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The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created
JANE LEAVY · Harper Pages: 560 Format: Hardcover
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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
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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
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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
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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 Game: Harvard, Yale, and America in 1968
George Howe Colt · Scribner Pages: 400 Format: Hardcover
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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
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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
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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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