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Beckett Baseball Almanac #22
Beckett Staff - Beckett Pubns
Format: Paperback
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More than 1.9 million items priced inside! 1. Canadian Cards 2. Discs 3. Major League Team Sets 4. Pre- War tobacco cards 5. Stadium GiveAways 6. Stickers 7. Vintage Minor League singles |
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Good Call: Reflections on Faith, Family, and Fowl
Jase Robertson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The closer we look at the Robertson family, the more we discover the substance and authenticity below the surface of these well-known TV characters. In this enlightening book, Jase Robertson gives us a deep look behind his funnyman exterior. In addition to stories of life in the Robertson... |
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Lonely Planet Grand Canyon National Park
Lonely Planet - Lonely Planet
Format: Paperback
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Lonely Planet: The world's number one travel guide publisher* Lonely Planet's Grand Canyon National Park is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Go rafting on the Colorado River, explore the Grand... |
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All the Wrong Moves: A Memoir About Chess, Love, and Ruining Everything
Sasha Chapin - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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"A smart, funny, and slyly profound book about the dark ecstasies of obsessive love. Sasha Chapin is a gentlemanly Gonzo, a dirty Bond, and he writes like a dream."--Claudia Dey, author of HeartbreakerSasha Chapin is a victim of chess. Like countless amateurs before him--Albert... |
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NOLS Wilderness Medicine: 6th Edition
Tod Schimelpfenig - Stackpole Books
Format: Print book
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"One of the finest first aid books I've seen."--Mel Otten, M.D., Wilderness Medical SocietyNew chapters on judgment and decision-making and mental healthFirst-aid topics--patient assessment, shock, soft tissue injury, burns, fractures and dislocations, and chest, head, and abdominal... |
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Tracking and Reading Sign: A Guide to Mastering the Original Forensic Science
Len McDougall - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Book
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This full-color book is the perfect guide for anyone interested in learning how to track animals and read their signs. It offers an introduction on the principals of tracking and reading sign by looking at tracks, prints, gaits, scats, scents, and animal behaviors. It provides the reader... |
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How Cycling Can Save the World
Peter Walker - TarcherPerigee
Format: Paperback
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Peter Walker - reporter at the Guardian and curator of its popular bike blog - shows how the future of humanity depends on the bicycle. Car culture has ensnared much of the world - and it's no wonder. Convenience and comfort (as well as some clever lobbying) have made the car the transportation... |
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Golf's Holy War: The Battle for the Soul of a Game in an Age of Science
Brett Cyrgalis - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Just as Michael Lewis's Moneyball captured baseball at a technological turning point, Brett Cyrgalis's Golf's Holy War takes us inside golf's clash between its beloved artistic tradition and its analytic future. The world of golf is at a crossroads. As technological innovations... |
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Walking to Listen: 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time
Andrew Forsthoefel - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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A memoir of one young man's coming of age on a cross-country trek--told through the stories of the people of all ages, races, and inclinations he meets along the highways of America.Life is fast, and I've found it's easy to confuse the miraculous for the mundane, so I'm slowing... |
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Speed Kings: The 1932 Winter Olympics and the Fastest Men in the World
Andy Bull - AVERY, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Format: Print book
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A story of risk, adventure, and daring as four Americans race to win the gold medal in the most dangerous competition in Olympic history. In the 1930s, as the world hurtled toward war, speed was all the rage. Bobsledding, the fastest and most thrilling way to travel on land, had become... |
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Self-defense for women : fight back
Loren W Christensen - Ymaa Pubns
Format: Print book
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Somewhere in America right now are four or five women who will be killed tomorrow. They are going about their day, and I know if they were prepared to counter attack in the ways Loren Christensen and Lisa Place teach, they'd have a far better chance of prevailing tomorrow. " Gavin... |
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Why a curveball curves : the incredible science of sports
Frank Vizard; Popular Mechanics Press. - Hearst Books
Format: eBook : Document : English : New & improved editionView all editions and formats
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What does Bernoulli's law have to do with curveballs? What does drag have to do with swimming? Will "gene doping" produce super athletes? Find out the science behind your favorite sport. |
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Lords of the Fly: Madness, Obsession, and the Hunt for the World Record Tarpon
Monte Burke - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Saban, 4th and Goal, and Sowbelly comes the thrilling, untold story of the quest for the world record tarpon on a fly rod, a tale that reveals as much about Man as it does about the fish. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, something unique happened in the quiet... |
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The Age of Football: Soccer and the 21st Century
David Goldblatt - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A monumental exploration of soccer and society in our time -- by its preeminent historian.In the twenty-first century, soccer commands the allegiance, interest, and engagement of more people in more places than any other phenomenon in the world. David Goldblatt -- author of the acclaimed,... |
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Fastpitch: The Untold History of Softball and the Women Who Made the Game
Erica Westly - Touchstone Books
Format: Print book
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A real-life A League of Their Own meets The Girls of Atomic City: the first fascinating history of fastpitch softball from its beginnings as an industrial worker's game to an Olympic sport with millions of fans and players worldwide, and the incredible, larger-than-life women... |
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Ten Innings at Wrigley: The Wildest Ballgame Ever, with Baseball on the Brink
