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The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits
TOMMY CALDWELL · Viking
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A dramatic, inspiring memoir by legendary rock climber Tommy Caldwell, the first person to free climb the Dawn Wall of Yosemite s El CapitanOn January 14, 2015, Tommy Caldwell, along with his partner, Kevin Jorgeson, summited what is widely regarded as the hardest climb in history Yosemite... |
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Head in the Game: The Mental Engineering of the World's Greatest Athletes
Brandon Sneed · Dey Street Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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An intriguing blend of science and sports that explores how some of the worlds greatest athletes are utilizing the last frontier of performance-enhancing technology the mental mapping and engineering of their own brains for peak performance, and what it means for the future of athleticism,... |
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The Perfect Pass: American Genius and the Reinvention of Football
S C Gwynne · Scribner
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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New York Times bestselling, award-winning historian S.C. Gwynne tells the incredible story of how Hal Mumme and Mike Leach - two unknown coaches who revolutionized American football in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s - changed the way the game is played at every level, from high school to the NFL.Hal... |
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Game Changers: The Unsung Heroines of Sports History
Molly Schiot · Simon and Schuster
Pages: 309
Format: Print book
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"A thoughtful, exhaustively researched, and long-overdue tribute to the women who have paved the way for the likes of Serena Williams, Abby Wambach, Simone Biles, and more." - espnW "A stirring tribute to the record setters, barrier breakers, and milestone makers who opened... |
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A Life Well Played: My Stories
Arnold Palmer · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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The instant New York Times bestsellerThis book is Palmer's parting gift to the world -- a treasure trove of entertaining anecdotes and timeless wisdom that readers, golfers and non-golfers alike, will celebrate and cherish. No one has won more fans around the world and no player has had a bigger... |
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Drama in the Bahamas: Muhammad Ali's Last Fight
Dave Hannigan · Sports Publishing
Pages: 216
Format: Print book
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On December 11, 1981, Muhammad Ali slumped on a chair in the cramped, windowless locker room of a municipal baseball field outside Nassau. A phalanx of sportswriters had pushed and shoved their way into this tiny, breeze-blocked space. In this most unlikely of settings, they had come to record... |
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Against Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto
Steve Almond · Melville House; 1st Edition, 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Best SellerPowerful...an important read. —Publishers WeeklyNew York Times bestselling author Steve Almond takes on Americas biggest sacred cow footballIn Against Football, Steve Almond details why, after forty years as a fan, he can no longer watch the game he still loves.... |
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Lift: Fitness Culture, From Naked Greeks and Acrobats to Jazzercise and Ninja Warriors
Daniel Kunitz · Harper Wave
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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A riveting cultural history of fitness, from Greek antiquity to the era of the "big-box gym" and beyond, exploring the ways in which human exercise and physical ideals have changed over time - and what we can learn from our past. How did treadmills and weight machines become the gold... |
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Thursday Night Lights: The Story of Black High School Football in Texas
Michael Hurd · University of Texas Press
Pages: 260
Format: Hardcover
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At a time when "Friday night lights" shone only on white high school football games, African American teams across Texas burned up the gridiron on Wednesday and Thursday nights. The segregated high schools in the Prairie View Interscholastic League (the African American counterpart... |
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Bones: Brothers, Horses, Cartels, and the Borderland Dream
JOE TONE · One World
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic true story of two brothers living parallel lives on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border - and how their lives converged in a major criminal conspiracy José and Miguel Treviño were bonded by blood and a shared vision of a better life. But they chose different paths that... |
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Continental Divide: A History of American Mountaineering
Maurice Isserman · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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This magesterial and thrilling history argues that the story of American mountaineering is the story of America itself.In Continental Divide, Maurice Isserman tells the history of American mountaineering through four centuries of landmark climbs and first ascents. Mountains were originally... |
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