Fifty Places to Sail Before You Die
Sailing Experts Share the World's Greatest Destinations
 

by Chris Santella
ISBN: 9781584795674
$24.95 Hardcover
Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

Landlubbers joke that sailors always want to head off to the ends of the earth, but Chris Santella takes that life-changing desire very seriously. In this, the third installment in his immensely successful Fifty Places series, Santella assembles a crew of the world's greatest championship racers and professional adventurers and persuades them to disclose their favorite destinations around the globe. Coastlines around the world--even Antarctica and the Arctic--are represented, and the chosen spots include some spectacular inland waters.

Bear's Boys is a collection of inspiring stories featuring 40 men whose lives were altered by their encounter with the legendary coach while they were players and coaches at Alabama. The stories show how the Coach forever changed them as young men and ball players on the field and later in life after football.

Includes stories for such men as Gene Stallings, Bob Baumhower, Dwight Stephenson, Joe Namath, Ken Stabler, Johnny Musso, Barry Krauss, Marty Lyons, John Mitchell, John Croyle, Jerry Duncan, Leroy Jordan, Ozzie Newsome, Billy Neighbors, Cornelius Bennett, John Hannah, Mal Moore, Joey Jones, Terry Jones, Tony Nathan, Wilbur Jackson, Don McNeal, Ray Perkins, Bill Battle, Sylvester Croom, plus more.

Eli Gold is best known as The Voice of the University of Alabama's Crimson Tide, where he has provided the exciting play-by-play for radio for twenty years. In addition to his Bama duties, this Brooklyn-born, longtime Birmingham resident also hosts NASCAR Live, a weekly, nationally syndicated radio call-in show. Gold is considered one of the most versatile broadcasters in sports having done call-in programs and play-by-play for arena football, NFL, professional baseball, and NHL on radio and television. His many honors include four Alabama Sportscaster of the Year awards.

Gold is also the author of Crimson Nation: The Shaping of the South's Most Dominant Football Team.

Shorty: A Life in Sports, by David H. White, is the story of Alabama high school football coaching legend George “Shorty” White.

Perhaps the best known high school coach in the state, he led Birmingham’s Banks High School Jets from 1961 until 1974, winning three state titles before moving on to the University of Alabama to coach under Paul “Bear” Bryant.

Shorty White was coaching at Bama when the Crimson Tide won national football championships in 1978 and 1979.