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The Baseball Whisperer: A Small-Town Coach Who Shaped Big League Dreams
Michael Tackett · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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From an award-winning journalist, a real Field of Dreams story about a legendary coach and the professional-caliber baseball program he built in America's heartland, where boys come summer after summer to be molded into ballplayers - and men Clarinda, Iowa, population 5,000, sits two hours... |
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A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at One Hundred
George Will · Crown Archetype
Pages: 223
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times-bestselling history of America's most beloved baseball stadium, Wrigley Field, and the Cubs' century-long search for World Series gloryIn A Nice Little Place on the North Side, leading columnist George Will returns to baseball with a deeply personal look at his hapless... |
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Havana Hardball: Spring Training, Jackie Robinson, and The Cuban League
César Brioso · University Press of Florida
Pages: 301
Format: Print book
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"An in-depth look at a pivotal time in baseball history." - Lou Hernández, author of Baseball's Great Hispanic Pitchers "Set against the backdrop of Old Havana, Cesar Brioso has given us an insightful, often loving ode to a memorable season when baseball's past and future... |
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Walter Camp: Football and the Modern Man
Julie Des Jardins · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Americans are obsessed with football, yet they know little about the man who shaped the game to make it uniquely technical, physical, and 'man-making' at once. Walter Camp, the "Father of American Football," was the foremost authority on American athletics and arguably... |
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Writings on the Wall: Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar · Time Home Entertainment
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Bestselling author, basketball legend and cultural commentator Kareem Abdul-Jabbar explores the heart of issues that affect Americans today.Since retiring from professional basketball as the NBA's all-time leading scorer, six-time MVP, and Hall of Fame inductee, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has become... |
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Powder: The Greatest Ski Runs on the Planet
Patrick Thorne · Quercus
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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Powder is the definitive guide to the world's top ski and snowboard locations. This comprehensive and visually stunning feast of snow-bound derring-do showcases the very best and most feared descents in the world. Along with classics like Chamonix, Whistler, and Jackson Hole, this book... |
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The Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide, Revised
Tom Rosenbauer · Lyons Press
Pages: 408
Format: Paperback
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The Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide is the best-selling book for fly anglers! Whether you're a soon-to-be fly fisher looking for the right book to get you started or you're reasonably proficient at the sport and need a refresher course on tying knots for saltwater or the latest info on how to care... |
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Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down
Dave Zirin · New Press, The
Format: Paperback
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Sportscaster Howard Cosell dubbed it “rule number one of the jockocracy”: sports and politics just don’t mix. But in Game Over, celebrated alt-sportswriter Dave Zirin proves once and for all that politics has breached the modern sports arena with a vengeance. From the NFL lockout... |
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Rail-Trails Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio: The definitive guide to the region's top multiuse trails
RAILS-TO-TRAILS CONSERVANCY. · WILDERNESS PR
Pages: 264
Format: Print book
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Across the country, more than 1,600 unused railroad corridors have been converted to level, public, multiuse trails, where people can enjoy a fitness run, a leisurely bike ride, or a stroll with the family. In this updated guide in the popular series, the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy presents... |
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The Swiss Army Knife Book
Immler Immler · Frances Lincoln
Pages: 208
Format: Print book
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Woodsman Felix Immler reveals how we can build a comfortable camp in the wilderness using nothing more than a pocket knife. Simple natural materials are used for making a waterproof roof, a chair, a bed, a table, a fridge, and an oven, as well as for carving spoons, knifes, and bowls. You can even... |
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Sisterhood in Sports: How Female Athletes Collaborate and Compete
Joan Steidinger · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Sisterhood in Sports How Female Athletes Collaborate and Compete tells the stories of all kinds of female athletes in a variety of sports. Their natural tendency to use talking as a primary form of communication is essential to their experiences and successes in sports. Women and girls... |
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White Mountain: A Cultural Adventure Through the Himalayas
ROBERT TWIGGER · Pegasus Books
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping biography of the Himalayas by the acclaimed author of Angry White Pyjamas.Home to mythical kingdoms, wars and expeditions, and strange and magical beasts, the Himalayas have always loomed tall in our imagination. These mountains, home to Buddhists, Bonpos, Jains, Muslims, Hindus,... |
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Walking to Listen: 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time
Andrew Forsthoefel · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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A memoir of one young man's coming of age on a cross-country trek--told through the stories of the people of all ages, races, and inclinations he meets along the highways of America.Life is fast, and I've found it's easy to confuse the miraculous for the mundane, so I'm slowing down, way down,... |
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