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Backpacker Hidden Gems: 100 Greatest Undiscovered Hikes Across America

MAREN HORJUS · Falcon Guides
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Nothing against the Bright Angel Trail, the Narrows, the Presidential Traverse, or Half Dome, which are all certainly worth of their popularity, but hikers don't need another resource pointing them toward those conga lines. It's time we rewrite the backpacker's life list. Enter Backpacker...
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Hike Smart: Tips and Tactics for Improving Your Treks

Ann Marie Brown · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Are you a first-timer about to take your inaugural trek? Are you a veteran hiker looking to be even more efficient when enjoying the sport you love? Are you someone in between? Then look no further than expert trekker Ann Brown's Hike Smart, the definitive guide to efficient and enjoyable...
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A Course Called Scotland: Searching the Home of Golf for the Secret to Its Game

TOM COYNE · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From Tom Coyne - the author of the New York Times bestselling A Course Called Ireland, hailed as "a joy from start to finish" by The Wall Street Journal - comes the heartfelt and humorous celebration of his quest to play golf on every links course in Scotland,...
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The Shift: The Next Evolution in Baseball Thinking

Russell A Carleton · Triumph Books
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

With its three-hour-long contests, 162-game seasons, and countless measurable variables, baseball is a sport which lends itself to self-reflection and obsessive analysis. It's a thinking game. It's also a shifting game. Nowhere is this more evident than in the statistical revolution which...
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Ballplayer

Chipper Jones · Dutton
Pages: 369

Before Chipper Jones became an eight-time All-Star who amassed Hall of Fame-worthy statistics during his nineteen-year career with the Atlanta Braves, he was a country boy from small-town Pierson, Florida, who played baseball in the backyard with his dad and dreamed of the major leagues....
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Believe It: My Journey of Success, Failure, and Overcoming the Odds

NICK FOLES · Tyndale Momentum
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Get ready to defy the odds when everyone's counting you out.
When the Philadelphia Eagles' starting quarterback went down with a torn ACL in week 14 of the 2017 NFL season, many fans -- and commentators -- assumed the Eagles' season was over.

Instead, Nick Foles came off the bench...
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Jim Brown: Last Man Standing

Dave Zirin · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A unique biography of Jim Brown--football legend, Hollywood star, and controversial activist--written by acclaimed sports journalist Dave Zirin. The author spent considerable time with his subject, speaking with him at length about his life and career.

Jim Brown is recognized as perhaps...
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Game-Day Eats: 100 Recipes for Homegating Like a Pro

Eddie Jackson · Harper Design
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Create epic feasts for game days at home with this full-color cookbook from former NFL star and celebrity chef Eddie Jackson that includes 100 fresh and inventive recipes for tailgating at home.

There's nothing like day full of football and great food. While many fans tailgate...

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Yoga Therapy: A Personalized Approach for Your Active Lifestyle

KRISTEN BUTERA · HUMAN KINETICS
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Yoga is more popular now than ever. The benefits are recognized worldwide, and athletes and therapists rely on the practice. Yet its appeal is as varied as those who practice it. Regardless of your activity level and fitness background, yoga is truly for you. Yoga Therapy: A Personalized...
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Bones: Brothers, Horses, Cartels, and the Borderland Dream

JOE TONE · One World
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The dramatic true story of two brothers living parallel lives on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border - and how their lives converged in a major criminal conspiracy

José and Miguel Treviño were bonded by blood and a shared vision of a better life. But they chose different...
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I'm Keith Hernandez

Keith Hernandez · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 320

A memoir from beloved and outspoken first baseman and broadcaster Keith Hernandez Keith Hernandez revolutionized how first base was played, partied hard, and played harder than anyone as a champion New York Met in the '80s, and even had a star turn appearing as himself on an episode of Seinfeld....
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The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino: A Story of Corruption, Scandal, and the Big Business of College Basketball

Michael Y Sokolove · Penguin Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

From acclaimed New York Times Magazine author Michael Sokolove, the astonishing inside story of the epic corruption scandal that has rocked the NCAA and exposed the rot and hypocrisy at the heart of big-time college sports.

At a lavish annual event in late August 2017, the University...
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Hell with the Lid Off: Inside the Fierce Rivalry between the 1970s Oakland Raiders and Pittsburgh Steelers

Ed Gruver · University of Nebraska Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Hell with the Lid Off looks at the ferocious five-year war waged by Pittsburgh and Oakland for NFL supremacy during the turbulent seventies.?The roots of their rivalry dated back to the 1972 playoff game in Pittsburgh that ended with the “Immaculate Reception,” Franco Harris’s stunning...
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The Games: A Global History of the Olympics

David Goldblatt · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 516
Format: Paperback

"A people's history of the Olympics." -- New York Times Book ReviewA Boston Globe Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the YearThe Games is best-selling sportswriter David Goldblatt's sweeping, definitive history of the modern Olympics. Goldblatt...
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Ron Shandler's 2019 Baseball Forecaster: & Encyclopedia of Fanalytics

Brent Hershey · Triumph Books
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

The industry's longest-running publication for baseball analysts and fantasy leaguers, Ron Shandler's 2019 Baseball Forecaster, published annually since 1986, is the first book to approach prognostication by breaking performance down into its component parts. Rather than predicting...
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