A witty satire of baseball and bigotry, about the major leagues' first all-gay baseball team. "Out at the Old Ball Game" is a comic Runyon-esque story that's a socially significant tale of the problems gays face in American sports. ...

WALK-ON is the story of an obsessive dream that transforms itself into reality--a dream that takes on a life all its own. Two cousins--Mike, a frustrated jock "wannabe," and Justin, an imposing young man with scant self-esteem--suddenly are thrown together, their lives forever intertwined. . .their family forever changed. Told against the colorful background of Division One college football--of the University of Oklahoma college football ...

Jackie Jenkins, an adventurous Canadian hockey player, is recruited to play in the 1934/35 season for the Wembley Lions of the British Professional Hockey League where his exceptional hockey skills earn him a berth with England's 1936 Olympic squad. While in Germany he accidentally runs into a young woman fleeing from the Gestapo. "Adolph Who?" is a fast-paced story of the tough gutsy young man who almost single-handedly leads England to the ...

With a new Preface by the author, this novel was named one of the top 25 sports books of all time by "Sports Illustrated. "Everybody's All American" is not a book (just) about football, but about relationships . . . between men and women, men and men, and gods and mortals."--Dick Schaap.
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They was together every mornin' and evenin' for the five days we was there. In the afternoons Ike played the grandest ball you ever see, hittin' and runnin' the bases like a fool and catchin' everything that stayed in the park. I told Cap, I says: You'd ought to keep the doll with us and he'd make Cobb's figures look sick." ...

During this period the Chester spectators sat with a numb feeling clutching their hearts, though they tried their best to assume a confidence they could hardly feel. Their boys were really novices at the business, and it was to be expected, they reasoned, trying to bolster up their waning courage, that at first things would hit the Chester line hard. But just wait a bit, until they began to recover their wind, and Jack Winters was given a fair ...

"Hey Dad, what's a Democrat?" Sean Stanton is a twelve-year old golfing prodigy. But in one round of golf, he is going to learn a lesson that reaches far beyond the course and resonates much longer than eighteen holes. Instead of learning to fill a divot, he will learn to filibuster. Instead of learning to spin a wedge shot, he'll learn to spin excuses. As every rule and etiquette norm in golf is broken, Sean learns every flaw and danger of ...

Mike Porter is an excellent Motocross racer. He works after school for Bill Maslak in a Honda cycle shop that is owned jointly by Bill and Mike's mother. Bill is his sponsor, mechanic and mentor since Mike's father's death in a tragic motorcycle racing accident. Ann Porter, Mike's mother, is not a supporter of Mike's racing having lost her husband to the sport. She wants Mike to go to college instead. Mike is a little on the overconfident side. ...

Set in now a day time, Thunderstruck is a unique look at what would happen if 41 of the best military athletes came together as one team in the college football. It's a ficticious look at that and much more. It's about our gallant military, both the past and the present. It's about college football from the prospective of the Junior Collegiate level. It's about small town America. It's also about love, and passion, and a true sincere look at ...

The story plays to a wrestling fan's desire for behind-the-scenes knowledge and backstage intrigue. Thematically, my novel explores the most controversial issues in professional wrestling, such as the line between reality and fantasy on wrestling television; the role of women in the American wrestling scene; and drug abuse among professional wrestlers. ...