Robert Lipsyte

A long-time sports columnist for the "New York Times" combines personal stories with the events he has covered, discussing how "Jock Culture" has permeated business, politics, and family life, and how its definitions have become the standard to measure value.

A career biography of basketball player Michael Jordan, including photographs.

Having left the Indian reservation for the streets of New York, seventeen-year-old boxer Sonny Bear tries to harness his inner rage by training with Alfred Brooks, who has left the sport to become a policeman.

Meet the men who were and remain the heroes of baseball. These are men who did more than hit home runs or pitch perfect games--they changed the way our society perceives itself, and the goals we set for ourselves and our nation.

A biography of the American Indian known as one of the best all-round athletes in history for his accomplishments as an Olympic medal winner and as an outstanding professional football and baseball player.

An overweight fourteen-year-old boy experiences a turningpoint summer in which he learns to stand up for himself.

Dick Gregory's story begins in St. Louis where his family was on relief, goes through his sports career in school and college, and includes his success as an entertainer and recent front-line work in the civil rights movement. "This is the story of Dick Gregory, welfare case, star athlete, hit comedian, front-line participant in the battle for Civil Rights. He grew up in St. Louis, so poor that 'home was a place to be only when all other places were...