Greetings from Amazon.com Delivers Sports and Outdoors Editor, Langdon Cook FEATURED IN THIS E-MAIL: * What We're Reading: "The Junction Boys," "Good Bounces and Bad Lies," "Bird Watching," "The Ball" * Fishy Business: Nick Lyons and The Lyons Press * For Pride and Country: Golf's Ryder Cup * Rediscover Exploration Classics: The Exploration Series, edited by Jon Krakauer * Bestsellers WHAT WE'RE READING ****************** "The Junction Boys" by Jim Dent http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312192932/entertainmentsit After 10 days of hell in September 1954, 34 exhausted but hopeful football players remained standing on the playing fields of Junction, Texas. "The Junction Boys" is the story of coach Bear Bryant's legendary Texas A&M team--and the training camp that led to an undefeated season a year later. "Good Bounces and Bad Lies" by Ben Wright http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1886947228/entertainmentsit Former golf broadcaster Ben Wright tells all in "Good Bounces and Bad Lies," a hilarious and penetrating look at professional golf and broadcasting--and his own controversial role in the two arenas. "Bird Watching: On Playing and Coaching the Game I Love" by Larry Bird http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0446524646/entertainmentsit Larry Bird, the Celtics legend and Pacers coach, reveals his rarely-glimpsed private side in "Bird Watching: On Playing and Coaching the Game I Love," laying up insights from his playing days, philosophies of coaching, and even anecdotes about his childhood in French Lick, Indiana. "The Ball: Mark McGwire's 70th Home Run Ball and the Marketing of the American Dream" by Daniel Paisner http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0670887765/entertainmentsit From a Costa Rican factory to a $3 million auction, "The Ball: Mark McGwire's 70th Home Run Ball and the Marketing of the American Dream" follows in hilarious and cautionary detail the trajectory of one special Rawlings baseball. FISHY BUSINESS: NICK LYONS AND THE LYONS PRESS ********************************************** In a world of big fish eating little fish, Nick Lyons built The Lyons Press into a small publisher success story-- without sacrificing his own unique vision that has guided the company since its inception. Recently retired, Lyons talked to Amazon.com about his life's pursuit and the literature of angling that is perhaps his finest and most enduring catch. Sports & Outdoors FOR PRIDE AND COUNTRY: GOLF'S RYDER CUP *************************************** Matching the best American golfers against the best Europeans, the biannual Ryder Cup is one of the few sporting events for professionals in which patriotism, duty, and honor override the winner's check, of which there is none. Tee up our list of histories, plus a guide to match-play golf and a comic novel inspired by this dramatic competition. Sports & Outdoors REDISCOVER EXPLORATION CLASSICS ******************************* With Jon Krakauer at the helm as series editor, the Modern Library is putting classic books about exploration and adventure--like Roland Huntford's "The Last Place on Earth"--back on the literary map. Krakauer explains his course of action in the series foreword, reprinted here. Sports & Outdoors BESTSELLERS *********** Readers set a course for the brine. "The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey" by Linda Greenlaw http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0786864516/entertainmentsit The term fisherwoman does not exactly roll trippingly off the tongue, and Linda Greenlaw, the world's only female swordfish boat captain, isn't flattered when people insist on calling her one. "I am a woman. I am a fisherman... I am not a fisherwoman, fisherlady, or fishergirl. If anything else, I am a thirty-seven-year-old tomboy. It's a word I have never outgrown." "Fatal Storm: The Inside Story of the Tragic Sydney-Hobart Race" by Rob Mundle http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0071356983/entertainmentsit In the world of competitive off-shore sailing, Christmas Day is thought of as Boxing Day Eve--that is, the eve of the annual Sydney-to-Hobart Race. One of the world's three major offshore races (along with the Fastnet out of England and America's Newport Race to Bermuda), the 630-mile course from Sydney, Australia, to Hobart, Tasmania, is a test of skills, guts, and endurance in notoriously unpredictable, fickle waters--and in any weather. "Godforsaken Sea: Racing the World's Most Dangerous Waters" by Derek Lundy http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565122291/entertainmentsit The race is the Vendee Globe, and The Godforsaken Sea is the story of the 1996-1997 competition. Fourteen men and two women began the race in Les Sables-d'Olonne, France. Six officially finished; three were wrecked and rescued; one sailor performed emergency surgery on himself mid-race; one perished. This is high adventure of the most gripping, perilous sort, demanding a tightly controlled, suspenseful narrative. ****** You'll find more great books, articles, excerpts, and interviews in Amazon.com's Sports & Outdoors section at Sports & Outdoors ****** To help you kick off the fall football season, we're offering complimentary delivery on every 30-inch or larger TV in our catalog, plus selected 27-inch sets. You can find the complete list of TVs covered by this special offer at Televisions ***
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