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Whitby: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited, 1997. BOOK: Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. FRONT COVER PHOTO COURTESY OF: Imperial Oil - Turofsky/Hockey Hall of Fame. BACK COVER PHOTO COURTESY OF: Bob Fisher Copyright CHC. JACKET DESIGN, DIGITAL PHOTO COLORIZATION: Dave Hader/Studio Conceptions. PUBLISHER: Joan Homewood. EDITOR: Erin Moore. PRODUCTION COORDINATOR: Sharon Hudson. INTERIOR DESIGN/COMPOSTION: Bookman. EDITORIAL SERVICES: Ron Edwards. CONTENTS: Acknowledgements; Special People in Our Lives 1. They Love Me; They Hate Me! 2. From the Sidewalks of Montreal to The Forum 3. The Calder Trophy and the Girl of My Dreams 4. Tasting My First Cup of Champagne 5. Getting Into Trouble 6. The Riotous End of Dick Irvin's Coaching Career 7. A New Coach and Another Cup 8. The Greatest Team Ever 9. I Almost Died; The Players' Association Did 10.… Read More

Scarborough: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited, 1989. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings (Gift Inscription and Date Neatly Inked to Front Free Endpaper); Spine Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. JACKET AND BOOK DESIGN: Kirk Alexander Stephens. JACKET PHOTOGRAPHS: Jim Allen. CONTENTS: October 2, 1988; The Off-Season, 1987; February; March; April; May; June; July; August; September; October. SYNOPSIS: Ernie Whitt first put on a catcher's gear as a seven-year-old in a suburb of Detroit. Before long, he'd decided that hew anted to be a big league player. There was nothing unusual about that. Millions of kids have that dream. But few set about with such perseverance to make their dreams come true. Catch A Major League Life tells how Ernie made his dream a reality--how he believed in himself, developed his… Read More

Scarborough: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited, 1989. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. JACKET AND BOOK DESIGN: Kirk Alexander Stephens. JACKET PHOTOGRAPHS: Jim Allen. CONTENTS: October 2, 1988; The Off-Season, 1987; February; March; April; May; June; July; August; September; October. SYNOPSIS: Ernie Whitt first put on a catcher's gear as a seven-year-old in a suburb of Detroit. Before long, he'd decided that hew anted to be a big league player. There was nothing unusual about that. Millions of kids have that dream. But few set about with such perseverance to make their dreams come true. Catch A Major League Life tells how Ernie made his dream a reality--how he believed in himself, developed his talents, found his rhythm and balance, and carved out a place at the top of his profession. It's his… Read More

Grand Rapids/San Francisco: Zondervan Publishing House/HarperSanFrancisco Divisions of HarperCollinsPublishers (copublication), 1993. Over 350,000 Copies Sold. EDITED BY: John Sloan. CONTENTS: Chronology of Events; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Prologue 1 Between the Lines 2 In Preparation 3 Good Dreams 4 Sore Shoulder 5 Field of Dreams 6 Preparing for the Worst, Hoping for the Best 7 In Barranquilla and Amarillo 8 Making It to the Big Leagues 9 Diagnosis 10 Under the Knife 11 The Aftermath 12 In the Dungeon 13 Comeback? 14 Hitting the Wall 15 Air It Out 16 Up Through the Minor Leagues 17 Pack Your Bags 18 August 10 19 The Pitch 20 Changing My Focus 21 A Second Comeback? 22 The Playoffs 23 Earthquake 24 The Tumor Is Back 25 Was It Worth It?; Postscript. SYNOPSIS: A Dramatic Story of Baseball, Bravery, Faith, and One of the Great Comebacks of All Time. The moment was electric and unforgettable. Less than one year after cancer surgery on Dave Dravecky's pitching arm, the San Francisco Giants… Read More

New York: Simon & Schuster BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Moderately Creased; Moderately Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. BOOK NUMBER: 03942250. DESIGNED BY: Levavi & Levavi. JACKET PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF: the National Baseball Library, Cooperstown, N.Y. JACKET DESIGN BY: Paul Bacon. CONTENTS: Introduction 1. Mannish Boy in Mobile 2. Ridin' on the L&N 3. Today Will be Yesterday Tomorrow 4. "Mister Satchel" 5. Feast of the Nimrods 6. Abode of the Gods 7. "It's Paige and Goodbye Ballgame" 8. Ain't Got No Home 9. Upright and Lowdown 10. Mucho Calor 11. Go Down, Moses 12. He Is Risen 13. I'm Not Selling Out, I'm Buying In 14. Night into Morning 15. Deliverance 16. This Fabulous Character 17. Those Who Must remain Are Still the Same 18. Tomorrow Is Not, Until Today Is Past 19. Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory 20. Eternity Is Now; Index. SYNOPSIS:… Read More

