Items with the category: Sports | Jewish Book Council

Cover of Takedown

Cover of Ride High with the Wave

Ride High with the Wave

Sharon K. Solomon

Cover of Fierce: How Competing for Myself Changed Everything

Fierce: How Competing for Myself Changed Everything

Cover of The Jewish Baseball Card Book

The Jewish Baseball Card Book

Bob Wechsler, Peter McDonald, & Martin Abramowitz

Cover of Backfield Boys: A Football Mystery in Black and White

Backfield Boys: A Football Mystery in Black and White

Video

30 Days 30 Authors: Adam Greenberg

Adam Greenberg

November 16, 2017

Cover of Get Up: The Art of Perseverance

Get Up: The Art of Perseverance

Cover of The Bicycle Spy

The Bicycle Spy

Yona Zeldis McDonough

Cover of When Basketball Was Jewish

When Basketball Was Jewish

Cover of The Arena

Cover of Eat My Schwartz

Eat My Schwartz

Geoff and Mitch Schwartz, with Seth Kaufman

Essay

The So-Called Rules of Language, Literature, and Baseball

Richard Michelson

February 20, 2017

Cover of Max Baer and Barney Ross: Jewish Heroes of Boxing

Max Baer and Barney Ross: Jewish Heroes of Boxing

Jeffrey Sussman

Essay

Benny Leonard: The Golden Standard for a Golden Age

Earlier this week, Mike Silver introduced readers to boxing’s forgotten Jewish champions of the early twentieth century featured in Stars in the Ring: Jewish…

Mike Silver

May 5, 2016

Essay

In the Clearing Stands a (Jewish) Boxer

Mike Silver is a boxing historian whose second book, Stars in the Ring: Jewish Champions in the Golden Age of Boxing: A Photographic History, comes out…

Mike Silver

May 3, 2016

Cover of On the Origins of Sports

On the Origins of Sports

Gary Belsky and Neil Fine