Secondhand Sports Books

Here are Irish Rugby's most legendary, celebratory and brilliant moments fromthe 1940s to today.101 Great Irish Rugby Moments is a unique celebration of the sport's most significant moments. Featuring:* Munster's...

Since the legend of Cuchulainn, the Irish have always had a fascination with their sporting heroes, with their tales of derring-do, their habit of clinching victory from the jaws of...

Bursting with humour and full of amusing anecdotes, 100 Irish Rugby Greats is a unique celebration of the most significant stars of the sport from the 1930s to the present...

Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible is the first of a four-book series from world-renowned golf guru, Dave Pelz. This bestselling classic features the author's scientifically-proven secrets to lowering scores by...

Play Better Golf takes an innovative, holistic approach to improving your golf game. By focusing on all aspects the game - technical, mental, physical and competitive - as well as...

Peter Alliss has been entertaining huge TV audiences for the BBC and ABC in America for many years. In this new anecdotal but thoroughly practical book, Peter Alliss sets out...

Bill McLaren's career as a rugby commentator spanned 50 years and earned him enormous respect. He is therefore well placed to choose his all-time favourites from the world of rugby...

GOLF MY WAY is the one book that presents a complete, in-depth, A-to-Z explanation of how this greatest of champions thinks about and plays the game. Unlike his other books,...

Wonderful new addition to the Yellow Jersey Shorts series - an affecting memoir of one man's obsession with the arcane mysteries of the game of golf. Destined to become a...

31/10/1978 Thomond Park. One of the greatest days in rugby history, Munster beat the All Blacks. More than 100,000 people claimed to have watched the game, even though the ground...

Golfers bring more than their clubs to the course; they also bring doubt, fear and excitement - and a lot of hope. They are so intent on looking good that...

'A literary sports book, Preferred Lies would be playful, personal, lyrical, tongue in cheek, elegiac, meditative, a personal and cultural exploration.' Surely golf is a game for posh people, country...

Discover the story of Britain's ultimate cyclist and his ill-fated race during the 1967 Tour de France, from the bestselling author of Half Man Half BikeTom Simpson was an Olympic...

An anthology combining writing about golf with fictional descriptions of the game. Alongside accounts of the exploits of Bobby Jones, Jack Nicklaus, and Ian Woosnam are pieces by John Updike,...

Golf is in the details, and for anyone fascinated by the minutiae of the game, "A Disorderly Compendium of Golf" hits the pin. It's all here, including history: oldest courses,...

Did You Know... Who won 152-0 in 2002, the largest margin of victory in an international fixture? The stories behind rugby's best nicknames, like 'Suitcase', 'Raspberry' and 'The Fun Bus'?...

Golf has been considered a strange pastime, by players and non-players alike, ever since its birth in Scotland half a millennium ago. Since it became a worldwide obsession in the...

Do you remember John Giles and Eamon Dunphy when they lit up the pitch, and not just the TV studio? Or Jack's Army beating Italy in Giants Stadium? Or Siapan?...

In December 1956 Ronnie Delany sprinted home to win the gold medal in the 1500m Olympic final in Melbourne, setting a new Olympic record in the process. In the depressed...

Imagine being able to achieve the perfect mental state to make your best possible swing over every shot? Being fearless at critical putts and stepping up with an inner calm...

"Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose." Winston Churchill Whether it's the hacker...

In his thirties, married, and staring down impending fatherhood, Tom Coyne was well familiar with the last refuge of the adult male: the golfing trip. Intent on designing a golf...