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New Titles - Sports
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Mountaineering: Essential Skills for Hikers and Climbers
Richardson, Alun · W W Norton
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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The most comprehensive, detailed, and richly illustrated guide to mountaineering ever!Perfect for the complete beginner or the seasoned mountaineer, Mountaineering is a comprehensive guide for anyone who aspires to climb the world's hills and mountains. Its pages are packed full of information,... |
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Tough Luck: Sid Luckman, Murder, Inc., and the Rise of the Modern NFL
R. D. Rosen · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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In the long annals of sports and crime, no story compares to the one that engulfed the Luckman family in 1935. As 18-year-old Sid Luckman made headlines across New York City for his high school football exploits at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, his father, Meyer Luckman, was making... |
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Never Settle: Sports, Family, and the American Soul
Marty Smith · Twelve
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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The amazing and blessed life of popular ESPN reporter and correspondent for College GameDay, Marty Smith, whose mission in this thoughtful and funny memoir is to return fans to the true soul of sports in this country. You know Marty right? The guy during College GameDay hanging off the back... |
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Unbreakable: The Woman Who Defied the Nazis in the World's Most Dangerous Horse Race
Askwith, Richard · Pegasus Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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The courageous and heartbreaking story of a Czech countess who defied the Nazis in a legendary horse race.Czechoslovakia, October 1937. Europe's youngest democracy is on its knees. Millions are mourning the death of the nation's founding father, the saintly Tomáš Masaryk. Across... |
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Boxing and the Mob: The Notorious History of the Sweet Science
Sussman, Jeffrey · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
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More than any other sport, boxing has a history of being easy to rig. There are only two athletes and one or both may be induced to accept a bribe; if not the fighters, then the judges or referee might be swayed. In such inviting circumstances, the mob moved into boxing in the 1930s and profited... |
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