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Shaquille Oneal: A Biography
An updated and expanded portrait of the basketball superstar features behind-the-scenes information about his latest movie and commercial roles, chronicles his 1996-97 season with the Lakers, and includes black-and-white photographs. Original.
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1993
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About the author
Bill Gutman
244 books13 followersBill Gutman is the author of more than two hundred books for both children and adults in a writing career that has spanned some five decades. His first book was an adult-level biography of former basketball star Pistol Pete Maravich, and since then he has written children's and young adult biographies and profiles of many prominent sports stars such as Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Shaquille O'Neal, Ken Griffey, Jr., Bo Jackson, Brett Favre and many others.
Some of his adult books include a biography of former football coach Bill Parcells, Parcells: A Biograpy; When the Cheering Stops, interviews with some 25 former baseball players from the 1940s through the 1960s on life after baseball; Won For All: The Inside Story of the New England Patriots' Improbable Run to the Super Bowl, written with former linebacker and then Patriots assistant coach Pepper Johnson; Twice Around the Bases, written with former big league manager Kevin Kennedy; The Giants Win the Pennant! The Giants Win the Pennant! which was the story of the 1951 pennant race between the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers, written with home run hero Bobby Thomson; Miracle Year, Amazing Mets, Super Jets, the story of both New York teams winning championship in 1969; Being Extreme, interviews with 22 of the most daring, high risk athletes in the world of mountain climbing, BASE jumping, ski diving, big wave surfing rock climbing, extreme skiing and snowboarding. Of more recent vintage is What if the Babe Had Kept His Red Sox: And Other Fascinating Alternate Histories from the World of Sports, a book of What Ifs. His most recent sports book is a young adult biography of Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge called All Rise: The Aaron Judge Story.
Bill's current passion is The Mike Fargo Mysteries, a series of novels and novellas about a tough detective working in the New York City of the 1920. The novel, Murder on Murderer's Row is available as both an ebook and in paperback on Amazon, an ebook on other venues. The novellas, Death of a Flapper, Murder on Broadway, Seven Days to Murder and The Grab-A-Cab Murder are currently available as ebooks. A sixth book, Roaring Twenties Cop, Mike Fargo's Own Story is told in Fargo's words and serves to bring the lead character of the series to life, as he talks about his childhood on Staten Island, the reason he became a cop, the New York City of the 1920s and some of his cases. The book serves as an introduction to the series and is available for free on the Amazon, Barnes and Noble, iBooks, Kobo and Smashwords websites.
And hopefully there is much more to come.
Some of his adult books include a biography of former football coach Bill Parcells, Parcells: A Biograpy; When the Cheering Stops, interviews with some 25 former baseball players from the 1940s through the 1960s on life after baseball; Won For All: The Inside Story of the New England Patriots' Improbable Run to the Super Bowl, written with former linebacker and then Patriots assistant coach Pepper Johnson; Twice Around the Bases, written with former big league manager Kevin Kennedy; The Giants Win the Pennant! The Giants Win the Pennant! which was the story of the 1951 pennant race between the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers, written with home run hero Bobby Thomson; Miracle Year, Amazing Mets, Super Jets, the story of both New York teams winning championship in 1969; Being Extreme, interviews with 22 of the most daring, high risk athletes in the world of mountain climbing, BASE jumping, ski diving, big wave surfing rock climbing, extreme skiing and snowboarding. Of more recent vintage is What if the Babe Had Kept His Red Sox: And Other Fascinating Alternate Histories from the World of Sports, a book of What Ifs. His most recent sports book is a young adult biography of Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge called All Rise: The Aaron Judge Story.
Bill's current passion is The Mike Fargo Mysteries, a series of novels and novellas about a tough detective working in the New York City of the 1920. The novel, Murder on Murderer's Row is available as both an ebook and in paperback on Amazon, an ebook on other venues. The novellas, Death of a Flapper, Murder on Broadway, Seven Days to Murder and The Grab-A-Cab Murder are currently available as ebooks. A sixth book, Roaring Twenties Cop, Mike Fargo's Own Story is told in Fargo's words and serves to bring the lead character of the series to life, as he talks about his childhood on Staten Island, the reason he became a cop, the New York City of the 1920s and some of his cases. The book serves as an introduction to the series and is available for free on the Amazon, Barnes and Noble, iBooks, Kobo and Smashwords websites.
And hopefully there is much more to come.
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January 3, 2020
There are two different books titled: Shaquille O'Neal: A Biography. I believe this is the one I read, because the other was published in 2006.
I once had a website titled: Ma's Hoops. It was all about basketball, but I did include things about other sports. I had a lot of affiliates, a few stores, including My Zazzle where I created my own stamps, t-shirts & stuff. Of course, I got little or no traffic to the site, thus did not earn any money.
Ironically my best seller at My Zazzle was a Love the game postage stamp I made cropping a basket ball dropping into my parents' backyard net. People bought them long after I dissolved the website.
I am looking at a saved document from that website, finding sports books that did not make it to Good Reads (and a few that did.) I can only guess as to dates I actually read them. Although the dates may not be accurate, I posted many quotes from them at Ma's Hoops.
I once had a website titled: Ma's Hoops. It was all about basketball, but I did include things about other sports. I had a lot of affiliates, a few stores, including My Zazzle where I created my own stamps, t-shirts & stuff. Of course, I got little or no traffic to the site, thus did not earn any money.
Ironically my best seller at My Zazzle was a Love the game postage stamp I made cropping a basket ball dropping into my parents' backyard net. People bought them long after I dissolved the website.
I am looking at a saved document from that website, finding sports books that did not make it to Good Reads (and a few that did.) I can only guess as to dates I actually read them. Although the dates may not be accurate, I posted many quotes from them at Ma's Hoops.
Displaying 1 of 1 review