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Let Them Play: The Mindful Way to Parent Kids for Fun and Success in Sports
Jerry Lynch · New World Library Pages: 172 Format: Print book |
American youth sports is undergoing a crisis in parental behavior: parents are fighting with refs, coaches, their kids, and each other. Verbal abuse is being thrown at adolescent referees, fist fights are breaking out on the sidelines, and leagues are having to impose new restrictions on parents'... |
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The Pacific Crest Trail - "A Hiker's Companion"
Karen Berger · W W Norton Pages: 320 Format: Print book |
The Pacific Crest Trail - 'A Hiker's Companion' is not a step by step guide to the PCT. Rather it is an overview type of guide, designed to tell you the things the state guides leave out. Written by 2 people who wholeheartedly love the trail and return year after year to hike... |
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I'd Know That Voice Anywhere: My Favorite NPR Commentaries
Frank Deford · Atlantic Monthly Press Pages: 240 Format: Print book |
Frank Deford is one of the most beloved sports journalists in America. A contributing writer to Sports Illustrated for more than fifty years, and a longtime correspondent on Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, these days, Deford is perhaps best known for his weekly commentaries on NPR's... |
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99: Stories of the Game
Wayne Gretzky · Putnam Pages: 384 Format: Print book |
One of the greatest sports figures of all time salutes his heroes and takes us inside the game as few others can. From minor-hockey phenomenon to Hall of Fame sensation, Wayne Gretzky rewrote the record books, his accomplishments becoming the stuff of legend. Dubbed "The Great One,"... |
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Miracle at Fenway: The Inside Story of the Boston Red Sox 2004 Championship Season
Saul Wisnia · St. Martin's Press Format: Hardcover |
BEFORE THEY BECOME THE 2013 WORLD CHAMPIONS, THERE WAS THE SEASON THAT BROKE THE CURSE AND STARTED IT ALL…The players and coaching staff of the 2004 Boston Red Sox are now and forever, legends. After all, it had been eighty-six years since Boston last won a World Series, a fact anybody... |
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The Way of the Runner: A Journey into the Fabled World of Japanese Running
Adharanand Finn · Pegasus Books Pages: 326 Format: Print book |
Welcome to Japan, the most running-obsessed nation on earth, and home to a unique running culture unlike anything Adharanand Finn, author of Running with the Kenyans, has even experienced.It may come as a surprise to many people, but Japan is the most running-obsessed country on earth.... |
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Gil Hodges: A Hall of Fame Life
Mort Zachter · University of Nebraska Press Format: Hardcover |
In descriptions of athletes, the word hero is bandied about and liberally attached to players with outstanding statistics and championship rings. Gil Hodges A Hall of Fame Life is the story of a man who epitomized heroism in its truest meaning, holding values and personal interactions to be of utmost... |
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Greater than Gold : from Olympic heartbreak to ultimate redemption
David Boudia · Nelson Books Pages: 194 Format: Print book |
One of America's most heralded young divers, David Boudia twice went for Olympic gold, training obsessively and whole-heartedly for success. In his first Olympics, he failed miserably, not winning a single medal. Four years later saw a different story: he mounted the podium twice, winning... |
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Swimming in the Sink: An Episode of the Heart
Lynne Cox · Alfred A. Knopf Pages: 240 Format: Print book |
From inspired and inspiring open-water swimmer and supreme athlete, able to endure cold water temperatures that would kill others, author of Swimming to Antarctica ("Riveting" - Sports Illustrated) and Grayson ("Moving, mystical" - People) - a powerful book about... |
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