From Library Journal A sportswriter/author brings up to datewith some debunkingBill's own book, Veeck as in Wreck (1962) in a sympathetic view of the baseball iconoclast. Veeck, son of a Chicago Cubs executive, also began his career with the Cubs but left in disappointment to take over the minor league Milwaukee club. After World War II service and a serious injury he headed the Indians, Browns, and White Sox, introducing black players, uniform names, and other innovationsusually unwelcome. Beset with his deteriorating leg and other ailments and alienation from his first wife and older children, Veeck still emerges as a colorful baseball personality. Worth buying. Morey Berger, Monmouth Cty. Lib., Manalapan, N.J.Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Bill Veeck: A Baseball Legend

Eskenazi, Gerald

Business & Money

McGraw=Hill

In this nostalgic look back at the decade that defined the New York Football Giants and updated in 1987 with a new introduction, New York Times reporter Gerald Eskenazi takes us back to 1954, when the Giants began a decade of success as an iconic American sports team, winning six division titles between 1954 and 1963. Emerging from years of slumber, going from the Polo Grounds to Yankee Stadium, they produced a crop of hall of fame players whose names still resonate, including Tittle, Gifford, Greer, and Robustelli, making a then $7.00 Giants ticket the toughest to buy in the world of sports. Filled with personal anecdotes from players and coaches that reconstruct the drama and excitement of the plays and games during that eventful era, Giants fans will be reunited with the players (Robustelli, Huff, Grier, Modzelewski, and Svare on defense; Gifford, Rote, Brown, Shofner, Webster, and Tittle on offense), their rivals (Jim Brown, John Unitas, and others), meet Vince Lombardi and Tom Landry when they were assistant coaches, and relive the 1958 title game against the Baltimore Colts-the first overtime game in National Football League history-which remains in lore as the "greatest game ever played."

There were giants in those days

Prentice-Hall Press

There Were Giants in Those Days

Sports & Outdoors

Miscellaneous

Grosset&Dunlap

The Hall of Famer recounts his life as a ball player in Boston, his relationship with managers and fans, and his blue-collar approach to his job, and describes how free-agency broke up a potential Red Sox dynasty

Yaz/Baseball, the Wall, and Me

Yastrzemski, Carl

Baseball

GRAND CENTRAL PUB.

A thinking man's guide to pro hockey (Warner Paperback Library)

Warner Communications Library

Hockey

Presents the history of hockey and a profile of important players and teams.

Children's Books

Putnam Pub. Group

A nostalgic look back at the decade that defined the New York Giants.

Grosset and Dunlap

Introduction to the game of ice hockey: its history & how to appreciate it.

A thinking man's guide to pro hockey

Dutton

Miracle on Ice

Naughton, Jim

Weisman, Steven R.

Smith, Red

Staff of New York Times

Clendinin, Dudley

BANTAM BOOKS

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