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The Blueprint: LeBron James, Cleveland's Deliverance, and the Making of the Modern NBA

JASON LLOYD · Dutton
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In 2010, LeBron James left the Cleveland Cavaliers. That same year, Jason Lloyd began to cover the team for the Akron Beacon Journal, LeBron's hometown newspaper. The story he uncovered started as a tragedy but ended in incredible triumph. Back in 2010, starting in the days, weeks,...
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Gunsmithing Made Easy: Projects for the Home Gunsmith

Bryce M. Towsley · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

One of America’s foremost experts on gunsmithing, Bryce Towsley here provides the definitive guide for anyone interested in building or maintaining guns. He gives detailed explanations and color illustrations for just about every aspect of gun repair. Featured tutorials include:...
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Lost Ballparks

Dennis Evanosky · Pavilion
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

With vintage photographs, this book explores classic ballparks of American and National League teams that are no more, such as Boston's Grand Pavilion, home of the Beaneaters, and Huntington Avenue Grounds, one-time home of the Red Sox. Other cities include: Atlanta, Boston, Brooklyn,...
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Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

Lara Prior-Palmer · Catapult
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

One of Entertainment Weekly's Most Anticipated Books of 2019

"Lara's searingly honest account of her astonishing rise from hopeless underdog to Mongol Derby Champion leaves grit in your teeth and dust in your hair. I laughed, I cried and I felt every bruise. I was riveted...
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This Old Man: All in Pieces

Roger Angell · Doubleday Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Roger Angell, the acclaimed New Yorker writer and editor, returns with a selection of writings that celebrate a view from the tenth decade of an engaged, vibrant life.

Long known for his range and supple prose (he is the only writer elected to membership in both the Baseball...
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Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter

Frank Deford · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 354
Format: Hardcover

From BOOKLIST
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Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation

John Carlin · Penguin Press
Pages: 274
Format: Print book

In 1985, Nelson Mandela, then in prison for twenty-three years, set about winning over the fiercest proponents of apartheid, from his jailers to the head of South Africa's military. First he earned his freedom and then he won the presidency in the nation's first free...
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The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance

Tom Brady · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

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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The Code: Baseball's Unwritten Rules and Its Ignore-at-Your-Own-Risk Code of Conduct

Ross Bernstein · Triumph Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

In The Code: Baseball's Unwritten Rules and Its Ignore-at-Your-Own-Risk Code of Conduct, author Ross Bernstein has pulled back the curtain on baseball's tacit rules regarding retaliation, sportsmanship, and intimidation. The result of dozens of interviews with some of the biggest...
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Berlin 1936: Sixteen Days in August

Oliver Hilmes · Other Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A lively account of the 1936 Olympics told through the voices and stories of those who witnessed it, from an award-winning historian and biographer

Berlin 1936 takes the reader through the sixteen days of the Olympiad, describing the events in the German capital through the eyes...
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A Thousand Sisters: My Journey into the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman

Lisa J Shannon · Seal Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Lisa J. Shannon had a good life - a successful business, a fiancé, a home, and security. Then, one day in 2005, an episode of Oprah changed all that. The show focused on women in Congo, the worst place on earth to be a woman. She was awakened to the atrocities there - millions dead, women...
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