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Best Practice for Youth Sport
Robin S Vealey · Human Kinetics
Pages: 414
Format: Print book |
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Although the physical and psychological benefits of youth participating in sport are evident, the increasing professionalization and specialization of youth sport, primarily by coaches and parents, are changing the culture of youth sport and causing it to erode the ideal mantra: "It's... |
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Bitterroot - A Memoir: Echoes of Beauty & Loss
Steven Faulkner · Beaufort Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book |
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Using the letters of the 19th-century explorer Pierre Jean De Smet, Steven Faulkner and his eighteen-year-old son, Alex, follow De Smet across the High Plains to the fur trappers' rendezvous on the Green River, then on to the Lewis and Clark Trail. Lewis and Clark take them over the Rockies... |
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Floodlights and Touchlines: A History of Spectator Sport
Rob Steen · Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Hardcover |
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Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2014 Spectator sport is living, breathing, non-stop theatre for all.Focusing on spectator sports and their accompanying issues, tracing their origins, evolution and impact, inside the lines and beyond the boundary, this book... |
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Six Minutes in Berlin: Broadcast Spectacle and Rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics
Michael J Socolow · University of Illinois Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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The Berlin Olympics, August 14, 1936. German rowers, dominant at the Games, line up against America's top eight-oared crew. Hundreds of millions of listeners worldwide wait by their radios. Leni Riefenstahl prepares her cameramen. Grantland Rice looks past the 75,000 spectators crowding... |
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Swee'pea: The Story of Lloyd Daniels and Other Playground Basketball Legends
John Valenti · Atria Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book |
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"If you care about basketball or about people, you will care about this book" (John Feinstein, author of Season on the Brink) . In this updated edition of a lost classic of sports writing, authors John Valenti and Ron Naclerio chronicle the life of Lloyd Daniels, one of New York... |
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Gunslinger: The Remarkable, Improbable, Iconic Life of Brett Favre
Jeff Pearlman · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 448
Format: Print book |
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From a New York Times best-selling author, the full, definitive biography of Brett Favre A towering figure on the field for two decades who breezed into the Hall of Fame, Brett Favre was one of the game's last cowboys, a fastball-throwing, tobacco-chewing gunslinger who refused to give... |
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The Handbook of the Study of Play
James E Johnson · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 552
Format: Print book |
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The Handbook of the Study of Play brings together in two volumes thinkers whose diverse interests at the leading edge of scholarship and practice define the current field. Because play is an activity that humans have shared across time, place, and culture and in their personal developmental... |
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Whitetail Hunting Guide
Scott Bestul · Weldon Owen
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback |
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From Field & Stream magazine's deer-hunting experts, the authors of the Whitetail 365 blog on fieldandstream.com tell how to stalk and shoot whitetail deer in a variety of situations, with gun or bow, throughout the season. Handy guide is drawn from the pages of the Total Deer Hunting... |
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Black Ice: The Val James Story
Valmore James · ECW Press
Format: Hardcover |
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The first black American in the NHL tells his storyVal James became the first African American player in the NHL when he took to the ice with the Buffalo Sabres in 1982, and in 1987 he became the first black player of any nationality to skate for the Toronto Maple Leafs.Born in central... |
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