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The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created

JANE LEAVY · Harper
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover

From Jane Leavy, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax, comes the definitive biography of Babe Ruth - the man Roger Angell dubbed "the model for modern celebrity."He lived in the present tense - in the camera's lens. There was no frame...
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Slowhand: The Life and Music of Eric Clapton

PHILIP NORMAN · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Shout!, comes the definitive biography of Eric Clapton, a Rock legend whose life story is as remarkable as his music, which transformed the sound of a generation.For half a century Eric Clapton has been acknowledged to be one of music's greatest virtuosos,...
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The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey

Rowan Ricardo Phillips · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

An energetic, lyrical, genre-defying account of the 2017 tennis season.In The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey, the award-winning poet -- and Paris Review sports columnist -- Rowan Ricardo Phillips chronicles 2017 as seen through the unique prism of its pivotal, revelatory, and historic tennis...
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Football for a Buck: The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL

Jeff Pearlman · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The USFL - United States Football League - was the last football league to not merely challenge the mighty NFL, but cause it to collectively shudder. It spanned three seasons, 1983-85. It secured multiple television deals. It drew millions of fans and launched the careers of legends. But then...
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The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports

JOSHUA ROBINSON · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The Club is the previously untold inside story of how English soccer's Premier League became the wildest, richest, most popular sports product on the planet. This is a sports and business tale of how money, ambition, and 25 years of uncommon drama re-made an ancient institution into...
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The Game: Harvard, Yale, and America in 1968

George Howe Colt · Scribner
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the bestselling National Book Award finalist The Big House comes a story in the tradition of The Boys in the Boat about an unforgettable group of young athletes who battled in the legendary Harvard-Yale football game of 1968 amidst the sweeping currents of one of the most...
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How 'Bout Them Cowboys?: Inside the Huddle with the Stars and Legends of America's Team

Gary Myers · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Welcome to Jerryworld and an all-access pass to the most valuable sports franchise on the planet, the Dallas Cowboys.Many books have been written about the Cowboys, but there's never been an account like this one. HOW 'BOUT THEM COWBOYS tells the story of the NFL's most successful...
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My World

Peter Sagan · VeloPress
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Peter Sagan, at just 28 years of age, is already one of cycling's greatest riders of all time. With four Tour de France points jersey victories, three road race world championships, the 2018 Paris-Roubaix, and multiple spring classics among Sagan's palmares, the world of cycling...
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