Spring training takes a grim turn when sports journalist Kate Henry and a fellow reporter find a local freelancer, Lucy Cartwright, dead on the beach. And when one of the Toronto Titans, Domingo Avila, is arrested and charged with the murder, Kate is pulled into yet another police investigation.

Believing that Avila was framed, Kate sets out to prove his innocence. And with her police-detective boyfriend, Andy Munro, at home in Toronto, enlists

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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 memoir on the author's lifetime devotion to baseball recounts the pivotal role of the game in shaping his youth in World War II-era Queens, his witness to the careers of famous players, and his favorite moments in baseball history.

This book is as unconventional and wide-ranging as the author's remarkable career, in which he has chronicled the heroes and the characters of just about every sport in nearly every medium. He joined Sports Illustrated in 1962, fresh out of Princeton. They called him "the Kid, " and he made his reputation with dumb luck discovering fellow Princetonian Bill Bradley and a Canadian teenager named Bobby Orr. These were the Mad Men-like 1960s, and he recounts...

"The fascinating account--part autobiography, part sports history--of a young New York sportswriter sent out to cover his favorite team, the New York Knicks, during the social unrest of the 1960s and 70s"--

"On a creepy island where everyone has a strange obsession with the year 1994, a newcomer arrives, hoping to learn the truth about her son's death-but finds herself pulled deeper and deeper into the bizarrely insular community and their complicated rules..."-- Clifford Island. When Willow Stone finds these words written on the floor of her deceased son's bedroom, she's perplexed. She's never heard of it before, but soon learns it's a tiny island...

'The sitcom of our times' bids a fond farewell, delivering the same good cheer and classic humor that has charmed us for nine seasons. Includes the series finale plus the original pilot episode.

Erik Kernan is an up-and-coming sports reporter who rescues a homeless man only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect the Champ's story and escape the shadow of his father's success becomes a personal journey as the ambitious reporter reexamines his own life and his relationship with his family.