The author attempts to answer the question, when did professional wrestling crossover from a legit sports competition to scripted matches and finishes? Shoemaker highlights the careers of the early pioneers such as Ed “Strangler” Lewis and Frank Gotch, and those from the Golden era – Gorgeous George and The Fabulous Moolah. During this period, wrestling […]
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Retired radio personality Stan Bunger chronicles his morning radio segments with the ever-colorful John Madden. Football fans will probably remember Madden as a color commentator on NFL games, or being the face of the Madden videogame, and additionally, the former Raiders coach also appeared on radio in San Francisco. Bunger has scoured the archives, and
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Pfizer’s corporate greed, dishonesty, and criminal behavior during the roll out of their controversial Covid-19 vaccine product is thoroughly exposed in The Pfizer Papers. The book proves that the pharmaceutical giant knew by November 2020 that their vaccine was neither safe nor effective, and that the US Food and Drug Administration was aware of the
The history of baseball umpires Larry R. Gerlach sets out to tell the story of the often-obscure figure of baseball umpire Bob Emslie. Today, Major League Baseball provides umpires with formal training and protection from unruly fans, players and managers. But as Gerlach points out, that wasn’t always the case. In fact, there was a
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Dominic Utton’s “Faces of Evil” attempts to answer the question so many ask regarding serial killers, why do the murder? Their motivations vary but appear to follow similar patterns. The distributing reality is that many enjoy controlling, torturing, violating, and ultimately killing unassuming individuals. This book explores well known serial killers, but also includes several
As stated in the book, this is not a Jimi Hendrix biography, as many have already been written. This is a fascinating trip into the mind one of the greatest guitar players of all time. Jonathan Stathakis shares his personal conversations with Hendrix, which chronicles the final year of Jimi’s life. Stathakis sheds light on
WWE hall of famer Madusa (Alundra Blayze) reveals much of personal and professional life in “The Woman Who Would Be King.” She explains why she calls the woman that gave birth to her Betty and not mother and exposes that the man she thought was her father sexually abused her as a child. The wrestling
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NCAA corruption, how ways to fix it “Schools for Scandal” isn’t the first book devoted to the monopoly created by the NCAA, but it is well researched and offers possible solutions to fix the many issues that face college football and basketball. The book has three goals, first, expose the corruption that plaques division one
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The evolution of the Macho Man Freak out, freak out! We finally have a biography for one of the greatest wrestlers of the squared circle, Randy “Macho Man” Savage. Jon Finkel traces the routes of the family lineage into the sport, starting with Savage’s tough man father, Angelo Poffo. Poffo, a Navy man, broke the
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Separating facts from fiction Robert Wheeler does a fantastic job of clearing up misconceptions and false reports filed on the world’s greatest athlete, Jim Thorpe. The author also brilliantly demonstrates how Thorpe was unfairly treated, which resulted in him being stripped of the gold metals he rightfully earned in the 1912 Olympics in Sweden. Clearly,
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