Lipsyte, Robert

Mike lives for baseball and hopes to follow his idol into the major leagues one day, but he is distracted by a new player who might take his place in center field, an ankle injury, problems at home, and a growing awareness that something sinister is happening at school.

When seventeen-year-old Kyle reluctantly succumbs to family pressure and replaces his injured brother in the family racecar, he struggles to keep up with his trumpet playing while deciding how--or if--he can continue making music with a brass quintet and headlines as a Nascar racer.

Matt Rydeck, co-captain of his high school football team, endures a traumatic season as he witnesses the rape of a rookie player by teammates and grapples with his own use of performance-enhancing drugs.

A teen-age boy has to deal with an unwanted summer camp job, his first love and some crucial decisions.

When Bobby Marks takes a summer job in a laundry, he gets more than he bargains for: prejudice, unrequited love, and other hazards.

Robert Lipsyte chronicles his career as a sportswriter, explaining how he became a sports columnist for the "New York Times" despite the fact that he was never a jock and spent most of his childhood and teen years avoiding what he called the Jock Culture.

A sportswriter discusses some of the various sports events he has covered and includes interviews with several athletes that attempt to reveal the private person behind the public image.

A social history of American sport, told through profiles of sixteen of the twentieth century's most famous athletes, studying the increasing trend toward commercialism in sports, and looking at the changing attitudes toward African-Americans, women, and other minorities.

Feeling the pressures of Harlem life and its drug problems, police, and street fights, a seventeen-year-old high school drop-out turns to boxing.

Native American boxer of the Moscondaga Nation, Sonny Bear must fight to retain his heavyweight championship title.