Footy Dogs: The Dogs of Australian Rules Football (Craig McGill & Susan Elliott)

Footy Dogs: The Dogs of Australian Rules Football

Craig McGill & Susan Elliott

Blurb: Behind every great Aussie Rules player, you're likely to find that a good dog helped him succeed. Footy Dogs features over 100 players from all sixteen AFL teams and over 210 stunning photos of their loyal woofers. Along the way, the mutts and purebreds are interspersed with short essays by Ron Barassi, Trisha Broadbridge, Sam Kekovich, Michael Millett, Lynda Carroll, Diego Maradogga and many more.

Find out which player's dog wears pink nail polish, who peed on the photographer and discover the identity of the player who guzzled the church's altar wine.

Footy Dogs is a photographic journal of stunning photos and great yarns - created all for the love of dogs and footy.

ISBN: 0958085633 (Hardback)

Year: 2005

Publisher: A Giant Dog Book

Pages: 280 (Non-Fiction)

Links

1. Official website of the book

2. Buy from QBD

3. How to find AFL players and coaches

4. Wikipedia page for Aussie Rules

5. Review of the book

Stickmen Book of Rugby (Peter Vegas)

Stickmen Book of Rugby

Peter Vegas

Blurb: 100-plus hilarious drawings for rugby fans! Featuring drawings covering all aspects of rugby; commentators, fans, referees and of course players are all given the famous Stickmen treatment.

ISBN: 9781869796075 (Paperback)

Year: 2011

Publisher: Random House

Pages: 120 (Fiction)

Links

1. Buy from Dymocks

2. Extracts from the book

3. Buy from the Book Depository

4. Buy from Angus and Robertson

5. Wikipedia page for the sport of rugby

Sydney Swans - Premiers 2012 (Various)

Sydney Swans - Premiers 2012

Various

Blurb: Retrace every step of the Sydney Swans thrilling 2012 Grand Final victory over Hawthorn. Includes season stats and player by player performance for that big day in September.

ISBN: 9780987398000 (Paperback)

Year: 2012

Publisher: AFL Media

Pages: 98 (Non-Fiction)

Links

1. Stamp collection celebrating the victory

2. Buy the book from ebay

3. Wikipedia page for the Swans

4. Buy the book and other memorabilia from the Swans shop

5. Swans official site

Learning from Legends - AFL (Bruce McAvaney)

Learning from Legends - AFL

Interviews by Bruce McAvaney

Blurb: Following the success of Learning from Legends Sport, Business and Australian Cricket, the fourth in the series, Learning from Legends AFL, shifts its leadership focus to the country's biggest professional sport, Australian football, and delivers further insight into the thoughts, experiences and opinions of AFL Legends both past and present. 

Based on extensive interviews conducted by pre-eminent sports commentator Bruce McAvaney, Learning from Legends AFL explores leadership with nearly 50 of the game's greatest ambassadors. The Legends tell McAvaney about their earliest influences, the most inspiring leaders they have played for and with, their key leadership lessons and much more.

The leadership insights presented in Learning from Legends AFL will inspire, motivate and inform all who read it. Although the names are familiar, the insights are unique, and each Legend has contributed in the hope that others may learn from their experiences and triumphs. 

ISBN: 9781921486128 (Hardback)

Year: 2009

Publisher: Fairfax Books

Pages: 255 (Non-Fiction)

Links

1. Buy from QBD

2. Buy from Angus and Robertson

3. Wikipedia page for the author

4. An interview with the author

5. Learn more about the AFL