Showing results by publisher "----RM Alexander" in Sports

Troy Soos' sparkling Mickey Rawlings Baseball mysteries pack early 1900's baseball lore and colorful period details into baffling whodunits. Hunting a Detroit Tiger vividly brings to life the turbulent post-World War I days when the nation partied with bootleg liquor and labor unrest swept the nation with violence.

Starting for the first-place Cubs and hitting a career high of .274, for the first time in his life, Mickey Rawlings is feeling comfortable enough to buy furniture. But it is a time of mixed blessings; ominous battles are brewing at home and abroad. On the homefront, Major League baseball may be suspended for the duration of the war, anti-German sentiment is running high, and Mickey's best friend - a rookie named Willie Kaiser - has just been shot right on the diamond.

In this surfer noir debut mystery, set on the coast of Northern California, a former professional surfer's life takes a dangerous turn when he discovers a terrifying link between a Silicon Valley billionaire and a nuclear terrorist network, and sets out to avenge his friend's death. It’s a...

Charlie Fightmaster is on the verge of achieving his lifelong dream—playing Major League Baseball. But when his younger sister needs him, he walks away from fame and returns home. There, a reclusive legend teaches him three secrets to finding harmony at the plate... and in life. As Charlie faces heartbreak and guilt, those lessons become his lifeline—not just to baseball, but to becoming the man he was meant to be.

A global soccer star’s epic ride to the 1950 World Cup places him in shooting distance of his dreams and his own death. Gilbert Chevalier’s life is a mid-century miracle: wealthy, handsome, beloved by every woman he meets, and blessed with incomparable talents on the soccer field. And it’s...

Für Auggie Schnuck sieht die Zukunft so gut aus wie nie zuvor. Als Wrestler hat er fast alles erreicht. Mit Nadine, der Liebe seines Lebens, plant er ein gemeinsames Zuhause. Doch er traut seinem Glück nicht. Je besser es läuft, desto mehr verwandelt sich Auggie, der eigentlich zum Film will, in seine Figur ›The Aug‹. Ein raffiniert erzählter Roman über Träume, die wahr werden und an den Rand von Verstand und Wirklichkeit führen, über Künstlichkeit, Kampf und Zärtlichkeit.

Nel corso dell'ultima stagione calcistica, in occasione delle partite dell'Inter, uno sceneggiatore di fiction in crisi di ispirazione incontra a San Siro un vecchio tifoso che, domenica dopo domenica, gli racconta la storia e le imprese di Giuseppe Meazza, el Peppin. Finché lo scrittore non decide di mettere proprio il "Balilla" al centro del suo nuovo soggetto televisivo. Le vicende personali del protagonista si intrecciano con quelle agonistiche delle partite e con la narrazione delle gesta, sportive e non, del campione, fino alla spiazzante rivelazione finale.

Un romanzo ispirato al vero esordio di Pierino Ghetti (Piulina) storico calciatore del Bologna, in un affresco dell'Italia negli anni Sessanta e Settanta.

L'appassionata prefazione del celebre telecronista sportivo Bruno Pizzul introduce questa raccolta di racconti dedicati ai miti dello sport. Con testi di Carlo Lucarelli, Patrick Fogli, Marcello Fois e Nicoletta Vallorani.

He always gets what he wants, and the football god next door wants me...I had it all. The Super Bowl rings. The hot shot TV gig. Then I got fired. Now I’m living in middle-of-nowhere Maine, playing assistant coach to the woman of my nightmares. Did I mention that she and her son are my new neighbors? If you talk to the locals, they’ll tell you Aspen Levi is the queen of high school football. But if you ask me, my new head coach is a pain in my left nut sac.

The final day of the Open Championship and storm clouds are gathering over the links of Muirfield. Fighting his way into the elite field of millionaire golfers, billionaire financiers, frenzied journalists and pompous officials is a journeyman golfer who is out of his depth and about to drown.18 short chapters, over 18 long holes of one extraordinary round of golf. All eyes divert from the game’s star players to a golfer no one has ever heard of. There is no precedent for what unfurls. Nothing about our hero is normal. Commentators are dumbfounded. Rules officials are apoplectic.

