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Books on Display: Game On! |
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Beartown : a novel
by Fredrik Backman
In a forgotten town fractured by scandal, an amateur hockey team might just be able to change everything. By the New York Times best-selling author of A Man Called Ove.
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Between the bases : a girl's baseball journey by Beth GreenwoodAs part of her high school senior project and Girl Scout Gold Award, Beth Greenwood ’22 wrote a 73-page book detailing the history of women’s baseball in America. Between the Bases: A Baseball Girl’s Journey includes interviews with pioneers from the college ranks and the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League—made famous in the popular movie A League of Their Own.
Greenwood included her own baseball journey, too: How a self-described “New Hampshire tomboy” repeatedly turned down chances to switch to softball because she loved baseball, and how her determination led to her making the school baseball teams in middle school and high school.
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The blind side : evolution of a game
by Michael Lewis
The best-selling author of Moneyball follows one young man from his impoverished childhood with a crack-addicted mother, through his discovery of the sport of football, to his rise to become one of the most successful, highly paid players in the NFL.
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Calico Joe
by John Grisham
Follows the divergent paths of a rookie hitter for the Chicago Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher
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Facing Ali : the opposition weighs in
by Stephen Brunt
A collection of stories from boxers who stood toe-to-toe with Muhammad Ali in the ring reveals the perspective of such noted fighters as George Foreman, Henry Cooper, and Joe Frazier on their battle with Ali.
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Head on
by John Scalzi
A follow-up to Lock In finds the near-future world reveling in a violent but seemingly harmless, robot-bodied sport until a star athlete dies unexpectedly on the field, prompting an investigation by two FBI agents into the game's increasingly lucrative competition. By the award-winning author of Redshirts.
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Open : an autobiography
by Andre Agassi
A candid memoir by the tennis champion includes coverage of his Grand Slam wins, establishment of a charitable foundation for underprivileged children and marriage to Stefanie Graf.
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Overcomer
After his team is reduced to nothing when the largest manufacturing plant in town suddenly shuts down, a high school basketball coach mentors a struggling student in cross country
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The Roger Kahn reader : six decades of sportswriting
by Roger Kahn
A rich collection of fifty-one stories and articles by Roger Kahn. Written across six decades, this volume shows Kahn's ability to describe the athletes he profiled as they truly were in a manner neither compromised nor cruel but always authentic and up close.
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Sooley
by John Grisham
After seventeen-year-old Samuel "Sooley" Sooleymon receives a college scholarship to play basketball for North Carolina Central, he moves to Durham from his native, war-torn South Sudan, enrolls in classes, joins the team, and prepares to sit out his freshman season, but Sooley has a fierce determination to succeed so he can bring his family to America, working tirelessly on his game until he dominates everyone in practice, and when Sooley is called off the bench, the legend begins
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Space jam: a new legacy
LeBron James and his son are trapped by a rogue AI in a Warner Bros.-themed digital universe where their only chance to free themselves is to form a basketball team out of Looney Tunes characters and compete against the AI's own team
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