Summer 2024 Titles

<strong>Follow the historic rise of basketball superstar Caitlin Clark</strong><p>Caitlin Clark has written her name all over the NCAA record books, captivated fans with her trademark long-range shots, and put women&rsquo;s basketball on the map in unprecedented ways. The best part? She&rsquo;s just getting started.</p><p>With in-depth writing from The Athletic and dozens of vivid photos, <em>Caitlin Clark: Raising the Game</em> traces this incredible rise, from Clark&rsquo;s early days as a standout in Des Moines, to her dominance with the Iowa Hawkeyes that made her a household name, and the start of her professional career with the WNBA&rsquo;s Indiana Fever. Chapters will also spotlight her dynamic playing style and her impact on the world of women&rsquo;s sports.</p>

<div>With her deeply personal songwriting, countless hit songs, and genre-bending yet unmistakable sound, Taylor Swift has cemented her status as one of pop music&#39;s most iconic and culture-defining voices.<br /><br />On the heels of her record-breaking The Eras Tour, this visually stunning book pays tribute to Swift&#39;s evolution as an artist, her sonic and aesthetic influences, personal inspirations, and the incredible community she has fostered among her international fanbase&mdash;all alongside dozens of full-color photos.</div>

<b>A candid and moving autobiography by the &#39;Black Widow&#39; of billiards</b><br /><br />Jeanette Lee was 18 years old when she walked into a New York City pool hall and became enamored by the elegant geometry of the game. Before long, she was an unmistakable figure on the international competition circuit, dressed head-to-toe in black, stalking the billiards table and gazing down her cue as if tracking her prey.<br /><br />In this new memoir, the woman nicknamed &#39;The Black Widow&#39; opens up about her legendary career and the rich, unpredictable life she&#39;s woven around it. Lee details her upbringing in a Korean-American household in Brooklyn, her single-minded drive to reach the pinnacle of her sport, and her unlikely entry into the realm of mainstream celebrity in an era where female athletes rarely got their share of the limelight.<br /><br />Lee also reflects on her lifelong struggle with scoliosis, which necessitated over twenty operations during her playing career; her public battle with Stage 4 ovarian cancer; and the communities that gave her strength throughout.<br /><br />Written with warmth and candor, this is the definitive story of a true icon.

<div><strong>Now available as a board book for budding baseball fans!</strong><br /><br /><em>My First Book of Baseball</em>, a&nbsp;Rookie Book from Sports Illustrated Kids, coaches young kids through the game of baseball with a visual retelling of an actual MLB game--from the first pitch to the game winning hit! Strikes, outs, steals, foul balls, home runs and more are all explained using a fun mix of <em>Sports Illustrated</em> action photography, simple text with engaging graphics, and a full glossary of essential baseball terms and phrases.<br /><br />An illustrated rookie player character also appears on every page, providing fun facts to help the next generation of fans better understand the game. Perfect for beginning readers, <em>My First Book of Baseball</em> is meant to be a shared reading experience between parents and their young minor league rookies before, during, and after the ball game.</div>

<div><strong>Fully revised and updated with today&#39;s superstars!</strong><br /><br />The ref blows the whistle, the striker approaches for kickoff, feet fly&mdash;a soccer match is underway! With a fun mix of&nbsp;Sports Illustrated&nbsp;action photography, simple text, a full glossary of terms, and awesome graphics,&nbsp;<em>My First Book of Soccer&nbsp;</em>introduces readers to the world&rsquo;s favorite game. Kids (and probably a few adults, too) will learn how the clock counts &ldquo;up&rdquo; and never stops, what an offside means, what&rsquo;s up with those yellow cards, and how kicks become a gooooaaaallll!<br /><br />Illustrated &quot;rookie&quot; characters appears on every page, guiding the reader moment by moment, and helping to make&nbsp;<em>My First Book of Soccer</em>&nbsp;an ideal shared reading experience between parents and their little rookies before, during, and after the game.</div>

<strong>Newly revised and updated, a&nbsp;deep dive into all things Phish for new and old fans alike!</strong><br /><br />Few music groups have been able to sustain a fan base as passionate and dedicated as that of Phish, and this entertaining guide rewards those fans with everything they need to know about the band in a one-of-a-kind format. Packed with history, trivia, lists, little-known facts, and must-do adventures that every Phish fan should undertake, it ranks each item from one to 100, providing an indispensable, engaging road map for devotees old and new.