Kevin Cook - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic story of a legendary 1979 slugfest between the Chicago Cubs and the Philadelphia Phillies, full of runs, hits, and subplots, at the tipping point of a new era in baseball historyIt was a Thursday at Chicago's Wrigley Field, mostly sunny with the wind blowing out. Nobody expected... |
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Trespassing Across America: One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before
Ken Ilgunas - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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Told with sincerity, humor, and wit, Trespassing Across America is both a fascinating account of one man's remarkable journey along the Keystone XL pipeline and a meditation on climate change, the beauty of the natural world, and the extremes to which we can push ourselves - both... |
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Pete Rose: An American Dilemma
Kostya Kennedy - Little Brown & Co
Format: Hardcover
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"Kennedy's book on the tarnished and enigmatic Rose is exceptional. Like the best writing about sport--Liebling, Angell--it qualifies as stirring literature. I'd read Kennedy no matter what he writes about." --Richard FordPete Rose played baseball with a singular and headfirst... |
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Rick Steves Eastern Europe
Rick Steves - Avalon Travel Publishing
Format: Paperback
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You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Eastern Europe - including the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, and Croatia.Explore Eastern Europe's top cities, from the romantic spires of Prague and the steamy thermal baths... |
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Blitzed: Why NFL Teams Gamble on Starting Rookie Quarterbacks
Thomas George - Sports Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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In today's NFL, every team has a "win now" mentality. There's no time for rebuilding or down years. You need to compete each and every day, or else you're out; and that goes for the players, coaches, and front office. You either win today or you're gone tomorrow.Because... |
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Gods at Play: An Eyewitness Account of Great Moments in American Sports
Tom Callahan - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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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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Slobberknocker: My Life in Wrestling
JIM ROSS - Sports Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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There are few people who have been in the wrestling business longer than Jim Ross. And those who have made it as long as he has (half a century to be exact) probably made enemies or burned bridges. But that's just not JR.Slobberknocker is the story of how an Oklahoman farm kid, with... |
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101 Western Dressage Exercises for Horse & Rider
Jec Aristotle Ballou - Storey Publishing, LLC; Spi edition
Format: Print book
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The exciting new discipline of Western Dressage lets riders of Western pleasure work or competitive horsesxAenjoy the benefits of traditional dressage while using Western tack and attire This book -- the very first on the topic -- offers fun and effective exercises that will improve every... |
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The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance
Tom Brady - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The first book by New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady - the five-time Super Bowl champion who is still reaching unimaginable heights of excellence at thirty-nine years old - a gorgeously illustrated and deeply practical "athlete's bible" that reveals Brady's revolutionary... |
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365 Trout Flies: Patterns and Recipes for a Year of Successful Fishing
Hans Weilenmann - Voyageur Press
Format: Hardcover
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The average fly fisher spends just 15.6 days per year on the water. Of course, few of us are fortunate enough to spend every day of every month casting into riffles, pools, and undercut banks in search of those finicky browns, brooks, rainbows, and cutthroats. Luckily, the diverse collection... |
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Train Your Mind for Athletic Success: Mental Preparation to Achieve Your Sports Goals
Jim Taylor - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Much too often, the mental aspect of sport performance is overlooked. While all top athletes are in outstanding physical condition and technically exceptional, mental preparation is often what separates the best from the rest. This is just as true for young athletes as it is for pros and Olympians.... |
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Shaken Brain: The Science, Care, and Treatment of Concussion
Elizabeth Sandel - Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook
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A physician with 35 years of experience treating people with brain injuries shares the latest research on concussions and best practices for care. Shaken Brain offers expert advice and urgently needed answers. Elizabeth Sandel, MD, is a board-certified physician who has spent more than... |
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Golden: The Miraculous Rise of Steph Curry
Marcus Thompson - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover
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The incredible and inspiring story of Stephen Curry, the greatest shooter basketball has ever seen, and the ascension of the Golden State Warriors, a team on the verge of being an NBA dynasty, by long-time Warriors beat reporter and Bay Area News Group sports columnist Marcus Thompson.When... |
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Pro Wrestling FAQ: All Thats Left to Know About the Worlds Most Entertaining Spectacle
Brian Solomon - Backbeat Books
Format: Print book
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Sport? Entertainment? Art form? Perhaps a bit of all three, with a certain intangible extra something thrown in for good measure, making professional wrestling a truly unique entity unto itself. From its origins in carnivals and sideshow attractions of the 19th century, right up to the multimillion-dollar,... |
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Taking Aim: Daring to Be Different, Happier, and Healthier in the Great Outdoors
Eva Shockey - Convergent Books
Format: Hardcover
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An acclaimed bow hunter who defies the stereotype that hunting is a man's game, Eva Shockey is a TV and social media phenomenon at the forefront of a new wave of women and girls who are passionate about outdoor sports. Eva Shockey grew up expecting to be a dancer like her glamorous... |
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Limits of the Known
