Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...
  • Young Woman And The Sea

    How Trudy Ederle Conquered the English Channel and Inspired the World

    by Glenn Stout ...
    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM DISNEY STARRING DAISY RIDLEY.The exhilarating true story of Trudy Ederle, the first woman to swim the English Channel, and inspire a new era for women in sportsBy age twenty, at the height of the Jazz Age, Trudy Ederle was the most accomplished swimmer in the world. She’d won Olympic gold and set a host of world records. But the greatest challenge remained: the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Year's Best Sports Writing 2025

    A must-read collection featuring the best in sports journalismEditor Hanif Abdurraqib has curated an essential anthology showcasing incredible feats and diverse perspectives across the world of sports.Selected from a wide range of newspapers, magazines, and digital publications during the previous year, these stories capture enduring moments while celebrating the craft of writing at its most ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Selling of the Babe

    The Deal That Changed Baseball and Created a Legend

    by Glenn Stout ...
    WINNER of the Society for American Baseball Research's (SABR) 2017 Larry Ritter Award for best baseball book of the Deadball EraThe Selling of the Babe tells the complete story surrounding the most famous and significant player transaction in professional sportsThe sale of Babe Ruth by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees in 1919 is one of the pivotal moments in baseball history, changing ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Best American Sports Writing 2017

    Series series Best American
    For a quarter century, the annual Best American Sports Writing has showcased the greatest sports journalism of the previous year. This year’s guest editor, acclaimed author Howard Bryant, continues the tradition, seeking out writing that best captures the unpredictable journey of sports. Triumphantly and painfully, these stories reflect on that journey, asking difficult questions about who we are, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Fenway 1912

    The Birth of a Ballpark, a Championship Season, and Fenway's Remarkable First Year

    by Glenn Stout ...
    A 2012 Top Ten Sports Book as selected by Booklist, winner of the 2011 Seymour Medal and Larry Ritter Award from the Society for American Baseball Research, and finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award for nonfiction, Fenway 1912 is the remarkable story of Fenway's very first year.Even people who aren't fans of baseball know Fenway Park. More than just a ballpark, it is a part of American culture ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Tiger Girl And The Candy Kid

    America's Original Gangster Couple

    by Glenn Stout ...
    The true Jazz Age tale of America’s first gangster couple, Margaret and Richard WhittemoreBefore Bonnie and Clyde there were Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid. In the wake of world war, a pandemic, and an economic depression, Margaret and Richard Whittemore, two love-struck working-class kids from Baltimore, reached for the dream of a better life. The couple headed up a gang that in less than a year ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Nine Months at Ground Zero

    The Story of the Brotherhood of Workers Who Took on a Job Like No Other

    A powerful account of the lesser-known heroes of 9/11—the construction workers who toiled outside the spotlight cleaning up the stunning destruction at Ground Zero, and recovering the bodies of the victims who perished there. With color photographs by Joel Meyerowitz.Hours after two airplanes hit the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001, Charlie Vitchers, a construction ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Best American Sports Writing 2012

    Series series Best American
    The Best American Series®First, Best, and Best-SellingThe Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Year's Best Sports Writing 2022

    Edited by J.A. Adande ...
    A must-read collection featuring the best in sports journalismJ.A. Adande, ESPN personality and Director of Sports Journalism at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, has curated an essential anthology showcasing incredible feats and diverse perspectives across the world of sports.Selected from a wide range of newspapers, magazines, and digital publications during the previous ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best American Sports Writing 2013

    Series series Best American
    J. R. Moehringer, a Pulitzer Prize–winning feature writer and the author of The Tender Bar, has selected the best in sports writing from the past year. Chosen from more than 350 national, regional, and specialty publications and, increasingly, the top sports blogs, this collection showcases those journalists who are at the top of their game.This unforgettable collection captures the human stories ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Against All Odds

    Never Give up

    by Glenn Stout ...
    Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos, Roy Reigels in the 1929 Rose Bowl, Frank Reich and the Buffalo Bills during the 1993 NFL playoffs, Tracy McGrady and the Houston Rockets in 2004, the entire St. Louis Cardinals team in the 2011 World Series . . . What do these players have in common? Every one of them was on the brink of a humiliating defeat. But at the moment when they could have called it quits, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chasing Tiger

    The Tiger Woods Reader

    by Glenn Stout ...
    From his appearance on the Mike Douglas Show at age three (he putted for Bob Hope and Jimmy Stewart) to his winning the U.S Junior Amateur title at fifteen (he was the youngest champion ever) to his recent victories in four Grand Slam events in a row (though not in the same year), Tiger Woods has pursued with single-minded determination his dream of becoming the greatest golfer in history. But who ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD