Football Books

Softball Fundamentals: A Better Way To Learn The Basics truly lives up to its title as softball expert Rick Noren takes the reader all facets of this popular team sport. The twelve "reader friendly" chapters comprising Softball Fundamentals include: Throwing; Catching; Fielding Fly Balls; Fielding Ground Balls; Playing Catcher; Pitching; Hitting; Bunting and Slap Hitting; Baserunning; Sliding; Offensive Tactics; and Defensive Tactics. Enhanced with more than 48 gameline drills specifically designed to speed up skill learning and improve performance, Softball Fundamentals should be on the instructional reference shelves of every school and community library Sports collection -- and read by novice softball players of all ages and both genders .

Softball Fundamentals: A Better Way To Learn The Basics truly lives up to its title as softball expert Rick Noren takes the reader all facets of this popular team sport. The twelve "reader friendly" chapters comprising Softball Fundamentals include: Throwing; Catching; Fielding Fly Balls; Fielding Ground Balls; Playing Catcher; Pitching; Hitting; Bunting and Slap Hitting; Baserunning; Sliding; Offensive Tactics; and Defensive Tactics. Enhanced with more than 48 gameline drills specifically designed to speed up skill learning and improve performance, Softball Fundamentals should be on the instructional reference shelves of every school and community library Sports collection -- and read by novice softball players of all ages and both genders .

I thought Specky Magee and the great footy contest was a great book, it was a good read because once i read the first page i couldnt get enough of it and i read it till the end. It is a great book about Australian rules football but you dont need to be an aussie to understand it because the Australian rules football isnt the only part of the book, it had a lot of different plots. I liked this book because it wasnt all about football it had the relationships Secky had with his Family, Friends and enemys. Overall it was a great book, i reccomend it for kids between the age of 7 and 13. I give this sensational book a rating of 5 stars.

This is a good book for kids who like sports novels. If you don't know anything about Australian football it's a little confusing at first but you get it pretty quick. The other plots besides the footy are about his friends and his parents, and they are really interesting. And not common in kids' books, so that's cool.

There are three books in this series and they are co wrote by an ex footy star and his childhood friend who is a writer. They do funny introductions in the beginning of the books so don't forget to read the paragraphs where they make fun of each other a bit.

This is a great book about a great coach. Recommend!

Spike Dykes is a West Texas legend. While attending Texas Tech from 1988-1990, one of life's simpler pleasures was watching Spike coach his group of less than famous football fanatics. The book presents few surprises but does offer telling insights into coaching strategy and human relations. West Texas is a very unique place and Spike had to use every ounce of guile, energy, wit, and wisdom, in dealing with the principles. I'm not speaking of the team, but the fans. Any coach who can survive 13 years as a head coach in football crazy West Texas ("Friday Night Lights" takes place only 90 miles south of there in Midland, TX), deserves praise immeasurable and this book is his monument.

Touchdown!! What an 11 yard touchdown to wide receiver Dwight Clark! The crowd goes wild for the San Francisco 49ers. The 49ers have beaten the cowboys by an amazing catch by Clark. This book, Joe Montana, was written by Jack Kavangh and is a biography about this famous football player. It's a good book for people who like sports. I recommend it especially for football fans.
When Joe Montana was in college he was a star. He was measured as a winning quarter back. He never lost a Super Bowl and never used only one player in a game. Joe Montana was a team player; he got everybody in the game and encouraged others to do well. I was inspired by his work and his talent. He led the 49ers to four Super Bowls and was the most valuable player of Super Bowl XVI and XXIV. After these wins, I wanted to know if he had bad times in his career.
Joe went to Ringgold high school and played three different sports. He played basketball, baseball, and football. He was a star in all three sports. I was amazed at this. This success shows that you can do what you want to do. That made Joe Montana an athlete and in shape to play any sport. His parents had pushed him in to sports to get a scholarship. Soon he did and went to Notre Dame University with a full scholarship in athletics.
In Notre Dame he was a star in football. As a freshman he made the varsity team, making him the first freshman ever to make varsity at Notre Dame. I was most inspired by this success. Playing as quarterback, Joe Montana felt he had to win every game. He even won the 1979 Cotton Bowl. After college, was the NFL for Joe Montana? He was drafted in the 3rd round to the 49ers. He had sickness problems through out seasons and games. Joe even missed one full season because he had a bad illness. But Joe Montana persevered and brought the 49ers to four Super Bowls wins. Joe Montana was a star in high school, college, and in the NFL. I think Joe Montana is a role model to kids who have big dreams like he had.
Jack Kavangh writes a good biography about Joe Montana. This book expresses how Joe Montana is and the author includes great details about his life. Joe Montana is a great book and I also recommend it to people who are looking for a role model. If I was amazed, you will be to.

