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Yogi: A Life Behind the Mask
Jon Pessah · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of Yogi Berra, the New York Yankees icon, winner of 10 World Series championships, and the most-quoted player in baseball history |
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The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball’s Afterlife Hardcover
Brad Balukjian · University of Nebraska Press
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
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Is there life after baseball? Starting from this simple question, The Wax Pack ends up with something much bigger and unexpected - a meditation on the loss of innocence and the gift of impermanence, for both Brad Balukjian and the former ballplayers he tracked down. To get a truly... |
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The Victory Machine: The Making and Unmaking of the Warriors Dynasty
Ethan Sherwood Strauss · PublicAffairs
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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From a top NBA reporter, a look at the fast-moving, deal-making, often brutal world that built an NBA dynasty--the Golden State Warriors--and now perhaps threatens to break it apart.
The Golden State Warriors are the envy of the modern NBA. Chasing their third consecutive championship,... |
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Why We Swim
Bonnie Tsui · Algonquin Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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"A gorgeous hybrid of a book. Bonnie Tsui combines fascinating reporting about some of the world's most remarkable swimmers with delightful meditations about what it means for us naked apes to leap in the water for no apparent reason. You won't regret diving in." --Carl Zimmer,... |
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Beast: The Top Secret Ilmor-penske Engine That Shocked the Racing World at the Indy 500
Jade Gurss · Octane Press
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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Beast was the nickname of a shocking new race engine unveiled for the 1994 Indianapolis 500. The massive effort to design and build it in a seemingly impossible timeframe is still hailed as one of the most herculean efforts and well-kept secrets in the history of the Indy 500. In the award-winning... |
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