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When the Crowd Didn't Roar: How Baseball's Strangest Game Ever Gave a Broken City Hope
Kevin Cowherd · University of Nebraska Press
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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The date is April 29, 2015. Baltimore is reeling from the devastating riots sparked by the death in police custody of twenty-five-year-old African American Freddie Gray. Set against this grim backdrop, less than thirty-six hours after the worst rioting Baltimore has seen since the assassination... |
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Legend: My Life in Football
JOE NAMATH · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Timed for the 50th anniversary of his legendary Super Bowl "Guarantee," the NFL icon who first brought show business to sports is finally ready to tell the story of his spectacular rise and reign as "Broadway Joe," to his struggles with alcoholism, to the redemption... |
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Full Count: The Education of a Pitcher
David Cone · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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Met and Yankee All-Star pitcher David Cone shares lessons from the World Series and beyond in this essential memoir for baseball fans everywhere. "There was a sense about him and an aura about him. Even when he was in trouble, he carried himself like a pitcher who said, 'I'm... |
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Warren Spahn: A Biography of the Legendary Lefty
FREEDMAN LEW. · Sports Publishing
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
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With 363 victories, Warren Spahn is the winningest left-handed pitcher in baseball history. During his 21-year career, Spahn won 20 games thirteen times, was a 17-time All Star, a Cy Young-award winner, and was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1973. In addition, Spahn was also... |
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Upside Down Football: An Inside Look at Long Snapping in the NFL
Ted Kluck · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 198
Format: Print book
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The long snapper is perhaps the most overlooked and underappreciated position in football. He spends a great deal of his career bent over a football, with a guy either kneeling seven yards behind him or standing back at 15 yards. In a sense, the long snapper has one job - to go unnoticed.... |
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The Amazing Story of the Man Who Cycled from India to Europe for Love
Per J Andersson · Oneworld Publications
Pages: 281
Format: Hardcover
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"A romance, a travelogue, and a cultural critique ... filled with sumptuous prose. [PK's] determination is more than enough to keep readers enthralled." -- Publishers Weekly "This book will appeal to the optimistic, the romantic, and the armchair traveler. This is a story... |
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The World in the Curl: An Unconventional History of Surfing
Peter Neushul · Crown
Format: Book
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A definitive and highly readable history of surfing and the cultural, political, economic, and environmental consequences of its evolution from a sport of Hawaiian kings and queens to a billion-dollar worldwide industry Despite its rebellious, outlaw reputation, or perhaps because... |
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