<p><strong>Finalist for the 2024 Casey Award</strong><br /><br />For twenty Major League seasons, the name Dwight Evans was synonymous with sterling defense and a potent bat. A Red Sox legend, he played in 2,505 games in Boston &ndash; second only to Carl Yastrzemski &ndash; and hit 379 home runs for the club, trailing only Yastrzemski and Ted Williams. Nobody hit more home runs in the American League and no player had more extra base hits in all of baseball than the man affectionately known as Dewey did during the decade of the 1980s, but it was his rifle-like right arm &ndash; and eight Gold Glove Awards &ndash; that established him as the best right fielder of his era.</p><p>In&nbsp;<i>Dewey</i>, Evans and baseball historian Erik Sherman take Red Sox fans back to a glorious time in baseball, filled with unforgettable World Series appearances in 1975 and 1986, legendary teammates including fellow outfield mainstays Jim Rice and Fred Lynn, and some of the most memorable games in MLB history.<br /><br />Yet for all his greatness on the baseball field, the immense challenges that Evans and his family dealt with off it were even more impressive, a journey that Evans poignantly explores in detail like never before. A man who would become known for his class, dignity, and strength, Evans would use those attributes along with his wife Susan to help nurture and comfort two sons, Timothy and Justin, as they battled neurofibromatosis (NF) &ndash; commonly known as elephant man&rsquo;s disease &ndash; a condition that causes tumors to form in the brain, spinal cord, and nerves.&nbsp;</p><p>Part charming memoir of an underrated star from bygone era of baseball and part exploration of a man whose inner strength sustained him through the trials and tribulations surrounding the diagnosis, treatment, and deaths of two sons who were tragically afflicted with NF,&nbsp;<i>Dewey</i>&nbsp;is the long-awaited full story of Evans from the man himself.</p>

<p>To most NFL fans, Dick LeBeau is known as a football lifer, Pro Football Hall of Fame member, and mastermind behind the revolutionary zone blitz defense. But to Pittsburgh Steelers fans, LeBeau is the beloved defensive coaching genius who helped lead the Steelers to their last two championships &ndash; Super Bowl XL in 2005 and Super Bowl XLIII in 2008 &ndash; crafting a devastating 3-4 defensive scheme that came to define a treasured era of football in Pittsburgh.</p><p>In&nbsp;<i>Legendary</i>, LeBeau along with veteran Steelers&rsquo; scribes Scott Brown and George Von Benko will revisit that unforgettably dominant 2008 defensive unit, one of the most feared and successful in the modern NFL landscape. A deep dive into each game of the 2007-2008 championship season, with added perspective of how that &ldquo;Blitzburgh&rdquo; defense stacks up against the other great contemporary defenses, LeBeau also intersperses revelations about the 2008 Steelers with anecdotes from his nearly 60 years in the NFL as both a star player and groundbreaking coach who spanned decades of football innovation.</p><p>This fond look back at the latest golden era for the Steelers also includes recollections from the legends on defense who helped bring LeBeau&rsquo;s ground-breaking vision to life, from Hall of Fame safety Troy Polamalu to 2008 NFL Defensive Player of the Year James Harrison to unheralded but essential linebacker James Farrior, and many more who count LeBeau as one of the most admired and brilliant coaches in league history.</p>

<div style=&#34;margin:0px&#34;><b>The Boston Celtics are NBA champions!</b><br /><br />For more than a decade, the Boston Celtics&#39; perpetual promise was met with repeated disappointment. That all changed in 2024 with a resilient and remarkable group that dominated in historic fashion, burnished the city&#39;s legacy, and finally earned the elusive Banner 18.<br /><br />Featuring outstanding coverage from John Karalis alongside dynamic action photography,&nbsp;<i>Built Different: The Boston Celtics&rsquo; Historic Run to the 2024 NBA Championship</i>&nbsp;captures the full journey &ndash; from blockbuster trades that brought Kristaps Porzingis and Jrue Holiday into the fold, to an NBA-best regular season, all the way through the decisive triumph over the Dallas Mavericks. This commemorative edition also includes stories on Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Al Horford, and other favorites, and is a must-have keepsake for fans of this championship squad.</div>

<p paraeid=&#34;{834826c4-114f-40c4-9e7e-710d5f084f2a}{161}&#34; paraid=&#34;1114553105&#34;>In 1984, fantasy became reality in the Motor City. Led by ace Jack Morris, a historic season from lefty Willie Hernandez, and a thumping lineup powered by Kirk Gibson, Chet Lemon, and Lance Parrish, the Detroit Tigers turned a sportscaster&rsquo;s sarcastic &ldquo;Bless you boys&rdquo; remark into a rallying cry. The Tigers led the American League East from start to finish &ndash; starting the season 35-5 and finishing with 104 wins to take the division by 15 games. They topped Kansas City in the ALCS and the San Diego Padres in the World Series to capture Detroit&rsquo;s first World Series Crown since 1968.&nbsp;</p><p paraeid=&#34;{834826c4-114f-40c4-9e7e-710d5f084f2a}{167}&#34; paraid=&#34;23302548&#34;>A key cog to this unforgettable season was Parrish, the all-star catcher who slugged a team-leading 33 home runs. Told from the perspective of Parrish himself and the expertise of award-winning Tigers scribe Tom Gage &ndash; who covered the 1984 Tigers for the Detroit News -- The Enchanted Season takes readers onto the field and inside the locker room, from the spring training trade for Hernandez to Morris&rsquo;s April no-hitter to Gibson&rsquo;s October home run to seal the Tigers&rsquo; clinching Game 5. Sharing insight on manager Sparky Anderson&rsquo;s leadership, the magical keystone combination of Alan Trammell and Lou Whitaker, the power and speed of Lemon and Gibson, and much more, this essential read provides fans a new look back at the year the Tigers roared.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<strong>In&nbsp;<em>The Franchise: Minnesota Twins</em>, take a more profound and unique journey into the history of an iconic team.</strong><br /><br />This thoughtful and engaging collection of essays captures the astute fans&rsquo; history of the franchise, going beyond well-worn narratives of yesteryear to uncover the less-discussed moments, decisions, people, and settings that fostered the Twins&#39; one-of-a-kind identity.<br /><br />Through wheeling and dealing, mythmaking and community building, explore where the organization has been, how it got to prominence in the modern major league landscape, and how it&rsquo;ll continue to evolve and stay in contention for generations to come.<br /><br /><strong>Twins fans in the know will enjoy this personal, local, in-depth look at baseball history.</strong>

