books by Leigh Montville

books by Leigh Montville

books:

Leigh Montville

Dare to Dream: Connecticut Basketball's Remarkable March to the National Championship

Jim Calhoun, Leigh Montville

Broadway, 1999

A Fist-Pumping Journey through UConn Hoops
Calhoun and Montville have crafted a masterpiece! Calhoun writes like he talks, quick and witty (yes, it's funny!). It is an effective, fast-break style that has readers feeling like they are participating in one of Calhoun's practices. It is never boring, always ...

Manute: The Center of Two Worlds

Leigh Montville

Simon & Schuster, 1993

I Miss Manute
I had the great pleasure of working with this slender giant for a few years back when he blocked shots for the Bullets and I was an assistant there. I found this book brought back many memories and really captured the kindess of this man. His political beliefs and ...

Why Not Us?: The 86-year Journey of the Boston Red Sox Fans From Unparalleled Suffering to the Promised Land ...

Leigh Montville

PublicAffairs, 2005

Poor moochie
I think I can speak for all Sox fans (and indeed all baseball fans) in saying how much I thoroughly enjoy seeing postings like the one below from "moochie" -- it just shows how fresh the pain still is, even a year after the fact!!!

At the Altar of Speed: The Fast Life and Tragic Death of Dale Earnhardt

Leigh Montville

Anchor, 2003

Montville informs well
I just finished this book, and I absolutely loved it. It had me laughing, crying, and everything in between. I'm an avid NASCAR fan, and Dale Earnhardt is and will always be my favorite driver. I am following the path of his son, and I have also read Driver #8. Both ...

The Mysterious Montague: A True Tale of Hollywood, Golf, and Armed Robery on 5 CDs in original shrinkwrap
Leigh Montville

Random House Audio, 2008

The story of John Montague who had a bagful of golf tricks.

The Mysterious Montague: A True Tale of Hollywood, Golf, and Armed Robbery

Leigh Montville

Doubleday, 2008

A Minor Story Well Told
John Montague, who's real name was LaVerne Moore, was a sensation in mid- 1930's Hollywood for his alleged super-human prowess as a golfer (tales of his prowess were possibly true, partially true, imagined or invented, the book does not really tell us and maybe it ...

Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero

Leigh Montville

Anchor, 2005

Perfection Requires Constant Practice
Leigh Montville's biography of Ted Williams is exhaustive in its analysis of one of baseball's greatest hitters. At times childish and self-absorbed, but always focused upon his art, Ted Williams emerges as a troubled genius in this wonderful book. Some of the ...

The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth

Leigh Montville

Anchor, 2007

Achilles in Pinstripes
Leigh Montville's The Big Bam is an exhaustively researched book on the life and times of Babe Ruth. Even for the non-sports fan, this book reads like the best of fiction, with a huge personality at its center and a fascinating exploration of how that personality ...

Fenway, Expanded and Updated: A Biography in Words and Pictures

Dan Shaughnessy

Houghton Mifflin, 2007

Fenway, Expanded
I took a risk and surprised my domestic partner, a devout Red Sox fan (yes, some of us are butch!), with the book "Fenway, Expanded and Updated" for Christmas. He is difficult to buy for. He was happy that it was not just a picture book but contained stories of ...

At the Altar of Speed: The Fast Life & Tragic Death of Dale Earnhardt
Leigh Montville

Diane Pub Co, 2001

Takes readers behind the scenes of auto-racing champion Dale Earnhardt's celebrated life, tracing his rags-to-riches journey to the top of America's fastest-growing sport. Begins with his childhood days in small-town North Carolina, & examines how a 9th-grade dropout started on the dusty dirt tracks of the South, went through two marriages & a ...

The Myssterious Montague: A True Tale of Hollywood, Golf, and Armed Robbery on 7 unabridged CDs in hard, ...
Leigh Montville

Books on Tape, 2008

He was a 1930s golf legend and Hollywood trickster who refused to be photographed. He never played professionally, yet sports-writier Grantland Rice still heralded him as the greatest golfer in the world. Then, in 1937, the secrets of John Montagues past were exposedleading to a sensational trial that captivated the nation.

At the Altar of Speed (Chivers Sound Library)

Leigh Montville

Sound Library, 2002

THE MAN IN BLACK ***** THE INTIMIDATOR
Dale Earnhardt was The Man. #3 was The Car. they were the team that made the fear run through their fellow racers. Bump drafting and marking another race car with a tire print was part of Dale's game plan. This book takes the reader behind the scenes in the early ...