Joe Posnanski

The golf clubs told only part of the story behind a rivalry that forged an unlikely friendship. Readers travel back to the links of yesteryear as they discover how a fateful 1967 exhibition match led to the Turnberry 'Duel in the Sun,' as well as the friendship that golfing greats Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus later shared. 256pp., 150K, Auth res: Charlotte, NC

"Posnanski writes of major moments that created legends, and of forgotten moments almost lost to time. It's Willie Mays's catch, Babe Ruth's called shot, and Kirk Gibson's limping home run; the slickest steals; the biggest bombs; and the most triumphant no-hitters. But these are also moments raw with the humanity of the game, the unheralded heroes, the mesmerizing mistakes drenched in pine tar, and every story, from the immortal to the obscure, is...

From America's premier sportswriter, the definitive, #1 New York Times bestselling biography of Joe Paterno and the story of America's love affair with football. Joe Paterno believed that football was a way to teach young men how to live. He coached at Penn State for 62 years. In the course of his years as a head coach, his teams won 409 games, a Division I record. At the end of his life, more than 100 of those wins were invalidated by the NCAA because...