Players Books

With a story that zips along and makes you smile on every page, this book is really fun to read whether you are currently living the nightmare of high school or want to reminisce a little about the good and the bad times of your younger years when emotions ran high and you thought your world was going to collapse every other week.

Definitely one to pick up. Congratulations Antony on a great first novel!

There are a lot of basketball books, so I don't know if this one is the best, but it's a good beginners guide. It covers all the basics in a clear concise manner. It even covers diet, injuries and stretching. The stretching section uses the clear illustrations of Jean Anderson. I read it years ago, then recently picked up a copy at my library's used book sale. I was reminded why I picked it up to start with. Nice beginners guide, by an author who wants you to learn the game correctly.

This Chicago-Evanston, IL author has written a very powerful and thought provoking book -- giving us psychological insight into the personality dynamics behind professional athletes.

It is well written -- with considereable imagery and blatant honesty. I could not put it down!

Read this book to learn how to live your life. He'll teach you his principals on becoming a champion as a person. You need a role model, A.C. Green is the man. To get more info on the book or on his foundation call 1-800-ACYOUTH

One can only be astounded by the interior of the Rezzonico. The Whitehot Audio Tour really added a whole new dimension to the experience. By having a narrative of the interior I was able to gain a better appreciation of the magificent of the surroundings. Whitehot got ir right when they developed this product.

My name is christin, and Lois P. Nicholson is my aunt. I swear to it. This is a very great biography, very well written, and totally not boring. Aunt Lois, keep 'em comin'.

When I first acquired this book, I expected to receive a run of the mill book on little calculator tricks. I should have known better. In this collection of six games, Sackson uses the calculator as an integral part of the game. This is not a "type 01134 and turn the calculator upside down" book. Rather, these are six of Sackson's games that belong on the shelf of any Sackson fan or game collector.

Reviewed by Matthew Feliciano (age 7) for Reader Views (1/08)

I really liked this book because it told a true story about Roy Campanella. I think the author did a very good job of telling this story. The author told interesting things about Roy Campanella and when I was reading the book I felt like I was living Campy's life right with him. The illustrations were not so good. I did not like the way they looked like paintings. The faces seemed "bubbly" and they looked funny.

In "Campy," we learn all about the baseball player Roy Campanella. He is a hero for many reasons. First, he did not let the color of his skin stop him from doing what he wanted to do. He was the best baseball player out there. He was very professional and polite to everyone and was a good person.

The second reason Campy is a hero is because when he had a car accident and couldn't move, he never gave up. He kept living his life and went on to teach baseball to others from his wheelchair.

In "Campy: The Story of Roy Campanella," Campy can teach everyone a lesson: the color of your skin does not matter. What matters is how you feel and how you act.

I have read this book and enjoyed it immensely. It is very informative and written with a heart. I happen to have lost my copy in a move to another country, so if Mr. Shearon happens to read this, please contact me so I can buy another copy!!

The work of serious baseball historians tends to fall into two main categories; excellent writing short on research and extraordinary research spoiled by pompous, often pedantic prose.
Then there's Howard Rosenberg. Rosenberg's "Cap Anson 4" the recently released...biography of one of the game's first "superstars" is as compelling as the latest James Patterson thriller and as meticulously well-researched as a successful doctoral thesis.
Adrian C. Anson was the first player to get 3,000 hits,arguably the greatest player-manager of all-time and a pivotal figure in the creation of baseball's shameful color line that kept Black players out of the majors for more than 60 years.
Rosenberg doesn't flinch from the accusations of Anson's racism, nor does he gloss over the Hall of Famer's other foibles and eccentricities. The book contains literally hundreds of footnotes and citations and perhaps thousands of newspaper quotations.
Rosenberg poured over thousands of ancient newspaper clippings and archives. He concluded that in the 1880s and '90s writers were given a virtually free hand and did a superior job of capturing the mannerisms of players and painting pictures with words." He added "By the first decade of the 1900s, photography was a major presence and writers would, overall never be as independent and thus as interesting again."
That may have been true for the vast majority of baseball writers including those plying the trade today. But it is certainly not true of Rosenberg.
If you're at all interested in the early days of the "great America game," you can never go wrong reading Howard Rosenberg.

(From a review and feature) by Bart Fisher, New Britain (Conn.) Herald, May 1, 2006