Contributions by Eryk Anders, Javier Arenas, Wayne Atcheson, Allen Barra, John David Briley, Tommy Deas, Mitch Dobbs, Andrew Doyle, Keith Dunnavant, Winston Groom, Barrett Jones, Walter Maddox, Kirk McNair, Delbert Reed, Tom Roberts, Phil Savage, Gene Stallings, Erik Stinnett, Steve Townsend and Taylor Watson
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780817319694
Pub Date: August 2017
Format: Hardcover
Dramatic accounts of every University of Alabama National Championship football season recounted by noted sports writers, players, and Alabamians.
The Official Illustrated History of Alabama Football, National Championship Edition
Foreword by Allen Barra
Contributions by Jeremiah Castille
by Winston Groom
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780817317331
Pub Date: September 2010
Format: Hardcover
The book to settle all bets! A lively illustrated history of the University of Alabama football teams that have dominated college football and ranked consistently among the best in the nation and now with 13 national championships to its credit. This updated National Championship Edition contains two new chapters to cover the dark days at the beginning of the 21st century and the dawn of the Nick Saban era.
The National Pastime and American Identity During the War on Terror
by Michael L. Butterworth
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9780817317102
Pub Date: August 2010
Format: Hardcover
Baseball and Rhetorics of Purity, by Michael Butterworth, is an investigation into the culture and mythology of baseball, a study of its limits and failures, and an invitation to remake the game in a more democratic way. It pays special attention to baseball’s role in the reconstruction of American identity after September 11, 2001.
Fred “Dixie” Walker was a gifted ballplayer from a family of gifted athletes. (His father, uncle, and brother all played major league baseball.) Dixie Walker played in the majors for 18 seasons...
Foreword by Susanna Van Hoose Feld and Susanna Van Hoose
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 9780817355111
Pub Date: September 2009
Format: Paperback
The best work of one of Alabama’s longest-serving and most beloved sports journalists.Although he spent 43 years at the same job, Alf Van Hoose was not a man limited by the boundaries of his profession. As Birmingham News sports editor for 21 years and a columnist for a decade before that, Van Hoose helped define a city, a state, and a region largely known for sports. He was the writer of record for some of the biggest sporting events and personalities in the state of Alabama in the last half of the 20th Century. Wayne Hester, Van Hoose’s successor as sports editor of The News, in 1990, said, “To many sports fans over the years, Alf Van Hoose has been The Birmingham News.” But he was also much more than the “sports guy,” as older generations of Alabama sports fans who read this book will remember and younger ones will...
The rowdy adolescence of baseball, told by the game’s first autobiographical umpire.Harry "Steamboat" Johnson brought to early baseball great integrity and a pugnacious stlye. Toughness--being able...
