More than the Score: Kansas City Sports Memories offers a comprehensive collection of Kansas City's sports history through Top-10 lists as selected by thousands of online voters. The book includes many local sports stories you've never heard.

More Than The Score: Kansas City Sports Memories

Matt Fulks

Sports & Outdoors

Metro Sports Books

Hi, everybody, and welcome .... Those signature sign-on words from Hall of Fame broadcaster Denny Matthews have signaled the start of summer for Kansas City Royals baseball fans for five decades. Since the first day of the club s inception in 1969, Matthews has been there on the call for Royals history. For anyone who has grown up with the Royals, Matthews has been the one constant, painting vivid portraits of the game he loves with the sights and sounds of the ballpark as his canvas.

Hi, Anybody! Why I Love Baseball and What I'd Do to Fix It

History

Denny Matthews

Americas

Ascend Books

You're a Kansas Jayhawks fan. So, you know the stories of the triumphs and disappointments in KU's sports history - the 1952 NCAA Championship, the '57 triple-overtime loss, the '69 Orange Bowl, "Danny and the Miracles" of '88, and, of course, the incredible football and basketball season of 2007-08. You know about the Hall of Famers including Clyde Lovellette, Wilt Chamberlain, Gale Sayers, JoJo White, John Riggins, Lynette Woodard, Don Fambrough, and, of course, Max Falkenstien. 
You know about all of it because you're a Kansas Jayhawks fan. But, as wide as your fandom might be, you've never seen a book like For Kansas Jayhawks Fans Only before. 
It's fellow Kansas Jayhawks fans sharing their funniest stories, saddest memories, happiest times and craziest moments about, well, being KU fans. You'll go through their close encounters with the KU athletic greats, the lengths fellow fans have gone through to see the Jayhawks play, as well as touching anecdotes of Chamberlain's return to Kansas and listening to Max on the radio. 
The remembrances are all here in For Kansas Jayhawks Fans Only - the joy, the jokes, the pranks, the games - told by a Hall of Fame team of fans. It's like sitting on the hill on a Saturday afternoon, listening to your buddies reminisce about their experiences of being fans of the Kansas Jayhawks.

For Jayhawks Fans Only! Wonderful Stories Celebrating the Incredible Fans of the Kansas Jayhawks

with Rich Wolfe

Every team has at least one. That one player whos called on to make something happen. Throughout his career on the University of Kansas basketball team, Travis Releford was that guy. So much so, in fact, that on Senior Night 2013, head coach Bill Self told the Allen Fieldhouse crowd that Releford was the rock of our team. In his new book, Relentless, Releford candidly describes the hard work it took on the court and in the classroom to become the Rock of the Jayhawks. Growingup in the inner-city sometimes without food on the table, he became one of the most highly recruited basketball players in Kansas City history. He went from attending a predominantly white, private high school, to becoming a father while in college, to helping the Jayhawks reach the national championship game in 2012. The book is a must-read for any fan wanting an inside look at major college basketball. A great gift for any fan of the Kansas Jayhawks.

Relentless: From Redshirt to the Rock of the Jayhawks

(foreword by) Bill Self

Travis Releford

Biographies

Genuine fans take the best team moments with the less than great, and know that the games that are best forgotten make the good moments truly shine. This monumental book of the Pittsburgh Pirates documents all the best moments and personalities in the history of the team, but also unmasks the regrettably awful and the unflinchingly ugly. In entertaining--and unsparing--fashion, this book sparkles with Pirates highlights and lowlights, from wonderful and wacky memories to the famous and infamous. Such moments include the impressive run to the Super Bowl in 2006 and the great plays of Ben Roethlisberger, as well as the horrendous years in the 1980s, when the Steelers struggled below .500 three out of four seasons. Whether providing fond memories, goose bumps, or laughs, this portrait of the team is sure to appeal to the fan who has been through it all.

Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Pittsburgh Steelers : Heart-Pounding, Jaw-Dropping, and Gut-Wrenching Moments from Pittsburgh Steelers History

Triumph Books

Former Raiders player and Super Bowl-winning coach Tom Flores provides an inside look at the franchise's many characters and colorful personalities, including owner Al Davis.

Tom Flores's Tales from the Raiders Sidelines

Tom Flores

Sports Publishing, LLC

Longtime Kansas City Royals radio broadcaster Denny Matthews relives the club's great moments and proud tradition through never-before-told anecdotes and memories.

Denny Matthews's Tales from the Royals Dugout: A Collection of the Greatest Stories Ever Told

Sports Pub

Tom Flores played for the Raiders for 10 seasons and was their head coach from 1979-87. Over that time, he came into contact with innumerable characters and colorful personalities. Tom Flores's Tales from the Oakland Raiders provides behind-the-scenes humor from greats such as former coach and owner Al Davis and coach Eddie Erdelatz as well as players such as Billy Cannon, Jim Otto, John Matuzak and Bo Jackson.

Tom Flores' Tales from the Oakland Raiders

Twenty-five years. It sounds like a long time. Not many locally-owned restaurants survive that long. But then again, Chappell's Restaurant and Sports Museum, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2011, isn't an ordinary restaurant. Chappell's, owned by affable host Jim Chappell, has been voted one of the best sports restaurants in the nation by Sports Illustrated and the Chicago Tribune, but not because it has a zillion big-screen TVs. It has but three. Nestled in North Kansas City, Chappell's has survived by being sports version of the Hard Rock Café, the Louvre and Grauman's Chinese Theatre rolled up in one. It's a place where sports fans, athletes and coaches can see historic memorabilia. But it's also a place for the famous to be seen. Conversations at Chappell's captures this living history by just plain listening to more than 65 sports greats invited to roundtable lunch conversations to remember Kansas City sports greatest moments and those rich behind-the-scenes gossip moments as well. People such as Len Dawson and Bobby Bell, Fred Patek and Dennis Leonard, Lew Krausse, Sam Lacey, Bud Stallworth, Scot Pollard, Curtis McClinton, Corby Jones, Lynn Dickey, Larry Holley, Kevin Harlan, Dave Stewart, Kent Pulliam and Denny Matthews. Stories of the Chiefs, Royals, K-State, KU, MU, the NAIA, and even teams that time has forgotten, such as the Kansas City A's and Kansas City Kings. It's a feast of memories served up by a mighty fine host, Jim Chappell.

Conversations at Chappell's

Jim Chappell

Kansas City Star Books

Tales from the Kansas City Royals Dugout: A Collection of the Greatest Royals Stories Ever Told (Tales from the Team)

Sports Publishing

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