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Crazy, with the Papers To Prove It by Dan Coughlin $14.95 Gray & Company, Publishers www.grayco.com For those who love tales of Cleveland sports and stories which have helped make the town a Mecca of athletic legend, Dan Coughlin’s “Crazy, with the Papers to Prove It,” by Gray and Company Publishers, is the book to [...]
Things I’ve Learned from Watching the Browns by Terry Pluto and hundreds of Browns fans $14.95 Gray & Company, Publishers www.grayco.com This book is full of information that even longtime Cleveland Browns fans may not have known. When the Browns drafted the man who would become the greatest football player of all time — fullback [...]
Clevelanders are like your worst soppy girlfriend. Even after years of heartbreak, disappointment and ridicule, despite four decades without a championship, we still carry a torch for our beloved Browns. Terry Pluto’s latest book, Things I’ve Learned from Watching the Browns, asks why. Thousands of readers responded to the veteran sportswriter with stories of why they keep [...]
Sports fans and non-sports fans alike will enjoy “The Sportswriter Who Punched Sam McDowell And Other Sports Stories,” by Bob Dolgan, the longtime sportswriter for the Plain Dealer who retired in 2006. This book from The Kent State University Press contains more than 100 columns penned by Dolgan during a nearly 40-year span. Being a [...]
On Oct. 23 from 4 to 6 p.m., David Lee Morgan Jr. brings his new book, Game Changers: The Greatest Plays in Ohio State Football History, to the Learned Owl Book Shop, 204 N. Main St. in Hudson. Created for serious football fans who want to look back on the most memorable games ever while enhancing their [...]
Just out is “LeBron James: The Making of an MVP.” The book, by well-known columnist Terry Pluto, takes a close-up look at James — the player and the man — and tells how he has achieved so much so quickly. Sports columnist Terry Pluto and NBA beat writer Brian Windhorst have covered the LeBron phenomenon closely [...]
Our Boys in Blue and Gold: A Chronicle of Zips Football, edited by Tara Kaloz, tells the history of The University of Akron’s football program from its inception in 1891 to the present. The title, published by The University of Akron Press, is now available. Kaloz is a Cuyahoga Falls resident and a Hudson High School graduate. [...]
“Classic Tribe: The 50 Greatest Games in Cleveland Indians History” written by Johnathan Knight, counts down the 50 greatest Cleveland Indians games, from wild ninth-inning comebacks to dazzling pitching performances to spellbinding playoff encounters. The storied history of Cleveland’s endearing baseball franchise is sprinkled throughout these tales, from weekday matinees at cozy League Park at the [...]
Two baseball-related books: Six Innings, by James Preller. 2009 ALSC Notable Children’s Books. The setting of this story, told from multiple viewpoints, is at the Little League championship game. Intermixed are several interwoven stories about several of the players themselves. What I really liked is even the other team’s players, including the feared pitcher, [...]