How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics
by Frank Andre Guridy
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781477321836
Pub Date: March 23rd, 2021
Format: Hardcover
432 Pages
The story of Texas’s impact on American sports culture during the civil rights and second-wave feminist movements, this book offers a new understanding of sports and society in the state and the nation as a whole.
Robert Clark returns to the photographs of the Permian Panthers he took thirty years ago for the iconic Friday Night Lights, with a selection of his previously unpublished photos plus portraits of the players and the community as they are today.
A fascinating biography of the legendary Texas football star who earned the Heisman Trophy and an MVP award—while making wrenching sacrifices to achieve his record-setting greatness.
Telling an inspiring, largely unknown story, Thursday Night Lights recounts how African American high school football programs produced championship teams and outstanding players during the Jim Crow era.
The Life and Wisdom of the Man Who Wrote the Book on Golf
by Kevin Robbins
Introduction by Ben Crenshaw
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 9781477315491
Pub Date: February 6th, 2018
Format: Paperback
368 Pages
This biography of legendary golf pro Harvey Penick, which won the USGA Herbert Warren Wind Book Award, reveals how he distilled a lifetime of coaching on and off the course into the best-selling sports book of all time, Harvey Penick’s Little Red Book.
With a stirring story for every day of the year, this book celebrates the athletes and teams in more than twenty-five sports that have made Texas a dynamo in the world of sports across more than a century.
Freddie Steinmark tells the story of a legendary University of Texas football player whose courage on the field and in battling cancer still inspires the Longhorn nation.
With interviews and stories of celebrated players, including past and present NFL stars, as well as legendary coaches and dynastic teams from across Texas, The Republic of Football captures the standout moments in Friday night lights.
The Life and Times of the Greatest Quarterback Ever to Play the Game
by Joe Holley
Introduction by Peyton Manning
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780292719859
Pub Date: October 1st, 2012
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
Paying long-overdue tribute to one of the greatest legends in football, here is a biography of the quarterback who single-handedly revolutionized the game—TCU All-American and Washington Redskins Hall-of-Famer Slingin’ Sammy Baugh.
