 | |
  | |
| Searching ... |
| 0 % | ||
Books by Allen Barra
  | | Twelve and Counting(1st Edition) The National Championships of Alabama Football by Kenneth Gaddy, Mal Moore, Contributor-Erik Stinnett, Contributor-Andrew Doyle, Contributor-Taylor Watson, Contributor-Delbert Reed, Contributor-Allen Barra, Contributor-Gene Stallings, Contributor-Mitch Dobbs, Contributor-Steve Townsend, Contributor-Kirk Mcnair, Contributor-Wayne Atcheson, Contributor-Tom Roberts, Contributor-Keith Dunnavant, Mr. Winston Groom, John David Briley, University Alabama Press Hardcover, 184 Pages, Published 2009 by University Alabama Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-1644-0, ISBN: 0-8173-1644-2 " Alabama football is a story of winners who have established a championship legacy, and Twelve and Counting tells that glorious story by focusing on each of the twelve times, so far, that The University of Alabama football team has won the national championship. Dating back to 1925, when Wallace Wade coached the Crimson Tide to an undefeated season and earned a spot in the Rose Bowl, the driving goal of every season has been that ultima ..." |
 | | The Crimson Tide(2nd Edition) The Official Illustrated History of Alabama Football, National Championship Edition by Mr. Winston Groom, Allen Barra, Contributor-Jeremiah Castille, Philip D. Beidler, Clyde Bolton, Scott Hunter, Willie Morris, Howell Raines, Gay Talese Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2010 by University Alabama Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-1733-1, ISBN: 0-8173-1733-3 "Celebrated author and die-hard Bama fan Winston Groom provides a lively illustrated history of the team that has dominated college football and has been ranked consistently among the best in the nation, now with 13 national championships to its credit. Beginning in 1892, when William G. Little first introduced the game at the Capstone, to the stellar 2009 season during which the Crimson Tide went undefeated and won first the SEC Champio ..." |
 | | 150 YEARS OF BASEBALL(1st Edition) by Stephen Hanks, Berry Stainback, Joe Glickman, Owen Kean, Perry Barber, Thomas W. Gilbert, Allen Barra Hardcover, 504 Pages, Published 1989 by Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-56173-090-2, ISBN: 1-56173-090-4 "Collectors Edition. New from the shelf. with dust jacket. Start to finish of 1989 for the history of baseball. Quick shipping and your satisfaction is our goal. Thanks for looking." |
 | | Brushbacks and Knockdowns The Greatest Baseball Debates of Two Centuries by Allen Barra ISBN-13: 978-0-312-99389-4, ISBN: 0-312-99389-7 |
 | | Clearing the Bases The Greatest Baseball Debates of the Last Century by Allen Barra ISBN-13: 978-0-312-70462-9, ISBN: 0-312-70462-3 |
 | | Sixteen and Counting(1st Edition) The National Championships of Alabama Football by Kenneth Gaddy, Bill Battle, Eryk Anders, Javier Arenas, Wayne Atcheson, Allen Barra, John David Briley, Tommy Deas, Mitch Dobbs, Andrew Doyle, Keith Dunnavant, Mr. Winston Groom, Barrett Jones, Walter Maddox, Kirk Mcnair, Delbert Reed, Tom Roberts, Phil Savage, Gene Stallings, Erik Stinnett, Steve Townsend, Taylor Watson, University Alabama Press Hardcover, 232 Pages, Published 2017 by University Alabama Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-1969-4, ISBN: 0-8173-1969-7 "Dramatic accounts of every University of Alabama National Championship football season recounted by noted sports writers, players, and Alabamians. Dating back to 1925, when Wallace Wade coached the Crimson Tide to an undefeated season and earned a spot in the Rose Bowl, the driving goal of every University of Alabama football season has been a national championship. A winning team surfaced that very next year, when Hoyt “Wu” Winslett’s ..." |
 | | Mickey and Willie Mantle and Mays, the Parallel Lives of Baseball's Golden Age by Allen Barra Paperback, 528 Pages, Published 2014 by Three Rivers Press ISBN-13: 978-0-307-71649-1, ISBN: 0-307-71649-X "Acclaimed sportswriter Allen Barra exposes the uncanny parallels--and lifelong friendship--between two of the greatest baseball players ever to take the field. Culturally, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays were light-years apart. Yet they were nearly the same age and almost the same size, and they came to New York at the same time. They possessed virtually the same talents and played the same position. They were both products of generations ..." |
 | | Mickey and Willie Mantle and Mays, the Parallel Lives of Baseball's Golden Age by Allen Barra 496 Pages, Published 2013 by Crown Archetype ISBN-13: 978-0-307-71650-7, ISBN: 0-307-71650-3 "Mantle and Mays, the Parallel Lives of Baseball's Golden Age Allen Barra. NNN N NNNl—l Hi >— PM“? .W 512-99 9°74 .6' Cooperstown, New York, 12. Mantle and Cluck, The hr'lick, August. ,_.,_. \n-t.. 21'. Ibid., p. 50. . Ibid., p. 52. Mays and Sahadi, Say Hey, p. 173. Barra, Rickwood Field, p. 136. llirsch, Willie Mays: The Life, the Legend, p. 36. Sahadi, Say Hey, p. 19. Ibid., p. 26. Falkner, The Last Hero, p. 43. Hall, Mickey Mantl ..." |
 | | Mickey and Willie "Mantle and Mays, the Parallel Lives of Baseball's Golden Age" by Allen Barra, Andrew Garman Published 2013 by Recorded Books ISBN-13: 978-1-4703-3313-3, ISBN: 1-4703-3313-9 |
 | | Mickey and Willie(1st Edition) Mantle and Mays, the Parallel Lives of Baseball's Golden Age by Allen Barra Hardcover, 496 Pages, Published 2013 by Crown Archetype Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-307-71648-4, ISBN: 0-307-71648-1 "Acclaimed sportswriter Allen Barra exposes the uncanny parallels--and lifelong friendship--between two of the greatest baseball players ever to take the field. Culturally, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays were light-years apart. Yet they were nearly the same age and almost the same size, and they came to New York at the same time. They possessed virtually the same talents and played the same position. They were both products of generations ..." |
