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The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime

Jason Turbow · Pantheon; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Everyone knows that baseball is a game of intricate regulations, but it turns out to be even more complicated than we realize. What truly governs the Major League game is a set of unwritten rules, some of which are openly discussed dont steal a base with a big lead late in the game, and some...
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Hockey Tough 2nd Edition.

Saul Miller
Pages: 240
Format:  Print book : English

Hockey is a game of speed, agility, power, and skill. It's also a game of intimidation, urgency, pressure, and isolation. The best players aren't just physically gifted; they're also mentally tough. They step on the ice with poise, tenacity, and focus. With Hockey Tough, so can you.Hockey...
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Swimming in the Sink: An Episode of the Heart

Lynne Cox · Thorndike Press Large Print
Pages: 253
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Bestselling Author From inspired and inspiring open-water swimmer and supreme athlete Lynne Cox comes a powerful book about super athleticism and human frailty, about invincibility and the sudden (mind-altering) repercussions of illness, and about the triumph of spirit,...
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One Last Strike: Fifty Years in Baseball, Ten and a Half Games Back, and One Final Championship Season

Tony La Russa · William Morrow; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

One Last Strike by legendary baseball manager Tony La Russa is a thrilling sports comeback story. La Russa, the winner of four Manager of the Year awards—who led his teams to six Pennant wins and three World Series crowns—chronicles one of the most exciting end-of-season runs...
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Stars Beneath the Sea: The Pioneers of Diving

Trevor Norton · Carroll & Graf Publishers; First edition. edition
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

In a series of brilliantly detailed portraits, this history of the daring art of diving recounts the eccentric exploits and sense-defying feats of the men who turned underwater adventure into a modern science. Spear fishermen and conservationists, treasure hunters and archaeologists, photographers...
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Strength Ball Training 3rd Edition

Lorne Goldenberg · Human Kinetics
Pages: 333
Format: Print book

Who says the best can't get better? The third edition of "Strength Ball Training" delivers more exercises, programs, assessments, and videos for better results. Preferred by elite athletes, fitness experts, and strength and conditioning specialists, stability and medicine...
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Finding Gobi: A Little Dog with a Very Big Heart

DION LEONARD · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

A man, a dog, and the lengths to which love will go to sacrifice for its companion. Finding Gobi is the miraculous tale of Dion Leonard, a seasoned ultramarathon runner who crosses paths with a stray dog while competing in a 155-mile race through the Gobi Desert in China. The lovable pup,...
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Lucky Bastard: My Life, My Dad, and the Things I'm Not Allowed to Say on TV

Joe Buck · Dutton
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

In his debut memoir, Joe Buck talks about his life, his career, and his memorable relationship with his father, legendary sportscaster Jack Buck.Sports fans see Joe Buck everywhere: broadcasting one of the biggest games in the NFL every week, doing the World Series every year, announcing...
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The Patriot: The Stunning True Story of Aaron Hernandez: His Rise and Fall as a Football Superstar, His Two Explosive Trials for Murder, His Shocking Death

James Patterson · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The world's most popular thriller writer presents the definitive, never before told account of the Aaron Hernandez case. Everyone thought they knew Aaron Hernandez. He was an NFL star who made the game of football look easy. Until he became the prime suspect in a gruesome murder. But who was Aaron...
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Race of the Century: The Heroic True Story of the 1908 New York to Paris Auto Race

J M Fenster · Crown
Pages: 387
Format: Hardcover

On the morning of February 12, 1908, six cars from four different countries lined up in the swirling snow of Times Square, surrounded by a frenzied crowd of 250,000. The seventeen men who started the New York to Paris auto race were an international roster of personalities: a charismatic...
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Driven: From Homeless to Hero, My Journeys On and Off Lambeau Field

Donald Driver · Random House Inc
Pages: 278
Format: Book

The legendary NFL receiver, all-time receptions and yards leader for the Green Bay Packers, and Dancing with the Stars champion looks back on his life and career. When he was picked in the seventh-round of 1999 NFL draft, Donald Driver couldn't find Green Bay on a map. He was given little...
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Ultimate Conditioning for Martial Arts

Loren Landow · Human Kinetics
Pages: 264
Format: Print book

Strike and kick with explosive power. Take down and grapple with sustained brute strength. Counter and evade with unmatched speed and agility. Be the best. Be your best with" Ultimate Conditioning for Martial Arts, " the complete guide for physical and mental dominance. Whether...
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Out of the Wild: A Novel

Mark Rashid · Trafalgar Square Books
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

Now a major motion picture, starring John Diehl, Jean Louisa Kelley, and Ben Ashbrook, directed by Paul Krizan! One dark, vacant Nevada night, cattle rancher Henry McBride closes his eyes - only to open them and find his life suddenly in a shambles, with everything that means anything to him lost...
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American Endurance: Buffalo Bill, the Great Cowboy Race of 1893, and the Vanishing Wild West

Richard A Serrano · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Richard A. Serrano's new book American Endurance: The Great Cowboy Race and the Vanishing Wild West is history, mystery, and Western all rolled into one. In June 1893, nine cowboys raced across a thousand miles of American prairie to the Chicago...
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The New School Guide to Northern California Whitewater

Daniel P Menten · New School Publications
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

The New School Guidebook is a whitewater guidebook to the Six Rivers Region of Northern California. From majestic Redwood floats to tumultuous whitewater streams the New School Guide is designed to help people of all skill levels enjoy the fantastic streams of this beautiful area. This...
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