L. Jon Wertheim and Tobias Moskowitz. Little, Brown, $17 (272p) ISBN 978-0-316-24981-2
Seventh-grader Mitch Sloan loves sports, though his football knowledge doesn’t extend to actual athletic prowess. Mitch’s family has just moved to Indiana, and although his parents’ art shop is off to a slow start, they refuse Mitch’s business...
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Al Michaels with Jon Wertheim. Morrow, $28.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-231496-3
In this fairly straightforward autobiography, Michaels, with the help of Sports Illustrated writer and author Wertheim (Strokes of Genius), chronicles how his early love of sports growing up in Brooklyn and Southern California inspired him to want...
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Jack McCallum, Author, L. Jon Wertheim, Author . Touchstone $14 (319p) ISBN 978-0-7432-8650-3
Years of behind-the-scenes reporting fuel this fast, funny basketball exposé from Sports Illustrated
writers McCallum and Wertheim, covering ground both expected (race, sex, the press) and unexpected (reality TV, PR, cars). When the Los...
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L. Jon Wertheim, Author . HarperCollins $25 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-019774-2
If you think only male professional tennis players exhibit less-than-mature behavior on and off center court, you're in for a surprise with Wertheim's candid tell-all account of a year spent following the superstars and also-rans on the WTA...
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L. Jon Wertheim, Author . Putnam $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-399-15250-4
To examine the interconnected evolution of basketball and the hoops-crazy state of Indiana, Wertheim (Venus Envy
) returns to Bloomington, Ind., to follow a basketball season at his high school alma mater. Interspersed among the chapters about the...
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L. Jon Wertheim, Author . Houghton Mifflin $24 (248p) ISBN 978-0-618-66474-0
This new release from Sports Illustrated
writer Wertheim (Venus Envy
), who expertly reports a true life story reminiscent of The Hustler
and The Color of Money
, details the exploits of Danny “Kid Delicious” Basavich, who, after...
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L. Jon Wertheim, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $25 (251p) ISBN 978-0-618-98261-5
In his latest page-turning sports tour, Sports Illustrated senior writer Wertheim (Running the Table, Venus Envy) tackles mixed marital arts (MMA), a one-on-one bare-fist brawl that combines kickboxing, Greco-Roman wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu,...
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L. Jon Wertheim. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27 (336p) ISBN 978-1-328-63724-6
Sports Illustrated executive editor Wertheim (Blood in the Cage) offers an occasionally entertaining history of developments in sports and culture during the summer of 1984, but fails to demonstrate that they’re more than coincidental. There’s no...
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L. Jon Wertheim and Sam Sommers. Crown Archetype, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-0-553-44740-8
This collection of smart and witty essays by Sports Illustrated executive editor Wertheim (Scorecasting) and Tufts University experimental psychologist Sommers (Situations Matter) reveals the roles that human psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive...
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