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Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak
Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak

Andy Hall · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 252
Format: Hardcover

Denali's Howl is the white-knuckle account of one of the most deadly climbing disasters of all time.In 1967, twelve young men attempted to climb Alaska's Mount McKinley - known to the locals as Denali - one of the most popular and deadly mountaineering destinations in the world....
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Pudge: The Biography of Carlton Fisk
Pudge: The Biography of Carlton Fisk

Doug Wilson · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Carlton Fisk retired having played in more games and hit more home runs than any other catcher before him. A baseball superstar in the 1970s and 80s, Fisk was known not just for his dedication to the sport and tremendous plays but for the respect with which he treated the game.A homegrown...
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American Pharoah: The Untold Story of the Triple Crown Winner's Legendary Rise
American Pharoah: The Untold Story of the Triple Crown Winner's Legendary Rise

Joe Drape · Hachette Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

History was made at the 2015 Belmont Stakes when American Pharoah won the Triple Crown, the first since Affirmed in 1978. As magnificent as the champion is, the team behind him has been all too human while on the road to immortality.Written by an award-winning New York Times sportswriter,...
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MMA Now!: The Stars and Stories of Mixed Martial Arts
MMA Now!: The Stars and Stories of Mixed Martial Arts

Brian Sobie · Firefly Books
Format: Paperback

Pound for pound, the most revealing book on the sport today. Mixed Martial Arts MMA is one of the fastest-growing sports in the world. Its origins hail from ancient Greece and the combat sport Pankration. Today MMA is a multi-million-dollar industry, led by the Ultimate Fighting Championship...
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Forward: A Memoir
Forward: A Memoir

Abby Wambach · Dey Street Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

"This is the best memoir I've read by an athlete since Andre Agassi's Open, but it is much more than a book about sports. It's a candid, moving account of the thrills and toils of achieving greatness - and then sustaining it. I could not put it down, and you will not want it to end."...
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Fields of Battle: Pearl Harbor, the Rose Bowl, and the Boys Who Went to War
Fields of Battle: Pearl Harbor, the Rose Bowl, and the Boys Who Went to War

Brian Curtis · Flatiron Books
Pages: 308
Format: Print book

In the wake of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the 1942 Rose Bowl was moved from Pasadena to Durham, North Carolina, out of fear of Japanese attacks on the West Coast. It remains the only Rose Bowl game to ever be played outside of Pasadena. Duke University, led by legendary coach Wallace...
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Yes!: My Improbable Journey to the Main Event of WrestleMania
Yes!: My Improbable Journey to the Main Event of WrestleMania

Daniel Bryan · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

One of the most popular WWE champions tells his behind-the-scenes story for the first time.Daniel Bryan has whipped the WWE universe into a frenzy. In 2014, as the biggest week of his life unfolds, Aberdeen, Washington's bearded son reflects in full detail on his incredible path to the top and gives...
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Continental Divide: A History of American Mountaineering
Continental Divide: A History of American Mountaineering

Maurice Isserman · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

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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American Endurance: Buffalo Bill, the Great Cowboy Race of 1893, and the Vanishing Wild West
American Endurance: Buffalo Bill, the Great Cowboy Race of 1893, and the Vanishing Wild West

Richard A Serrano · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Richard A. Serrano's new book American Endurance: The Great Cowboy Race and the Vanishing Wild West is history, mystery, and Western all rolled into one. In June 1893, nine cowboys raced across a thousand miles of American prairie to the Chicago...
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A History of Women's Boxing
A History of Women's Boxing

Malissa Smith · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Records of modern female boxing date back to the early eighteenth century in London, and in the 1904 Olympics an exhibition bout between women was held. Yet it was not until the 2012 Olympics—more than 100 years later—that women’s boxing was officially added to the Games....
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Relentless Spirit: The Unconventional Raising of a Champion
Relentless Spirit: The Unconventional Raising of a Champion

Missy Franklin · Dutton
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

What does it take to become a champion? Gold medalist Missy Franklin, along with her parents, D.A. and Dick, tell the inspirational and heartwarming story of how Missy became both a legendary athlete and a happy and confident woman, something they accomplished by doing things their own way and making...
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Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
Girl in the Woods: A Memoir

Aspen Matis · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

Girl in the Woods is Aspen Matis's exhilarating true-life adventure of hiking from Mexico to Canada - a coming of age story, a survival story, and a triumphant story of overcoming emotional devastation. On her second night of college, Aspen was raped by a fellow student. Overprotected...
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Bigger Than the Game: Restitching a Major League Life
Bigger Than the Game: Restitching a Major League Life

Dirk Hayhurst · Citadel
Format: Paperback

Old demons together with new enemies and a season ending-- possibly career ending-- injury look to knock Hayhurst out of baseball forever.  Isolated from his family, broken, and branded a traitor by his teammates for writing inside the locker room, Hayhurst finds himself at a crossroads:...
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Sports Illustrated Baseball's Greatest
Sports Illustrated Baseball's Greatest

Editors of Sports Illustrated · Sports Illustrated; ILL edition
Format: Hardcover

Whos the greatest slugger of all time, Babe Ruth or Ted Williams? Where do Derek Jeter and Cal Ripken Jr. rank on the list of the best shortstops? At third base, would you rather have Mike Schmidt or Brooks Robinson? Is Fenway or Wrigley the better ballpark?This book will end many arguments-and...
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The Game: Inside the Secret World of Major League Baseball's Power Brokers
The Game: Inside the Secret World of Major League Baseball's Power Brokers

Jon Pessah · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

The incredible inside story of power, money, and baseball's last twenty yearsIn the fall of 1992, America's National Pastime is in crisis and already on the path to the unthinkable: cancelling a World Series for the first time in history. The owners are at war with each other, their...
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