Don Cherry's Hockey Stories, Part 2

Hardcover | 256 pages | Doubleday Canada | Sports & Recreation - Hockey; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-385-67003-6 (0-385-67003-6)

October 26, 2010 | $29.95

Open

Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Sports; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Sports & Recreation - Tennis
978-0-307-38840-7 (0-307-38840-9)

August 10, 2010 | $17.95

Far more than a superb memoir about the highest levels of professional tennis, Open is the engrossing story of a remarkable life.
 
Andre Agassi had his life mapped out for him before he left the crib. Groomed to be a tennis champion by his moody and demanding father, by the age of...

The World is a Ball

Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Anchor Canada | Sports & Recreation - Soccer
978-0-385-66499-8 (0-385-66499-0)

November 2, 2010 | $19.95



Globe and Mail columnist John Doyle explores the international phenomenon of soccer

In A Great Feast of Light, John Doyle viewed his childhood in Ireland through the television screen. Now, he turns his eye to the most popular sport on the planet: soccer. It's a journey that begins with the first game...

Baseball

Trade Paperback | 592 pages | Knopf | Sports & Recreation - Baseball
978-0-375-71197-8 (0-375-71197-X)

September 21, 2010 | $46.00



The acclaimed nationwide best seller and companion volume to Ken Burns’s grand-slam PBS documentary—updated and expanded to coincide with the broadcast of a new, two-part Tenth Inning that lokos back on the age of steroids, home-run records, the rise of Latino players, and so much more.

With a narrative by Geoffrey C...

Eddie Shore and that Old-Time Hockey

Hardcover | 336 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Sports & Recreation - Hockey
978-0-7710-4127-3 (0-7710-4127-6)

October 12, 2010 | $32.99

Eddie Shore was the Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb of hockey, a brilliant player with an unmatched temper. Emerging from the Canadian prairie to become a member of the Boston Bruins in 1926, the man from Saskatchewan invaded every circuit in the NHL like a runaway locomotive on a downgrade. Hostile...

Gretzky's Tears

Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage Canada | Sports & Recreation - Hockey
978-0-307-39730-0 (0-307-39730-0)

October 26, 2010 | $21.00



Renowned sportswriter Stephen Brunt reveals how “the Great One,” who was bought and sold more than once, decided that the comfortable Canadian city where hockey ruled couldn’t compete with the slushy ice of a California franchise.

Bobby Orr’s career ended prematurely, with tears. Wayne Gretzky’s tears, unlike Orr’s, announced not an ending...

The Greatest Game

Hardcover | 320 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Sports & Recreation - Hockey
978-0-7710-2634-8 (0-7710-2634-X)

October 26, 2010 | $32.99



This game wasn't about money, points, or trophies. Instead it was played for pride, both personal and national. It was a confrontation twenty years in the making and it marked a turning point in the history of hockey.

On December 31, 1975, the Montreal Canadiens, the most successful franchise in the NHL...

Hockey Superstitions

Trade Paperback | 192 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Sports & Recreation - Hockey; Sports & Recreation; Humor - Topic - Sports
978-0-7710-7108-9 (0-7710-7108-6)

November 2, 2010 | $19.99



One of North America's best-known hockey writers examines the strangest rituals and superstitions within the NHL.

Why did Wayne Gretzky start every pre-game warm-up by shooting wide to the right of the net (a rather funny habit, given that he scored more goals than anyone in the game's history)? Why do many...

The Book of Basketball

Trade Paperback | 736 pages | ESPN | Sports & Recreation
978-0-345-52010-4 (0-345-52010-6)

December 7, 2010 | $20.00



There is only one writer on the planet who possesses enough basketball knowledge and passion to write the definitive book on the NBA.* Bill Simmons, the from-the-womb hoops addict known to millions as ESPN.com’s Sports Guy, is that writer. And The Book of Basketball is that book.

Nowhere in the roundball...

Blood Feuds

Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Transcontinental | Sports & Recreation - Hockey
978-0-9813938-1-0 (0-9813938-1-0)

October 12, 2010 | $19.95



Blood Feuds: Hockey's Best-Ever Rivalries is the perfect guide to the confrontational passion that makes hockey one of the most exciting sports in the world. Through the voices of the players, coaches and owners who made the history, Blood Feuds delves deep into the game's best rivalries, detailing the history and...

We are the Champions

Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Transcontinental | Sports & Recreation - Hockey
978-0-9813938-2-7 (0-9813938-2-9)

October 12, 2010 | $19.95



We Are The Champions: The Greatest Hockey Teams Of All-Time ranks the 25 best teams in NHL history, going back to the formation of the league in 1917 through to the Pittsburgh Penguins' Stanley Cup championship in 2009, with an anecdotal chapter on each club. As well, there's a section on...