New York: Macmillan, 1994. First edition - Author's first book - a study of a year in the lives of the Skyline High basketball team in Oakland, CA - where basketball is not just a sport, but something that can provide focus in a world of violence - and sometimes a way out of that rough world. Highly praised.

New York: Harper & Row, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of this great women's tennis champion - focusing primarily on her career, but also discussing the abortion controversy she was involved in, and her marriage to Larry King. Illustrated with photographs. 208 pages, index.

New York: Harper Collins, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of "ghostly baseball stories" by the Canadian author best known for "Shoeless Joe" which was made into the film "Field of Dreams." 180 pp. ISBN: 0-06017188X.

New York: Harper & Brothers, [1927, c 1910.]. Hardcover - The first book by this author who is probably best known for his historical fiction for young adults (often written with his wife). However, Knipe was a great football player in the late 19th centery at the University of Pennsylvania and the head coach at the University of Iowa. A rather hard-to-find book in any printing. Illustrated with a glossy frontispiece and three internal glossy plates. 269 pp.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1966). Hardcover - Biography of this baseball star written for older children - "from Brooklyn schoolboy basketball player to big-league pitcher leading the world in strikeouts, he is already being called the greatest pitcher of all time." A title in the Grosset Sports Library. Includes statistics on his pitching and World series records. 186 pp.

Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, (2017). First edition - A book which "explores the faith that, Robinson said, carried him through the torment and abuse he suffered for integrating the major leagues and drove him to get involved in the civil rights movement. Marked by sacrifice and service, inclusiveness and hope, Robinsons faith shaped not only his character but also baseball and America itself." Notes, index. ix, 206 pp. ISBN: 978-0664262037.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2006) sj. Hardcover first edition - A fictionalized account of Jackie Robinson's first season in the major leagues, as told by the bat boy for the Brooklyn Dodger, as he learns to overcome his own racism. Illustrated in full color by the award-winning African American artist Brian Pinkney, Square format, unpaginated.

New York & London: Penguin, (1986). A title in The Penguin Sports Library, which traces the life and career of the Black, world heavyweight champion boxer, describes public attitudes towards him, and looks at how he paved the way for other Black athletes. Notes. Index. xii, 330 pp. ISBN: 0-140092854.

New York: Putnam, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - A 'washed up ontime pitching phenom and all-around jerk gets a second chance." 352 pp. ISBN: 0-399149279.

New York: Putnam, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel about "the world of professional football, filled with black comedy, outrageous characters" and a lot of truth. 311 pp. ISBN: 0-399146474.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967, dj. Hardcover first edition - "The greatest pitcher in the Major Leagues tells the inside story of his rise to the top." Autobiography from his birth in the Dominican Republic when Trujillo was dictator to his induction into his country's air force, as a baseball player to his discovery by major league baseball. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 215 pp.

London: Scottfish Academic Press. (1997). A classic of golfing literature, originally published in 1902 and reissued with a foreword by Henry Longhurst and the original illustrations by Harry Furniss. x, 192 pp. ISBN: 0-7073-0492.

New York: Julian Messner, (1961) dj. Hardcover first edition - A biography for older children and young adults of one the greatest baseball players of all time. When he was called up by the Giants in 1951, he was rookie of the year, and 1954 after returning from 2 years in the Army during the Korean War, he was MVP - and is still known for "the catch" in the first game of the World series that year. One of a series of Sports Biographies published by Messner. Illustrated with photographs. Index. 192 pp.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1961.) dj. Hardcover - One of a series of books featuring 16-year-old athlete Bronc Burnett: nine are baseball stories, five (including this title) are football, and one is about scouting "Eagle Scout." Both the list at the front and on the rear cover of the dj list 15 titles.176 pp.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1960.) dj. Hardcover - One of a series of books featuring 16-year-old athlete Bronc Burnett: nine are baseball stories, five (including this title) are football, and one is about scouting "Eagle Scout." Lists to #14 at the front. 167 pp.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1948.) dj. Hardcover - One of a series of books featuring 16-year-old athlete Bronc Burnett: five are baseball stories(including this title), three are football, and one is about scouting "Eagle Scout." 180 pp.

Boston: Little Brown, (1999.). First edition - 'In the summer of 1996, McGinnis... set out for the remote Italian village of Castel di Sangro, located deep within the forbidding and isolated region of the Abruzzo.' The footballers - soccer players - of this town, with a population of only 5000, had just won promotion to Serie B, the second highest professional league. This is the story of what he found there - the promotion to B was only the first of the miracles. A fascinating account and while it is a story of triumph, underneath that is a sad underton, as 'the system' wins out. 404 pp.

New York: Scholastic, 1994. SIGNED - History of black baseball written for older children/young adults, illustrated with many photographs. An interesting point is that in the declining days of the Negro Leagues, several women played on the teams. Includes a timeline, bibliography and index. 184 pages. ISBN: 0-590-458108.

New York: Scholastic, (1994.). SIGNED - History of black baseball written for older children/young adults, illustrated with many photographs. An interesting point is that in the declining days of the Negro Leagues, several women played on the teams. Includes a timeline, bibliography and index. 184 pages. ISBN: 0-590-458108.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1963). Hardcover - A title in The Big League Baseball Library. Includes chapters on Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Gil Hodges and more, and ends begins and ends with a chapters on the move to California- "The Great Trek" and "After Ebbets Field". x, 194 pp.

Dalls, TX: Taylor, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of essays by the writer who has been called the "best writer on sports today." Themes range from personal favorites to pro and college football, baseball, fishing, olympics, boxing and more . Introduction by Michener. Index. xxi, 266 pp. ISBN: 0-87833-6095.

New York: Scholastic, 2001. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at Muhammad Ali's life from a talented writer for young readers. Photographs. Bibliography, chronology, index. 172 pp.

New York: Villard, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second collaboration between these two writers, and the second thriller featuring ex-tennis star Jordan Myles, a book which reveals the sleazy underbelly of the professional tennis circuit. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-679433910.

New York: Prentice-Hall, (1990). Collects 23 essays on the sport of boxing by Michael Stephens, Norman Mailer, Elliot Gorn, George Plimpton, Pete Hamill, A. J. Liebling, Gay Talese, Edward Hoagland, Gerald Early, George Garrett, and the editors Oates and Halpern and others. Introduction by Halpern. Illustrated with photographs. xii, 305 pp. ISBN: 0-137611498.

USA: Sports Publishing, LLC., 2002. dj. Hardcover first edition - 'A collection of the greatest Arizona Diamondback stories ever told' - stories which help to explain how this new baseball expansion team, which lost 97 games in 1998, their first season, and won the World Series in 2001, just 3 years later. Illustrated with drawings. 181 pp. ISBN: 1-58261-4946.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. Hardcover first edition - The first book in an eight book series, set at Yale University, and consisting of interrelated stories focusing on sports - especially baseball, but also track and field, and football, as well as an account of a most unusual regatta. Illustrated with a glossy frontispiece and 5 internal glossy plates by Worth Brehm, Tissue guard for frontispiece. The author was a noted journalist, who had attended Yale and who was on the football and rowing teams. 356 pp plus 4 pp publisher's ads for other stories of college life.