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Mastering Golf's Mental Game: Your Ultimate Guide to Better On-Course Performance and Lower Scores
Mastering Golf's Mental Game: Your Ultimate Guide to Better On-Course Performance and Lower Scores

Matthew Rudy · Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover

Perfect your mental approach to your game To be a golfer is to tinker—with everything from equipment to grip to swing. But one thing most players don’t give enough attention to is the mental game. Psychologists aren’t a new phenomenon in golf, but Dr. Michael Lardon is a different...
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Hockey Hall of Fame Book of Players
Hockey Hall of Fame Book of Players

Steve Cameron · Firefly Books
Format: Paperback

Profiles, stories, artifacts and archival images of every player in the Hockey Hall of Fame. The greatest individual honor that can be bestowed upon a professional hockey player is to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. Hockey Hall of Fame Book of Players celebrates each and every...
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Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save the Economy
Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save the Economy

Elly Blue · Microcosm Publishing
Format: Paperback

Bikenomics provides a compelling new perspective on ways to get around, transporting our families, going to work and how do we chose to spend our money.Bikenomics is a workable lifestyle that could help bring personal need with sustainable economical growth for most cities, communes and nations...
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Parcells: A Football Life
Parcells: A Football Life

Nunyo Demasio · Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover

Bill Parcells may be the most iconic football coach of our time. During his decades-long tenure as an NFL coach, he turned failing franchises into contenders. He led the ailing New York Giants to two Super Bowl victories, turned the New England Patriots into an NFL powerhouse, reinvigorated...
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Red Sox by the Numbers: A Complete Team History of the Boston Red Sox by Uniform Number
Red Sox by the Numbers: A Complete Team History of the Boston Red Sox by Uniform Number

Bill Nowlin · Sports Publishing
Pages: 363
Format: Print book

What do Rube Walberg, Mike Nagy, Kevin Millar, and Dustin Pedroia all have in common? They have all worn #15 for the Boston Red Sox. Since 1931, the Red Sox have issued 74 different numbers to more than 1,500 players.In this newly updated edition, Red Sox by the Numbers tells the story...
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Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

William Finnegan · Penguin Books
Pages: 447
Format: Book

**Winner of the2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography** A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed" New Yorker "writer"Barbarian Days" is William Finnegan s memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates,...
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Here Comes Exterminator!: The Longshot Horse, the Great War, and the Making of an American Hero
Here Comes Exterminator!: The Longshot Horse, the Great War, and the Making of an American Hero

Eliza Mcgraw · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

The father of the Kentucky Derby called him "the greatest all-around Thoroughbred in American racing history." Sportswriter Grantland Rice simply called him "the greatest race horse." Now, Eliza McGraw tells the story of how a gangling, longshot Kentucky Derby winner...
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Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty
Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty

Charles Leerhsen · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Finally - a fascinating and authoritative biography of perhaps the most controversial player in baseball history, Ty Cobb.Ty Cobb is baseball royalty, maybe even the greatest player who ever lived. His lifetime batting average is still the highest of all time, and when he retired in 1928,...
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Babe Ruth's Called Shot: The Myth And Mystery Of Baseball's Greatest Home Run
Babe Ruth's Called Shot: The Myth And Mystery Of Baseball's Greatest Home Run

Ed Sherman · LP, Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press,
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

The anticipation of another showdown with the Bambino transformed Wrigley Field. Temporary bleachers held the overflow of the 50,000-strong crowd that bright September day. Game 3 of the 1932 World Series between the Cubs and Yankees stood locked at 4-4. An angry mob, rocking the ballpark...
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I Am Duran: My Autobiography
I Am Duran: My Autobiography

Roberto Duran · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

They called him "Manos de Piedra" - Hands of Stone - and he was one of the greatest boxers of all time. Now Roberto Durán tells his unbelievable story: from the streets of Panama to being crowned one of the "Four Kings," along with Hearns, Leonard, and Hagler, as he blazed...
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The Olympics: Athens to Athens 1896-2004
The Olympics: Athens to Athens 1896-2004

Matt Rendell · Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pages: 360
Format: Print book

Come the summer 2004, audiences around the world will tune in to watch the most thrilling sports competition of all. Celebrate the momentous Athens homecoming of the Olympic summer games with this definitive, official, and breathtakingly illustrated history.From the Olympic Museum in Lausanne,...
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Baseball For Dummies
Baseball For Dummies

Joe Morgan · For Dummies; 4 edition
Format: Paperback

Play, watch, and understand Americas favorite pastime Baseball continues to be a popular game both as a spectator sport and as a pastime. Since the publication of Baseball For Dummies, 3rd Edition, baseball teams have changed, new MLB stadiums have been built, and rules have been updated....
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The Game: Inside the Secret World of Major League Baseball's Power Brokers
The Game: Inside the Secret World of Major League Baseball's Power Brokers

Jon Pessah · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

The incredible inside story of power, money, and baseball's last twenty yearsIn the fall of 1992, America's National Pastime is in crisis and already on the path to the unthinkable: cancelling a World Series for the first time in history. The owners are at war with each other, their...
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The Total Outdoorsman Skills & Tools Manual
The Total Outdoorsman Skills & Tools Manual

T. Edward Nickens · Weldon Owen
Format: Print book

What makes someone a total outdoorsman? It’s a mix of know-how, enthusiasm, experience and having the right tools. In this follow-up to the top-selling Total Outdoorsman Manual author T. Edward Nickens returns with another 300+ hints on how to get the most from your hunting, fishing,...
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The Complete Book of Saltwater Fishing
The Complete Book of Saltwater Fishing

Milt Rosko · Burford Books; Revised and Updated edition
Format: Paperback

Everything the saltwater angler needs to know, from a long-time authority. Covers tackle and how to use it, baits and lures, the fifty most sought-after saltwater gamefish, recipes, introducing kids to saltwater fishing, and conservation issues. This edition revised and updated from the original...
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