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The Fall Line: How American Ski Racers Conquered a Sport on the Edge
Nathaniel Vinton · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A journey into the world's original extreme sport: downhill ski racing.Harnessing nature's most powerful forces, elite downhillers descend icy, rugged slopes at speeds cresting 90 miles per hour. For decades, American skiers struggled to match their European counterparts, and until... |
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The Total Bicycling Manual: 301 Tips for Two-Wheeled Fun
Robert F James · Weldon Owen
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
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Everything you need for enjoying the sport of cycling, from finding your perfect bike to customizing your ride without spending a fortune, learning to do your own repairs and maintenance, ride with confidence in traffic or on any road or trail, to participating in races, cyclocross, and other... |
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Masters of Modern Soccer: How the World's Best Play the Twenty-First-Century Game
ARCHETYPE. · Crown Archetype
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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In Masters of Modern Soccer, Sports Illustrated writer Grant Wahl asks: How do some of the game's smartest figures master the craft of soccer? By profiling players in every key position (American phenomenon Christian Pulisic, Mexican superstar Javier "Chicharito" Hernández,... |
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The Trout Tips: More than 250 fly-fishing tips from the members of Trout Unlimited
Kirk Deeter · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
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From the mighty rivers of the Pacific Northwest, to the rolling streams of New England, to the freestone streams of the Appalachians, to the frigid waters of Canada, fly fishing is a sport embraced by anglers from all corners of North America. And now from the members of the highly respected... |
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Play On: The New Science of Elite Performance at Any Age
Jeff Bercovici · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A lively, deeply reported tour of the science and strategies helping athletes like Tom Brady, Serena Williams, Carli Lloyd, and LeBron James redefine the notion of "peak age." Season after season, today's sports superstars seem to defy the limits of physical aging that inevitably... |
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The Captain Class: The Hidden Force That Creates the World's Greatest Teams
SAM WALKER · Random House
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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The founding editor of The Wall Street Journal's sports section profiles the greatest teams in history and identifies the counterintuitive leadership qualities of the unconventional men and women who drove them to succeed.The secret to winning is not what you think it is. It's not the coach.... |
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The Man I Never Met: A Memoir
ADAM SCHEFTER · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful true story of loss and hope by one of the biggest names in sports media.On September 11, 2001, Joe Maio went to work in the north tower of the World Trade Center. He never returned, leaving behind a wife, Sharri, and 15-month old son, Devon. Five years later, Sharri remarried,... |
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Game Change: The Life and Death of Steve Montador, and the Future of Hockey
Ken Dryden · Signal
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author and Hall of Famer Ken Dryden, this is the story of NHLer Steve Montador - who was diagnosed with CTE after his death in 2015 - the remarkable evolution of hockey itself, and a passionate prescriptive to counter its greatest risk in the future: head injuries.... |
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The Pride of the Yankees: The Movie that Defined the Legacy of Lou Gehrig
Richard Sandomir · Hachette Books
Pages: 293
Format: Hardcover
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"I CONSIDER MYSELF THE LUCKIEST MAN ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH."On July 4, 1939, baseball great Lou Gehrig delivered what has been called "baseball's Gettysburg Address" at Yankee Stadium and gave a speech that included the phrase that would become legendary. He died two years... |
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No barriers : a blind man's journey to kayak the Grand Canyon
Erik Weihenmayer · Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction
Format: Library Binding
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After Erik Weihenmayer became the first and only blind person to summit Mount Everest, his expedition leader slapped him on the back and said "Don't make Everest the greatest thing you ever do." No Barriers is the moving story of Erik's response to that challenge. |
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In Brightest Africa
Carl Ethan Akeley · Forgotten Books
Pages: 267
Format: Paperback
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Excerpt from In Brightest AfricaAkeley came twenty-seven years ago into the midst of this unequal contest between the ?esh and blood of the animal kingdom and the steel and lead of the sportsman, of the food and ivory hunter, and his sympathies were all on the animal side in the fight.... |
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The Total Fishing Manual
JOE CERMELE · Weldon Owen
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. |
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