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Thirty-five years ago, Roberto Clemente made baseball history when he became the first Latin American to enter the Hall of Fame. Roberto Clemente: The Great One evaluates one of the game's most dynamic players and perhaps its most selfless humanitarian. From modest beginnings in Carolina, Puerto Rico, to a legendary career with the Pittsburgh Pirates, to his tragically premature death in a plane crash, Roberto Clemente remains one of baseball's most compelling characters. Interviews with teammat...

An icon of English football, Harry Kane has been tearing up the Premier League for years. Discover everything there is to know about Tottenham's strike sensation, from his early days in Spurs' academy and loan spells playing with Jamie Vardy at Leicester, to his heroics for the national team at the 2018 World Cup. This 100% Unofficial Football Idols guide details absolutely everything you need to know about England's captain.

Games between the Dodgers and Giants are never just another day at the ballpark. Dating back to the late nineteenth century-when the teams embodied the competitive spirit of rival metropolises of New York and Brooklyn-the Giants-Dodgers rivalry gained intensity throughout the early twentieth century. The cheering and jeering continued unabated until 1957, when the clubs backed the moving vans up to the Polo Grounds and Ebbets Field, and took their rivalry to new venues in Los Angeles and San Fra...

Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Negro Leagues with updates and additions throughout! The Kansas City Monarchs, the Chicago American Giants, the St. Louis Stars, the Birmingham Black Barons, the Homestead Grays, and the Indianapolis Clowns; for over fifty years, they were the Yankees, Cardinals, and Red Sox of black baseball in America. And for over a decade beginning in the late 1940s, umpire Bob Motley called balls and strikes for many of their games, working alongside such legends...

Racer and broadcaster Neil Crompton has had the best seat in the house for the last 40 years of Australian motorsport, an amazing lifetime upgrade to a first-hand, front row seat to see the biggest names, machines and events of this high-speed, high-octane sport. A kid from Ballarat in country Victoria obsessed by speed with an undying passion to pursue a career in the sport, Neil ended up finding his way to lining up on the grid at the biggest race in Australia, the Bathurst 1000, driving for...

Football fans love nothing more than to read about their favourite teams. Although this book is aimed at young teenagers, they will delight all ages with their mixture of funny and enlightening stories and will give hours of pleasure discovering quirky facts about your favourite team. Each title is also augmented with a selection of sketches that depict some of the stories within.

Football fans love nothing more than to read about their favourite teams. Although this book is aimed at young teenagers they will delight all ages with their mixture of funny and enlightening stories and will give hours of pleasure discovering quirky facts about your favourite team. Each title is also augmented with a selection of sketches by the young sketch artist Becky Welton that depict some of the stories within.

Over 400 pages of stories about baseball’s most successful franchise—Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Reggie Jackson Derek Jeter, Don Larsen, Mickey Mantle, Sparky Lyle, Don Mattingly, Thurman Munson, and so many more! When it comes to baseball glory, no other team comes close to the New York Yankees, winners of forty American League pennants and twenty-seven World Series championships. Amazing Tales from the Yankee Dugout is a compilation of the funniest, strangest, and most unique stories, anecdotes,...

Hey, Girls! Ever deal with ...Sibs who drive you crazy? Battles with your best bud? Heart-breaking crushes? A bod that seems to have a mind of its own? Tough stuff at home? Confused yet? Don't be! The editors of Girls' Life, the #1 magazine for girls, have rounded up the best growing-up advice there is and put it all into one place, The Girls' Life Guide to Growing Up. Fellow girlhood survivors share honest tips and offer real-life solutions to just about every growing-up problem you can think o...

It took something truly remarkable to save the 1981 Major League Baseball season from being remembered only as the year of the players' strike. It took the Los Angeles Dodgers: Fernandomania and Lasorda and Garv and Bake and the Penguin. It took three amazing October comebacks to beat the Houston Astros, the Montreal Expos, and, finally, the New York Yankees, avenging Dodger World Series losses to the Yankees in 1977 and 1978. Rick Monday was right in the middle of that magical 1981 Dodger seaso...

Football fans love nothing more than to read about their favourite teams. Although this books is aimed at young teenagers they will delight all ages with their mixture of funny and enlightening stories and will give hours of pleasure discovering quirky facts about your favourite team. Each title is also augmented with a selection of sketches by the young sketch artist Becky Welton that depict some of the stories within.

The San Francisco 49ers shaped the NFL throughout the 1980s with their unique blend of precision, panache, and preparation. Three decades later, NFL teams are still copying the system and the methods that made the 49ers unlike any other organization in professional sports. Now fans of this dynamic franchise will relive all the action and thrills of 49ers football through the eyes of one of the greatest San Francisco legends of all time: Roger Craig. Star of three of the 49ers Super Bowl wins, R...

In 1946, the Cleveland Rams, having just won the NFL championship, moved to sunny Los Angeles. The LA Rams experienced immediate success, making four NFL Championship Game appearances in six years-one of which they won. From Los Angeles, the team moved to St. Louis in 1995, only to return to Los Angeles again in 2016. Regardless of the city or the stadium that they've called home, the Rams have compiled a myriad of memorable moments and at times have drawn record crowds. In Game of My Life Ram...

This series looks at jobs which involve a high element of danger. Through colour photographs, anecdotes and fact boxes, each book focuses on the risks involved in a dangerous occupation, with detailed information on the rigorous training that prepares men and women for the kinds of risks they will face. The authors aim also to show that discipline, commitment and professionalism are essential qualities. This book looks at the work of a racing driver, and at the dangers involved in practice and i...

This series looks at the involvement of women in various aspects of British history. Each book explores a particular theme and, through documentary evidence, quotations and contemporary pictures, evaluates the contribution of women, well-known and otherwise, to the shaping of history. The series offers background reading for GCSE studies, and Standard Grade in Scotland. Focusing on women travellers through the ages, this book discusses how, as pilgrims, missionaries, explorers, anthropologists a...

This series explains how science and human ingenuity have been applied to create the technologies demanded in a constantly changing world. It examines the reasons why changes and developments are necessary, and shows how problems are solved to bring about these changes. Each book in the series deals with the subject matter within a thematic framework, showing how different technologies combine to create an evolving "state of the art". Focusing on sporting equipment and clothes, this book discuss...

From world-class star players to dream teams and memorable matches, this comprehensive guide to football is packed with facts and information about the beautiful game. From the history of the game and how football has developed over time to the top leagues, clubs and international tournaments, this book pinpoints the players, games and teams that everyone should know. Starting with historical versions of football, right up to the modern game and the players of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, it covers...