So-So In Centerfied, which is how one newspaper described the young prospect Willie Mays, is a collection of baseball quotations that celebrate the many, many hallowed traditions of America's pastime, including hitting, pitching, baseball's mutual admiration society, and cheating, among others.

As a hockey player, Mario Lemieux's skill, determination, passion, and courage in the face of adversity had an enormous impact on his peers in the world of professional hockey. In fact his influence began before he ever reached the National Hockey League, and it continues through to today, eight years removed from his final game and now a franchise owner. This collection of quotations, curated by an experienced editor, features over 150 quotation-length recollections of Super Mario by famo...

Bobby Orr redefined the role of the defenseman in professional hockey, and Patrick Roy redefined everything about what it means to be a goaltender. Across an illustrious, if at times tumultuous, 18-year NHL career, Roy's extraordinary skills--both physical and mental--helped him and two teams to four Stanley Cup championships. Along the way he was named playoff MVP an unprecedented three times, the first such player to win the award with two different teams in three different decades....

Hockey players aren't boring people-- they just play them on TV, where they give notoriously dull post-game interviews loaded with sports cliches and lacking in any real substance. Dig a little deeper, however, and you find that while hockey may not be the quotation bonanza that is baseball, it is nonetheless a major sport populated by lots of clever, quotable people."Max Pacioretty is the most unselfish, two-way sniper in the league. He's the anti-Phil Kessel." (Jack Todd)"...

The 2015 NHL Entry Draft is the most anticipated draft in decades. Featuring a generational talent in Connor McDavid, the draft also features potential franchise players such as collegiate standout Jack Eichel and McDavid's teammate, Dylan Strome. Each year, The Hockey Writers draft team covers the draft from every angle, producing exhaustive profiles of the most intriguing prospects. With so much riding on this year's draft, the team has compiled over 150 profiles of the prospects they be...

It is hard to keep 218 frogs in a wheelbarrow long enough to get a bill passed. John Boehner, Speaker of the House Looking back on 2012, did you have a favorite quote? More than ever, the finger that clicks "Like" or "Share" to share the latest sound byte is the hand that rocks the world and this is never more true than during an election year. Thus the year 2012 was a year dominated by political sound bytes- many of them gaffs,...

You're never lonely if you can play the guitar. Nile Rodgers Musician. This unique and entertaining quotation collection contains nearly eight hundred quotations uttered during the first decade of the 21st century, vetted and properly cited from their (most often) original published sources. Speakers include people from a vast array of fields and backgrounds, including politicians, terrorists, tyrants, popes, novelists, bloggers, rappers, executives, visionaries, actors, athletes, and Nobel l...

There are some things you can't learn in a classroom! When in the course of educational events, it becomes necessary to blow off a little steam and hoist a few, here is the book you want committed to memory. The outrageously fun drinking games included in this complete compendium run the gamut. Some use props such as quarters, cards, dice, Tupperware, or your body, while others are especially designed to be played far from the table (and out of harm's way). Written by a college drinking ga...

Very few people change history. Bin Laden changed history. Peter Bergen, Journalist With the speed of technology ever increasing, our modern history is being written in soundbites. A soundbite today is drowned out tomorrow by an even funnier or sadder soundbite. If you track, record, and compile these numerous quotes that surface in the news and popular culture, you have a very early, first draft of the modern age. Whi...

"I was 14 when I lost my front teeth. The main thing was, we won the game. You hate to lose your teeth and the game too."  Bill Barber Hockey Talk - Quotations About the Great Sport of Hockey, From The Players and Coaches Who Made It Great is a unique and inspired collection that includes over 350 quotations about every aspect of the great game of hockey-toughness, teamwork, scoring, goaltenders, the Stanley Cup and much, much more.  ...

The untold story of how the world's most feared TV reporter transformed his inner darkness into a journalistic juggernaut that riveted millions and redefined the landscape of television newsIn his four decades as the front man for 60 Minutes, the most successful show in television history, Mike Wallace earned the distinction of being hyperaggressive, self-assured, and unflinching in his riveting exposés of injustice and corruption. His unrivaled career incl...

Drug-crazed, iconic, outrageous--Hunter S. Thompson’s own reputation as the rock star writer of the 1970s obscured the meaning behind much of his work, even for many of his fans. An essay on Hunter S. Thompson as a journalist, and the implications and intention behind his style of “gonzo journalism” on current day media…as well as what set him apart.