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Furious George: My Forty Years Surviving NBA Divas, Clueless GMs, and Poor Shot Selection

George Karl · Harpercollins
Pages: 228
Format: Print book

The most outspoken and combative coach in NBA history - and one of the most successful, amassing more than 1,175 victories, the sixth best winning record ever - reflects on his life, his career, and his battles on and off the basketball court in this no-holds-barred memoir

A man of deep...

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State: A Team, a Triumph, a Transformation

Melissa Isaacson · Agate Midway
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Set against a backdrop of social change during the 1970s, State is a compelling first-person account of what it was like to live through both traditional gender discrimination in sports and the joy of the very first days of equality - or at least the closest that one high school...
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Functional Fitness at Home: 66 Bodyweight and Small Equipment Exercises

LAMAR LOWERY · Meyer & Meyer Media
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

In Functional Fitness at Home, Lamar and Chris Lowery, experts in functional training, present effective exercises that can easily be done at home or outside with your own body weight or small exercise equipment. The workouts and training circuits are compiled in such a way that fitness...
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Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, its Chaotic Founding... its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis

Sam Anderson · Crown
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Award-winning journalist Sam Anderson's long-awaited debut is a brilliant, kaleidoscopic narrative of Oklahoma City--a great American story of civics, basketball, and destiny.

Oklahoma City was born from chaos. It was founded in a bizarre but momentous "Land Run" in 1889,...
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Superfans: Into the Heart of Obsessive Sports Fandom

GEORGE DOHRMANN · Ballantine Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist pulls back the curtain on the extraordinary inner lives of America's most obsessive sports fans.

There are fans, and then there are fanatics. In this wondrously immersive look at American sports fandom, George Dohrmann travels the country to find...
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Baseball Goes West: The Dodgers, the Giants, and the Shaping of the Major Leagues

Lincoln A. Mitchell · The Kent State University Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Following the 1957 season, two of baseball's most famous teams, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants,left the city they had called home since the 19th century and headed west. The Dodgers went to Los Angeles and the Giants to San Francisco. Those events have entered baseball...
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Beckett Baseball Card Price Guide: 2019 Edition

Beckett Media · Beckett Pubns
Format: Paperback


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My Dad, Yogi: A Memoir of Family and Baseball

Dale Berra · Hachette Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A candid and nostalgic father-son memoir by Dale Berra, providing a unique perspective on his legendary Hall of Fame dad, the inimitable and highly quotable Yogi Berra.

Everyone knows Yogi Berra, the American icon. He was the backbone of the New York Yankees through ten World Series...
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The Story of Baseball: In 100 Photographs

Hoge Raad (Civiele kamer) · Sports Illustrated
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover


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Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times

Mark Leibovich · Penguin Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Town, an equally merciless probing of America's biggest cultural force, pro football, at a moment of peak success and high anxiety

Like millions of Americans, Mark Leibovich has spent more of his life tuned into pro football...
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Run Fast. Cook Fast. Eat Slow.: Quick-Fix Recipes for Hangry Athletes

SHALANE FLANAGAN · Rodale Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Cook the recipes that Shalane Flanagan ate while training for her 2017 TCS New York City Marathon historic win!

The New York Times bestseller Run Fast. Eat Slow. taught runners of all ages that healthy food could be both indulgent and incredibly nourishing. Now,...

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Secrets of Better Skiing: Ski Tips Guaranteed to Improve Your Ski Technique

Rechtbank Amsterdam (President) · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

"Simon Dewhurst has presented a simple ... manual with some advice that is pure gold." 4 STAR REVIEW ON AMAZON Ski technique is simple and at last there is a book to prove it! Forget intricate diagrams and physical contortions. There are none in Secrets of Better Skiing. Becoming...
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12: The Inside Story of Tom Brady's Fight for Redemption

Casey Sherman · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The incredible story of Tom Brady and the Patriots' tumultuous 2016 season: from national disgrace to the greatest Super Bowl comeback of all time. In January 2015, rumors circulated that the New England Patriots--a team long suspected of abiding by the "if you ain't cheating...
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Walter Camp and the Creation of American Football

Roger R Tamte · University of Illinois Press
Pages: 408
Format: Hardcover

Walter Camp made the development of football--indeed, its very creation--his lifelong mission. From his days as a college athlete, Camp's love of the game and dedication to its future put it on the course that would allow it to seize the passions of the nation. Roger R. Tamte tells...
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Full Count: The Education of a Pitcher

David Cone · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Met and Yankee All-Star pitcher David Cone shares lessons from the World Series and beyond in this essential memoir for baseball fans everywhere.
"There was a sense about him and an aura about him. Even when he was in trouble, he carried himself like a pitcher...
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