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WWE Encyclopedia Updated & Expanded

Brian Shields · BRADY GAMES; Exp Upd edition
Format: Hardcover

With more than one thousand superstars on four hundred packed pages, and covering all eras from the sixties to today's superstars, the WWE Encyclopedia is the ultimate definitive guide to World Wrestling Entertainment. Now updated and expanded, this dynamic companion to the WWE covers...
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Every Shot Counts: Using the Revolutionary Strokes Gained Approach to Improve Your Golf Performance and Strategy

Mark Broadie · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Columbia Business School professor Mark Broadie's paradigm-shifting approach that uses statistics and golf analytics to transform the game. Mark Broadie is at the forefront of a revolutionary new approach to the game of golf. What does it take to drop ten strokes from your golf score?...
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Players First: Coaching from the Inside Out

John Calipari · Penguin Group USA
Pages: 276
Format: Hardcover

"If you are a college basketball fan like I am, you'll understand why I've long admired John Calipari's leadership style. While no coach treasures a win more than John, this terrific book reveals his greater purpose - to lead his young players to better lives, and then...
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Mickey and Willie: Mantle and Mays, the Parallel Lives of Baseball's Golden Age

Allen Barra · Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover

Acclaimed sportswriter Allen Barra exposes the uncanny parallels--and lifelong friendship--between two of the greatest baseball players ever to take the field. Culturally, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays were light-years apart. Yet they were nearly the same age and almost the same size, and they...
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Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life In the Minor Leagues of Baseball

John Feinstein · Doubleday
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed #1 bestselling author . . . a riveting journey through the world of minor-league baseball "No one grows up playing baseball pretending that they're pitching or hitting in Triple-A." - Chris Schwinden, Triple-A pitcher "If you don't like it here,...
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The Hall: A Celebration of Baseball's Greats: In Stories and Images, the Complete Roster of Inductees

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum · Little, Brown
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover

A deluxe baseball treasury unlike any other, complete with essays, photos, and player bios from The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.Everyone dreams of Cooperstown. It's a hallowed name in baseball, for players as well as their fans. It's a house where legends live; it's...
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The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football

Jeff Benedict · Doubleday; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

AN EXPLOSIVE AND REVELATORY PORTRAIT REPORTED FROM DEEP BEHIND THE SCENES OF BIG-TIME NCAA COLLEGE FOOTBALL THE PASSION THE THRILLING ACTIONmdashAND THE SHOCKING REALITIES THAT LIE BENEATH THIS COLOSSAL MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR BUSINESSCOLLEGE FOOTBALL has never been more popularmdashor more...
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Bleeding Orange: Fifty Years of Blind Referees, Screaming Fans, Beasts of the East, and Syracuse Basketball

Jim Boeheim · Harper
Format: Hardcover

In this candid autobiography, Syracuse head coach and long time college basketball fixture Jim Boeheim reflects on his life, his teachers, and the game he loves.Jim Boeheim walked onto the Syracuse campus as a freshman in 1963 . . . and never walked off. A man who has been written off at various...
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Mr. Hockey: My Story

Gordie Howe · G.P. Putnam's Sons; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

The definitive autobiography from hockeys greatest living legend—Mr. Hockey himself, Gordie Howe.  Big, skilled, tough on the ice, and nearly indestructible, Howe dominated both the sport and the record books like no one has before or since. Over an incredible six decades, the Hall...
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The Baseball Whisperer: A Small-Town Coach Who Shaped Big League Dreams

Michael Tackett · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

From an award-winning journalist, a real Field of Dreams story about a legendary coach and the professional-caliber baseball program he built in America's heartland, where boys come summer after summer to be molded into ballplayers - and men Clarinda, Iowa, population 5,000, sits two hours...
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Archery Fundamentals-2nd Edition

Teresa Johnson · Human Kinetics; 2 edition
Format: Book

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Tales from First Base: The Best, Funniest, and Slickest First Basemen Ever

Brad Engel · Potomac Books Inc.
Pages: 152
Format: Hardcover

When a batter races toward first base and players scramble to make a tough play, anything can happen. Tales From First Base is a humorous and insightful look at the players, coaches, and umpires who have spent time along those first ninety feet of the base path.Wayne Stewart and Brad Engel...
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Fly Patterns by Fishing Guides: 200 Flies That Really Work

Tony Lolli · Barron's Educational Series; Spi edition
Format: Book

This brand-new how-to manual for fly tying enthusiasts is a book with a real difference! Most of the 200 patterns shown and described in these pages have never appeared anywhere in print until now. More important, all have proved effective, because all were created by professional fishing...
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Breaking the Line: The Season in Black College Football That Transformed the Sport and Changed the Course of Civil Rights

Samuel G. Freedman · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

1967. Two rival football teams. Two legendary coaches. Two talented quarterbacks. Together they broke the color line, revolutionized college sports, and transformed the NFL. Freedman’s dramatic account, highly praised as a contributing part of the movement and a riveting sports story,...
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Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar explores his 50-year friendship with Coach John Wooden, one of the most enduring and meaningful relationships in sports history.
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