John
2) The walk on
Author
Series
Triple threat (John Feinstein) volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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After moving to a new town his freshman year in high school, Alex Myers is happy to win a spot on the varsity team as a quarterback but must deal with the idea of not playing for two years since the first-string quarterback is not only a local hero, he is also the son of the corrupt head coach.
Author
Series
Triple threat (John Feinstein) volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
"New kid Max Bellotti has the talent to lead The Lions basketball team straight to victory, but Max he also has a secret that could disrupt their winning streak once it's exposed"--
Author
Language
English
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Description
Tiger Woods has called the U.S. Open "the most difficult national championship." With Open, John Feinstein goes behind the scenes to tell for the first time the full story of how the 2002 U.S. Open Championship came into being-how a public course was transformed into one of the most difficult and surprising in the tournament's history, and how the greatest golfers in the world rose to its almost insurmountable challenges.
The Black course at...
The Black course at...
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Description
New York Times bestselling author John Feinstein goes behind closed doors at the US Open . . .
When teen sportswriters Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson score press passes to the U.S. Open they expect drama. They expect blistering serves, smashed returns and fierce competition. What they don't expect is kidnapping.
Russian tennis phenom Nadia Symanova was supposed to win it all, but she never even made it onto...
When teen sportswriters Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson score press passes to the U.S. Open they expect drama. They expect blistering serves, smashed returns and fierce competition. What they don't expect is kidnapping.
Russian tennis phenom Nadia Symanova was supposed to win it all, but she never even made it onto...
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Description
New York Times bestselling sportswriter John Feinstein tackles doping in the NFL in this exciting football mystery.
The Super Bowl. America’s biggest sports spectacle. Over 95 million fans will be watching, but teen sports reporters Stevie and Susan Carol know that what they’ll be watching is a lie. They know that the entire offensive line of the California Dreams have failed their doping tests. They know
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Description
New York Times bestselling sportswriter John Feinstein takes readers behind the scenes at the World Series in this exciting baseball mystery.
When teen sports reporters Stevie and Susan Carol are sent to cover the World Series, the talk of the tournament is Norbert Doyle—a late call-up for an underdog team. But the more they learn about him, the more conflicting stories they hear. Bit by bit they piece together the...
When teen sports reporters Stevie and Susan Carol are sent to cover the World Series, the talk of the tournament is Norbert Doyle—a late call-up for an underdog team. But the more they learn about him, the more conflicting stories they hear. Bit by bit they piece together the...
10) The back roads to March: the unsung, unheralded, and unknown heroes of a college basketball season
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"Feinstein pulls back the curtain on college basketball's lesser-known Cinderella stories -- the smaller programs who no one expects to win, who have no chance of attracting the most coveted high school recruits, who rarely send their players on to the NBA. Feinstein follows a handful of players, coaches, and schools who dream, not of winning the NCAA tournament, but of making it past their first or second round games. Every once in a while, one of...
11) The legends club: Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Valvano, and an epic college basketball rivalry
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
The riveting inside story of college basketball's fiercest rivalry among three coaching legends: University of North Carolina's Dean Smith, Duke's Mike Krzyzewski, and North Carolina State's Jim Valvano. In the 1980s, in an area where basketball was practically a religion, their rivalry would fuel a decade of suberb college basketball and change the lives of all three men.
12) Benchwarmers
Author
Series
Benchwarmers volume 1
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, Jeff stands by his teammate, Andi, who fights to get on the sixth-grade soccer team and then must face opponents who target her for being a girl.--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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Description
While covering baseball's World Series between the Washington Nationals and the Boston Red Sox, teenage sports reporters Stevie and Susan Carol investigate a rookie pitcher whose evasive answers during an interview reveal more than a few contradictions in his life story.
15) Foul trouble
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"College recruiters are clambering to sign up Terrell Jamerson, the #1 high school basketball player in the country. But not all of these recruiters are straight shooters, and Terrell will have to think fast if he wants to stay in the game"--
16) Vanishing act
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Eighth-grade sports reporters Susan Carol and Stevie reunite at the U.S. Open tennis championships where they investigate the mysterious disappearance of a top Russian player.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 533 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Feinstein returns to the subjects of his first 10 books (from his celebrated sagas of college basketball seasons to insider tell-alls on pro tennis, golf, and the Army-Navy football rivalry). He recounts the most revealing encounters he's had as a sportswriter.