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We Would Have Played for Nothing: Baseball Stars of the 1950s and 1960s Talk About the Game They Loved

Fay Vincent · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 327
Format: Print book

Former Major League Baseball commissioner Fay Vincent brings together a stellar roster of ballplayers from the 1950s and 1960s in this wonderful new history of the game. These were the decades when baseball expanded across the country and truly became the national pastime. The era opened,...
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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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Bernie Kosar: Learning to Scramble

Bernie Kosar · Cleveland Landmarks Press, Inc.
Pages: 171
Format: Perfect Paperback

Any football fan knows that scrambling is the way a quarterback can gain more time and more opportunity. But anyone familiar with Bernie Kosar s football career knows he didn t beat you with his physical prowess. Possessing slow feet, an awkward throwing motion and unorthodox mechanics,...
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Sum It Up: 1,098 Victories, A Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective

Pat Head Summitt · Crown Archetype; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history and bestselling author of Reach for the Summitt and Raise The Roof, tells for the first time her remarkable story of victory and resilience as well as facing down her greatest challenge: early-onset Alzheimer's disease.Pat...
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Sailing on a Budget: Moneywise Tips and Deals on Boat Purchases, Rental, Dockage, Destinations, and More

Anne M. Johnson · Betterway Books; 1st edition
Pages: 156
Format: Paperback

With a fresh breeze and surprisingly little money, you can cast off in search of new horizons. Anne M. Johnson - who lives abroad a 40-foot Morgan Pilothouse - shows you how you can make sailing a dream come affordably true. Learn the ropes and get low-cost - or even no-cost - sailing instruction;...
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The Soapbox Bible: How to Build Your Own Soapbox, Buggy, or Go-Cart

Julian Bridgewater · Sterling; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover

Here is the definitive illustrated reference to soapbox cars, buggies, and go-carts-complete with blueprints for turning these fun rides into reality.Whether building from a kit or starting from scratch, carting enthusiasts will find step-by-step guidance for 10 advanced projects, along...
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The Pacific Crest Trail - "A Hiker's Companion"

Karen Berger · W W Norton
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

The Pacific Crest Trail - 'A Hiker's Companion' is not a step by step guide to the PCT. Rather it is an overview type of guide, designed to tell you the things the state guides leave out. Written by 2 people who wholeheartedly love the trail and return year after year to hike...
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Coaching Youth Basketball-5th Edition

American Sport Education Program · Human Kinetics; 5 edition
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback

Coaching Youth Basketball, Fifth Edition, will help you run organized practices as you develop your players' fundamental skills. Written by the American Sport Education Program (ASEP) , in conjunction with expert coach Don Showalter of USA Basketball, this book covers all aspects of player...
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In a Heartbeat: Sharing the Power of Cheerful Giving

Leigh Anne Tuohy · Henry Holt and Co.; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

For the first time, the remarkable couple depicted in The Blind Side tells their own deeply inspiring storyFirst came the bestselling book, then the Oscar-nominated movie - the story of Michael Oher and the family who adopted him has become one of the most talked-about true stories of our time....
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The Baseball: Stunts, Scandals, and Secrets Beneath the Stitches

Zack Hample · Anchor
Format: Kindle Edition

The holy grail, the fountain of youth, the golden fleece, and the baseball: rarely do objects inspire such madness. The Baseball is a salute to the ball, filled with insider trivia, anecdotes, and generations of ball-induced insanity.
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