Allan Zullo Books in Order

Celebrated athletes become the subjects of stories about sporting mistakes, mishaps, and embarrassing performances. Moving across baseball, football, basketball, hockey, and golf, the collection explores how even accomplished competitors can find themselves remembered for spectacular blunders.

Players reveal the concealed tactics and clubhouse habits of major-league baseball. Accounts of deceptive fielding, altered equipment, stolen signs, and practical jokes explore how the game changes when seen through the people who play it.

Baseball's worst performances take center stage in this collection for young fans. Disastrous debuts, unsuccessful teams, ill-judged trades, and World Series failures reveal the less celebrated side of a sport usually measured by its finest achievements.

Major companies make costly mistakes in this collection of business failures and misguided decisions. Stories range from the Ford Edsel to a record label rejecting the Beatles, revealing the absurdity behind some memorable corporate misjudgments.

Football's famous players appear at their least composed in this collection of mistakes and embarrassing moments. From everyday preparations to the Super Bowl, the stories explore how the sport's biggest stages can produce its most memorable blunders.

Golf's serious reputation gives way to stories about its absurd and embarrassing side. Nash and Zullo collect incidents that turn the pursuit of a good round into an occasion for surprise, frustration, and laughter.

Professional football players recall their first experiences of the game and the difficulties they faced as beginners. Their stories connect childhood efforts with later careers, accompanied by collectible-style cards showing the players when they were boys.

Baseball records take an unconventional turn in this collection of unusual accomplishments and comic anecdotes. Instead of concentrating on familiar milestones, the book gathers odd achievements that reveal how strange the game's history can become.

Basketball's celebrated history gives way to disastrous play, bizarre fouls, questionable officiating, and ill-advised stunts. This collection gathers the game's wildest mistakes, showing how competition can produce comic embarrassment as readily as memorable athletic success.

Professional anglers and casual fishermen recount catches, accidents, cheating, and mishaps that turned fishing trips into embarrassing stories. Lost prizes, unexpected landings, and misguided decisions expose the comic uncertainty behind a pastime built around patience and skill.

Cats undertake remarkable journeys, survive dangerous situations, and sometimes come to the aid of others in these collected anecdotes. The stories explore unusual feline abilities and the events that brought particular animals attention and fame.

Thirty-four accounts from the sporting world explore extraordinary determination and unexpected good fortune. Moving beyond familiar scores and results, the collection focuses on the surprising circumstances that can shape an athlete's experience or change a contest.

Actors and actresses encounter embarrassment in this collection of show-business anecdotes. The stories turn attention from polished performances and public images toward awkward incidents and comic mistakes, revealing the less glamorous side of entertainment history.

Forty unusual pop records receive a closer look through lyrics, chart information, and the stories behind their performers. Bruce Nash and Allan Zullo explore novelty hits and musical oddities, including the horror-inspired success of Monster Mash.

Bowling's unusual records, colorful personalities, and comic mishaps fill this collection drawn from a museum's archives. The stories explore the surprises behind a familiar pastime, from memorable achievements to moments competitors might prefer to forget.

Children describe experiences they interpret as mind reading, predictions, invisible presences, and communication without words. These collected cases explore claims of unusual perception, presenting the unsettling events that led young people to believe they possessed psychic abilities.

Country music stars offer observations and advice in a collection of memorable quotations. Their remarks turn everyday troubles and relationships into occasions for humor, giving readers a view of the personalities behind familiar songs and performances.

Players, collectors, and team officials explain how fans can approach baseball stars for autographs. Advice on timing, etiquette, materials, and preserving signatures accompanies stadium guides and personal stories about the encounters that make collecting memorable.

Young people describe encounters with strange lights, unidentified craft, and unexplained gaps in memory. Drawing on reported cases, these accounts follow children and teenagers whose experiences raise questions about what they saw and what happened afterward.

Stories about Elvis Presley explore his romances, appetites, military service, movies, and music. The collection combines biographical anecdotes with humor, looking beyond his public performances toward the personal habits and experiences that helped shape his reputation.

Professional golfers, amateurs, and entertainers reflect on the game's frustrations and pleasures through humorous quotations. Their remarks capture the gap between golfing ambition and actual performance, finding comedy in a pastime its players often take intensely seriously.

Nine stories explore reported encounters with animal ghosts. Familiar creatures become unsettling presences in accounts that invite readers to consider how an ordinary relationship with animals might change when the animals themselves appear to return after death.

This collection gathers humorous and reflective quotations about lawyers and the legal profession. Edited by Bruce Nash and Allan Zullo, it offers brief observations that invite readers to consider the practice of law through wit and commentary.

Life on the professional golf tour comes into focus through behind-the-scenes anecdotes. The book explores pressure over decisive putts, intimidating competitors, and volatile tempers, revealing the personal tensions that accompany the pursuit of tournament success.