London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, 1986. BOOK: Corners Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. CONTENTS: Author's Note; 1 Beginnings 2 The Irresistible Challenge 3 Success on the South-West Face 4 Laissez-Faire on the Ogre 5 Nearly, But Not Quite 6 A Second Chance 7 Getting Down the Ogre 8 K2 9 Avalanche 10 Chinese Overtures 11 Pushing the Limits 12 Small is Beautiful 13 A Fairytale Summit 14 One In Seven 15 Alone on Top of Antarctica 16 A Promise Broken 17 The Build Up 18 Fulfilment 19 Back to Earth; Select Bibliography; Index. SYNOPSIS: In 1985 Chris Bonington crowned an already distinguished mountaineering career by reaching the summit of Everest at the age of fifty - an achievement which won him enormous popular acclaim and affection. His new volume of autobiography chronicles his four expeditions to the world's highest peak from… Read More

New York: A Ballantine Book Published by The Ballantine Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., 1999. BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Missing. TEXT DESIGN BY: Debbie Glasserman. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. Good Hands 2. Mother 3. Wake Forest 4. Turning Point 5. Winnie 6. The Tour 7. Augusta 8. D.D.E. 9. Cherry Hills 10. The Claret Jug 11. Missing Link 12. The Handshake 13. The Left Seat 14. Bay Hill 15. Hat's Off; Career Summary; Index.. First Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: A Fireside Book Published by Simon & Schuster Inc., 1998. Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. BOOK NUMBER: 04981500. COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY: Brian Smith/Outline. DESIGNED BY: Karolina Harris. COVER DESIGN BY: Paul Smith. CONTENTS: Preface 1 The Real Beginning 2 The Architect and the Builder 3 A Tough Decision and Another World 4 Arnold and Augusta 5 Two Surprises 6 Everyone Likes to Be Liked 7 Winning at Its Hardest 8 The Most Elusive One--Finally 9 "What's Wrong With Jack Nicklaus?"--Round 1 10 "What's Wrong With Jack Nicklaus?"--Round 2 11 Twice Around 12 A Metamorphosis 13 Halfway There--Then Muirfield 14 Trevino and Others--And a New Record 15 Fun Time at Augusta 16 Miracle at the Monster 17 "It's Only a Game" 18 "Jack's Back" 19 An Unbelievable Year 20 The Most Fulfilling; Appendix: Jack Nicklaus's Tournament Records; Index. SYNOPSIS: Over the half millennium and more that golf has existed, no… Read More

Toronto: Viking Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 1991. BOOK: Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. FRONT JACKET PHOTO: Terry Hancey. BACK JACKET PHOTOS: Clockwise from top left, Gruber collection, Canada Wide, Terry Hancey, and Gruber collection. JACKET DESIGN: Bruce W. Bond. CONTENTS: Preface; 1 The Twilight Zone 2 Diamond in the Rough 3 Dreams Die Hard 4 Waterloo 5 Dirty Al 6 Gwoo-bah! 7 Life in the Slow Lane 8 The Harder They Fall 9 The Brass Rings 10 Fielder's Choice 11 To Have and Have Not 12 Good Ol' Boys 13 Hittin' 14 Stars in His Eyes 15 The "Inside" Story 16 A Tall Shadow 17 The Hendricks Brothers 18 Temptation 19 And Kody Makes Three; Appendix; Kelly Gruber: By the Numbers; Career Highs; Chronology. SYNOPSIS: The story of the Blue Jays' 1990 Most Valuable Player and most popular star. From Texas to Toronto by way of Cleveland and a dozen other… Read More

New York: Warner Books, Inc. A Time Warner Company, 1996. BOOK: Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges, Rear Free Endpaper Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. BOOK NUMBER: 1196. JACKET PHOTOS BY: Heinz Kluetmeier. JACKET PHOTO COLORIZATION BY: Alexa Garbarino. BOOK DESIGN BY: Beverley Vawter Gallegos. JACKET DESIGN BY: Diane Luger. TITLE PAGE PHOTOGRAPHY BY: Heinz Kluetmeier. PROLOGUE PHOTOGRAPH BY: Christopher Little. CONTENTS: Prologue; Childhood; School Years; Sergei; The Miserable, Pitiless Zhuk; Little Attentions; A Holiday Wish; Calgary; A Time of Change; In Love; Paris; Romeo, Juliet, and a Froggy Village; Some Proposals; The Wedding; Newlyweds; A Gift; Daria; Leaving; Moonlight Sonata; Training in the New Russia; Lillehammer; Simsbury and a New Home; The Last Summer; Goodbye; Losing Myself; The Tribute; Epilogue. SYNOPSIS: Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov were the most celebrated pairs skaters… Read More

