By the author of "Sporting Lives", this is a further collection of the author's articles on sport taken from "The Daily Telegraph". It contains pieces on football, golf, cricket, rugby, tennis, rowing and motor racing. It describes sporting championships and the travelling freak show that surrounds the teenage superstars - Jennifer Capriati or newcomer Martina Hingis - and deprives them of a childhood. It profiles many of the greatest sporting figures of our times, from Fred Perry, Jackie Stewar...
As the first British player to score a goal in European club competition in 1955, Hibs hero Eddie Turnbull holds a unique place in footballing history. In "Eddie Turnbull: Having a Ball", he charts his extraordinary career and tells the story of his eventful life so far. Turnbull explains how he became one-fifth of the most celebrated forward line ever to grace Scottish football - the Famous Five of Hibernian FC - and reveals how he had to wait until he was eighty-two to be awarded his first int...
Barclay Howard could hardly see for the tears of pride in his eyes as he lined up his putt on the final green of the Open at Troon. The jovial Scot had won the coveted Silver Medal for the championship's leading amateur - but it was the extraordinary story behind his triumph which gained him worldwide fame. Barclay Howard overcame years of alcoholism and a ban from the game he loved to reach the pinnacle of his career. "It was the greatest moment of my life", he admitted. Finally, after years of...
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Cloyce Box, 6'4"" and Bulletproof (Swaim-Paup-Foran Spirit of Sport)
by Michael Barr
Cloyce Box was an American original. He was handsome, athletic, intelligent, and ambitious, and his life was the stuff of which dreams and miniseries are made. Starting out as a dirt-poor farm boy from the Texas backcountry, he used his great talents to become a star in the National Football League, a corporate CEO, and a very wealthy man. He was fearless, flamboyant, and controversial. His story is an epic Texas tale of football, cattle, horses, oil, money, power, incredible success, and specta...
"Black Horse Red Dog" comprises 20 new auto-biographical yarns of the betting exploits of Michael Church, his family and their ancestors. The title stems from the black horse - Grand Parade - 33-1 winner of the 1919 'Peace Derby', attended by his grandmother and her sister with dramatic results. Red Dog is the name of the card game played on the Cheltenham Special Pullman train when the author went to see Best Mate's first Gold Cup victory. The other stories include a school sports day in the ye...
Andy McLaren is a professional footballer with an extraordinary story to tell. While playing for Reading in 2000, he failed a random drugs test and was immediately banned from football. He was forced to admit to being an alcoholic and a cocaine abuser, and checked in to the Priory clinic in Glasgow. After working hard to overcome his addictions, he resurrected his career with Kilmarnock later the same year and gained a national cap when Scotland played Poland in 2001. But what had made him resor...
You might run for fitness. You might run for speed. But ultimately, running is about much more than the physical act itself. It is about the challenges we face in life, and how we measure up to them. It is about companionship, endurance, ambition, hope, conviction, determination, self-respect and inspiration. It is about how we choose to live our lives, and what it means to share our values with other people. In this year-long memoir, which might be described as a historian's take on Haruki Mur...
This is a biography of a pioneering woman climber. Mabel Barker, a child of the 1880's grew up with a secret passion for the hills. To her, rock climbing was the sport of the gods; she could not believe her luck when Millican Dalton, famous caveman of the Lake District, invited her to do a roped climb. Supremely talented and naturally fearless, she was soon climbing with the best climbers of the day, making a stunning fourth ascent of Central Buttress with her dear friend and climbing partner, C...
'The book is as compelling and open-hearted as Williams is... It is full of the beguiling Sonny Bill sunshine' Don McCrae, Guardian 'Excellent' David Walsh, Sunday Times __________Out now: the extraordinary and revealing autobiography of one of rugby's most entertaining and complicated figures'I lived for winter Saturdays and played footy at lunchtime and after school, while at home I passed, kicked, tackled and discussed the game endlessly with my big bro. I ignored bad weather; I just wanted t...