Books by Denny Dressman
Game Three
of a Rockies tripleheader
is a winner, too!
"...if he’d said he never pitched,
I wouldn’t have wanted to use him."
--Buddy Bell
"I thought, 'This is so damn easy.
I can't believe it's such a big deal.'"
"Then... Furcal came up."
--Brent Mayne
The game between the Rockies and Braves on August 22, 2000 would have been just game No. 126 of 162 if it hadn’t gone extra innings... if there hadn’t been an on-field brawl... if the Rockies hadn’t run out of pitchers... and if Brent Mayne hadn’t been injured the week before. Thanks to Adam Melhuse, it was historic.
Coors Field's inaugural
in 1995 was a classic
"The first may be the best forever..."
--Woody Paige
"It was like a full season in one game..."
--Dante Bichette
Go behind the scenes as the Colorado Rockies come to life in LoDo. Experience their early years--the expansion draft, the players strike and winning the first NL Wild Card--highlighted by Dante Bichette's game-winning homer in the 14th inning of the 20th and Blake opener.
“As spellbinding a book as I’ve ever read about a single baseball game, and that includes Frost’s Game Six,
Bradley’s The Greatest Game, and Barry’s Bottom of the 33rd. I never wanted Game 163, or Dressman’s re-creation of it, to end.”
“I covered ‘Game 163’ as a rookie Rockies TV reporter in 2007. Thanks to Denny’s work, now I really know the particulars of the game that I covered! A great read for all baseball fans!”
-John Erardi, author of
Tony Perez: From Cuba to Cooperstown
Tony Perez: From Cuba to Cooperstown
“I covered ‘Game 163’ as a rookie Rockies TV reporter in 2007. Thanks to Denny’s work, now I really know the particulars of the game that I covered! A great read for all baseball fans!”
-Marc Stout, AT&T Sportsnet RM
Colorado Rockies TV reporter
Colorado Rockies TV reporter
Like the epic battle it captures, Game 163 has that something extra. Reliving the excitement of that 13-inning game, author
Denny Dressman doesn’t dwell on whether or not Matt Holliday touched the plate. Rather, through interviews and scrupulous research,
he stitches together a memorable quilt of events and backstories that kicked off “Rocktober” with a 9-8 Rockies win and launched a run
that culminated with the team’s first trip to the World Series.
As a noted Thoroughbred trainer based in New York, John Parisella saddled at
least one winner every year for 48 years, racing at 38 tracks coast to coast. But that’s not what makes
From the Streets of Brooklyn to Trainer to the Stars such a compelling read.
Countless books and magazine articles have been written about the gross injustice of Japanese-American Internment during World War II,
and how hard and degrading life was in the camps. But relatively little has been published about what happened after the nightmare ended.
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The distinctive public art of David Griggs is on display from coast to coast, across Colorado and throughout Denver, his home--in airports, universities, public buildings and a variety of community sites.
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MORE THAN 16 million viewers saw the 1970 All- Star Game on national television, and more than 50,000 baseball fans watched in person at Riverfront Stadium. But a group of sports writers could only listen to a description of the most debated play in All- Star Game history...
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"...amazing stories of courage, honor and sheer luck are recorded in this extraordinarily valuable collection. A fitting and timeless memorial to their sacrifices, it is an assurance that their bravery will be remembered for many more generations..."
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Eddie Robinson "...he was the Martin Luther King of football" – Denny Dressman's biography of the historic black football coach who led tiny Grambling to 408 victories in 57 years and opened the National Football League to black athletes – is the recipient of two awards.
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Jay Leeuwenburg started more than 120 games and lined up against eventual Hall of Famers Reggie White and Lawrence Taylor and many other fearsome opponents during a nine-year career in the National Football League.
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There is no shortage of books about diabetes or books about fitness, and no scarcity of books that chronicle the accomplishments and life stories of athletes who have overcome obstacles to achieve stardom.
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