New York: Warner Books, Inc. A Time Warner Company BOOK: Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. BOOK NUMBER: 1196. JACKET PHOTOS BY: Heinz Kluetmeier. JACKET PHOTO COLORIZATION BY: Alexa Garbarino. BOOK DESIGN BY: Beverley Vawter Gallegos. JACKET DESIGN BY: Diane Luger. TITLE PAGE PHOTOGRAPHY BY: Heinz Kluetmeier. PROLOGUE PHOTOGRAPH BY: Christopher Little. CONTENTS: Prologue; Childhood; School Years; Sergei; The Miserable, Pitiless Zhuk; Little Attentions; A Holiday Wish; Calgary; A Time of Change; In Love; Paris; Romeo, Juliet, and a Froggy Village; Some Proposals; The Wedding; Newlyweds; A Gift; Daria; Leaving; Moonlight Sonata; Training in the New Russia; Lillehammer; Simsbury and a New Home; The Last Summer; Goodbye; Losing Myself; The Tribute; Epilogue. SYNOPSIS: Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov were the most celebrated pairs skaters of all time. Partners in life as well as… Read More

Toronto: Key Porter Books Limited, 1988. BOOK: Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. DESIGN: Marie Bartholomew. FRONT JACKET PHOTO BY: Gregg Eligh. BACK JACKET PHOTO BY: Jim Wiley. CONTENTS: Prologue 1. A Small-town Boy 2. Broken Legs and Triple Axels 3. The Emerging Artist 4. The Long Wait 5. Top of the Podium 6. The Battle of the Brians; Epilogue; Appendix. SYNOPSIS: This is the remarkable story of a boy from a small town who became the most accomplished male figure skater in Canada in the 1980s, and his country's best hope for a gold medal at the Calgary Winter Olympics. Brian Orser talks about his career with candor and insight. From the time, nearly two decades ago, when he showed off his leaps and spins for world champion Donald Jackson, to the fateful moment in Calgary, in February, 1988, when he decided not to attempt a second triple Axel in his long… Read More

Chicago: Follett Publishing Company, 1972. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Front, Rear Fixed Endpapers Pulled From Removal of Jacket Cover; Front Free Endpaper Pulled From Removal of Pocket, Sticker; Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Sticker Pull to Spine Portion; Spine Portion Heavily Faded Due to Sun Exposure; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. PHOTOGRAPHS BY: Vernon Biever. A NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE BOOK - Publisher: David Boss; Editor: John Wiebusch; Art Director: Bill von Torne; Associate Editor: Patricia Cross; Business Manager: Jack Wrobbel. CONTENTS: When I Look Back: Prologue; The Hazards of the profession: Pictorial; One Man's Life: A Story of Bart Starr; The Quarterback's View: Games in Words and Pictures; Friends and Foes: All-Packer and All-Opponent Teams; Hurts: Afterward; Starr Years: The Numbers. SYNOPSIS: Bart Starr is the definitive example of the nice guy who… Read More

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Non-Sticky Price Sticker Discolouration/Residue to Rear Cover ISBN Panel; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. FOREWORD BY: John Ritchie. COVER PAINTING OF STEVE PODBORSKI "IN THE TUCK" BY: Ken Danby, courtesy of Gallery Moos Ltd. COVER DESIGN: Richard Miller. CONTENTS: Foreword; Acknowledgements 1. Downhill Racer 2. Ski Weekends 3. Born to Ski 4. The Crazy Canucks 5. Ski Bums 6. Eating My Liver 7. Uphill All the Way 8. On the Loud Pedal 9. Skiing My Buns Off 10. On Top of the World 11. Fringe Benefits 12. Peaks and Valleys 13. Après Ski 14. Pod's Perspective 15. Statistics. SYNOPSIS: Here is champion Steve Podborski's own exciting and fast-paced story about the pressure-cooker world of ski-racing and how he beat the best in the world. Podborski was the most successful of the legendary and daring Crazy Canucks who changed… Read More

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Inc. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings (Gift Inscription Neatly Inked to Front Free Endpaper); Repaired (Tear Taped); Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Light Moisture Damage (Staining); In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. JACKET PHOTOGRAPH: James Lipa. CONTENTS: ONE An Oppression of Hockey Players TWO Involvements THREE Early Days with Orr FOUR Politics FIVE The Road to the 1972 Series SIX Four in Canada, Four in Moscow SEVEN Life and Death of the WHA EIGHT The Canada Cup NINE Another Side of the Coin TEN Bobby Orr--The Breakup ELEVEN The Uprisings TWELVE Exoneration THIRTEEN The Break with Orr--Part II FOURTEEN Hockey People FIFTEEN One Man's Trouble with Drugs SIXTEEN The Wave of the Future SEVENTEEN The Hockey Business; Index. SYNOPSIS: Dictatorial. Rude. Dedicated. Loyal. Crude. Gentlemanly. Over the years, all those descriptions and more have been applied to Alan… Read More

