Fever Pitch Each chapter is about a football match that he remembers watching, most but not all at Arsenal Stadium, Highbury, and how it related to the events that were going on with his life. As well as recounting Arsenal's highs and lows, Hornby talks about other football clubs that played in London. "Fever Pitch" sold over a million copies in the United Kingdom. It won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 1992 and was reprinted with a new cover and made available as part of the 2005–06 Arsenal F.C. membership pack as part of the "Final Salute" to
D. Brock Hornby Ernest Gellhorn) 60 Virginia Law Review 975 (1974). Hornby is married to Helaine Cora (Mandel) Hornby, a management consultant in human services. They have two children and five grandchildren. D. Brock Hornby David Brock Hornby (born April 21, 1944) is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maine. Hornby was born in 1944 in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, and was raised there and in London, Ontario. Hornby received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Western Ontario in 1965. From 1965-66, he was enrolled in the Near Eastern Languages and