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Mr. Wrigley's Ball Club: Chicago and the Cubs during the Jazz Age
Roberts Ehrgott · University of Nebraska Press
Format: Book
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"2013 CASEY Award Finalist for Best Baseball Book of the Year." Chicago in the Roaring Twenties was a city of immigrants, mobsters, and flappers with one shared passion: the Chicago Cubs. It all began when the chewing-gum tycoon William Wrigley decided to build the world’s... |
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Camping Made Easy, 2nd
Michael Rutter · Globe Pequot; 2nd edition
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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If you think camping means big mosquitoes, big headaches, and big effort, this book is for you. Camping Made Easy presents a practical, informative approach to carefree camping. After putting to rest the myths concerning the hardships and frustrations of camping, Michael Rutter presents... |
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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
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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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Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian - My Story of Rescue, Hope, and Triumph
Yusra Mardini · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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The inspiring story of how one woman saved fellow refugees from drowning -- and how she went on to become an Olympic swimmer.When young Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini realized her boat's engine shut down as she was traveling from Syria to Greece with other refugees, there was no hesitation:... |
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A People's History of Baseball
Mitchell Nathanson · University of Illinois Press; 1st Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Baseball is much more than the national pastime. It has become an emblem of America itself. From its initial popularity in the mid-nineteenth century, the game has reflected national values and beliefs and promoted what it means to be an American. Stories abound that illustrate baseball's... |
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Earnhardts : the saga of nascar's first family.
Jay Busbee · Harpercollins, 2016.
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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A colorful, fearless portrait of the larger-than-life first family of NASCAR, the Earnhardts, and the rise of the world's fastest stock car racing organization.More than sixty years ago, Ralph Earnhardt toiled in a cotton mill in his native North Carolina to support his growing family.... |
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Superfans: Into the Heart of Obsessive Sports Fandom
GEORGE DOHRMANN · Ballantine Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist pulls back the curtain on the extraordinary inner lives of America's most obsessive sports fans. There are fans, and then there are fanatics. In this wondrously immersive look at American sports fandom, George Dohrmann travels the country to find out what... |
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Vintage Camper Trailers
Paul Lacitinola · Gibbs Smith
Pages: 200
Format: Print book
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Vintage camper trailers are a unique symbol of midcentury America that resonates with many people. This book introduces many of those people, along with the trailers they've lovingly maintained or restored. It includes hundreds of photographs of everything from fancy and comfortable... |
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Following Atticus - Forty-Eight Peaks, One Little Dog and an Extraordinary Friendship
Tom Ryan · William Morrow
Pages: 276
Format: Hardcover
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Following Atticus - Forty-Eight Peaks, One Little Dog and an Extraordinary Friendship is about a middle-aged, overweight, and acrophobic newspaper editor Tom Ryan and a little dog, Atticus M. Finch, are an unlikely pair of mountaineers, but after a close friend dies of cancer, the two pay tribute... |
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Backpacking with the Saints: Wilderness Hiking as Spiritual Practice
Belden C. Lane · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Carrying only basic camping equipment and a collection of the worlds great spiritual writings, Belden C. Lane embarks on solitary spiritual treks through the Ozarks and across the American Southwest. For companions, he has only such teachers as Rumi, John of the Cross, Hildegard of Bingen,... |
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