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New Titles - Sports
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K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches
Tyler Kepner · Doubleday
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times baseball columnist, an enchanting, enthralling history of the national pastime as told through the craft of pitching, based on years of archival research and interviews with more than three hundred people from Hall of Famers to the stars of todayThe baseball is an amazing... |
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Just Show Up: And Other Enduring Values from Baseball's Iron Man
Cal Ripken Jr. · Harper
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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Iron Man Cal Ripken Jr.the 19-time All-Star, World-Series winning legend, American League MVP, and record holder who played 2,632 consecutive gamesoutlines eight rules for the game of baseball and life, drawn from the lessons he has learned on and off the field.Cal Ripken Jr. is a baseball... |
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Mind and Matter: A Life in Math and Football
John Urschel · Penguin Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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John Urschel, mathematician and former offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens--with biographer Louisa Thomas--tells the story of a life balanced between two passionsFor John Urschel, what began as an insatiable appetite for puzzles as a child quickly evolved into mastery of the elegant... |
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Ten Innings at Wrigley: The Wildest Ballgame Ever, with Baseball on the Brink
Kevin Cook · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic story of a legendary 1979 slugfest between the Chicago Cubs and the Philadelphia Phillies, full of runs, hits, and subplots, at the tipping point of a new era in baseball historyIt was a Thursday at Chicago's Wrigley Field, mostly sunny with the wind blowing out. Nobody... |
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Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
Lara Prior-Palmer · Catapult
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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One of Entertainment Weekly's Most Anticipated Books of 2019 "Lara's searingly honest account of her astonishing rise from hopeless underdog to Mongol Derby Champion leaves grit in your teeth and dust in your hair. I laughed, I cried and I felt every bruise. I was riveted... |
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Inside the Empire: The True Power Behind the New York Yankees
Bob Klapisch · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting look at what is really said and done behind closed doors with the New York Yankees, the most famous and wealthiest sports franchise in the world Using the 2018 baseball season as the backdrop, Inside the Empire gives readers the real, unvarnished "straight-from-the-gut"... |
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This Much Country
Kristin Knight Pace · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A memoir of heartbreak, thousand-mile races, the endless Alaskan wilderness and many, many dogs from one of only a handful of women to have completed both the Yukon Quest and the Iditarod.In 2009, after a crippling divorce that left her heartbroken and directionless, Kristin decided to accept... |
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