Sports Great,
Joe Montana

The Novel, Sports Great Joe Montana, by Jack Kavanah, is a 64-page book about a professional quarterback, who plays football for the San Francisco 49ers. Joe went to college at the University of Notre Dame. He there played football for the Fightin' Irish.
At the end of the freezing cold Cotton Bowl, in Houston Texas, Joe finished his final football game for the Notre Dame Fightin' Irish in his senior year in 1979.
When Joe's college career came to an end, he was literally sick of the cold weather, so he thought about moving to Southern California, for it's warmth. A year later, Joe was so fed up with the cold he actually did move all the way from South Ben, Indiana, to San Francisco, California.
Joe knew that when he moved to California, he was supposed to be taking a break from sports, but in a matter of days, Joe figured he just couldn't get enough football! That's where the undoubtedle dream of making the team for being drafted for the 49ers began.
When the brand new football season began, Joe went out for the professional game with the San Francisco 49ers.
Joe's NFL season began as a rookie, as every on else's did. The famous Notre Dame quarterback, college boy Joe Montana, also known as the "Comeback Kid," was now the starting quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, in his first season.
In July of 1980, Joe had his first pro game against the Buffalo Bills, in Buffalo, New York. That game the 49ers trampled over the Bills, and just burnt them out!
In the year 1990, it was time for Joe's last game to come... in the Super Bowl! Against the Jets, the 49ers came to their victory, and beat the Jets. There, Joe's season, and first and final "fare well" speech approached everyone watching the spectacular game.
Joe Montana, of the San Francisco 49ers, and Notre Dame Fightin' Irish led them to some of their best seasons and games ever. He retired March of 1991.

By: E.L.T.

Edited by Sports Illustrated magazine's executive editor Rob Fleder, and with an introduction by popular football writer Peter King, Sports Illustrated: Great Football Writing compiles classic stories about football and football players from the pages of the venerable magazine, from the modern day to the 1950's. From "The Nightmare of Steroids" to "Where Have You Gone, Joe Namath?" to "All the Way with O.J." - an article about Simpson's stellar football performance from long before his arrest and trial for murder - the articles cover the both the highlights and the low points of America's long love affair with football. An excellent compendium or giftbook especially for thoughtful football fans, who enjoy pondering at length how the sport and its telling has gradually evolved with the decades.

There once was a time - it seems like a century ago - when SI really meant something in chronicling sports. But the magazine has sunk over the years to lazily give readers too many book excerpts and not enough good reporting. Is a lead article bashing A-Rod, that includes quotes by cowards who don't want to be named, really good journalism?

This outstanding collection of essays over the many years of the publication shows how sports writing can be equal parts art and history. In the first 50 or so pages, a reader learns about the first sports agent in the game, how a NFL franchise owner parlayed purchasing a team for a buck into stock worth almost $2 million, how the draw-play was invented, the grand history and sordid collapse of the Southwest Conference and the mystique of Lambeau Field.

The writers are a venerable who's who in American letters; David Halberstam, Jack Kerouac and George Plimpton. The sleeper in the bunch is Myron Cope, who was an outstanding sports writer before becoming the Super Fan-character on Pittsburgh Steelers radio broadcasts. Though not included in the collection, Cope's SI interview of Howard Cosell was the best feature I ever read on the man who "Told It Like It Is" well before Monday Night Football.

Great Football Writing is essential reading for people who enjoy the great mechanics of being told a story. And though the writers make the craft seem as easy as drawing up a last-second bomb to win the street-game, it takes a champion to professionally cover a champion. The collection is a classic.

In researching USC's football history for a series of books I am writing about the Trojans' storied history, I found this to be easy to read, highly informative, and well written. Jim Gigliotti has done a fine job here!

Fight On!

STEVEN TRAVERS, author of
THE USC TROJANS: COLLEGE FOOTBALL'S ALL-TIME GREATEST DYNASTY
TROJANS ESSENTIAL: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW TO BE A REAL FAN!
SEPTEMBER 1970: ONE NIGHT, TWO TEAMS, & THE GAME THAT CHANGED A NATION
BARRY BONDS: BASEBALL'S SUPERMAN

USCSTEVE1@aol.com

To call this an "almanac" of USC football may be going too far, but it is packed with a lot of great information in a very easy to read layout. There are game by game summaries of the '72 season, as well as treatments of other major games in school history. All of the traditions are discussed, and there are lots of statistics cited. I own "Conquest" and the DVD History of USC Football and this Stadium Stories is more informative and comprehensive. I wish they'd made the DVD parallel this book. The only drawback to the book is that the pictures are black and white. But I gave it 5 stars anyway because of the great price. A must have for Trojan fans, and a great value.

I have coached soccer for 4 years and always had the nagging suspicion that I had no idea of what I was doing. I knew the concepts and I knew the kids but I didn't know how to bring the two together.

This book is great for kids who need something to learn from and it is great for a coach who needs a quick and easy method of bringing a lesson plan together.

Good work!

Have given this book out to U-6 and U-8 teams as an end-of-season "favor." The kids love it. And it teaches the basics in a way that even the most soccer-challenged parent can understand.

Want to know how many yards Terell Davis gained on right sweeps last year? Or how many passes were thrown at Herman Moore, and how many were successfully defended? Then look no further... Stats Inc. has reviewed every play on videotape and categorized them for future generations. Finally, football stats that put the Roto-boys to shame.

Stats, Inc. does it again! Great info you can't get anywhere else. Lists every player who played in 1997 without having to wait until the 1998 season! More stats than you will ever get from the NFL. Buy it - you will not be disappointed!!!!

This book has everything you would ever want to know about college football's recent dynasties. I bought his and two others like it, but this is easily the most thorough and entertaining.

This book has everything you would ever want to know about college football's recent dynasties. I bought his and two others like it, but this is easily the mosty thorough and entertaining.

I just wanted to say that I am a Green Bay Packer fan, just like everyone else in Wisconsin and I also am a tailgater at all the Packer games. It is about time someone took all the great recipes from the tailgaters and printed them in a book. The recipes are out of this world and looking at all the pictures of the tailgaters makes me wish for the season to start again. Every Packer fan in the world should have a copy of this great book.

Impressive array of recipes from real football fans. I tried a number of the recipes and they were great. The book is also fun to read and is a real treat for Packer Fans!