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“w k stratton”

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  • The Wild Bunch

    Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film

    by W. K. Stratton ...
    For the fiftieth anniversary of the film, W.K. Stratton's definitive history of the making of The Wild Bunch, named one of the greatest Westerns of all time by the American Film Institute.Sam Peckinpah's film The Wild Bunch is the story of a gang of outlaws who are one big steal from retirement. When their attempted train robbery goes awry, the gang flees to Mexico and falls in with a brutal ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Backyard Brawl

    Inside the Blood Feud Between Texas and Texas A&M

    by W.K. Stratton ...
    It happens once a year, creating a seismic divide throughout the country. It pits brother against brother. It breaks up business deals. It ruins relationships. And once it’s finished, all both sides want is for another year to pass by so they can do it again. It is the Texas/Texas A& M football game. And in the football-obsessed state that is Texas, no single game resonates more.Every year during ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Boxing Shadows

    by W. K. Stratton, Anissa "The Assassin" Zamarron ...
    Reaching the top in any sport requires a long, hard climb. But when you start with the baggage of years of family dysfunction and incarceration in a hellish mental hospital, the climb is especially steep. Yet even with such weights to carry, Anissa Zamarron won not one, but two, world championships in women's boxing. Her story, as dramatically intense as the Clint Eastwood film Million Dollar Baby ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Floyd Patterson

    The Fighting Life of Boxing’s Invisible Champion

    by W. K. Stratton ...
    "A well-researched and overdue tribute. Like one of Patterson's reliable left hooks, Stratton sharply recounts the life of an important, but often forgotten, two-time world heavyweight champion." — Gary Andrew Poole, author of PacMan: Behind the Scenes with Manny PacquiaoIn 1956, Floyd Patterson became, at age twenty-one, the youngest boxer to claim the title of world heavyweight champion. Later, ... Read more

    $17.49 USD

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    Backyard Brawl

    Inside the Blood Feud Between Texas and Texas A&M

    by W.K. Stratton ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Hogan ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 22 min

    In this journalistic tour de force, Dallas Morning News contributor W.K. Stratton follows the fates of the Texas Longhorns and the Texas A&M Aggies, two collegiate football programs steeped in tradition, as they prepare for their annual clash in 2001. One of the most storied rivalries in sports, Texas vs. Texas A&M represents a culture war of sorts within the Lone Star State, igniting the passions ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    One on One

    Behind the Scenes with the Greats in the Game

    by John Feinstein ...
    Narrated by David de Vries ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 19 min

    John Feinstein's illuminating recollections from two decades of interviews with sports legends.John Feinstein's career is a sports fan's dream-a lifetime of encounters with the great figures in sports, not just on the field, but in the locker room and behind the scenes with legends like Bob Knight, Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, and John McEnroe.Since his days as a young ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    I Feel Like Going On

    Life, Game, and Glory

    by Ray Lewis, Daniel Paisner ...
    Narrated by JD Jackson ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 28 min

    In this New York Times bestselling memoir, NFL legend Ray Lewis—Baltimore Ravens linebacker and one of the greatest defensive players in football history—shares an unflinching account of his troubled childhood, his rise to athletic greatness, the storm that threatened to ruin his NFL career, and the devastating injury that nearly cost him a final moment of glory.Ray Lewis is undeniably one of the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    Back From the Dead

    by Bill Walton ...
    Narrated by Bill Walton ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 16 min

    “An elegiac yet exuberant new memoir” (The New York Times Book Review)—Bill Walton’s New York Times bestselling memoir about his recovery from debilitating physical injury and how lessons from John Wooden at UCLA (and the music of the Grateful Dead) inspired his darkest hours.In February 2008, Bill Walton suffered a spinal collapse so devastating he was unable to get up. It was the culmination of ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    A Coach's Life

    My 40 Years in College Basketball

    by Dean Smith, John Kilgo, Sally Jenkins ...
    Narrated by Eric Conger ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 48 min

    Legendary University of North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith tells the full story of his fabled career, and shares the life lessons taught and learned over forty years of unparalleled success as a coach and mentor.For almost forty years, Dean Smith coached the University of North Carolina men's basketball program with unsurpassed success- on the court and in shaping young men's lives. In his ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    Rising Tide

    Bear Bryant, Joe Namath, and Dixie's Last Quarter

    by Randy Roberts, Ed Krzemienski ...
    Narrated by Alan Sklar ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 29 min

    The extraordinary story of how Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant and Joe Namath, his star quarterback at the University of Alabama, led the Crimson Tide to victory and transformed football into a truly national pastime.During the bloodiest years of the civil rights movement, Bear Bryant and Joe Namath-two of the most iconic and controversial figures in American sports-changed the game of college football ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • The Junction Boys

    How Ten Days in Hell with Bear Bryant Forged a Champion Team

    by Jim Dent ...
    The true story of Paul "Bear" Bryant's 1954 Texas A&M football training camp, and the courage, determination and sheer guts it brought out of one team.Now a television movie produced by ESPN, starring Tom Berenger."I heard the story of the Junction Boys from gene Stallings when he was on my staff with the Cowboys. Those guys were some of the toughest to ever play the game. Jim Dent has really ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Life and Crimes of Don King

    The Shame of Boxing in America

    by Jack Newfield ...
    An updated edition of award-winning columnist Jack Newfields best-selling biography of Americas boxing mogul, the source for the Emmy-winning movie Don King: Only in America. When Jack Newfields unauthorized biography of Don King first appeared in 1995 it was hailed as one of the most important pieces of sports journalism of the decade. The HBO movie based on the book continues to be a television ... Read more

    $10.99 USD