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Norwich: One Tiny Vermont Town's Secret to Happiness and Excellence
Karen Crouse · Simon & Schuster Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary story of the small Vermont town that has likely produced more Olympians per capita than any other place in the country - and whose citizens provide a model for achieving excellence while leading a well-rounded life.Norwich, a charming Vermont town of roughly three thousand... |
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Great Men Die Twice: The Selected Works of Mark Kram
Mark Kram · St. Martin's Griffin Pages: 284 Format: Print book
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Imagine Mad Men set not in the advertising world but at 1960s Sports Illustrated, a place where the finest sports staff of any generation was attended by an open bar and almost unlimited expense account. This was the world Mark Kram lived and wrote in, along with his peers including Frank... |
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Body of Water: A Sage, a Seeker, and the World's Most Elusive Fish
Chris Dombrowski · Milkweed Editions Pages: 232 Format: Print book
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Chris Dombrowski was playing a numbers game: two passions - poetry and fly-fishing; two children, one of them in utero; and an income hovering perilously close to zero. Enter, at this particularly challenging moment, a miraculous email: can't go, it's all paid for, just book a flight... |
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My Cubs: A Love Story
Scott Simon · Blue Rider Press Pages: 160 Format: Hardcover
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NPR's Scott Simon's personal, heartfelt reflections on his beloved Chicago Cubs, replete with club lore, memorable anecdotes, frenetic fandom and wise and adoring intimacy that have made the world champion Cubbies baseball's most tortured - and now triumphant - franchise.No metaphor is necessary;... |
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Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football
Rich Cohen · Farrar, Straus and Giroux Format: Book
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The gripping account of a once-in-a-lifetime football team and their lone championship seasonFor Rich Cohen and millions of other fans, the 1985 Chicago Bears were more than a football team: they were the greatest football team ever--a gang of colorful nuts, dancing and pounding their way to victory.... |
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Death Row All Stars: A Story of Baseball, Corruption, and Murder
Chris Enss · TwoDot; 1st Edition edition Format: Print book
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It was the golden age of baseball, and all over the country teams gathered on town fields in front of throngs of fans to compete for local glory. In Rawlins, Wyoming, residents lined up for tickets to see slugger Joseph Seng and the rest of the Wyoming Penitentiary Death Row All Stars as they... |
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The Game: Inside the Secret World of Major League Baseball's Power Brokers
Jon Pessah · Little, Brown and Company Format: Hardcover
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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 Top of His Game: the Best Sportswriting of W. C. Heinz:
W. C. Heinz · Library of America Format: Hardcover
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Bill Littlefield (NPR's Only a Game) presents the second installment in the Library of America series devoted to classic American sportswriters, a defintive collector's edition of the pathbreaking writer who invented the long-form sports story. Like his friend and admirer Red Smith,... |
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No Plan B: Peyton Manning's Comeback with the Denver Broncos
Mark Kiszla · Taylor Trade Publishing Format: Hardcover
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Peyton Manning won the Super Bowl, hosted Saturday Night Live, and threw 399 touchdown passes during 14 amazing years as an NFL quarterback.Then he got fired.Indianapolis no longer valued Manning, a four-time winner of the leagues Most Valuable Player award. Get this The Colts cut the most-liked... |
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Marvin Miller, Baseball Revolutionary
Robert F Burk · University of Illinois Press; 1st Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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Marvin Miller changed major league baseball and the business of sports. Drawing on research and interviews with Miller and others, Marvin Miller, Baseball Revolutionary offers the first biography covering the pivotal labor leader's entire life and career. Baseball historian Robert F. Burk... |
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Mavericks, Money, and Men: The AFL, Black Players, and the Evolution of Modern Football
Charles Kenyatta Ross · Temple University Press Pages: 203 Format: Print book
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The American Football League, established in 1960, was innovative both in its commitment to finding talented, overlooked players - particularly those who played for historically black colleges and universities - and in the decision by team owners to share television revenues. In Mavericks,... |
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The Secret of Golf: The Story of Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus
Joe Posnanski · Simon & Schuster Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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New York Times BestsellerThe first time they met, at an exhibition match in 1967, Tom Watson was a seventeen-year-old high school student and Jack Nicklaus, at twenty-seven, was already the greatest golfer in the world. Though they shared some similarities - they were both Midwestern boys... |
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The Dad Report: Fathers, Sons, and Baseball Families
Kevin Cook · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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An unforgettable look at how baseball families share our national pastime.Baseball honors legacies -- from cheering the home team to breaking in an old glove handed down from father to son. In The Dad Report, award-winning sportswriter Kevin Cook weaves a tapestry of uplifting stories in which... |
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The Yankee Way: Playing, Coaching, and My Life in Baseball
Willie Randolph · It Books; Complete Numbers Starting with 1, 1st Ed edition Format: Hardcover
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Legendary New York Yankee Willie Randolph tells the story of his life playing and coaching for the most storied professional sports franchise in the world, detailing his career on and off the field with some of baseball biggest stars.In his long-awaited memoir, Willie Randolph shares stories... |
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