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Books in the LCCC Library

This is a list of the books owned by the LCCC Ludden Library. Make sure to click on the book to find out if it is already checked out. (Look under "Location" in the lower right.)

Ball Four: the final pitch
Call Number: GV865 .B69 A3 2000
Ball Four is a baseball classic, a number one bestseller when it was published; it still is in demand throughout the U.S. Now in a new updated hardcover edition, Ball Four will reach a whole new generation of avid baseball fans. In fact, Ball Four has been selected by the NY Public Library as one of the "Books of the Century."
Bear : the hard life and good times of Alabama's coach Bryant
Call Number: GV939 .B79 A32 2007
A reissue of Paul "Bear" Bryant's autobiography, this edition features a completely new introduction and an accompanying audio CD of Bryant himself, in his own voice, talking about his life and football. It's all here, in his own inimitable words and with a candor that is both remarkable and eminently revealing.
Blind side : evolution of a game
Call Number: GV939 .O44 L49 2009
The young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story will one day be among the most highly paid athletes in the National Football League. When we first meet him, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or any of the things a child might learn in school - such as, say, how to read or write.
Good walk spoiled : days and nights on the PGA tour
Call Number: GV964 .F45 2005
Following the events of one year on the PGA tour, sportswriter Feinstein tells of the nerve-racking pressures and successess of professional golf.
Hero of the underground : a memoir
Call Number: GV939 .P476 A3 2008
I wasn’t afraid of death.

