Bill Reynolds, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (246p) ISBN 978-0-312-18105-5
This is the story of a man who resisted admitting he had a sports obsession, but who finally decided that obsession was destiny. Reynolds's (Fall River Dreams) problem developed because he was good on the court but never great. Though a high school...
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Bill Reynolds, Author Dutton Books $19.95 (309p) ISBN 978-0-453-00687-3
The Big East Conference is a collection of nine schools, mostly established basketball powers like Georgetown, Syracuse and Providence, which in 1979 melded into one of college basketball's elite conferences. The constantly shifting patterns of the...
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Bill Reynolds. NAL, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-451-23135-2
Reynolds claims the modern-day NBA began on April 13, 1957 during the seventh and deciding game of the 1957 Finals. The Boston Celtics and the St. Louis Hawks met that fateful Saturday in the 11-year-old league's first nationally televised game....
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Bill Reynolds, Author, Rick Pitino, Author Dutton Books $17.95 (306p) ISBN 978-0-453-00620-0
Pitino became basketball's Wunderkind when, after only two years at the helm, he took the Providence Friars to the Final Four of the NCAA (National College Athletic Assoc.) tournament in 1986. The next year, he was named the Knicks' head coach, and...
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Albert Beckles, Author, Bill Reynolds, Author Sterling Publishing (NY) $10.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-8069-6574-1
A 55-year-old Barbados native and winner of the Mr. Britain title twice in the early '70s, Beckles is regarded as one of the world's top professional bodybuilders. Indeed, he regularly defeats competitors less than half his age in a sport that...
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Bill Reynolds, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7432-5476-2
Nicknamed the "Houdini of the Hardwood" by sportswriters during the 1950s, Bob Cousy was basketball's "first genuine superstar," as Providence Journal
columnist Reynolds shows in this insightful, well-written biography. Cousy...
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Chris Herren with Bill Reynolds, St. Martin's, $24.99 (286p) ISBN 978-0-312-65672-0
In this blunt, self-deprecating memoir, Herren tells his story as one of the greatest high school athletes to come out of southern New England. Fall River, Mass., has a storied basketball tradition, and Herren's achievements on the court made him a...
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Bill Reynolds. ECW, $26.95 (480p) ISBN 978-1-55022-941-7
A writer such as Michael Lewis could knock a quirky business tale like this out of the park, but Reynolds, a veteran journalist, barely ekes out an infield single with this biography of a fascinating man and the online money-transfer firm that made...
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Bill Reynolds. St. Martin’s, $26.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-250-08069-1
In this uneven book, longtime Providence Journal sports columnist Reynolds (Fall River Dreams) follows a basketball squad at Hope High School in Providence, R.I., a once-proud school that has been ravaged by gangs, unstable families, and...
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