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11 reviews
Ken Leiker, Mark Vancil

World Wrestling Entertainment, 2003

Pleasant Surprise...
I must admit I wasn't too keen on this book, at first. I thought it was going to be some fluffy coffee table book with loads of pictures and absolutely no substance whatsoever. I couldn't have been more wrong. This book gives its audience of wrestling fans a glimpse at some of their favorite performers' lives outside the ring and a lot of what's revealed is oft-surprising and always ...

The Super Bowl: An Official Retrospective

3 reviews
Rare Air Ltd.

Ballantine Books, 2005

Wonderful text, simply amazing pictures
It's hard to imagine picking out one book about the Super Bowl, one of the most overcovered events of our time, that's worth looking at, but this would definitely be one worthy of attention. The best part of the book is the amazing pictures. Instead of including all the well-known Super Bowl photos, they dug deep and found several ones that are spectacular in their own right and just as ...

Red Sox: A Retrospective of Boston Baseball, 1901 to Today

Sterling, 2005

A celebration of one of the most storied franchises in team sports--now bigger, better, fully updated, and priced to fly off the shelves! The Boston Red Sox and its innumerable fans are still flying high from the triumphs over the New York Yankees in the 2004 playoffs and the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series--lifting the curse of the Bambino once and for all. The magnificent history leading up to this event unfolds in the pages of this ...

An American Classic: The World Series at 100
Ken Leiker

Ballantine Books, 2003

It is without a doubt the Holy Grail of baseball, the grand finale of the season: The World Series, one of the most popular sporting events on earth. Now this lavishly illustrated volume of images and reflections celebrates the one hundredth anniversary of an American classic. While the season play from April through October is filled with memorable achievements, often the most exciting and historic moments are those that occur during the ...

Jinxed: Baseball Superstitions from Around the Major Leagues True Stories
Ken Leiker

Ballantine Books, 2005

In America?s Pastime, sometimes talent and hard work aren?t enough. Now, in Jinxed, some of the best baseball scribes in the business catalog the superstitions, rituals, eccentricities, routines, and just plain bizarre behavior of players who believe such actions will give them an edge on the diamond. Is baseball a numbers game? St. Louis outfielder Larry Walker seems to think so. Larry tries to organize his life in multiples of three: He takes ...

Memorable Moments

1 review
Ken Leiker, Mark Vancil

Ballantine Books, 2004

Another MLB authorized rip-off
Another book of pretty pictures from MLB, complete with a sanitized text that mistakes acheivements for moments and re-writes history to sell more t-shirts and other authorized garbage. The recent spate of MLB books have been particularly embarrassing and this is no better. If you buy this book you are encouraging MLB to produce more books that seek to re-write the facts of history into a ...