Athletics Books

Great book about the Championship season of 88. Lou is a master motivater and takes you inside the college football world and tells what it takes to be a champion. If you give this a bad review, you must be one of the many Irish haters.

Lou Holtz is an excellent football coach. In this book he shows the reader what it takes to win in the high pressure sport of college football. The chapter on Lou Holz's view of life is worth the price alone.

Coach Holtz gives a great description of what his championship season at Notre Dame was like. From player quotes to narratives by outside sources, this book is well worth reading. Just as importantly, Holtz gives his view on the game of life and how to succeed in it.

I love Notre Dame football and am a huge fan of Lou Holtz. But this account of the Irish's championship run is excruciatingly dry to the point of frustrating. Lou's quoted many times saying "...he'll be a fine player..." ugh! Passion and wit were lacking throughout the book. If you want prose above a fifth grade level, save your money.

Are you kidding? People actually write books about one of the worst franchises in the history of sports? Please. The title should be "We are the professional underachievers of the modern era". The Red Sox and the word dreams should never go together in a sentence. Unless of course it's used in the context of destroying people's dreams. That would be correct. If you have any respect for baseball history you should just forget this book. It's a piece of garbage - don't even bother.

This book is really deceiving. There are tons of Red Sox books out this year and this book is not only the cheapest but the cover, except for the Fisk photo, is sort of a weird color. But it's one of the best Sox books I've ever read. The book is a collection of stories from 1901 until the present written by people covering the Red Sox. About 95% of it was new to me and about 95% of that was great. There are stories about the Red Sox world championships (!!!) in 1903 and 1918, Gammons and Ray Fitzgerald on the 1975 World Series, tons of stuff on the Impossible Dream team and even a really really funny poem about Bill Lee. There's a whole section on Ted Williams and the Jackie Robinson tryout, too. It's sort of like reading Red Sox history as it happened. When I showed it to my Dad he remembered some of the old writers and started telling me stories about them and we stayed up late skimming throuigh the book and talking about them. It was really fun.

This is a good anthology of Red Sox writing, but none of these excellent writers is able to change history so that the Red Sox win THE BIG ONE once in awhile. Read Bill Lee's The Little Red (Sox) Book to see a whole bunch of happy endings told in a hilarious way by the one and only Spaceman!

If you liked Red Sox Century then you will absolutely love this. This book is the best writing about the team ever put together, mostly from the newspapers, so it includes stories by guys who write now like Tony Maz and Buckley and Shaughnessy (not his obnoxious stuff) and old timers like Gammons, George Frazier and even Dave Egan. I'm a huge Sox fan but I hadn't read most of what is in here. Original stories from ther 1903 1912 and 1918 World Series, too. I mean this as a compliment, but it's perfect for the beach or the bathroom, or just to have next to your chair as you watch the Sox this summer. It's perfect to browse through while watching a game. I just wish it ended with the Red Sox finally winning the world series.

This book was excellent,because I liked how the book started ended.I liked how the author described the characters.It had excllent plot.She did a wonderful job because she likes her step mother,step father,steps brothers,and sisters.She has a great attitude,because she treats her friends nicely.I would like to read the whole Baby-Sitters series because I think they are all great books.I think the book is wonderful I wouldn't change anything,because I liked it.I would recommend it to others.

This book was excellent,because I liked how the book started ended.I liked how the author described the characters.It had excllent plot.She did a wonderful job because she likes her step mother,step father,steps brothers,and sisters.She has a great attitude,because she treats her friends nicely.I would like to read the whole Baby-Sitters series because I think they are all great books.I think the book is wonderful I wouldn't change anything,because I liked it.I would recommend it to others.

Karen went to Stoneybrook and joined the swim team and she wants to be able to swim fast. She also has three best friends and they call themselves the Three Musketers. Karen likes having fun and swimming with them also until Coach Carson starts acting mean and says that the team needs to work harder and they are not working hard enough then Karen has to find out what the problem is with Coach Carson and she does that by getting help from her friends.

This book is pretty good. Karen joined the Stoneybrook swim team which was coached by the famous Stoneybrook swim star Ron Carson! She thought she was such a lucky child to have a superstar coach. But she was wrong. The coach acted mean to the team.He said they were not working hard enough.She told Daddy and Elizabeth how mean the coach was,so,on the day after the team has lost to Rockville, Daddy and Terri's father, Mr. Barkan went to the Community Center to talk to the coach. Daddy also said that that day chilly and gray, and the practice must be cancelled.In the end,the Ron Carson resinged to be a coach.