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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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Fast Girl: A Life Spent Running from Madness
Suzy Favor Hamilton · Dey Street Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The former middle distance Olympic runner and high-end escort speaks out for the first time about her battle with mental illness, and how mania controlled and compelled her in competition, but also in life. This is a heartbreakingly honest yet hopeful memoir reminiscent of Manic, Electroboy,... |
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The Surf Girl Handbook: Everything You Need To Know About Surfing
Stephanie Gilmore · Orca Publications Ltd, UK
Pages: 189
Format: Print book
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This new edition of the The Surf Girl Handbook has been revised and updated with fresh photos and additional sections. Whether you're a complete beginner or a standout ripper at your local break, The Surf Girl Handbook will help you to take your surfing to the next level. Packed with... |
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101 Baseball Places to See Before You Strike Out
Josh Pahigian · Lyons Press; 2nd Edition edition
Format: Print book
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A brand new edition of the finalist for the 2008 Casey Award, presented annually to the best baseball book, 101 Baseball Places to See Before You Strike Out profiles Americas greatest baseball museums, shrines, sports bars, pop culture landmarks and ballpark sites. From sandlots and skyboxes... |
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This Old Man: All in Pieces
Roger Angell · Doubleday Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Roger Angell, the acclaimed New Yorker writer and editor, returns with a selection of writings that celebrate a view from the tenth decade of an engaged, vibrant life. Long known for his range and supple prose (he is the only writer elected to membership in both the Baseball Hall of Fame... |
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What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen
KATE FAGAN · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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From noted on-air commentator and sports journalist Kate Fagan, the heartbreaking and vital story of college athlete Maddy Holleran, whose death by suicide rocked the University of Pennsylvania campus and whose life reveals with haunting detail and uncommon understanding the struggle of young... |
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Baseball in San Diego: From the Plaza to the Padres
Bill Swank · Arcadia
Pages: 128
Format: Print book
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Baseball in San Diego: From the Plaza to the Padres, takes the reader on a seven-decade journey from Horton Plaza, the site of San Diego's first base ball game in 1871, to lower Broadway and the future home of Lane Field. Before the Pacific Coast League, San Diego had three Class D teams.... |
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The Secrets of My Life
KATHERINE SUE NEWPORT · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 356
Format: Hardcover
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In this remarkable memoir-written during her pivotal first years of becoming her authentic self-Caitlyn Jenner reflects on her past as she looks to her future. |
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Men in Green
Michael Bamberger · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Instant New York Times Bestseller "Maybe the best golf book I've ever read." - Bill Reynolds, The Providence Journal "Surprisingly candid...Bamberger doesn't flinch at portraying the Tour's earthier aspects...But the book is overwhelmingly a love song."... |
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Lefty O'Doul: Baseball's Forgotten Ambassador
Dennis Snelling · University of Nebraska Press
Pages: 392
Format: Hardcover
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From San Francisco to the Ginza in Tokyo, Lefty O'Doul relates the untold story of one of baseball's greatest hitters, most colorful characters, and the unofficial father of professional baseball in Japan. Lefty O'Doul (1897-1969) began his career on the sandlots of San Francisco... |
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A Life Well Played: My Stories
Arnold Palmer · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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The instant New York Times bestsellerThis book is Palmer's parting gift to the world -- a treasure trove of entertaining anecdotes and timeless wisdom that readers, golfers and non-golfers alike, will celebrate and cherish. No one has won more fans around the world and no player has had a bigger... |
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