Teams Books

This is it! The quentessential competition book. If you are a professional chef who competes you must have this book. Truly the standard by which current judges compare.

I am currently a f/t culinary student and my Sr Chef (prof) recommended this to all of us. Breath-taking platings with a perfect 'new bistro' touch- but it for the photography and ideas (no wonder these teams won these awards- they are all well deserved!) and keep it for the wonderful recipes.

Helped the first time I opened the cover. Gave me a check list of items to consider, cut my response time to write the report and made it fairly painless. I could have thought it all out on my own, but I would have taken much longer to get to the same place. It sits in my drawer like a personal mentor, gives me a little directional steering to cover all the issues.

Although the format is a little cheesy (with the lessons presented as dialog between managers), the content, structure and organization of the book is great for new managers. The examples are fairly realistic, and the breakdown of basic skills is appropriate for those new to supervising workers.

If you have "Ranger-blue" pumping through your veins, or if you know someone who does, then this is the book to get. Anything you could possibly want to know about "the classiest team in hockey" is in here. Player profiles, stories, history, and enough stats to make an accountant drool, you name it--it's here. The book is easy to read and entertaining. You can read it from cover to cover or you can jump around to read about your favorite Blueshirts season. Simply put, a must have for any Rangers fan!

This book is "Chicken Soup" for the Ranger fanatic. It is loaded with history, but is not overwhelming. It gives you what you want. Some of the stories are pretty hilarious.

I gave this book to my husband, for Christmas, the year it was released. He only mentioned wanting it about every five minutes, from the time he first heard about it! If someone you love is a Ranger fanatic, this is the ultimate gift(I've come to love it, myself)I actually had to disguise it when I wrapped it up, and put it under the tree; he wanted it that bad! We weren't disappointed, and you won't be either! There is a lot of heart in this book. I only hope they update it, at least once a decade.

one of a number of christmas gifts i ordered through amazon----for me from others.
saw the book beforehand so i knew the contents.
very timely received and well packaged. condition is A+.
excellent dealer.

this book is an absolute must for any lay baseball historian. the info and pics are superb.
love it.

Being a Yankees fan for over 20 years now I am always interested in finding new material about the team and its history. So when I saw this book I immediately took a look at it. I found it fascinating and purchased it. The classic photographs and tidbits about each photo make for a great read. Yankees fans of all ages will love it.

This is a fine overview of the Northwestern University Football program. Larry LaTourette provides a concise historical account of the formative years of college football in Evanston and concludes with a summary with the 2004 campaign. It takes a good deal of editorial precision and skill to compress almost one hundred and twenty-five years into an almost equal number pages (including footnotes and top quality archival photographs), but the author carries off the task successfully.

Skeptics may not accept the fact that Northwestern was once a ranking power in the Big Ten Conference and nationally (the team narrowly missed being named the National Champion by the sportswriters twice, including an inexplicable decision to award the honor to second place Minnesota -- a team that first place NU had beaten that same year!), but it is the truth. Northwestern enjoyed a full decade of success beginning in the Twenties and which continued into the Thirties as the Wildcats captured four Big Ten titles. A surprise Rose Bowl triumph occurred in 1949. The program maintained respectability through the Sixties, but languished thereafter and soon became a laughingstock that did not have a winning record for twenty-four consecutive years.

Not much time is allotted to discussing the constant difficulties faced by Northwestern as the dominant state sponsored universities grew larger and more powerful which put Northwestern at a huge competitive disadvantage, in terms of athletic budgets, marketing, recruiting, television and radio coverage and in on field competition. Moreover, Northwestern has always required that its student athletes conform to high academic standards. Not all college football programs can make that same claim. To repeat a quotation from Henry Ward Beecher cited in the text: "Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting."