How could I be? I lived under death’s shadow every day. When you swallow eighty Vicodin, twenty sleeping pills, drink a bottle of vodka, and still survive, a certain sense of invulnerability stays with you.....
I Never Had it Made
Call Number: GV865 .R6 A3 1995
"I Never Had It Made" celebrates the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking into the major leagues. A disturbing and enlightening self-portrait by one of America's genuine heroes.
Last boy : Mickey Mantle and the end of America's childhood
Call Number: GV865 .M36 L43 2010
Jane Leavy, the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy , returns with a biography of an American original-number 7, Mickey Mantle.
Meat market : inside the smash-mouth world of college football recruiting
Call Number: GV958 .M56 F45 2007
In this unprecedented look at college football’s secret season, Bruce Feldman rips the cover off the game’s frenzied pursuit of raw talent, taking you deep inside the SEC war room of recruiting legend Ed Orgeron,the combustible Cajun who helped build national championship teams at the University of Miami and at USC.
My losing season
Call Number: PS3553 .O5198 Z465 2006
“I was born to be a point guard, but not a very good one. . . .There was a time in my life when I walked through the world known to myself and others as an athlete. It was part of my own definition of who I was and certainly the part I most respected......"
Next man up : a year behind the lines in today's NFL
Call Number: GV956 .B35 F45 2006
America's favorite sportswriter lifts the shroud of secrecythat envelops the NFL to give us the most intimate look we have ever had into the workings of a professional football team. Feinstein follows asingle team through an entire season, capturing a vast spectrum ofexperience and emotion, from the owner's goals to the coach's day-to-daytravails to the feeling of the sleet-soaked ball in the hands of a receiver.
Out of Their League by Dave Meggyesy (Preface by)
Call Number: GV939 .M4 A3
ISBN: 0803283148
Publication Date: 2005-10-01
Dave Meggyesy had been an outside linebacker with the St. Louis Cardinals for seven years when he quit at the height of his career to tell about the dehumanizing side of the game-about the fraud and the payoffs, the racism, drug abuse, and incredible violence.
Pistol : the life of Pete Maravich
Call Number: GV884 .M3 K75 2008
Pistolis more than the biography of a ballplayer. It's the stuff of classic novels: the story of a boy transformed by his father's dream -- and the cost of that dream. Even as Pete Maravich became Pistol Pete -- a basketball icon for baby boomers -- all the Maraviches paid a price....
Punch : one night, two lives, and the fight that changed basketball forever
Call Number: GV706.7 .F45 2002
"When a fistfight broke out between the Houston Rockets and the Los Angeles Lakers one night in 1977, All-Star Rudy Tomjanovich raced to break it up. He was met by Kermit Washington, a good player with a great reputation, and by an astonishingly ferocious punch, a single blow that has reverberated in both men's lives ever since."
A Season on the Brink by John Feinstein
Call Number: GV884 .K58 F44 1989
ISBN: 9780671688776
Publication Date: 1989-11-15
A Season on the Brink chronicles the basketball season that John Feinstein spent following the Indiana Hoosiers and their fiery coach, Bob Knight. Knight granted Feinstein an unprecedented inside look at college basketball-with complete access to every moment of the season.
Swimming to Antarctica : tales of a long-distance swimmer
Call Number: GV838 .C69 A3 2004
At age fourteen, she swam twenty-six miles from Catalina Island to the California mainland. At ages fifteen and sixteen, she broke the men's and women's world records for swimming the English Channel--a thirty-three-mile crossing in nine hours, thirty-six minutes.
Ultramarathon man : confessions of an all-night runner
Call Number: GV1061.15 .K39 A3 2006
In one of his most ambitious physical efforts to date, Dean Karnazes attempted to run 50 marathons, in 50 states, in 50 days to raise awareness of youth obesity and urge Americans of all fitness levels to "take that next step."
When pride still mattered : a life of Vince Lombardi
Call Number: GV939 .L6 M37 1999
By the time he died of cancer in 1970, after one season in Washington during which he transformed the Redskins into winners, Lombardi had become a mythic character who transcended sport, and his legend has only grown in the decades since.
The Last Amateurs by John Feinstein
Call Number: GV885.415 .P37 F45 2000
ISBN: 9780316277013
Publication Date: 2000-11-01
The Patriot League is a small NCAA basketball conference consisting of Eastern schools known more for their academics than their athletics. Consisting of Lafayette, Lehigh, Colgate, Bucknell, Holy Cross, and the two service academies, it was formed ten years ago on the principle of "no athletic scholarships," and as such its scholar-athletes are looking to graduate and not to play in the NBA. The book tells the story of the 1999-2000 season for the entire league and its players and coaches.
