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Intimate Warfare: The True Story of the Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward Boxing Trilogy
Dennis Taylor · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pages: 204 Format: Hardcover
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Intimate Warfare: The True Story of the Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward Boxing Trilogy traces the lives and careers of two legendary fighters - Micky Ward, a humble, hardscrabble, blue-collar Irishman from Lowell, Massachusetts, and Arturo Gatti, a handsome, flashy, charismatic Italian-born... |
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Jackie Robinson: An Intimate Portrait
Rachel Robinson · Harry N. Abrams; Reissue edition Format: Paperback
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In the spring of 1947, Jackie Robinson played his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking down baseball’s decades-old color barrier and changing the face of the game forever. In this intimate portrait, Robinson’s widow, Rachel, tells her husband’s storyand... |
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One Night Only: Conversations with the NHL's One-Game Wonders
Ken Reid · ECW Press Pages: 240 Format: Print book
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Get to know the men who fulfilled their childhood dreamFrom the beer league to the minor league, hockey players from coast to coast often say they'd give anything to play just one game in the NHL. One Night Only brings you the stories of 39 men who lived the dream - only to see it fade... |
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Continental Divide: A History of American Mountaineering
Maurice Isserman · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 448 Format: Hardcover
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This magesterial and thrilling history argues that the story of American mountaineering is the story of America itself.In Continental Divide, Maurice Isserman tells the history of American mountaineering through four centuries of landmark climbs and first ascents. Mountains were originally... |
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Urban Revolutions: A Woman's Guide to Two-Wheeled Transportation
Emilie Bahr · Microcosm Pub, 2015. Pages: 192 Format: Print book
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Urban Revolutions is a different kind of cycling book. Author Emilie Bahr draws on her own experience as an everyday cyclist and a transportation planner in New Orleans to demystify urban bicycling in this visually-compelling and fun-to-read field guide. What does it mean for a city to be bike-friendly?... |
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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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Faster than Lightning: My Autobiography
Usain Bolt · Harpercollins Publishers Pages: 291 Format: Paperback
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The autobiography of the fastest man of all time and a superstar whose talent and charisma have made him one of the most famous people on the planet.Whether you know Athletics or not, and even whether you know sport or not, chances are you know Usain Bolt. The fastest man on the planet,... |
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Snake: The Legendary Life of Ken Stabler
Michael Freeman · Dey Street Books Pages: 272 Format: Print book
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The first in-depth biography of one of the most talented and infamous legends to play in the National Football League - the life and times of pro football's first bad boy, famed Oakland Raiders quarterback Ken Stabler.Ken "The Snake" Stabler was the embodiment of the original... |
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Stealing Games: How John McGraw Transformed Baseball with the 1911 New York Giants
Maury Klein · Bloomsbury USA, 2016. Pages: 400 Format: Print book
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The 1911 New York Giants stole an astonishing 347 bases, a record that still stands more than a century later. That alone makes them special in baseball history, but as Maury Klein relates in Stealing Games they also embodied a rapidly changing America on the cusp of a faster, more frenetic... |
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Dagger Fighting
Clemens Nimscholz · Schiffer Publishing Ltd. Pages: 192 Format: Print book
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This modern textbook provides an extensive depiction of more than 75 dagger fencing techniques according to 15th-century dagger Master Hans Talhoffer's manuscripts, among other fencing luminaries, from past and present. In the Middle Ages, dagger fighting was part of every fencer's... |
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The Keeper: A Life of Saving Goals and Achieving Them
Tim Howard · Harper Format: Hardcover
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In this inspiring, down-to-earth memoir the revered goalkeeper and American icon idolized by millions worldwide for his dependability, daring, and humility recounts his rise to stardom at the 2014 World Cup, the psychological and professional challenges he has faced, and the enduring... |
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