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Great girls: Canadian profiles of awesome athletes
By Laura Robinson, Maija Robinson. 2004
Features profiles of 17 great Canadian female athletes. Includes superstars such as hockey player Hayley Wickenheiser, speed skater/cyclist Clara Hughes,…
and up-and-coming 11-year-old athlete Sekwan Trottier, who canoes, cross-country skis, and races sled dogs. Grades 4-7. 2004.Forward: a memoir
By Abby Wambach. 2016
Abby Wambach has always pushed the limits of what is possible. Named by Time magazine as one of the most…
influential people of 2015, the iconic soccer player captured the nation's heart when she led her team to its recent World Cup Championship. Admired for her fearlessness and passion, Abby is a vocal advocate for women's rights and equal opportunity, pushing to translate the success of her team to the real world. She has become a heavily requested speaker to a wide a range of audiences, from college students to executives at Fortune 500 companies. Here, Abby recounts her own decisions, wins, losses, and the pivotal moments that helped her become the world class athlete and leader she is today. Wambach's book goes beyond the soccer field to reveal a soulful person grappling universal questions about how we can live our best lives, and become our truest selves. Bestseller. 2016.Fast as white lightning: the story of stock car racing
By Kim Chapin. 1981
A history of the sport that was born when moonshiners, hauling their liquor to market, outraced lawmen. Considers the drivers,…
mechanics, backers, fans, and the family dynasties of the track. 1981.Facing Ali: the opposition weighs in
By Stephen Brunt. 2002
Sportswriter Brunt interviews fifteen men who faced Muhammad Ali in the ring - great champions, no-hopers, and a few who…
beat him. Their stories are by turns triumphant and tragic, hilarious, uplifting, and angry. These fighters saw Ali invent himself as a media personality before such a thing existed, and how his courage, beliefs, and refusal to play the parts assigned him changed the United States and the world. 2002.Facing the hunter: reflections on a misunderstood pursuit
By David Adams Richards. 2011
Richards takes us behind his gun and into the Canadian forest for a sports memoir of sorts. He explores the…
meaning of hunting and the way in which it touches lives, and provides an impassioned defense of a set of values and a way of life that he believes are under attack. Readers of his novels will note the interplay between his former life as a keen hunter and the narratives and characters of his fiction. 2011.Every second counts
By Lance Armstrong, Sally Jenkins. 2004
In his much-anticipated follow-up to "It's not about the bike my journey back to life" (DC25539), Armstrong shares more details…
of his extraordinary life story, including a remarkable four more Tour de France wins, an Olympic medal, and the births of his twin daughters. Never shy of controversy, Armstrong offers, with typical frankness, his thoughts on training, competing, winning and failure. 2004.DiMaggio: the last American knight
By Joseph Durso. 1996
Joe DiMaggio remains the embodiment of the American dream. The son of an Italian fisherman, he became one of the…
greatest baseball players of all time and was briefly married to Marilyn Monroe. His heroics on the field were also matched by his humility and decency off the diamond. 1996.Duane Thomas and the fall of America's team
By Duane Thomas, Paul Lionel Zimmerman. 1988
Thomas, a running back for two years with the Dallas Cowboys football team, tells of his turbulent years with the…
team. Zimmerman indicts an arrogant management that let the Cowboys fall from greatness. 1988.Crazy for the storm: a memoir of survival
By Norman Ollestad. 2009
Norman Ollestad was thrust into the world of surfing and competitive downhill skiing at a very young age by the…
father he idolized. Resentful of a childhood lost to his father's reckless and demanding adventures, young Ollestad was often paralyzed by fear. In February 1979, just as he was reaping the rewards of his training, a chartered plane carrying Norman, his father, and his father's girlfriend crashed in the mountains and was suspended at eight thousand feet, engulfed in a blizzard. Norman's father was dead, and the grief-stricken eleven-year old had to descend the mountain alone through snow and ice, without any gear. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2009.Caught inside: a surfer's year on the California coast
