Lars Anderson, Author . Random $26 (252p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6729-9
A year after Gary Andrew Poole's full-scale Red Grange biography (The Galloping Ghost
), Sports Illustrated
reporter Anderson (The All-Americans
) focuses on Grange's decision, at the height of his popularity as a college football star,...
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Lars Anderson, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-30887-2
War and football are often used as metaphors for each other, and there is a rich legacy of connections between the gridiron and the battlefield in American history. Taking this legacy as his starting point, Sports Illustrated journalist Anderson...
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Lars Anderson. Ballantine, $28 (388p) ISBN 978-1-1018-8382-2
Former Sports Illustrated writer Anderson offers a balanced account of one of the premier families in the professional football, the Mannings. He begins with the family patriarch, Archie Manning, the legendary Ole Miss signal caller, who led the...
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Lars Anderson, Author, Chad Millman, Joint Author Verso $60 (240p) ISBN 978-1-85984-853-1
Basketball was inaugurated in 1891 and soon developed into a game of teams rather than individuals, featuring dribbling, passing and carefully structured plays. New rules introduced in the 1930s facilitated a style of play that developed on street...
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Lars Anderson. Grand Central, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-1-5387-1648-9
Sportswriter Anderson (The Storm and the Tide) draws on his decades of experience writing about the Alabama Crimson Tide football team in this fascinating dual biography of two legendary college football coaches. Anderson tells the story of how Bear
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Lars Anderson. Morrow, $28.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-316020-0
Sportswriter Anderson (Chasing the Bear) delivers a spirited account of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ historic Super Bowl–winning 2020 season. He opens with the team’s dogged and successful pursuit to sign Tom Brady as a free agent, offering him “a new...
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Lars Anderson. Grand Central, $28 (272p) ISBN 978-1-5387-5343-9
Anderson (Chasing the Bear), a senior writer at Bleacher Report, provides another fascinating dive into the vicissitudes of college football through a close examination of the life of Dabo Swinney, who, as the Clemson Tigers’ head coach since 2009,...
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