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History of Baseball in 100 Objects
Josh Leventhal · Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Pages: 496 Format: Print book
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The only book of its kind to tell the history of baseball, from its inception to the present day, through 100 key objects that represent the major milestones, evolutionary events, and larger-than-life personalities that make up the game A History of Baseball in 100 Objects is a visual and historical... |
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The Hidden Game of Baseball: A Revolutionary Approach to Baseball and Its Statistics
John Thorn · University Of Chicago Press; Third Edition, Enlarged edition Format: Print book
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Long before Moneyball became a sensation or Nate Silver turned the knowledge he'd honed on baseball into electoral gold, John Thorn and Pete Palmer were using statistics to shake the foundations of the game. First published in 1984, The Hidden Game of Baseball ushered in the sabermetric... |
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The Adjacent
Christopher Priest · Random House Inc Pages: 377 Format: Hardcover
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The eagerly anticipated new novel from "one of the master illusionists of our time." (Wired) In the near future, Tibor Tarent, a freelance photographer, is recalled from Anatolia to Britain when his wife, an aid worker, is killed - annihilated by a terrifying weapon that reduces... |
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Stagg vs. Yost: The Birth of Cutthroat Football
John Kryk · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Format: Hardcover
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Corruption, scandals, and reports of wrongdoing in college football are constantly in the news. From Penn State's Joe Paterno to Ohio State's Jim Tressel, we have come to learn that some of the most lauded coaches don't always live up to their saintly reputations. Perhaps no era of college... |
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Becoming a Mountain: Himalayan Journeys in Search of the Sacred and the Sublime
Stephen Alter · Arcade Publishing Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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Stephen Alter was raised by American missionary parents in the hill station of Mussoorie, in the foothills of the Himalayas, where he and his wife, Ameeta, now live. Their idyllic existence was brutally interrupted when four armed intruders invaded their house and viciously attacked them,... |
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The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits
TOMMY CALDWELL · Viking Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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A dramatic, inspiring memoir by legendary rock climber Tommy Caldwell, the first person to free climb the Dawn Wall of Yosemite s El CapitanOn January 14, 2015, Tommy Caldwell, along with his partner, Kevin Jorgeson, summited what is widely regarded as the hardest climb in history Yosemite... |
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Walter Camp: Football and the Modern Man
Julie Des Jardins · Oxford University Press; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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Americans are obsessed with football, yet they know little about the man who shaped the game to make it uniquely technical, physical, and 'man-making' at once. Walter Camp, the "Father of American Football," was the foremost authority on American athletics and arguably... |
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Unstill Life: A Daughter's Memoir of Art and Love in the Age of Abstraction
Gabrielle Selz · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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Awarded the 2015 Best Memoir from The American Society of Journalists and Authors Luminous and revealing, a daughter's memoir of the art world and a larger-than-life father. In 1958, soon after Gabrielle Selz was born, she, her parents and her sister moved to New York, where her father,... |
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One Goal: A Coach, a Team, and the Game That Brought a Divided Town Together
Amy Bass · Hachette Books Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Friday Night Lights and Outcasts United, ONE GOAL tells the inspiring story of the soccer team in a town bristling with racial tension that united Somali refugees and multi-generation Mainers in their quest for state--and ultimately national--glory.When thousands of Somali... |
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Eight World Cups: My Journey through the Beauty and Dark Side of Soccer
George Vecsey · Henry Holt & Co Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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On the eve of the 2014 World Cup, New York Times sports columnist George Vecsey offers a personal perspective on the beautiful gameBlending witty travelogue with action on the field--and shady dealings in back rooms--George Vecsey offers an eye-opening, globe-trotting account of the last... |
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