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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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The Eagles Encyclopedia: Champions Edition

Ray Didinger · Temple University Press
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

Ray Didinger, like every die-hard Eagles fan, has been waiting since the 1960 NFL Title for the Birds to win the Super Bowl. In this "Champions Edition" of The Eagles Encyclopedia, beloved Eagles commentator Didinger celebrates his team and their remarkable, against-all-odds season...
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Racing to the Finish: My Story

DALE EARNHARDT JR · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

It was a seemingly minor crash at Michigan International Speedway in June 2016 that ended the day early for Dale Earnhardt Jr. What he didn't know was that it would also end his driving for the year. He'd dealt with concussions before, but concussions are like snowflakes - no two are the same....
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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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Fearless: How an Underdog Becomes a Champion

DOUG PEDERSON · Hachette Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Doug Pederson's winning and inspiring memoir of becoming the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles and their against-all-odds march to the Super Bowl championship. Doug Pederson took the Philadelphia Eagles to their first championship in 58 years with his fearless approach. With rare...
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Basketball: A Love Story

DAN KLORES · Crown Archetype
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping and revelatory history of basketball, drawing upon hundreds of hours of interviews with the greatest players, coaches, executives, and journalists in the history of the game.In an effort to tell the complete story of basketball in all its fascinating dimensions, celebrated journalists...
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