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The League: How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports Empire

John Eisenberg · Basic Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

The epic tale of the five owners who shepherded the NFL through its tumultuous early decades and built the most popular sport in America The National Football League is a towering, distinctly American colossus spewing out $13 billion in annual revenue. Yet its current dominance has obscured...
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Hockey Addict's Guide Toronto: Where to Eat, Drink, and Play the Only Game That Matters

EVAN GUBERNICK · Countryman Press
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

An insider's guide to Toronto for all hockey lovers -- fans and players alike.Attention hockey heads: Want to know where to join a league, play a pick-up game, or get your blades sharpened? Where to grab some grub before heading to the rink or where to find a post-skate brew? In Hockey...
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Roadside Road Bike Maintenance Manual

Guy Dr Andrews · Falcon Guides; Spi edition
Format: Paperback

Provides road bike enthusiasts with step-by-step guidance to maintaining and repairing their bikes, combining an easy-to-use format and design with high quality photographs of the latest equipment, tools and techniques. Understanding how to maintain a road bike is a necessary skill....
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30 Years of WrestleMania

Brian Shields · BradyGames DK Style
Format: Hardcover

From the creators of WWE 50 and the official WWE Encyclopedia, 30 Years of WrestleMania gives you an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the show of shows from its inception to the current day. Relive each exciting match with detailed information, exclusive interviews, never-before-seen...
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Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island

EARL SWIFT · Dey Street Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

A brilliant, soulful, and timely portrait of a two-hundred-year-old crabbing community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay as it faces extinction from rising sea levels - part natural history of an extraordinary ecosystem, starring the beloved blue crab; part paean to a vanishing way of life;...
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Play Golf Better Faster: The Classic Guide to Optimizing Your Performance and Building Your Best Fast

Kalliope Barlis · Buidling Your Best, 2014.
Pages: 204
Format: Print book

PLAY GOLF BETTER FASTER ISN'T JUST ABOUT MECHANICS, IT'S ABOUT THE SECRETS OF GREAT GOLF. Play Golf Better Faster is a workbook that takes your golf game to the next level of mastery. It is full of practical steps to dramatically improve your game. If you've been overwhelmed by the mass...
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60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Washington, D.C.: Including Suburban and Outlying Areas of Maryland and Virginia

PAUL ELLIOTT · Menasha Ridge Press
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
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99: Stories of the Game

Wayne Gretzky · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

"The Great One" weaves memories of his legendary career with an inside look at the sport of professional hockey, and the heroes and stories that inspired him. From minor-hockey phenomenon to Hall of Fame sensation, Wayne Gretzky rewrote the record books, his accomplishments becoming...
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The Fall Line: How American Ski Racers Conquered a Sport on the Edge

Nathaniel Vinton · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A journey into the world's original extreme sport: downhill ski racing.Harnessing nature's most powerful forces, elite downhillers descend icy, rugged slopes at speeds cresting 90 miles per hour. For decades, American skiers struggled to match their European counterparts, and until...
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The 50 Most Dynamic Duos in Sports History: Baseball, Basketball, Football, and Hockey

Robert W. Cohen · Scarecrow Press
Format: Book

Who comprised the most productive pairs in the history of professional team sports? Joe Montana and Jerry Rice of the San Francisco 49ers? Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen of the Chicago Bulls? What about the prolific hockey tandem of Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier? And that all-time great...
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