ESPN Books

ESPN Books

Parent company	ESPN
Founded	2004
Country of origin	United States
Distribution	Ballantine Books
Nonfiction topics	Sports
Owner(s)	The Walt Disney Company (80%) Hearst Corporation (20%)
Official website	espnbooks.com

ESPN Books is a publishing company operated by ESPN Started in 2004, ESPN Books has published almost 20 books. ESPN Books also is in charge of producing ESPN's yearly sports encyclopedia. It also controls its own book club and in addition it ranks the top selling sports books in ESPN Borders. Since 2008, it has co-published its books with Ballantine Books.

Authors that have written books for ESPN Books include, Bill Simmons, Peter Keating and Ralph Wiley.

Books published by ESPN Books

2007 ESPN Sports Almanac, Mike Morrison and Gerry Brown
23 Ways To Get To First Base, Gary Belsky and Neil Fine
After Jackie, Cal Fussman
Ali Rap, George Lois
The Best Hand I Ever Played, Steve Rosenbloom
Classic Wiley, Ralph Wiley
The Dale Earnhardt Story, Introduction by Kenny Mayne
Dingers!, Peter Keating
ESPN Baseball Sudoku, no author
ESPN College Football Encyclopedia, Michael MacCambridge
Man in the Middle, John Amaechi
Meat Market: Inside the Smash-Mouth World of College Football Recruiting, Bruce Feldman
The New Gold Standard, Tim Prister
Now I Can Die In Peace, Bill Simmons
Online Ace, Scott Fischman
Parting Shots From The World of Sports, Steve Wulf
Rules of the Red Rubber Ball, Kevin Carroll
The Sixth Man, Chris Palmer
The Ultimate Highlight Reel, no author

External links

ESPN Books official website

Disney–ABC Television Group

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Other broadcasting	Disney TV Disney–ABC Domestic TV ABC Radio ABC Stations Live Well Network ABC News

Disney Channels Worldwide	Disney Channel Cinemagic/Movies/Cinema Disney Junior Disney XD Hungama Radio Disney Production Disney TV Animation It's a Laugh Productions

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International TV	Germany Super RTL^JV RTL II^JV Disney Media Distribution TV blocks

Predecessor companies	NBC American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres/American Broadcasting Companies Capital Cities/ABC

Parent Disney Media Networks Other Disney Media Networks unit ESPN (80%) JV Joint ventures

ESPN Inc.

Executives

U.S. networks

Linear TV	ESPN ESPN2 ESPNews Classic ESPNU Deportes Longhorn Network SEC Network

Part-time/Digital	ACC Network Extra ESPN on ABC ESPN3 College Extra Plus Goal Line

Radio	ESPN Radio Deportes Xtra

International

Brasil
- ESPN
- ESPN Brasil
- ESPN +
Caribbean
- ESPN
- ESPN 2
Indian subcontinent
- Sony ESPN
Japan
- J Sports
Latin America
- ESPN
- ESPN 2
- ESPN 3
- ESPN +
Oceania
- ESPN
- ESPN 2
UK
- BT Sport ESPN

Co-owned Canadian
sports networks

Ventures

Defunct ventures

ESPN West
Arena Football League (minority stake, 2006–2009)
ESPN Star Sports (equity stake, 1994–2013)
ESPN 3D (2010–2013)
ESPN America (2002–2013)
ESPN Classic (UK) (2006–2013)
ESPN MVP (2005–2006)
Grantland (2011–2015)
ESPN GamePlan (1992–2015)
ESPN Full Court (2007–2015)
ESPN PPV (1999–2015)

Sports broadcasting rights

Other properties

Notable personalities

Miscellaneous

Owners: Disney Media Networks 80% Hearst Corporation 20%

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