Children recount encounters with ghostly figures, haunted buildings, and an apparently sinister desk. These stories follow young witnesses trying to make sense of disturbing experiences that transform familiar surroundings into places of fear and uncertainty.

Eight ghost stories place campers in the path of unsettling apparitions and unexplained presences. Outdoor trips become encounters with the uncanny as the people involved discover that familiar camping experiences can take a frightening turn.

Nine ghost stories turn school settings into places of supernatural unease. Reports of phantoms and other haunting presences challenge the familiarity of classrooms and school buildings, giving ordinary educational surroundings an unexpected and disturbing dimension.

Seven stories explore ghostly presences connected with school life. Centered on hauntings in educational settings, the collection gives familiar surroundings a disturbing atmosphere as encounters with phantoms interrupt the routines people expect to find there.

An abandoned ship, mysterious disappearances, and reports of unknown creatures introduce a collection of unresolved puzzles. Accounts of the Mary Celeste, Bermuda Triangle, and Bigfoot invite readers to explore the stories surrounding events that resist straightforward explanation.

Doctors, nurses, and patients contribute stories about the unexpected humor of medical encounters. The collection moves through situations in which illness, treatment, and ordinary human behavior produce moments of confusion, surprise, and comic absurdity.

Ten stories drawn from ghost hunters' case files describe alleged hauntings in settings ranging from caves to city apartments. The accounts explore how ordinary places become associated with unsettling presences and events their witnesses cannot readily explain.

Unusual episodes from American history reveal surprising rules, unlikely public servants, and presidential oddities. The collection approaches the past through eccentric anecdotes, inviting young readers to discover how strange everyday customs and official decisions could become.

Ten American locations become the focus of accounts involving unexplained lights, reported hauntings, and alleged UFO sightings. Drawing on paranormal investigators’ case files, these stories explore encounters that witnesses and investigators struggle to explain.

Pregnancy brings surprises for parents, relatives, and medical staff in these collected anecdotes. Stories about unexpected deliveries, journeys to the hospital, family reactions, and newborns explore the comic uncertainty surrounding preparations for a baby's arrival.

Eight ghost stories bring supernatural encounters onto playing fields and basketball courts. Athletes face unsettling presences associated with baseball, football, soccer, and basketball, turning places usually defined by competition into settings for fear and mystery.

Baby-sitters encounter inexplicable music, disturbing messages, moving beds, and frightening apparitions in eight ghost stories. Routine responsibilities become unnerving experiences as familiar homes reveal phenomena that the young people caring for children cannot easily explain.

Profiles of late bloomers examine how people achieved distinction after forty in business, the arts, and public life. Figures including Abraham Lincoln and Mother Teresa challenge the assumption that meaningful accomplishment belongs only to the young.

Reports of mysterious American creatures introduce figures such as Mothman, Bigfoot, the Jersey Devil, and Lake Champlain's monster. The collection explores alleged sightings and the unsettling stories surrounding animals whose existence remains uncertain to their observers.

Animals come to children's aid in accounts of unexpected courage and lifesaving loyalty. A dog facing a house fire and a cat confronting an intruder show how familiar pets can become protectors when danger strikes.

Strange events take center stage in a collection of accounts presented as true despite their improbable details. These tales invite young readers to consider the surprising experiences that can make everyday reality seem as unlikely as fiction.

Even celebrated golfers suffer disastrous rounds and embarrassing mistakes. Accounts involving Arnold Palmer, Greg Norman, Tiger Woods, and other professionals revisit collapses and mishaps that reveal how quickly championship skill can give way to ordinary frustration.

Golf's long history supplies improbable achievements, unusual equipment, and unexpected interruptions. From extraordinary holes in one to troublesome birds and wayward drives, these accounts explore the accidents and oddities that surround a seemingly orderly sport.

Firefighters confront danger in airports, forests, harbors, and city streets in more than two dozen rescue accounts. Stories including the World Trade Center attacks follow the decisions and risks behind work that often goes unrecognized.

Ordinary people endure extraordinary threats in accounts of narrow escapes from death. A police officer caught in the World Trade Center collapses and a man stranded without desert water face situations that test their ability to survive.

Airline crews and passengers turn routine journeys into unexpected comedy through mistakes, quick thinking, and startling encounters. These air travel anecdotes range from unconventional food deliveries to a flight engineer's alarming exit from a moving aircraft.

Unusual records, celebrity obsessions, and improbable shots reveal golf's stranger corners. Accounts involving long drivers, Will Smith, Tiger Woods, and Phil Mickelson bring together remarkable sporting feats and curious details from life around the course.

