Author: Mickey Herskowitz
Publisher: Halcyon Press Ltd.
Keywords: greatest, team, generation, texas, aggies
Number of Pages: 263
Published: 2006-08-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1931823391
ISBN-13: 9781931823395

THE 1939 TEXAS AGGIES details the incredible story of the 1939 national football champions, the Texas A&M Aggies. From a program on the verge of being eliminated in 1934, award-winning sports writer Mickey Herskowitz describes the stunning climb to the national championship the Aggies experienced in 1939, with a near repeat in 1940. Led by a former baseball player, Homer Norton, the Texas Aggies recruited a remarkable collection of young men, including John Kimbrough, Marion Pugh, Marshall Foch Robnett, and Tommie Vaughn. Under Norton’s leadership, he forged a collection of boys into a t

Author: Ed Housewright
Publisher: Triumph Book
Keywords: greatest, plays, football, history, cowboys, dallas, game, changers
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2009-10-10
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1600782205
ISBN-13: 9781600782206

The Dallas Cowboys have been among the best teams in professional football almost since their inception in 1960 as an expansion team. Boasting players past and present such as Roger Staubach, Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, it comes as no surprise that the Cowboys have enjoyed myriad successes. The amazing history of "America’s Team" includes some of the most phenomenal plays in professional sports. Many of these plays literally changed games or even redirected the course of the Dallas franchise. In Game Changers: The Greatest Plays in Dallas Cowboys Football History, author Ed Housewright ha

Authors:Reuben Frank, Mark Eckel, Seth Joyner,
Publisher: Triumph Books
Keywords: greatest, plays, football, history, eagles, philadelphia, game, changers
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2009-10-10
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1600782744
ISBN-13: 9781600782749

Ted Dean’s historic five-yard touchdown run gave the Eagles the 1960 NFL Championship Game and handed legendary Packers coach Vince Lombardi his only career postseason loss. But Dean wasn’t even supposed to get the football on one of the biggest plays in Eagles history. What was the original play, and why did Norm Van Brocklin change it? Eric Allen’s winding, weaving 94-yard dash against the Jets in 1993 was called "the greatest interception return in NFL history" by Steve Sabol of NFL Films, but the play almost didn’t happen. Allen was about to head out of bounds after

Author: Don Martin
Publisher: Running Press
Keywords: mad, artists, greatest, series, martin, completely, don
Number of Pages: 1200
Published: 2007-10-23
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0762430508
ISBN-13: 9780762430505

The Gift Book of the Season. Just about everyone who came of age during the 1960s, 70s, and 80s was influenced by MAD MAGAZINE, and no one at MAD was more influential than "MAD’s MADdest Artist," Don Martin. His immediately recognizable style--featuring bulbous noses, wild sound effects, and the legendary "hinged feet"--was filled with broad and daring slapstick and routinely broke new ground. A surprisingly quiet man, Martin’s work spoke volumes as he left an indelible mark on several generations, influencing the style of many illustrators while shaping the sense of humor of

Author: Demi
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry
Keywords: power, greatest
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 2004-02-24
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0689845030
ISBN-13: 9780689845031

Emperor Ping, the boy emperor known for his love of harmony, sets a challenge to the children of his kingdom: show him the greatest power in the world. "To know the greatest power in the world is to know the greatest peace," Emperor Ping announces. "Whoever knows this harmony will become the new prime minister." The children get to work right away and have many bright ideas. The greatest power must be weapons! It must be beauty! It must be money! But as a young girl named Sing reflects upon the challenge, she wonders how any of those things, which cannot last forever, could be the greatest

Author: Tom Brokaw
Publisher: Random House
Keywords: generation, greatest
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2004-05-11
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 1400063140
ISBN-13: 9781400063147

Tom Brokaw was born in 1940, but it wasn’t until he was a famous newscaster that he began to contemplate what his parents’ generation--those born between 1910 and the mid-1920s--had accomplished. Narrating his own book, he discusses the sacrifices those men and women made: the bodily harm they suffered in war, the diligence with which they built families and businesses, the courage they displayed in rehabilitating their war wounds, the integrity and values that infused their lives. "They never whined or whimpered," Brokaw notes. The stories these men and women tell Brokaw are consi

Author: Tom Brokaw
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Keywords: generation, greatest
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2001-05-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0812975294
ISBN-13: 9780812975291

"In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of Europe that marked the beginning of the end of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. There, I underwent a life-changing experience. As I walked the beaches with the American veterans who had returned for this anniversary, men in their sixties and seventies, and listened to their stories, I was deeply moved and profoundly grateful for all they had done. Ten years later, I returned to Normandy for the fiftieth anniversar