Leigh Montville, Author . Doubleday $24.95 (528p) ISBN 978-0-385-50748-6
Montville, who also penned the bestselling bio about racer Dale Earnhart (The Altar of Speed
), covers all of Williams's heroic achievements—a Hall of Fame baseball career, two tours of duty as a Marine fighter pilot, an unmatched thirst...
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Leigh Montville, Author . Doubleday $26 (303p) ISBN 978-0-385-52033-1
When John Montague died alone on May 25, 1972, age 69, in a fleabag hotel in Studio City, Calif., his body went unclaimed for a week. Hardly a fitting end for a man who once rubbed shoulders with Bing Crosby, Richard Arlen, Oliver Hardy and the...
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Leigh Montville, Author Simon & Schuster $20 (240p) ISBN 978-0-671-74928-6
The two worlds of Manute Bol are thoroughly disparate. A Dinka tribesman from the southern Sudan, he was signed to play basketball by the Philadelphia 76ers purportedly only because he is 77 tall. The culture he left behind is primitive and...
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Leigh Montville. Doubleday, $26.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-385-52745-3
Best-selling author Montville (The Big Bam) takes on the controversial daredevil Evel Knievel revealing an intimate, often alarming, and ultimately sad portrait of a man who lived precariously, both on and off his motorcycle. Deemed by Montville the
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Leigh Montville. Doubleday, $30 (368p) ISBN 978-0-385-53605-9
In this revealing history, sports writer Montville (Ted Williams) portrays Muhammad Ali, one of the most celebrated athletes of the 20th century, during the tumultuous 1960s. The day after felling Sonny Liston to win the 1964 heavyweight...
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Leigh Montville. Doubleday, $29 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-54519-8
Sportswriter Montville (Sting Like a Bee) masterfully combines memoir and sports history in this thrilling deep dive into a legendary NBA championship battle. As a 24-year-old novice reporter for the Boston Globe in 1969, he had a first-row seat to...
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