Unlikely achievements, embarrassing mishaps, and unusual records reveal golf's stranger side. Bruce Nash and Allan Zullo collect true anecdotes involving touring professionals and celebrity players, with appearances by figures such as Lee Trevino and Jack Nicklaus.

Criminal plans collapse through foolish mistakes in a collection of reported burglaries and other blunders. The accounts follow would-be crooks whose own decisions turn attempts at wrongdoing into examples of unintended, often ridiculous failure.

Baby boomer grandparents navigate changing family roles with guidance from experts and fellow grandparents. Advice addresses relationships with adult children, modern childcare, technology, blended families, and ways to build satisfying connections with a new generation.

Freshwater and saltwater anglers encounter improbable catches, unusual techniques, and remarkable accidents. These accounts follow professionals and amateurs through fishing mishaps and unexpected rescues, showing how a day on the water can become an extraordinary story.

Nine Jewish children face Nazi persecution as war engulfs Europe. Their accounts follow dangerous escapes, concealed identities, and devastating losses, tracing the courage and hope that helped them endure the Holocaust and preserve their lives.

Dogs become rescuers, companions, and unlikely heroes in accounts of courage and unexpected behavior. These canine stories explore the intelligence, loyalty, and eccentricity that allow animals of different breeds and sizes to transform human lives.

Nearly two hundred bird accounts explore surprising intelligence, mischief, and unusual accomplishments. A butterfly-stealing mockingbird, a chicken helping vulnerable people, and a noisy parrot reveal the remarkable behaviors of creatures often dismissed as simple birdbrains.

Ordinary teenagers risk their lives to protect Jews during the Holocaust. Based on interviews with the rescuers, these accounts trace acts of concealment, resourcefulness, and courage by young people confronting persecution without weapons or official power.

More than 150 accounts follow cats through unlikely journeys, escapes, and acts of courage. From accidental shipping to long walks home and confrontations with intruders, these stories explore the independence and unpredictability of familiar feline companions.

Actors, politicians, writers, athletes, and other men offer observations ranging from practical wisdom to irreverent humor. This collection brings together quotations about life and human behavior, highlighting the wit and contradictions behind confident declarations.

Dogs rescue people, survive extraordinary dangers, and form unusual bonds in more than 150 accounts. Stories of a tsunami rescue, an alligator encounter, and a canine guide for another dog explore loyalty expressed through unexpected actions.

Young people confront dangerous wild animals in accounts of desperate survival. Encounters with sharks, cougars, bears, and other creatures follow sudden attacks and the split-second struggles that can determine whether a child escapes alive.

Men, women, and children take extraordinary risks to help others in 260 accounts of everyday heroism. Stories and accompanying quotations explore the courage and compassion behind choices that place another person's welfare ahead of personal safety.

Young people risk their safety to rescue others from fires, floods, and mountain disasters. These ten accounts follow children and teenagers making difficult choices under extreme pressure, including a babysitter returning repeatedly to a burning house.

Teenage spies adopt false identities, cross enemy lines, and carry secret messages from the American Revolution through the Korean War. Ten accounts explore the danger and deception faced by young people gathering information for their countries.

Ten young people sail alongside notorious pirates, some by choice and others against their will. Their accounts follow battles, shipwrecks, and escape attempts in a violent maritime world shaped by figures including Blackbeard and Captain Kidd.

Investigators use forensic evidence to pursue killers and identify a bomber threatening a community. These true accounts follow the careful interpretation of seemingly small clues, revealing how scientific techniques can turn uncertainty into progress toward justice.

More than a hundred golfing anecdotes revisit mishaps from early fairways to modern professional tours. Errant balls, lost equipment, and unconventional shots reveal the comic side of a sport whose frustrations reach amateurs and champions alike.

Children encounter unexplained presences and disturbing supernatural events in twelve tales drawn partly from reported cases. Familiar places become unsettling as young people face experiences that resist ordinary explanation and challenge their sense of safety.

Teenagers serve their countries in wartime in accounts spanning the American Revolution through the Korean War. Their experiences explore the courage, danger, and difficult responsibilities faced by young people drawn into conflicts larger than themselves.

Southern expressions turn everyday observations into colorful comparisons and jokes. This collection explores country sayings about pride, surprise, mistakes, and human behavior, preserving the humor and practical wisdom embedded in the region's distinctive speech.

Jewish children struggle to survive Nazi persecution through concealed identities, resistance, and help from others. Accounts including Halina Litman's follow young people confronting mortal danger while drawing on resourcefulness, kindness, and the hope of escape.

American service members in Iraq face fierce attacks, overwhelming odds, and urgent rescue decisions. Ten accounts follow soldiers and Marines who risk their lives for comrades, including repeated rescues under fire and a desperate fight against insurgents.

