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The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth

55 reviews
Leigh Montville

Broadway, 2007

Achilles in Pinstripes
Leigh Montville's The Big Bam is an exhaustively researched book on the life and times of Babe Ruth. Even for the non-sports fan, this book reads like the best of fiction, with a huge personality at its center and a fascinating exploration of how that personality influenced a generation of post war Americans. Entertaining and informative, Montville never shirks from probing into the faults and ...

Fenway, Expanded and Updated: A Biography in Words and Pictures
Dan Shaughnessy

Houghton Mifflin, 2007

The oldest park in the major leagues, the last of the old-timey baseball theaters, Fenway Park has inspired more lavish praise and outrageous comparisons than any other American sports arena. And to think, it was almost lost. In this glistening new edition of their classic pictorial tribute, best-selling author Dan Shaughnessy and Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Stan Grossfeld have both preserved the Fenway of our childhood memories and ...

Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero

45 reviews
Leigh Montville

Broadway, 2005

Perfection Requires Constant Practice
Leigh Montville's biography of Ted Williams is exhaustive in its analysis of one of baseball's greatest hitters. At times childish and self-absorbed, but always focused upon his art, Ted Williams emerges as a troubled genius in this wonderful book. Some of the anecdotes about Williams' intensity evoke a character who loves a few things in life to obsessive delight while ignoring almost everyone ...

The Mysterious Montague: A True Tale of Hollywood, Golf, and Armed Robbery

9 reviews
Leigh Montville

Doubleday, 2008

The Mysterious Montague
A detailed recollection of events in the life of a very mysterious person. Leigh Montville brings back a time when personalities were indeed bigger than life, and one that reluctantly stood out in that crowd is the subject of the story. As the reader enjoys amazing stories involving some famous hollywood names it becomes clear why our subject is not willing to share the spotlight. I found The ...

At the Altar of Speed: The Fast Life & Tragic Death of Dale Earnhardt
Leigh Montville

Diane Pub Co, 2001

Takes readers behind the scenes of auto-racing champion Dale Earnhardt's celebrated life, tracing his rags-to-riches journey to the top of America's fastest-growing sport. Begins with his childhood days in small-town North Carolina, & examines how a 9th-grade dropout started on the dusty dirt tracks of the South, went through two marriages & a string of no-future jobs before turning 25, then took about a million left turns to glory. Through the ...

At the Altar of Speed : The Fast Life and Tragic Death of Dale Earnhardt
Leigh Montville

Chivers North America, 2001

6 cassettes; approx. 9 hours and 45 minutes runtime. Author is senior writer for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED.

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At the Altar of Speed (Chivers Sound Library)

1 review
Leigh Montville

Sound Library, 2002

THE MAN IN BLACK ***** THE INTIMIDATOR
Dale Earnhardt was The Man. #3 was The Car. they were the team that made the fear run through their fellow racers. Bump drafting and marking another race car with a tire print was part of Dale's game plan. This book takes the reader behind the scenes in the early life of Dale and how he became the man behind the wheel on race tracks to earn 7 rimes The NASCAR Championship. His love for the ...

At the Altar of Speed: The Fast Life and Tragic Death of Dale Earnhardt

20 reviews
Leigh Montville

Broadway, 2003

Montville informs well
I just finished this book, and I absolutely loved it. It had me laughing, crying, and everything in between. I'm an avid NASCAR fan, and Dale Earnhardt is and will always be my favorite driver. I am following the path of his son, and I have also read Driver #8. Both books are fantastic, and a lot of fun to read. Very hard for me to put down!

Dare to Dream: Connecticut Basketball's Remarkable March to the National Championship

9 reviews
Jim Calhoun, Leigh Montville

Broadway, 1999

A Fist-Pumping Journey through UConn Hoops
Calhoun and Montville have crafted a masterpiece! Calhoun writes like he talks, quick and witty (yes, it's funny!). It is an effective, fast-break style that has readers feeling like they are participating in one of Calhoun's practices. It is never boring, always moving. If you love UConn hoops, you will love this book -- guaranteed. Calhoun is never chest-thumping. His tone is honest, warm, ...

Why Not Us?: The 86-year Journey of the Boston Red Sox Fans From Unparalleled Suffering To The Promised Land ...

10 reviews
Leigh Montville, 2004

Agony to Disbelief to Relief
I have lived in Boston since 1964 and am about the same age as Leigh Montville. Over those years, I've loved his wonderful writing in the Boston Globe, Sports Illustrated and now in his books. I think he's done an important service in writing this book because in future years the unbelievable experience of having been a frustrated Red Sox fan all those years will be lost. Yet that perspective ...

Manute: The Center of Two Worlds

5 reviews
Leigh Montville

Simon & Schuster, 1993

I Miss Manute
I had the great pleasure of working with this slender giant for a few years back when he blocked shots for the Bullets and I was an assistant there. I found this book brought back many memories and really captured the kindess of this man. His political beliefs and fight are so great still. He is like the Sudan's Muhammad Ali except stretched to cruel proportions like black taffy. The writing in ...

The Mysterious Montague: A True Tale of Hollywood, Golf, and Armed Robery on 5 CDs in original shrinkwrap
Leigh Montville

Random House Audio, 2008

The story of John Montague who had a bagful of golf tricks.

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