A little boy and his father enjoy a full assortment of sportingevents together.

50 YEARS OF SPORT AS SEEN BY THE CHAMPION OF ALL SPORTS WRITERS. This isn't, praise be, a formal book. It is no literary exercise in balanced sentences and the painfully selected word. This is Grant Rice talking, rambling happily along, tell again in his wonderful way the wonderful stories he loved to tell. They are great tales of men and deeds, told with affection and warmth and gentle humour. Yet it isn't the stories of the great which make this...

Each week, when Sports Illustrated's 21 million readers open up their magazine, many turn right to the last page because that's where to find SI's most popular feature: the Life of Reilly column written by bestselling author Rick Reilly. A twenty-one-year veteran of the magazine and ten-time Sportswriter of the Year, Reilly took over SI's back page in 1998, and his column immediately attracted a devoted audience who helped make his 1990 book, The...

"The Devil's Snake Curve offers an alternative American history, in which colonialism, jingoism, capitalism, and faith are represented by baseball. Personal and political, it twines Japanese internment camps with the Yankees; Walmart with the Kansas City Royals; and facial hair patterns with militarism, Guantanamo, and the modern security state. An essay, a miscellany, and a passionate unsettling of Josh Ostergaard's relationship with our national...

A third baseman is sick with anxiety about whether or not to help his team by using his knack for knowing where the batter is going to hit the ball.

Eddie doesn't like the idea of girls playing baseball in his league, but when one of his pitches injures a girl, he rethinks hisattitudes.

The Bear family engage in competitive sports events while demonstrating to the reader the comparison of adjectives.

Mallow is organizing a sports day in the field. All of the different insects and animals are going to participate! Dazzle is happy to cheer on her friends. But when one of the butterflies can't compete, can Dazzle take her place?

Although he can't hit or catch, Ronald Morgan loves to play baseball; but he's got a lot of spirit and with a little practice maybe that's all he'll need.

A Brooklyn manager counts on his young rookie pitcher to carry his team from fourth place to the pennant.