John Feinstein
Author
Series
Benchwarmers volume 2
Formats
Description
A new coach's flagrant racism, a teammate's endless sabotage, and local media interest make it difficult for Andi Carillo and Jeff Michaels to keep both of their basketball teams on track.
2) The walk on
Author
Series
Triple threat (John Feinstein) volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
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.
3) The DH
Author
Series
Triple threat (John Feinstein) volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Embarking on a baseball season marked by his parents' divorce, Alex is confronted by unexpected rival Matt, a disgraced athlete who has been given another chance after taking steroids and who wants to steal the affections of Alex's crush.
Author
Series
Triple threat (John Feinstein) volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"New kid Max Bellotti has the talent to lead The Lions basketball team straight to victory, but Max also has a secret that could disrupt their winning streak once it's exposed" --
Author
Series
Benchwarmers volume 3
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
288 pages
Description
Eleven-year-old Andi Carillo quickly becomes the star of her school's new co-ed tennis team, and when her talent attracts sports agents who want her to play professionally, Andi's best friend Jeff Michaels helps her thwart the agents by uncovering their underhanded schemes.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
357 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"Feinstein builds his profile around five NFL starting quarterbacks - Alex Smith, Andrew Luck, Joe Flacco, Ryan Fitzpatrick and Doug Williams. With incredible inside access, we get the full quarterback experience...being drafted #1 overall, pushing through grueling injuries, winning Super Bowls, being named a starter on multiple teams, being the first African American QB to lead a franchise to a title. Feinstein shows us exactly what it's like in...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
311 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"Award-winning author John Feinstein takes readers behind the scenes, providing an inside view of the dramatic stories as they unfolded: veteran Phil Mickelson's two-year roller-coaster as he upended the American preparation process and helped assemble a superb team; superstar Rory McIlroy becoming the clear-cut emotional leader of the European team, and his reasons for wanting to beat the US team so badly this time around; the raucous matches between...
10) The back roads to March: the unsung, unheralded, and unknown heroes of a college basketball season
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
304 pages cm
Description
"Sports journalist John Feinstein returns to his first love--college basketball--with a fascinating and compelling journey through a landscape of unsung, unpublicized and often unknown heroes of Division-1 college hoops"--
11) Benchwarmers
Author
Series
Benchwarmers volume 1
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
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
Publisher
Little, Brown, and Co
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
xi, 322 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
An account of the dramatic competition between Rocco Mediate and Tiger Woods during the 2008 U.S. Open traces the events that led to a sudden-death showdown, evaluating the ways in which the golf world was changed by the five-day event.