More than a hundred accounts follow criminals whose own mistakes thwart their plans. From getting trapped in wet cement to fleeing into a prison parking lot, their failed schemes reveal how carelessness can undo an escape.

Wild and domestic animals cause unlikely trouble in this collection of true accounts. A shoplifting seagull, a carjacking dog, and other unruly creatures disrupt human routines through behavior that ranges from mischievous to unexpectedly destructive.

American troops in Afghanistan face ambushes, perilous rescue missions, and threats from determined enemies. Accounts follow Marines fighting to escape a village and a medic attempting a nighttime rescue, revealing the pressures of service in combat.

Country sayings, jokes, poems, and song titles explore romance from first attraction to heartbreak. Their vivid comparisons capture affection, marriage, disappointment, and revenge, showing how rural humor gives memorable expression to complicated matters of the heart.

Animals face predators, confinement, and other deadly threats in accounts of remarkable survival. A dachshund seized by an eagle, escaping pigs, and a trapped cat reveal the persistence and instinct that can carry vulnerable creatures through danger.

Seven stories draw on reported encounters between children, UFOs, and alleged extraterrestrial visitors. Accounts of frightening disappearances and apparently friendly contact explore experiences recorded by investigators, leaving readers to weigh the strange events for themselves.

Dogs, cats, birds, and other pets transform the holiday season through mischief, companionship, and unexpected kindness. Stories inspired by real events include an abandoned rabbit whose arrival answers a sick child’s Christmas wish.

Classic baseball blunders meet newer episodes of player misbehavior in a collection spanning more than two hundred stories. Strange superstitions, clubhouse pranks, ill-conceived promotions, and fielding disasters reveal the game's enduring capacity for unintended comedy.

Ten young passengers face impossible choices as the Titanic sinks into the Atlantic. Their accounts follow separation from family, desperate searches for lifeboats, and the struggle to survive a disaster that overturns lives across social classes.

Jewish teenagers escape Nazi control and join partisan resistance groups during the Holocaust. Based on interviews with former fighters, these accounts follow sabotage, attacks, and survival under overwhelming odds as young people choose to fight back.

Misbehaving pets become unexpected helpers during the Christmas season. Accounts of a troublesome dog, a mischievous monkey, and a rambunctious pig follow animals whose antics lead to family reunions, comfort during illness, and lifesaving intervention.

Pets create trouble through unpredictable behavior in a collection of humorous animal accounts. These stories follow misbehaving companions whose antics disrupt human expectations, offering young readers a look at the comic side of life with animals.

FBI agents investigate poisoned letters, a planned bombing, and the kidnapping of a mother and her children. Ten accounts follow their efforts to untangle dangerous crimes, protect lives, and identify the people responsible before further harm occurs.

Soldiers, pilots, and sailors confront deadly attacks, captivity, and discrimination during World War I. Accounts of Alvin York, Edouard Izac, and the Eighth Illinois explore courage expressed through combat, escape, and service despite racial injustice.

Young African Americans confront racist violence while demanding civil rights through peaceful protest. Ten accounts follow teenagers facing armed mobs and powerful fire hoses, revealing the personal risks behind their participation in the struggle for equality.

Neighbors, rescuers, and medical workers risk their lives as Hurricane Katrina devastates New Orleans. Ten accounts follow improvised boat rescues, dangerous helicopter missions, and hospital staff struggling to keep patients alive amid flooding and power failures.

American soldiers and rescue pilots confront ambushes, overwhelming enemy forces, and dangerous evacuation missions in Vietnam. Ten accounts follow acts of courage under fire, including a platoon's desperate resistance and a pilot's attempt to reach wounded men.

Ten World War II accounts follow service members facing grenades, enemy fire, and catastrophic injuries. From Iwo Jima to the Normandy invasion and air combat, these stories explore urgent choices made to protect comrades and survive.

Sailors, commanders, and civilian workers respond to the sudden attack on Pearl Harbor. Accounts of burning ships, trapped crews, and resistance under fire reveal efforts to save lives as the United States is drawn into war.

Halloween becomes stranger when animals join the festivities in unexpected ways. A ghostly cat disturbs a party and an owl pursues a trick-or-treater in stories that bring animal antics into the holiday's spooky atmosphere.

Ten Jewish children endure Nazi persecution and the horrors of the Holocaust. Their survival accounts explore the roles of persistence, courage, and chance, preserving individual experiences of young people whose lives were threatened by systematic hatred.

Young refugees leave danger behind in search of safety and freedom. These true accounts follow children willing to risk their lives for a more secure future, exploring the courage demanded by journeys away from their homes.

This guide presents Dee Matthews's diet program for preteens and teenagers, combining recipes with advice about eating habits. It explains the program's approach to planning meals and maintaining a balanced diet for its intended young audience.