New York: Villard Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 1984. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Repaired; Front, Rear Fixed Endpapers Pulled From Removal of Jacket Cover; Front Free Endpaper Pulled From Removal of Pocket and Sticker; Corners, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Heavily Cocked; Moderately Soiled, Including Edges. DUST JACKET: Light Sticker Residue to Spine Portion From Removal of Sticker; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: The Autobiography. DESIGNED BY: Beth Tondreau. JACKET PHOTO BY: Bert Stern. JACKET DESIGN BY: Wendy Bass. CONTENTS: Prologue 1. Wyncote: Martinez's Son 2. Bull in the Ring 3. Birmingham: Just the Kind of Nigger Boy They Needed 4. Mr. Charles O. Finley 5. But Howe We Played the Game... 6. Jennie Campos...Jackson 7. Proceed Directly to the Earl of Baltimore. Pass Go. Collect $200,000. 8. Just Business 9. New York, New York 10. "The… Read More

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1988. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Light Moisture Damage (Staining to Reverse); Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. BOOK NUMBER: 4-88. BOOK DESIGN BY: Antonina Krass. FRONT JACKET PHOTOGRAPH: Anthony Loew, Inc. JACKET DESIGN BY: Hugh J. O'Neill. SYNOPSIS: Six foot six, 220 pounds. Bats right, throws right. Power hitter to all fields. Runs hard, fast, and smart on the basepaths. Climbs the wall like Spiderman to steal homeruns and throws the ball on a rope to pick off runners. A blueprint for the complete player, Dave Winfield. But, as this book shows, Dave Winfield has also lived a complete life, on and off the field. The Game--From spring training to the World Series. Stories from the San Diego Padres of Gaylord Perry, Rollie Fingers, Tito Fuentes' pre-game voodoo ritual, and… Read More

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1988. BOOK: Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. BOOK NUMBER: 4-88. BOOK DESIGN BY: Antonina Krass. FRONT JACKET PHOTOGRAPH: Anthony Loew, Inc. JACKET DESIGN BY: Hugh J. O'Neill. SYNOPSIS: Six foot six, 220 pounds. Bats right, throws right. Power hitter to all fields. Runs hard, fast, and smart on the basepaths. Climbs the wall like Spiderman to steal homeruns and throws the ball on a rope to pick off runners. A blueprint for the complete player, Dave Winfield. But, as this book shows, Dave Winfield has also lived a complete life, on and off the field. The Game--From spring training to the World Series. Stories from the San Diego Padres of Gaylord Perry, Rollie Fingers, Tito Fuentes' pre-game voodoo ritual, and Willie McCovey (the superstar who took a young Dave Winfield under his wing). And… Read More

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1997. BOOK: Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. CONTENTS: Prologue: The Genesis of a Legend 1 The Declining Canadian Champion 2 The Descent into Fantasy 3 The Viennese Waltz 4 Berlin 5 Le Patineur du Siecle 6 Tokyo 7 Beijing 8 Ice 9 In the Land of the Mamba 10 Upstaging Joan Collins 11 Vignettes 12 The Electric Chair 13 Reaching for Dry Land 14 Trial and Error 15 Lessons Learned 16 The Great Unknowns 17 Three Funerals; Epilogue: Lausanne; The Photographs; Index. SYNOPSIS: Part memoir, part entertainment, part commentary on a life lived as art, Toller Cranston tells tales as only he can, including: The only skating show in Haiti . . . The Broadway triumph that failed . . . The great monkey showdown . . . The pachinko wizard . . . Upstaging Joan Collins . . . The lost dog and the Cabbagetown street people . . . The decimation of John Curry . . . The wrong Miss America . . . Sonja… Read More

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1997. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. CONTENTS: Prologue: The Genesis of a Legend 1 The Declining Canadian Champion 2 The Descent into Fantasy 3 The Viennese Waltz 4 Berlin 5 Le Patineur du Siecle 6 Tokyo 7 Beijing 8 Ice 9 In the Land of the Mamba 10 Upstaging Joan Collins 11 Vignettes 12 The Electric Chair 13 Reaching for Dry Land 14 Trial and Error 15 Lessons Learned 16 The Great Unknowns 17 Three Funerals; Epilogue: Lausanne; The Photographs; Index. SYNOPSIS: Part memoir, part entertainment, part commentary on a life lived as art, Toller Cranston tells tales as only he can, including: The only skating show in Haiti . . . The Broadway triumph that failed . . . The great monkey showdown . . . The pachinko wizard . . . Upstaging Joan Collins . . . The lost dog and the Cabbagetown street people . . . The decimation of John Curry . . . The… Read More