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Present at the Creation: My Life in the NFL and the Rise of America's Game
UPTON BELL · University of Nebraska Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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To understand how the NFL became the sports phenomenon it is today, you can study its history or you can live its history as an active participant. Upton Bell grew up at the knee of the NFL's first great commissioner, his father, the legendary Bert Bell, who not only saved the game... |
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Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
Anders Ericsson · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 307
Format: Print book
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From the world's reigning expert on expertise comes a powerful new approach to mastering almost any skill. Have you ever wanted to learn a language or pick up an instrument, only to become too daunted by the task at hand? Expert performance guru Anders Ericsson has made a career studying... |
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Play On: The New Science of Elite Performance at Any Age
Jeff Bercovici · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A lively, deeply reported tour of the science and strategies helping athletes like Tom Brady, Serena Williams, Carli Lloyd, and LeBron James redefine the notion of "peak age." Season after season, today's sports superstars seem to defy the limits of physical aging that inevitably... |
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Mr. Hockey: My Story
Gordie Howe · G.P. Putnam's Sons; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive autobiography from hockeys greatest living legend—Mr. Hockey himself, Gordie Howe. Big, skilled, tough on the ice, and nearly indestructible, Howe dominated both the sport and the record books like no one has before or since. Over an incredible six decades, the Hall... |
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It's Not About Perfect: Competing for My Country and Fighting for My Life
Shannon Miller · Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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The winner of seven Olympic medals and the most decorated gymnast, male or female, in U.S. history, Shannon tells her story from being a shy, rambunctious girl raised in Oklahoma, through her training accidents, her successful battle with ovarian cancer, and the birth of her miracle baby... |
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Mountain Bike Training: For All Levels of Performance
Achim Schmidt · Meyer & Meyer Fachverlag und Buchhandel GmbH; 2 Revised edition
Format: Book
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This books provides well founded instructions for mountain bike training while always taking discipline-specific criteria into account. All fundamental fields of training methodology are presented in a differentiated and well-arranged way including aspects of heart frequency-oriented training... |
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The Total Fishing Manual
Joe Cermele · Weldon Owen
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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Updated and expanded for 2017, with new expert information on everything the modern fisherman needs to know - from picking the right gear and kitting out your boat, to the best techniques and tactics for seeking, locating, and snaring your catch. This revamped edition of the best-selling... |
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Fishing for Dummies
Peter Kaminsky · For Dummies; 2 edition
Pages: 392
Format: Paperback
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Make fishing easier and more rewarding every time you pick up your rod and reelNo one can promise that you will catch fish all the time. For as long as we've been catching fish, fish have been outsmarting us. But there are tips and pointers that even the most seasoned anglers can pick... |
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The Devil's Snake Curve: A Fan's Notes From Left Field
Josh Ostergaard · Coffee House Press
Pages: 253
Format: Paperback
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The Devil's Snake Curve offers an alternative American history, in which colonialism, jingoism, capitalism, and faith are represented by baseball. Personal and political, it twines Japanese internment camps with the Yankees; Walmart with the Kansas City Royals; and facial hair patterns... |
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The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism
HOWARD BRYANT · Beacon Press
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
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Following in the footsteps of Robeson, Ali, Robinson and others, today's Black athletes re-engage with social issues and the meaning of American patriotismFor most of the twentieth century, "No News on the Sports Page" governed how sports were played and perceived in America.... |
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The Pride of the Yankees: The Movie that Defined the Legacy of Lou Gehrig
Richard Sandomir · Hachette Books
Pages: 293
Format: Hardcover
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"I CONSIDER MYSELF THE LUCKIEST MAN ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH."On July 4, 1939, baseball great Lou Gehrig delivered what has been called "baseball's Gettysburg Address" at Yankee Stadium and gave a speech that included the phrase that would become legendary. He died two years... |
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Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics
Jules Boykoff · Verso
Pages: 208
Format: Print book
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A timely, no-holds barred, critical political history of the modern Olympic GamesThe Olympics have not always been the commercialized juggernaut we know today, but as Jules Boykoff makes clear in this story-filled and devastating history, the Games have since their inception had a thoroughly... |
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The Away Game: The Epic Search for Soccer's Next Superstars
SEBASTIAN ABBOT · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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The gripping story of a group of boys discovered in what may be the largest talent search in sports history.Over the past decade, an audacious program called Football Dreams has held tryouts for millions of 13-year-old boys across Africa looking for soccer's next superstars. Led by the Spanish... |
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