Einmal die Cheerleading Nationals in Daytona gewinnen – das ist der Traum, auf den ich mein Leben lang hingearbeitet habe. Und nun ist er in greifbarer Nähe. Ein Platz im Team des OCJ-Colleges ist mein Weg an die Spitze. Gäbe es da nicht etwas, das alles zerstören könnte: mein eigener Körper. Ich bin Diabetikerin und da Insulin im Hochleistungssport ein großes Risiko birgt, ist das Mittel, das mich am Leben hält, auch mein größter Gegner. Schon einmal hätte es mich beinahe meinen Traum gekostet.

Raised on a ranch in Saskatchewan’s rugged Thickwood Hills, where the prairie transitions to forest, Willomena Swift, home from playing for the Rockford Peaches of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, finds a precious foal killed by a rogue stallion. The stallion’s owner, once Willo’s baseball coach, now chairs the committee heading up the new cooperative pasture—a pasture that is set to swallow her family lease, where she grew up, learned to love and understand horses, and dreamed of returning to raise them.

Hailee Raine deve riuscire a sopravvivere solo un altro anno in quella città ossessionata dal football. Un ultimo anno con Jason, il suo crudele fratellastro, e i suoi amici, un branco di giocatori di football presuntuosi e arroganti. Cameron Chase ha il mondo ai suoi piedi: è bello, ha talento e ha un incredibile fascino.

Occhi sulla palla! Nel caso di Kevin Young, giovane stella dei Royal London Knights, la frase è da prendere alla lettera. Sopravvissuto a un'infanzia di dolore, segnato nel profondo dell'anima, ha un solo obiettivo: diventare il miglior calciatore di sempre. Le ragazze vanno bene, ma l'amore no. I cuori spezzati possono sempre rompersi due volte, e nessuna distrazione è concessa a uno sportivo come lui. Ma una sera, in un esclusivo Club di Londra, quando la cameriera più maldestra e più bella del mondo gli finisce addosso, non rovina solo la sua T-shirt, ma gli devasta il cuore.

Dopo la perdita del nonno, Kingston Wells è determinato a seguire l'unico insegnamento che la sua guida gli abbia mai lasciato: divertirsi finché si ha tempo per vivere. A diciotto anni, Camden ha preso seriamente il suo ruolo di uomo della famiglia, occupandosi della madre e badando alla sorellina. Tuttavia, più Kingston e Camden trascorrono il tempo insieme, più affiora qualcosa che cambierà per sempre le loro vite.

A chance encounter with a masked stranger at a charity ball led to an incredible kiss and a night of hot sex. The kiss was my goal for that night, a baby step forward after my husband’s death a year ago. The hot sex? Not so much. You know what else hadn’t been my goal? To be knocked up by a man whose identity is a mystery to me.

Mackenzie Brooks is everything I've ever wanted. Three years ago, she walked out of my life. No explanation. Just gone. With the biggest fight of my career only weeks away, she walked back in. I'll do anything to protect her. Destroy anyone who tries to hurt her. When it comes to Mac, there isn't a line I won't cross. I've loved her my entire life, and now that's she's back I won't let her go. She refuses to speak about the past, or the secrets she's hiding. I know she's planning on running again. But when you love someone, you stay and fight. Even if you're fighting blind.

Death and pain brought them together. Vengeance and darkness might tear them apart. Kade Maxwell will do anything to save Lacey Robinson from her past - and from herself. A task that is harder than he ever realized as fate has something else in store. Bound and determined to push through her demons and achieve her dreams, Lacey just might dare to go too far - right into the arms of a killer.

It’s 1989, and college freshman Michael Greco is ready to leave his dreary small town—and the grief of his father’s death—behind. He has everything he needs for a great year: a starting spot on the football team, new friends, and a promising flirtation with a beautiful grad student. But just as Greco settles in to campus life, his uncle shows up demanding that he take care of his father’s unfinished business with a powerful Chicago gangster.