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Pickleball Is Life: The Complete Guide to Feeding Your Obsession

ERIN MCHUGH - Harvest
Format: Hardcover

The ultimate keepsake for every pickleball fan - from a dink shot to the kitchen, everything a pickleballer needs to know in this fully illustrated guide to the world's greatest recreational sport, packed with lots of joy, good humor, and even a little bit of wisdom.Pickleball is the fastest...
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The Year of the Pitcher: Bob Gibson, Denny McLain, and the End of Baseball's Golden Age

SRIDHAR PAPPU - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

The Year of the Pitcher is the story of the remarkable 1968 baseball season, which culminated in one of the greatest World Series contests ever, with the Detroit Tigers coming back from a 3-1 deficit to beat the Cardinals in Game Seven of the World Series. In 1968, two remarkable...
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Gods at Play: An Eyewitness Account of Great Moments in American Sports

Tom Callahan - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A beautifully observed narrative of American sport: character, grit, tragedy, unremarked heroism, and, always, the illuminating story behind the story.As a columnist for Time magazine, among many other publications, Tom Callahan witnessed an extraordinary number of defining moments in American...
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The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City

Kevin Baker - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A hugely entertaining history of baseball and New York City, bursting with larger-than-life figures and fascinating stories from the game's beginnings to the end of World War II.. Baseball is "the New York game" because New York is where the diamond was first laid out, where...
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The Back Roads to March: The Unsung, Unheralded, and Unknown Heroes of a College Basketball Season

John Feinstein - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

Thirty years ago after changing the sports book landscape with his mega-hit, A Season on the Brink, #1 New York Times bestselling author John Feinstein returns to his first love--college basketball--with a fascinating and compelling journey through a landscape of unsung, unpublicized...
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A Life Well Played: My Stories

Arnold Palmer - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book

The instant New York Times bestsellerThis book is Palmer's parting gift to the world -- a treasure trove of entertaining anecdotes and timeless wisdom that readers, golfers and non-golfers alike, will celebrate and cherish. No one has won more fans around the world and no player...
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Who's Your Tiger? The Four Greatest Detroit Tiger Hitters of All Time

Maury Dean - Maxwell Hunter Publishing, Inc.
Format: Paperback

Four biographies, starring Detroit Tigers' greatest all-time hitters--Miguel Cabrera, Al Kaline, Ty Cobb, and Hank Greenberg. Dean's fan memoir also features hundreds of Tiger biosketches and pix of a century of Tiger 2nd-string superstars. Other markets' non-Tiger MLB stars...
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Lou Gehrig: The Lost Memoir

Alan Gaff - SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: Hardcover

The lost memoir from baseball icon Lou Gehrig--a major historical discovery, published for the first time as a book, with "color commentary" from historian Alan Gaff. In 1927, the legendary Lou Gehrig sat down to write the remarkable story of his life and career. He was at his peak,...
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Stars and Strikes: Baseball and America in the Bicentennial Summer of '76

Dan Epstein - St Martins Press
Format: Hardcover

Dan Epstein scored a cult hit with Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70s. Now he returns with a riotous look at the most pivotal season of the decade.America, 1976: colorful, complex, and combustible. It was a year of Bicentennial...
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The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon

Kevin Fedarko - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

From one of Outside magazines Literary All-Stars comes the thrilling true tale of the fastest boat ride ever down the entire length of the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon during the legendary flood of In the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Seabiscuit the engrossing tale of the fastest...
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