<strong>In&nbsp;<em>The Franchise: Atlanta Braves</em>, take a more profound and unique journey into the history of an iconic team.</strong><br /><br />This thoughtful and engaging collection of essays captures the astute fans&rsquo; history of the franchise, going beyond well-worn narratives of yesteryear to uncover the less-discussed moments, decisions, people, and settings that fostered the Braves&#39; one-of-a-kind identity.<br /><br />Through wheeling and dealing, mythmaking and community building, explore where the organization has been, how it got to prominence in the modern major league landscape, and how it&rsquo;ll continue to evolve and stay in contention for generations to come.<br /><br /><strong>Braves fans in the know will enjoy this personal, local, in-depth look at baseball history.</strong>

<p style=&#34;BORDER-TOP-COLOR: ; BORDER-LEFT-COLOR: ; BORDER-BOTTOM-COLOR: ; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-RIGHT-COLOR: &#34;><strong>Now revised and updated to include reflections on the modern era of Red Sox baseball</strong><br /><br />Commemorating the Boston Red Sox&rsquo;s unforgettable championship run in the fall of 2004, go behind the scenes and inside the dugout, bullpen, and clubhouse to discover how this team defied the ultimate odds. This oral history&nbsp;highlights how, during a span of just 76 hours, the Red Sox won four do-or-die games against their archrivals, the New York Yankees, to qualify for the World Series and complete the greatest comeback in baseball history. Then the Red Sox steamrolled through the fall classic, sweeping the St. Louis Cardinals in four games to capture&nbsp;their first championship since 1918.<br /><br /><i>Don&rsquo;t Let Us Win Tonight</i> is brimming with revealing quotes from Boston&rsquo;s front office personnel, coaches, medical staff, and players, including Kevin Millar talking about his infectious optimism and the team&rsquo;s pregame ritual of drinking whiskey, Dave Roberts revealing how he prepared to steal the most famous base of his career, and Dr. William Morgan describing the radical surgery he performed on Curt Schilling&rsquo;s right ankle. The ultimate keepsake for any Red Sox fan, this is the 2004 team in their own words.</p>

An important resource for umpires, coaches, leagues, and serious fans of Major League Baseball (MLB), this handbook lists the dos and don&rsquo;ts of the national pastime. Fully up-to-date, this book contains the official and sanctioned MLB rules and their interpretations per the Playing Rules Committee, the sole group that determines baseball&rsquo;s regulations.

&ldquo;Finally, someone takes baseball movies seriously!&nbsp;Baseball: The Movie&nbsp;blends the passion of a fan with the rigorous analysis of a film critic to create a persuasive argument that the baseball movie matters&mdash;to baseball, to Hollywood, even to America.&rdquo;&nbsp;<br />&#8203;&mdash;Ben Mankiewicz, host, Turner Classic Movies&nbsp;<br /><br /><b>Featuring&nbsp;<i>Field of Dreams</i>,&nbsp;<i>The Bad News Bears</i>,&nbsp;<i>A League of Their Own</i>, and more: a&nbsp;probing and entertaining work at the intersection of pop culture and sports</b><br /><br />Baseball has always been a symbol as much as a sport. With a blend of individual confrontation and team play, a luxurious pace, and an immaculate urban parkland setting, it offers a sunny rendering of the American Dream, both the hard work that underpins it and the rewards it promises.&nbsp;<br /><br />Film, America&#39;s other national pastime, which magnifies and mythologizes all it touches, has long been the ideal medium to canonize this aspirational idea.&nbsp;<br /><br /><i>Baseball: The Movie</i>&nbsp;is the first definitive history of this film genre that was born in 1915 and remains artistically and culturally vital more than a century later. Writer and critic Noah Gittell sheds light on well-known classics and overlooked gems, exploring how&nbsp;baseball cinema creates a stage upon which the American ideal is born, performed, and repeatedly redefined.<br /><br />Traversing history and mythmaking, cynicism and nostalgia, this thoroughly researched book takes readers on a multifaceted tour of baseball on film.