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The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created
JANE LEAVY · Harper
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
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From Jane Leavy, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax, comes the definitive biography of Babe Ruth - the man Roger Angell dubbed "the model for modern celebrity."He lived in the present tense - in the camera's lens. There was no frame... |
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The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball's Lost Triumph
Scott Ellsworth · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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The true story of the game that never should have happened--and of a nation on the brink of monumental changeIn the fall of 1943, at the little-known North Carolina College for Negroes, Coach John McLendon was on the verge of changing basketball forever. A protégé of James Naismith, the games... |
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The Last Cowboy: A Life of Tom Landry
Mark Ribowsky · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 684
Format: Hardcover
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A Publisher's Weekly Best Book of 2013 An action-packed biography of a man, his team, and the league he helped create -- in the tradition of Maraniss's When Pride Still Mattered. Tom Landry, the coach during professional football's most fabled era, transformed the gridiron from... |
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Hope: A School, a Team, a Dream
Bill Reynolds · St. Martin's Press, 2016.
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Hope High School in Providence, Rhode Island was once a model city school, graduating a wide range of students from different backgrounds. But the tumult of the 1960s and the drug wars of the 70s changed both Providence and Hope. Today, the aging school is primarily Hispanic and African-American,... |
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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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Players First: Coaching from the Inside Out
John Calipari · Penguin Group USA
Pages: 276
Format: Hardcover
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"If you are a college basketball fan like I am, you'll understand why I've long admired John Calipari's leadership style. While no coach treasures a win more than John, this terrific book reveals his greater purpose - to lead his young players to better lives, and then... |
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Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s
Jeff Pearlman · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 482
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of Sweetness delivers the first all-encompassing account of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers, one of professional sports' most-revered - and dominant - dynasties. The Los Angeles Lakers of the 1980s personified the flamboyance and excess of the decade... |
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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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The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance
Tom Brady · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The first book by New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady - the five-time Super Bowl champion who is still reaching unimaginable heights of excellence at thirty-nine years old - a gorgeously illustrated and deeply practical "athlete's bible" that reveals Brady's revolutionary... |
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Game Changers: The Unsung Heroines of Sports History
Molly Schiot · Simon and Schuster
Pages: 309
Format: Print book
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"A thoughtful, exhaustively researched, and long-overdue tribute to the women who have paved the way for the likes of Serena Williams, Abby Wambach, Simone Biles, and more." - espnW "A stirring tribute to the record setters, barrier breakers, and milestone makers who opened... |
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99: Stories of the Game
Wayne Gretzky · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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"The Great One" weaves memories of his legendary career with an inside look at the sport of professional hockey, and the heroes and stories that inspired him. From minor-hockey phenomenon to Hall of Fame sensation, Wayne Gretzky rewrote the record books, his accomplishments becoming... |
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