Wins, losses, and lessons : an autobiography
Call Number: GV939 .H59 A3 2007
When I die and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be. For reasons known only to God, I was asked to write an autobiography. Most people who knew me growing up didn't think I would ever read a book, let alone write one.
Last Dance by John Feinstein
Call Number: GV885.49 .N37 F45 2007
ISBN: 9780316014250
Publication Date: 2007-02-02
There is no event in sports quite like the Final Four. John Feinstein explores what it means to a school, a coach, and a player to be in the Final Four or even at The Final. There are the moving stories of players and coaches who thought theyd never make it to college basketballs final weekend, the spectacular triumphs of the winning teams, and the heartbreaking defeats for those who missed the cut. Feinstein also brings us inspiring and dramatic stories from the people behind the scenes: from the officials and referees to the scouts and ticket-scalpers.
The Last Season by Phil Jackson
Call Number: GV885.52 .L67 J33 2004
ISBN: 9781594200359
Publication Date: 2004-10-21
Nine-time NBA Champion coach Phil Jackson knows all about being in the spotlight-about high-profile, high-pressure seasons coaching gigantic personalities through adversity and controversy in the middle of a media hothouse in which every move is another headline, another installment in the soap opera. But nothing-not six championships with the Bulls of Michael Jordan, Dennis Rodman and Scottie Pippen, not three previous championships with the Lakers of Shaq and Kobe-had quite prepared him for the only-in-Hollywood high-wire act of the Lakers' 2003-2004 season.
Living on the Black by John Feinstein
Call Number: GV865 .G53 F45 2008
ISBN: 9780316113915
Publication Date: 2008-05-01
Pitchers are the heart of baseball, and John Feinstein tells the story of the game today through one season and two great pitchers working in the crucible of theNew Yorkmedia market. Tom Glavine and Mike Mussina have seen it all in the Major Leagues and both entered 2007 in search of individual milestones and one more shot at The World Series-Glavine with the Mets, Mussina five miles away with the Yankees. The two veterans experience very different seasons--one on a team dealing with the pressure to get to a World Series for the first time in seven years, the other with a team expected to be there every year.
My Prison Without Bars by Pete Rose; Rick Hill
Call Number: GV865 .R65 A297 2004
ISBN: 9781579549275
Publication Date: 2004-01-08
PETE ROSE HOLDS MORE MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL RECORDS THAN ANY OTHER PLAYER IN HISTORY. He stands alone as baseball's hit king having shattered the previously "unbreakable" record held by Ty Cobb. He is a blue-collar hero with the kind of old-fashioned work ethic that turned great talent into legendary accomplishments. Pete Rose is also a lifelong gambler and a sufferer of oppositional defiant disorder. For the past 13 years, he has been banned from baseball and barred from his rightful place in the Hall of Fame-- accused of violating MLB's one taboo. Rule 21 states that no one associated with baseball shall ever gamble on the game. The punishment is no less than a permanent barring from baseball and exclusion from the Hall of Fame.
Namath by Mark Kriegel
Call Number: GV939 .N28 K75 2004
ISBN: 9780670033294
Publication Date: 2004-08-19
In between Babe Ruth and Michael Jordan there was Joe Namath, one of the very few sports heroes who transcended their game. The son of a Hungarian immigrant, Namath left the steel country of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, for the Deep South, where he played quarterback for Bear Bryant at the University of Alabama. Almost four years later, he signed a $427,000 contract with the New York Jets that changed football forever, transforming a crude, violent game into show business.
Why My Wife Thinks I'm an Idiot by Mike Greenberg
Call Number: GV742.42 .G72 A35 2006
ISBN: 9781400064380
Publication Date: 2006-03-07
Meet Mike Greenberg, the popular host of ESPN Radio’s Mike and Mike in the Morning, the highest-rated drive-time sports talk show on the dial. To his three-million-plus listeners, Greeny is the guy who’s equally as comfortable dissecting zone defenses as he is discussing cashmere sweaters. He’s been to Super Bowls and World Series, All-Star Games and Final Fours. He’s interviewed Michael Jordan, Joe Montana, and Wayne Gretzky.
Bob Knight by Steve Delsohn; Mark Heisler
Call Number: GV884 .K58 D45 2006
ISBN: 074324348X
Publication Date: 2006-02-07
Brilliant, intimidating, charming, or profane, Coach Bob Knight is an enduring contradiction who has long fascinated and repelled basketball fans, for whom he has provided as much to dislike as to respect. Bob Knight: The Unauthorized Biography is the first comprehensive biography of Knight, one of the most successful and controversial coaches in the history of American sports. Detailing the entire scope of Knight's playing and coaching career through extensive interviews -- including many with people who have never gone on record about him before