Conference officials may have been prepared to sacrifice Northwestern, a charter member of the Big Ten, and remove the team from the league, but the scrappy Wildcats began to win consistently at the same approximate time. How politically astute would it be to remove a recent conference champion for being uncompetitive? The book concludes by describing the miraculous storybook revival of the program under the talented (and controversial) Gary Barnett and his immediate successor, the late Randy Walker whose untimely death occurred shortly before the 2006 season. Hollywood could not have scripted movies to equal the heroics of the dramatic 1995, 1996 and 2000 seasons.

LaTourette does not miss a key play in this last chapter. I know this to be true since, as a season ticketholder since 1995, I attended all of the memorable home games, several of the road games and four of the postseason bowl games described in these pages. I have not missed a home game in thirteen years and can still recall when the new head coach Pat Fitzgerald was an outstanding linebacker!

Among the entertaining anecdotes from the Golden Era recounted here is an account of the irate NU fans who spotted Al Capone in the stands at Dyche Stadium. Their subsequent serenade of Bronx cheers caused the notorious gangster to make an impromptu exit. The campus newspaper followed up with an editorial demand that Capone not return!

This book would make a great gift for ANYONE who enjoys spending Saturdays following college football. The text is well written and it is fun to read.

If you follow Northwestern football, you will love getting the complete history of the program. I had no idea we had won 4 Big Ten championships in the '30's and twice almost won the national championship. This book is very well researched and extrememly thorough in its presentation.

If you're a die hard Sooner fan (and God knows - we all should be), this book will take you back to the beginning of it all. Very interesting. I highly recommend for every true Sooner fan.

We bought this book for my brother-in-law (who is a die hard OU fan) for Christmas and he absolutely loved it!!

THE STORY OF THE FOUNDING AND DISBANDING OF THE SHL TEAM THE MACON WHOOPEE. THE BOOK WHILE ONLY 130 PAGES LONG IS PROBABLY THE MOST ENTERTAINING BOOK ON ICE HOCKEY THAT I HAVE EVER HAD THE PLEASURE OF READING. THIS BOOK IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED AND WILL BE THROUGHLY ENJOYED BY HOCKEY FANS. IF YOU ENJOYED THE MOVIE "SLAPSHOT" YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS "ONCE UPON A WHOOPEE".

I was fortunate enough to read the draft copy of this book - it is outstanding. The Macon Whoopee is one of the most original nicknames in all of sports. The original incarnation of the Macon hockey team in 1974 is a classic story. It combines humour, human drama, and pathos all into one package. Read this book if you read no other sports related or human interest related books in the next year. The Gris and Mr. Buckley have written a classic.

This book fills in the many blanks that researchers need for the Green Bay Packers! A MUST read for any Packers fan!!

Divided into 99 chapters, one for each number, Packers By The Numbers: Jersey Numbers And The Players Who Wore Them by John Maxymuk specifically profiles famous players of the Wisconsin Green Bay Packer football team as arranged by the assigned numbers on their football jerseys. Concise yet packed from cover to cover with information and statistics, Packers By The Numbers is an engaging, easy-to-pick-up reference which is most especially recommended for dedicated Packers fans!

I was veryyyyyyy! happy with my last purchase from Amazon my books were at my home when promised. The quality of both books was great it was if I went to a store and purchased them. I can't believe how fast I got both books I ordered early thinking it would at least one to two weeks but they were at my home two or three days after I ordered!!!!!!!!!! I will never order books online from anyone else unless it's Amazon.com!!

This book is designed so paraprofessionals and the professionals they support can explore their relationships, roles, and responsibilities together. Many team-building activities and worksheets guide the team in defining the paraprofessional's responsibilities. Although the concepts aren't simple, the writing style is accessible to all readers. Perfect for community college courses and staff development for paraprofessionals.

His books are good. I've read all of them including his new one. I bought this library because I believe what he has to say. Death by Meeting alone is a reason enough (hello? who has meetings?). Anyway -- good collection to add to my library. I'm proud of this one.

Lencioni's library of management fables is a must read for everyone who finds themselves responsible for any aspect of people and company management. Applicable for CEO's and first level management, told in an easy-to-understand experiential manner, these books teach the basics and beyond.