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Soccer-4th Edition: Steps to Success
Joe Luxbacher · Human Kinetics Publishers
Pages: 253
Format: Paperback
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Master key techniques on the soccer field with Soccer: Steps to Success. This comprehensive guide features step-by-step instruction on becoming skilled in individual techniques and team tactics. Improve your abilities in dribbling, passing, receiving, shooting, defending, tackling, heading,... |
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Napoleon Lajoie: King of Ballplayers
David L. Fleitz · McFarland
Pages: 284
Format: Paperback
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Napoleon Lajoie was the sixth player, and the first second baseman, to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. During his career, which lasted from 1896 to 1916, he was regularly called the "King of Ballplayers" and was widely regarded as the greatest baseball player of all time... |
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After the Fall: A Climber's True Story of Facing Death and Finding Life
Craig DeMartino · Kregel Publications
Format: Paperback
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Craig DeMartino never thought this would happen to him. He was 100 feet up a cliff in Rocky Mountain National Park when—with one step—his 13 years of rock climbing experience and 15 pounds of gear plummeted with him to the ground. Expert climbers say that if you fall 10 feet... |
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Ballplayer
Chipper Jones · Dutton
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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Atlanta Braves third baseman Chipper Jones - one of the greatest switch-hitters in baseball history - shares his remarkable story, while capturing the magic nostalgia that sets baseball apart from every other sport. Before Chipper Jones became an eight-time All-Star who amassed Hall of Fame-worthy... |
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Ohio's Troy vs. Piqua Football Rivalry:
David Fong · History Press
Pages: 143
Format: Print book
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Every year, Troy and Piqua line up on the gridiron to determine supremacy within Miami County. Stretching back well over a century, it is one of the most-respected rivalries in the state and nation. Even after 130 meetings between the two schools, neither team has been able to gain a decisive... |
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Trading Bases: A Story About Wall Street, Gambling, and Baseball
Joe Peta · Dutton Adult
Format: Print book
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An ex-Wall Street trader improved on Moneyballs famed sabermetrics to place bets that would beat the Vegas odds on Major League Baseball games--with a 41 percent return in his first year. Trading Bases explains how he did it. After the fall of Lehman Brothers, Joe Peta needed a new employer.... |
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Fields of Battle: Pearl Harbor, the Rose Bowl, and the Boys Who Went to War
Brian Curtis · Flatiron Books
Pages: 308
Format: Print book
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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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My Turn: A Life of Total Football
Johan Cruyff · Nation Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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"Johan Cruyff: Your legacy will live on forever."-- Lionel MessiJohan Cruyff is Europe's greatest ever soccer player, bar none. Brave, competitive, and possessed of such grace that a choreographer declared he was a more natural dancer than Rudolph Nureyev, he embodied and exported... |
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The Chase: How Ohio State Captured the First College Football Playoff
Bill Rabinowitz · Triumph Books
Format: Hardcover
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This inside look at an unprecedented season follows Ohio State's road to the inaugural College Football Playoff and the national championship In The Chase, Bill Rabinowitz takes readers inside Ohio State's improbable championship season, from the final moments of their 2014 Orange... |
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The Mannings: The Fall and Rise of a Football Family
Lars Anderson · Ballantine
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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From New York Times bestselling author Lars Anderson comes the first full biography of the top family in American sports. Two generations of Mannings have produced three star quarterbacks: Archie, the folk hero at Ole Miss and a star with the Saints; Peyton, considered one of the best of all time;... |
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A Hurting Sport: An Inside Look at Another Year in Boxing
Thomas Hauser · The University of Arkansas Press, 2015.
Pages: 199
Format: Print book
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A Hurting Sport marks the tenth annual volume of Thomas Hauser's boxing articles to be published by the University of Arkansas Press. Every year, readers, sportswriters, and critics alike look forward to these collections. In 2014, BOOKLIST observed, "This annual series detailing... |
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Stand Tall: Fighting for My Life, Inside and Outside the Ring
Dewey Bozella · Ecco
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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In this inspiring memoir, Dewey Bozella recounts his life and the twenty-six years he spent behind bars for a murder he did not commit - a stirring tale of courage, strength, faith, and perseverance.In the late 1970s, Dewey Bozella was wrongfully accused of murdering Emma Crapser, a ninety-two-year-old... |
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Forward: A Memoir
Abby Wambach · Dey Street Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Lucid and wrenching...Forward puts [Wambach's] achievement in context with painful and beautiful candor." - NPR"Forward is the powerful story of an athlete who has inspired girls all over the world to believe in themselves." - Sheryl Sandberg,... |
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