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1969 Miracle Mets

In the popular 1977 movie 'Oh, God!' George Burns, playing the deity, is asked in a courtroom to ...

USC Trojans

In this lively history of Southern California football, Steven Travers makes the case that under ...

Last Icon

In early 1969, New York City and all it represented was in disarray: politically, criminally, and...

Duke, the Longhorns, and Chairman Mao

1966. The year of change. The year of division. The middle of the 1960s, the great dividing line ...

Barry Bonds: Baseball’s Superman

Barry Bonds: Baseball Superman is the biography of the game's first four-time Most Valuable Playe...

Remembering the Stick

Described by famed baseball scribe Roger Angell as looking like 'a festive prison yard' during th...

Good, the Bad, & the Ugly: Los Angeles Lakers

Genuine fans take the best team moments with the less than great, and know that the games that ar...

Dodgers Past & Present

From their origins as the Brooklyn Atlantics in 1884, through their departure from their beloved ...

Tale of Three Cities

Nineteen sixty-two-it's been called 'the end of innocence,' as America witnessed the Cuban Missil...

One Night, Two Teams

Good, Bad, & Ugly: Oakland Raiders

The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly includes the best and worst teams and players of all time, the most...

Pigskin Warriors

From the leather helmet era to the media circus of college football today, Travers presents a car...