Books in the Cheyenne Public Library

These are books owned by the Laramie County Public Library (2200 Pioneer Avenue). You can write down the call number and find it on the third floor. Again, make sure to see if the book is already checked out before you go!

You can also interlibrary loan these books if you don't want to go to the public library. Click the link to the book and then the green "Place Hold" button. Enter your library card number and PIN and pick up the book at the LCCC Library in a few days. Ask a librarian if you need help!

Bob Knight : an unauthorized biography
Call Number: B KNIGHT
Brilliant, intimidating, charming, or profane, Coach Bob Knight is an enduring contradiction who has long fascinated and repelled basketball fans, for whom he has provided as much to dislike as to respect.
Last amateurs : playing for glory and honor in Division I college basketball
Call Number: 796.323 FEINSTEIN 2000
Now in paperback: the New York Times bestseller in which America's favorite sportswriter takes us on a thrilling and unforgettable journey through the world of college basketball.
Last dance : behind the scenes at the Final Four
Call Number: 796.3 F45
There is no event in sports quite like the Final Four. John Feinstein explores what it means to a school, a coach, and a player to be in the Final Four or even at The Final. There are the moving stories of players and coaches who thought theyd never make it to college basketballs final weekend, the spectacular triumphs of the winning teams, and the heartbreaking defeats for those who missed the cut.
Living on the black : two pitchers, two teams, one season to remember
Call Number: 796.357 FEINSTEIN 2008
Pitchers are the heart of baseball, and John Feinstein tells the story of the game today through one season and two great pitchers working in the crucible of theNew Yorkmedia market. Tom Glavine and Mike Mussina have seen it all in the Major Leagues and both entered 2007 in search of individual milestones and one more shot at The World Series-Glavine with the Mets, Mussina five miles away with the Yankees
My prison without bars
Call Number: B R72
PETE ROSE HOLDS MORE MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL RECORDS THAN ANY OTHER PLAYER IN HISTORY. He stands alone as baseball's hit king having shattered the previously "unbreakable" record held by Ty Cobb. He is a blue-collar hero with the kind of old-fashioned work ethic that turned great talent into legendary accomplishments.
Namath : a biography
Call Number: 796.332 KRIEGEL
In between Babe Ruth and Michael Jordan there was Joe Namath, one of the very few sports heroes who transcended their game. The son of a Hungarian immigrant, Namath left the steel country of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, for the Deep South, where he played quarterback for Bear Bryant at the University of Alabama.
The teammates : a portrait of a friendship
Call Number: 796.357 H128T
Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr, Dom DiMaggio, and Johnny Pesky were all members of the famed 1940's Boston Red Sox. Their legendary careers led the Red Sox to a pennant championship and ensured the men a place in sports history.
Why my wife thinks I'm an idiot : the life and times of a sportscaster dad
Call Number: 796.092 GREENBERG 2006
Meet Mike Greenberg, the popular host of ESPN Radio's Mike and Mike in the Morning, the highest-rated drive-time sports talk show on the dial. To his three-million-plus listeners, Greeny is the guy who's equally as comfortable dissecting zone defenses as he is discussing cashmere sweaters.

Books You Can Interlibrary Loan

These books are owned by other libraries in Wyoming. After clicking on the link for a book and then the green "Place Hold" button, enter your library card number and PIN. The book will be mailed to the LCCC Library and you can pick it up in a few days. Ask a librarian if you need help!

Forever's team
Game of shadows : Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the steroids scandal that rocked professional sports
Call Number: 796.35764 F149G
The complete inside story of the shocking steroids scandal that turned the sports world upside down For years, in the shadowy reaches of the world of sport, there were rumors that some of our nation’s greatest athletes were using steroids, human growth hormone, and other drugs to run faster, jump higher, and hit harder.
I never look back : the story of Buddy Werner
Long way up : the story of Jill Kinmont
Mean on Sunday : the autobiography of Ray Nitschke
Personal Fouls: The Broken Promises and Shattered Dreams of Big Money Basketball at Jim Valvano's North Carolina State
Valvano : they gave me a lifetime contract, and then they declared me dead
Wilma Rudolph : a biography
Describes the life of Wilma Rudolph, who overcame seemingly insurmountable odds to become the first American woman to win three Olympic gold medals in track and field.
Wilt, 1962 : the night of 100 points and the dawn of a new era
Call Number: 796.323 POMERANTZ 2005
On the night of March 2, 1962, in Hershey, Pennsylvania, right up the street from the chocolate factory, Wilt Chamberlain, a young and striking athlete celebrated as the Big Dipper, scored one hundred points in a game against the New York Knickerbockers.