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Jackie Robinson: A Spiritual Biography: The Faith of a Boundary-Breaking Hero
Michael G Long · Westminster John Knox Press
Pages: 212
Format: Paperback
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Jackie Robinson believed in a God who sides with the oppressed and who calls us to see one another as sisters and brothers. This faith was a powerful but quiet engine that drove and sustained him as he shattered racial barriers on and beyond the baseball diamond. Jackie Robinson: A Spiritual... |
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Eat Like a Champion: Performance Nutrition for Your Young Athlete
Jill Castle MS RDN CDN · AMACOM/American Management Association
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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Kids have their own nutritional needs - especially athletic kids. Yet most young athletes aren't eating properly to compete. Even if they're on a "healthy" diet, it's often supplemented by convenient but empty calories that are actually slowing them down. Fortunately,... |
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Chasing the Dream: Life in the American Hockey League
Ted Starkey · ECW Press
Pages: 245
Format: Print book
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What is life really like in North American hockey s top minor league? As told by dozens of the players, coaches, broadcasters, personnel, and owners who work a grinding schedule every winter, "Chasing the Dream" goes behind the scenes with seven different AHL teams. Find out why players... |
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UFC® Official Fan's Guide
Thomas Gerbasi · Carlton Books; Updated edition
Format: Paperback
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First contested in 1993, the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) is an incredible Mixed Martial Arts spectacle that has taken the world by storm. Packed with fascinating exclusive features, dramatic action photographs, and amazing trivia, this fan guide is the ultimate look at the sport.... |
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Fantasy Man: A Former NFL Player's Descent into the Brutality of Fantasy Football
Nate Jackson · Harpercollins
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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The New York Times bestselling author of Slow Getting Up chronicles his descent into the madness of early retirement and fantasy football. In Slow Getting Up - hailed by Rolling Stone as "the best football memoir of all time" - Nate Jackson told his story face down on the field.... |
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Trials and Triumphs of Golf's Greatest Champions: A Legacy of Hope
Lyle A Slovick · ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Golf can be a vexing and cruel game, and teaches us much about ourselves. It has been described as "a contest calling for courage, skill, strategy and self-control. It is a test of temper, a trial of honor, a revealer of character." In the end, as with most of life, success hinges... |
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Quinn: The Life of a Hockey Legend
Dan Robson · Viking, an imprint of Penguin Canada Books, Inc., 2015.
Pages: 388
Format: Print book
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A tribute to the larger than life story of a hockey icon and hero. The hockey world mourned when Pat Quinn died in November 2014. Tough guys sobbed. Networks carried montages of Quinn's rugged hits, his steely-eyed glare, and his famous victories. Quinn made a few enemies over... |
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Peregrine Spring: A Master Falconer's Extraordinary Life with Birds of Prey
Nancy Cowan · Lyons Press
Pages: 296
Format: Print book
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Peregrine Spring, Nancy Cowan's memoir of her thirty years living intimately with raptors, gives us a new perspective on the relationship between humans and the natural world. Cowan shares her experiences running a world-famous falconry school, and the lessons she's learned from... |
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The Death of WCW
R.D. Reynolds · ECW Press; Tenth Anniversary Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In 1997, World Championship Wrestling was on top. It was the number-one pro wrestling company in the world, and the highest-rated show on cable television. Each week, fans tuned in to Monday Nitro, flocked to sold-out arenas, and carried home truckloads of WCW merchandise. It seemed the company... |
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Adventure Carolinas: Your Go-To Guide for Multi-Sport Outdoor Recreation
Joe Miller · The University of North Carolina Press
Pages: 160
Format: Book
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Have you ever wanted to take up a new outdoor sport but thought, "Not me" or "Where do I begin"? In this unique take-it-with-you guide, outdoors and fitness writer Joe Miller introduces you to sixteen adventure sports in the Carolinas, from water to land and through... |
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Ride the Revolution: The Inside Stories from Women in Cycling
Suze Clemitson · Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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Featuring contributions from Emma OReilly, the soigneur for the U.S. Postal Service Team and one of the people responsible for bringing Lance Armstrong down as part of David Walshs investigation Betsy Andreu, wife of ex-professional cyclist Frankie Andreu and another Lance Armstrong nemesis... |
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Dodgerland: Decadent Los Angeles and the 1977–78 Dodgers
Michael Fallon · University of Nebraska Press
Pages: 454
Format: Print book
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<div>The 1977 78 Los Angeles Dodgers came close. Their tough lineup of young and ambitious players squared off with the New York Yankees in consecutive World Series. The Dodgers run was a long time in the making after years of struggle and featured many homegrown players who went... |
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