Frank Deford

A father’s moving memoir of cystic fibrosis “captures a brave child’s legacy as well as the continuing fight against the genetic disease” (The New York Times).
In 1971 a girl named Alex was born with cystic fibrosis, a degenerative genetic lung disease. Although health-care innovations have improved the life span of CF patients tremendously over the last four decades, the illness remains fatal....

Gavin Grey is everyone's All-American. A star running back at the University of North Carolina in the late 1950s, he graces the covers of Time and LIFE magazines and appears on the "Ed Sullivan Show." Everyone wants a piece of him or to be around him to bask in his glory, including his nephew Donny, who narrates the story and is Gavin's only real confidant.After college, Gavin goes on to the NFL where he has a solid career. As his playing...

In The Old Ball Game, Frank Deford, NPR sports commentator and Sports Illustrated journalist retells the story of an unusual friendship between two towering figures in baseball history. At the turn of the twentieth century, Christy Mathewson was one of baseball's first superstars. Over six feet tall, clean cut, and college educated, he didn't pitch on the Sabbath and rarely spoke an ill word about anyone. He also had one of the most devastating arms...

"The Best of Frank Deford: I'm Just Getting Started relates not only the specific and spectacular events that make up great sportswriting, but reflect through sports the larger world of American culture. The Best of Frank Deford features in-depth personal profiles of such legendary figures as Bobby Knight, Bill Russell, and Charles Barkley, and provides wry insight into the rapidly changing sports world."--Jacket.

Illustrated with photographs by Walter Iooss Jr.: Iconic sportswriter and commentator Frank Deford's first book brings to life one of America's most thrilling - and misunderstood - sports entertainments, the Roller Derby, from its birth during the Great Depression to it second ascendancy in the late 1960s In Five Strides on the Banked Track, distinguished sports journalist Frank Deford opens a fascinating window on this exhilarating entertainment...

If true love can travel across time, can true evil be far behind? When the beautiful Dr. Nina Winston's patient Bucky Buckingham reveals his secret to her, she has to doubt him. Reincarnation? True love across four centuries? But Nina is fascinated and lets herself be drawn into the charming and vulnerable Bucky's tale and into his life. Through hypnotherapy, she meets his former identity, and in real life, she meets his former paramour. If Bucky...

This is not as wholly outrageous or funny as that other Sports Illustrated editior Dan Jenkins' Semi-Tough, but it's a nice post-season reminder of that all-American favorite game. Not Rosalie Start's--the wife of a rapidly ascendant Baltimore stockbroker (who launched the franchised barbershops Cut 'n' Run) whose fall is a season of utter discontent--Jerry's ""engulfed"" by pro football and their marriage is facing sudden death. Then there's the...

"From Wall Street to Washington Heights, down Fifth Avenue, over bridges, and across the grid, celebrate the irresistible attraction of the little island that has captured the hearts of millions and sparked countless lifelong love affairs. This vivid film offers striking views of New York: the harbor from Lady Liberty's perspective; Central Park as the birds experience it; the crucifix architecture of St. Patrick's Cathedral as intended from the heavens;...