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The Best Game Ever: Pirates 10, Yankees 9: October 13, 1960

Jim Reisler · Carroll & Graf
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover

October 13, 1960: The hardscrabble Pirates were a hungry squad, led by Roberto Clemente, Bill Mazeroski, and a colorful bunch of overachievers who hit singles and rode solid fielding and pitching to the franchise's first World Series appearance in 35 years. The Yankees, lordly and corporate,...
 
 
Water Exercise

Melissa Layne · Human Kinetics
Pages: 239
Format: Print book

Looking for exercises to improve your fitness, maximize your cross-training, or recover from an injury or condition--all with little or no impact? "Water Exercise" is your complete resource for fitness and rehabilitation exercises. Water workouts are a fabulous way to exercise,...
 
 
Touring California and Nevada Hot Springs

Matt C. Bischoff · Falcon Guides
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Whether you're seeking a soak in naturally heated mineral water or out for a sightseeing adventure, this fully updated and revised color edition of Touring California and Nevada Hot Springs guides you to more than 100 of the best sites for soaking in the beauty of the region. Historian...
 
 
Into the Twilight, Endlessly Grousing

Patrick F McManus · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 221
Format: Print book

A seditious sampling of the laugh-out-loud musings of the bestselling humorist whom The Atlanta Journal-Constitution calls "the funniest writer around." In his wry, curmudgeonly way, Patrick McManus offers tales about everything from using the kid next door for fishing boat ballast...
 
 
Shannon Miller: America's Most Decorated Gymnast : A Biography

Krista Quiner · Bradford Book Co; 2 Sub edition
Pages: 244
Format: Paperback

Grade 6-9?Ten chapters with 26 average-quality black-and-white action photographs depict the life and activities of gymnast Shannon Miller. Quiner accurately describes her subject's accomplishments and difficulties in her development as a world class athlete and Olympic medalist. The author's...
 
 
Joe Louis: Hard Times Man

Randy Roberts · Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

Joe Louis defended his heavyweight boxing title an astonishing twenty-five times and reigned as world champion for more than eleven years. He got more column inches of newspaper coverage in the 1930s than FDR did. His racially and politically charged defeat of Max Schmeling in 1938 made...
 
 
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder

Richard Louv · Algonquin Books; Updated and Expanded edition
Format: Kindle Edition

Louv talks with parents, children, teachers, scientists, religious leaders, child-development researchers, and environmentalists to find ways for children to experience the natural world more deeply.
 
 
Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times

Mark Leibovich · Penguin Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Town, an equally merciless probing of America's biggest cultural force, pro football, at a moment of peak success and high anxiety

Like millions of Americans, Mark Leibovich has spent more of his life tuned into pro football...