" According to David Halberstam's book, The Education of a Coach, Belichick was given a choice by the NFL to introduce either the offense or defense.

In David Halberstam's book, October 1964, the author states that manager Johnny Keane asked Brock to forgo hitting home runs in favor of the stealing bases.

DiMaggio enjoyed a close friendship with teammates Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr, and Johnny Pesky, which was chronicled in David Halberstam's book The Teammates.

Halberstam's book offers a great deal of detail on how the decisions were made in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations that led to the war, focusing on a period from 1960 to 1965 but also covering earlier and later years up to the publication year of the book.

In David Halberstam's book " The Education of a Coach ", the author outlines how Kosar ignored the Browns ' coaches play calling during the Denver game, threw a touchdown to WR Michael Jackson after calling his own pass play and then told the press afterwards he'd drawn the play " up in the dirt ".

The plant closed down in the early 1980s in part due to increasing competition with Japanese auto manufacturers aptly narrated in David Halberstam's book The Reckoning.

She appears in the award-winning documentary film series Eyes on the Prize and in PBS ' 2011 American Experience documentary on the Freedom Riders, and is featured in David Halberstam's book The Children, as well as Diane Nash: The Fire of the Civil Rights Movement.

Albert was placed as number 14 on David J. Halberstam's list of Top 50 All Time Network Television Sports Announcers on Yahoo!

David Halberstam's Summer of ' 49 recalls him warning teammates not to leave their bats on the ground as they would absorb moisture and become heavier.

* Rabbi Solomon Halberstam's eyeglasses being auctioned off on eBay

This is one of the principal areas in which lesbian feminism differs from queer theory, perhaps best summarised by Judith Halberstam's quip that " If Sheila Jeffreys didn't exist, Camille Paglia would have had to invent her.

According to David Halberstam's biography of Michael Jordan, Smith did not want the arena named after him, but was persuaded by the UNC administration and the arena's backers that fundraising efforts for the facility could fail if they did not use his name.

The community's links to the events 9 / 11 were evinced in the Upper West Side, Pulitzer Prize winner David Halberstam's paean to the men of Ladder Co 40 / Engine Co 35, just a few blocks from his home, in Firehouse.

David Halberstam's coverage of the Program's shortcomings even caught the eye of President Kennedy.

Recent examples include: David Halberstam's The Fifties ; both volumes of Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1941-1963 and 1963-1973 ; The Race Beat by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff, 2006 ; and Devin McKinney's " An American Cuss ," in Issue 57 of the Oxford American, 2007.

Here Halberstam's leadership qualities rose to the fore and he became the spokesman and leader of the religious survivors.

Halberstam's wife and ten of his children were murdered by the Nazis during World War II.

The captives this time included three of Halberstam's sons-in-law Rabbi Yecheskel Halberstam ( son of Rabbi Yeshayale Tchechoiver ), Rabbi Moshe Stempel and Rabbi Shlome Rubin.

In his 1810 book entitled The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Joseph Strutt describes the way pall mall was played in England in the early 17th century: " Pale-maille is a game wherein a round box ball is struck with a mallet through a high arch of iron, which he that can do at the fewest blows, or at the number agreed upon, wins.

The book was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award.

In 1988, for the 80th anniversary of the song and the 100th anniversary of the poem Casey at the Bat, Sports Illustrated writer Frank Deford constructed a fanciful story ( later expanded to book form as Casey on the Loose ) which posited Katie Casey as being the daughter of the famous slugger from the poem.

Ron Champion's original book was followed up with Build Your Own Sports Car: On a Budget ( ISBN 1-84425-391-0 ) by Chris Gibbs.

Excerpts from the book have been published in Sports Illustrated.

He has contributed to Sports Illustrated, Reader's Digest, Forbes, Time and many others, and has co-authored the book Krazy Kat: the Comic Art of George Herriman.

In late June 2010, Venus Williams released her first book, entitled " Come to Win ; on How Sports Can Help You Top Your Profession " which she co-wrote with Kelly E. Carter.

On January 5, 2008, a potential editor for his upcoming book, Don Yaeger, a former Sports Illustrated associate editor, said he would not edit the book.

However, on February 7, 2009, Sports Illustrated reported that A-Rod did test positive during his 2003 season, which could make Canseco's book seem more real than it was believed.

The game was a subject of the 1987 book, The Sports Hall of Shame, by Bruce Nash and Allan Zullo.

In 1996 the report, with a commentary by J. W. Nienhuys and several letters from Gauquelin to the Committee, was published in book form as The Mars Effect – A French Test of Over 1, 000 Sports Champions.

Kirst hadn't anticipated the fast turnaround, and didn't book the Sports Arena for several dates.

Sports covered in depth are baseball, basketball, boxing, hockey and horse racing, all of which were popular sports in New York during the 50 years covered by the book.

The book, the first ever composed with the new Linotype method, was titled, The Tribune Book of Open-Air Sports.

Mr. Met was portrayed from 1994 through 1997 by AJ Mass, currently a fantasy sports writer for ESPN and author of the book How Fantasy Sports Explains the World, published in August 2011.

* In 2002, Sports Illustrated named The Sweet Science, a collection of Liebling's essays on boxing, the number one sports book of all time.

The two-and-a-half-year project required him to leave his position on the staff of Sports Illustrated ( though he continued to contribute ) and resulted in the publication of the book Shooting for the Gold.

In London, through the 1980s and 1990s, a shop on Charing Cross Road-the area known for its book shops-was entirely devoted to sport, although the growth of online book sales through websites such as Amazon eventually led to the closure of Sports Books.

In an 1801 book entitled The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Joseph Strutt claimed to have shown that baseball-like games can be traced back to the 14th century, and that baseball is a descendant of an English game called stoolball.

Sports Illustrated writer Alexander Wolff devoted a chapter of his 2002 basketball book, Big Game, Small World ( ISBN 0-446-52601-0 ), to this rivalry.

Some early sources refer to Pall Mall being played over a large distance ( as in golf ), however an image in Joseph Strutt's 1801 book The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England clearly shows a croquet-like game ( balls on ground, hoop, bats and peg ) being played over a short ( garden sized ) distance.

Leifer has published sixteen books-among them his best selling 1978 Abrams coffee table book, Sports, a collection of sports photographs, the first of its kind.

In September 2006 Abbeville Press published A Year in Sports, a 348-page coffee table book with an introduction by Frank Deford.