK PRINCE OF BASEBALL

Chicago Tribune
"A remarkable look at a bygone scandal."

Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"This is a long-overdue, multifaceted biography of one of baseball's greatest rogues."


Click for PDF THE BOYS OF SPRING

Sports Illustrated
"He (Ozzie Sweet) is best known for his iconic portraits of baseball stars. Since 1947 Sweet has been shooting players at spring training, and many of his best Grapefruit League photos are gathered in this new book."

USA Today
"This book celebrates seven decades of memorable Grapefruit and Cactus League images taken by legendary magazine photographer Ozzie Sweet ... many never-before-published stills of Mickey Mantle, Sandy Koufax and Willie Mays."

The Globe and Mail
"A collection of superb baseball photographs…this is a delightful way to recapture the early stirrings of baseball's romance."

St. Paul Pioneer Press
"This book is like discovering a box of mint-condition Mickey Mantle baseball cards. There's a depth, a clarity -- almost a luridness -- to Sweet's baseball photography. It's almost as if Norman Rockwell painted them."

CHOCOLATE THUNDER

Publishers Weekly
"Raw, provocative and as unsubtle as a shattering backboard, this is a look at how it used to be-from a man who was most definitely there."

Library Journal
"A fun look at the wilder side of the NBA, as well as a revealing view of a player and his contemporaries."

THE COMPLETE BOOK OF THE SUMMER OLYMPICS

Sports Illustrated
"For its wealth of information, you can't beat David Wallechinsky's The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics."

Newsweek
"A marvelous resource."

Sunday Times of London
"It is, by any standards, remarkable."

London Guardian
"This is virtually impossible to put down, thanks to the author's delight in sharing information."

The Independent
"As an Olympic guide, this is indispensable. Just buy it."


Click for photo HEART OF THE GAME

The Globe and Mail
"The book offers a way to become immersed in Mickey Mantle and Ted Williams and Satchel Paige ... The drawings are full of action and humanity."

Chicago Sun Times
"Heart of the Game is all good."

USA Today
"More than 300 images of postwar baseball iconography jump off the page, evoking the period more graphically than any newsreel."

Sports Collectors Digest
"This would be a spectacular and worthy book even if there were no text whatsoever provided. Such is the stunning nature of Jurinko's work."

ITALIAN STALLIONS

Boxing Monthly
"The Italian Stallions is a beautifully produced 224-page hardback. Strongly recommended."

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JANET GUTHRIE: A LIFE AT FULL THROTTLE

Sports Illustrated
"Guthrie turned out an uplifting work that is one of the best books ever written about racing-and establishes her as one of the sport's most eloquent voices."

JIMMY CONNORS SAVED MY LIFE

San Francisco Chronicle
"His (Drucker's) writing skill makes his story as compelling as Connors', maybe more so."

The New York Times
"Drucker provides a solid reportorial dose of Connors on the tour, even without Connors's cooperation."

ACE Magazine
"This long-overdue biography makes compelling reading."

The Independent
"The strength of Drucker's writing carries it off."

Tennis Week
"Jimmy Connors Save My Life takes us on a compelling tour of desire on the tennis court."

THE NORTHERN GAME

Edmonton Sun
"The book should be given to every fan in the stands ... It's almost a romantic novel."

The Globe and Mail
"Bob Elliott celebrates our long-standing Canadian fascination with baseball and the flowering of so much talent in our time."

Ottawa Citizen
"A passionate and well-researched look at the rise of north of the border talent."

Toronto Star
"An excellent read."

SHOOTING STAR: THE BEVO FRANCIS STORY

IntellectualConservative.com
"Kyle Keiderling's biography of Bevo Francis is far superior to any other 'sports' history I've ever read. The author successfully reveals the inner man; the student/athlete who only wanted to play 'the game' and was never seduced by fame and notoriety. In the end Bevo proved he was the better man."

WCHS (CH 8) NEWS, Charleston, WV
"It's truly one of the great basketball and sports stories of our time."

TOTAL BALLCLUBS

The Globe and Mail
"It's a book for every student of the game."

TOTAL BASEBALL

Seattle Times
"Total Baseball might be the most comprehensive and visually appealing baseball book I have ever seen."

Boston Globe
"The book is essential, irreplaceable"

ESPN.com
"It's a massive, beautiful beast of a book. If you can lift it, you should own it."

The Globe and Mail
"This gargantuan (2,676 densely packed pages) encyclopedia is the ultimate argument settler (for those without guns). It's an endlessly explorable gallimaufry of baseball lore and numbers."

TOTAL TENNIS

Booklist
"Whether a reader is interested in the articles on the players or the statistics, this is an excellent reference source on tennis."

Library Journal
"Tennis journalist Bud Collins serves an ace down the 'T' with this definitive new reading and reference guide of the sport."

Tennis Week
"Bud Collins set out to write the tennis bible and produced a book of revelations for tennis fans. The newly-released Total Tennis: The Ultimate Tennis Encyclopedia is undoubtedly the most comprehensive compilation of tennis history ever published."

THE VIEW FROM RINGSIDE

Boxing Monthly
"A mixed bag, but never a dull one, and, overall, both informative and enjoyable."