By Daniel Duane. 1996
An account of a year spent surfing in northern California. The author describes the natural history of the wildlife of…
the area. He also delves into the art of crafting a surfboard, the water dynamics of surfing, and the cultural history of the sport. 1996.Conn Smythe: if you can beat 'em in the alley
By Scott Young, Conn Smythe. 1981
Clear the track: the Eddie Shack story
By Ross Brewitt. 1997
Born in the mining town of Sudbury, Ontario, Eddie Shack seemed destined for a career in the meat-cutting trade. But…
when his ability to cut the ice with his skates proved stronger, he followed his dreams into the NHL, into four Stanley Cup rings and into the hearts of hockey fans everywhere. However, his success came at great cost. While developing his profile as "Eddie the Entertainer," the young player had much to contend with, on and off the ice, and to this day, he cannot read or write. 1997.Captains: nine great Toronto Maple Leafs
By Michael Ulmer. 1995
Hockey journalist Ulmer profiles nine men who have gone beyond their status as Toronto Maple Leaf captains to become heroes…
of Toronto history. Through the profiles of such players as Doug Gilmour, Darryl Sittler, and Wendel Clark, Ulmer tries to catch the spirit of the great team formed in 1927. 1995.Captain
By Mike Leonetti, Darryl Sittler. 2016
Darryl Sittler may well be remembered for two of the most remarkable performances in the history of the National Hockey…
League. On February 7, 1976, he scored six goals and added four assists for an NHL record total of ten points in a game. That spring, he joined Maurice Richard in hockey history by recording five goals in one playoff game. #27 looks back at his greatest moments on and off the ice: growing up in St. Jacobs, Ontario, his days in junior hockey with the London Knights, his rookie year in 1970-71, his greatest teammates (Lanny McDonald, Borje Salming, Ian Turnbull, and Mike Palmateer, to name a few) and greatest rivals (Bobby Orr, Phil Esposito, Bobby Hull, Brian Trottier, Bobby Clarke, Guy Lafleur, Ken Dryden, and Larry Robinson). He recounts his childhood hockey heroes, his years playing for Philadelphia and Detroit, his induction into the Hall of Fame, and deep devotion to his family. 2016.Champion--Joe Louis, black hero in white America: Joe Louis
By Chris Mead. 1985
From the mid-1930s through 1947, Joe Louis was the best-known black in the United States, and probably the world, says…
Mead. He offers here an affectionate warts-and-all account of the boxer's heyday, and grants him an important place in social history. 1985.By George: the autobiography of George Foreman
By Joel Engel, George Foreman. 1995
Boxer George Foreman tells of growing up poor in Texas, dropping out of junior high and turning to crime and…
drinking, and then going on to become the heavyweight champion of the world. He also discusses his several marriages and children and the effect religion has had on his adult life. Includes violence. 1995.Bums--an oral history of the Brooklyn Dodgers: An Oral History Of The Brooklyn Dodgers
By Peter Golenbock. 1984
A Brooklyn native and veteran sports author, Golenbock offers interviews with players, coaches, journalists, and fans. Provides enough anecdotes and…
play-by-play accounts to satisfy the average baseball fan whose interests lie beyond the Dodgers of the mid-1950s. 1984.Blessed: the autobiography
By George Best, Roy Collins. 2001
George Best is a legend in his own lifetime, and at his peak he brought glamour and grace to the…
game, second only in the world to Pele. But with success and fame came excess and foolhardiness, and Best's fabled story is littered with tales of his involvement with women and sex and, of course, the drink. 2001.Beckham: both feet on the ground
By David Beckham, Tom Watt. 2003
Autobiography by a legendary British soccer player and cultural icon. Beckham describes his London childhood, his marriage to "Posh" Spice…
Girl Victoria Adams in 1999, and his leaving Manchester United to sign with a Spanish team, Real Madrid. For senior high and older readers. 2003.