 | | Yogi Berra Eternal Yankee by Allen Barra 451 Pages, Published 2010 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-25456-3, ISBN: 0-393-25456-9 "And there's probably no better spot to thank the late Curt Gowdy, the only man besides George Steinbrenner who had a close relationship with both Bear Bryant and Yogi Berra. It never occurred to me when I started this book that I would be engaging in conversation with the late Dr. Milton Friedman, and I wish he could have lived to see this book in print. The same is true for David Halberstam, who was enthusiastic in sharing his mem ..." |
 | | Yogi Berra(1st Edition) Eternal Yankee by Allen Barra Paperback, 451 Pages, Published 2010 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-33714-3, ISBN: 0-393-33714-6 "âAllen Barra brings a legendary figure from the true golden age of baseball to life.ââBob Costas Yogi Berra is one of the most popular former athletes in American history, and the most quoted American since Abraham Lincoln. Part clown, part feisty competitor, Berra is also the winningest player (fourteen pennants, ten World Series, 3 MVPs) in baseball history. In this revelatory biography, Allen Barra presents Yogiâs remarkable ..." |
 | | Rickwood Field(1st Edition) A Century in America's Oldest Ballpark by Allen Barra Hardcover, 367 Pages, Published 2010 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-06933-4, ISBN: 0-393-06933-8 "The extraordinary social history of Rickwood Field is the story of baseball itself, gloriously evoked for the centennial of America’s oldest ballpark.Those fortunate fans who attended Opening Day on August 18, 1910 could not have had the slightest inkling that their brand new stadium would one day be the oldest active professional ballpark in America. Nor could they have possibly imagined how dramatically baseball would transform itsel ..." |
 | | Rickwood Field A Century in America's Oldest Ballpark by Allen Barra 304 Pages, Published 2010 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-07935-7, ISBN: 0-393-07935-X "Watching Tommy Lee Jones, Roger Clemens, and others parading around in those heavy wool uniforms stirred the ghosts of Rockwood's past for me. The final impetus was definitely ESPN's Classic in 2006, which I attended with the late great Paul Hemphill. Paul and I had both been plugging our books about Alabama greats that day—Paul his biography of Hank Williams, Lovesick Blues, and I my biography of Bear Bryant, The Last Coach. As we ..." |
 | | Inventing Wyatt Earp(1st Edition) His Life and Many Legends by Allen Barra Hardcover, 448 Pages, Published 2009 by Castle Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7858-1494-8, ISBN: 0-7858-1494-9 "In a violent half-minute, in a gunfight near the O.K. Corral, Wyatt Earp became a legend. He was thirty-three. He died forty-eight years later, in Hollywood, where he worked as an advisor on film westerns. He'd had firsthand experience in the creation of American myth, and in this remarkable volume, Allen Barra illuminates fully the man who strode into our national imagination, as well as the myths that have continually reinvented him i ..." |
 | | Yogi Berra Eternal Yankee by Allen Barra Published 2009 ISBN-13: 978-1-4001-9178-9, ISBN: 1-4001-9178-5 |
 | | Yogi Berra(Large Print) Eternal Yankee (Thorndike Press Biography Series) by Allen Barra Hardcover, 747 Pages, Published 2009 by Thorndike Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4104-1561-5, ISBN: 1-4104-1561-9 |
 | | Clearing the Bases The Greatest Baseball Debates of the Last Century by Allen Barra, Bob Costas Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 2008 by Bison Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-1763-8, ISBN: 0-8032-1763-3 "Who was better, Mickey Mantle or Willie Mays? At their peak, who was more valuable, Joe DiMaggio or Ted Williams? If Lefty Grove, Sandy Koufax, and Roger Clemens had pitched at the same time against the same hitters, who would have won the most games? If Jackie Robinson had been white, would he be deserving of the Hall of Fame? Who was the greatest all-around player of the last century? Clearing the Bases is the first book to tackle the ..." |
 | | The Last Coach A Life of Paul "Bear" Bryant by Allen Barra 608 Pages, Published 2006 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-25457-0, ISBN: 0-393-25457-7 "Forty years later, another Alabama football star, Joe Namath, would be paid approximately ten times as much for similar work. § Frank Howard, later to become a successful college football coach, lined up opposite Sington in the 1931 Rose Bowl and tried to distract him by singing, “Football Freddieeee ...” Sington, who eventually became close friends with Howard, later confessed that “ his singing didn't distract me at all. Actually, ..." |
 | | The Last Coach(Reprint) A Life of Paul "Bear" Bryant by Allen Barra Paperback, 608 Pages, Published 2006 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-32897-4, ISBN: 0-393-32897-X "The explosive biography of the greatest college football coach in history. When Paul William "Bear" Bryant died on January 26, 1983, it was the lead story on the all three networks' evening news. New York City newspapers reported his death on their front pages. ("Crimson Tears," read the headline in the New York Post, "Nation weeps over death of legendary Bear Bryant, 69.") Three days later, America watched in awe as an estimated quart ..." |
All Authors
All Bindings
All Editions
All Years
All Regions
Allen Barra
All Bindings
All Editions
All Years
All Regions