DAVID ROBERTS - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A celebrated mountaineer and author searches for meaning in great adventures and explorations, past and present.David Roberts, "veteran mountain climber and chronicler of adventures" (Washington Post) , has spent his career documenting voyages to the most extreme landscapes... |
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Basketball: A Love Story
DAN KLORES - Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover
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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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The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism
HOWARD BRYANT - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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Following in the footsteps of Robeson, Ali, Robinson and others, today's Black athletes re-engage with social issues and the meaning of American patriotismNamed a best book of 2018 by Library JournalIt used to be that politics and sports were as separate from one another as church... |
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Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty
Jeff Pearlman - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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In the history of modern sport, there have never been two high-level teammates who loathed each other the way Shaquille O'Neal loathed Kobe Bryant, and Kobe Bryant loathed Shaquille O'Neal. From public sniping and sparring, to physical altercations and the repeated threats of trade,... |
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Chumps to Champs: How the Worst Teams in Yankees History Led to the '90s Dynasty
Bill Pennington - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of the time when the New York Yankees were a laughingstock - and how out of that abyss emerged the modern Yankees dynasty, one of the greatest in all of sports The New York Yankees have won 27 world championships and 40 American League pennants, both world records. They... |
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Billion-Dollar Ball: A Journey Through the Big-Money Culture of College Football
Gilbert M. Gaul - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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"A penetrating examination of how the elite college football programs have become 'giant entertainment businesses that happened to do a little education on the side.'" - Mark Kram, The New York TimesTwo-time Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist Gilbert M. Gaul offers a riveting... |
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Surfing with Sartre: An Aquatic Inquiry into a Life of Meaning
AARON JAMES - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Assholes: A Theory, a book that - in the tradition of Shopclass as Soulcraft, Barbarian Days and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - uses the experience and the ethos of surfing to explore key concepts in philosophy. The existentialist... |
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I'm Keith Hernandez
Keith Hernandez - Little Brown and Company
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A memoir from beloved and outspoken first baseman and broadcaster Keith Hernandez Keith Hernandez revolutionized how first base was played, partied hard, and played harder than anyone as a champion New York Met in the '80s, and even had a star turn appearing as himself on an episode of Seinfeld.... |
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Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World's Biggest Sports Scandal
KEN BENSINGER - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive, shocking account of the FIFA scandal - the biggest international corruption case of recent years, spearheaded by US investigators, involving dozens of countries, and implicating nearly every aspect of the world's most popular sport, soccer, including its biggest event, the World... |
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Gun Digest Book of Hunting Revolvers
Max Prasac - Gun Digest Books
Format: Paperback
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Your guide to big-bore revolver hunting! Handgun hunting has evolved significantly over the last 25 years. With Gun Digest Book of Hunting Revolvers, you'll learn about the available factory and custom revolvers, plus calibers, bullets, and terminal effectiveness on all sizes of game.... |
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Magnum Cycling
Magnum Photos - Thames & Hudson
Format: Print book
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A remarkable work, celebrating the moments when world-class Magnum photographers turned their lenses to one of photography's most rewarding subjects: cycling It's no surprise that some of the world's finest photographers have shot a bicycle race at some point in their careers.... |
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Hardcourt Confidential: Tales from Twenty Years in the Pro Tennis Trenches
Patrick McEnroe - Hyperion; 1 edition
Format: Book
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An entertaining and unfiltered look at professional tennis as only Patrick McEnroe can offer. Patrick McEnroe has been in the world of professional tennis in one way or another for most of his life. As a player, coach, and ESPN commentator, he's seen it all. The significant tennis books... |
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99: Stories of the Game
Wayne Gretzky - Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook
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In this sports memoir, Wayne Gretzky weaves memories of his legendary career with an inside look at professional hockey and the heroes and stories that inspired him. From minor-hockey phenomenon to Hall of Fame sensation, Wayne Gretzky rewrote the record books, his accomplishments becoming... |
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A Ringside Affair: Boxing's Last Golden Age
JAMES LAWTON - Bloomsbury Sport
Format: Hardcover
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For nearly three decades--throughout boxing's most engrossing era from 1977 through 2002--James Lawton was ringside, covering every significant bout, spending time with the likes of Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Tommy Hitman Hearns, Roberto Duran, Mike Tyson,... |
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Practice Perfect Softball
National Fastpitch Coaches Association - Human Kinetics
Format: Paperback
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The road to a championship season begins long before the first pitch of the opening game. It begins before a player even steps onto the field. In Practice Perfect Softball, the games premier coaches share their approaches, experiences, and philosophies of every aspect of practice. This... |
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Think Like a Caddie...Play Like a Pro: Golf's Top Caddies Share Their Winning Secrets
James Y Bartlett - Sellers
Format: Print book
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All professional touring golfers depend on their caddie to serve as a valuable team member to help them make better decisions and achieve the lowest possible score. This book will provide golfers with insight into competitive preparation and play, course strategies, and clear thinking on the golf... |
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When Nobody Was Watching: My Hard-Fought Journey to the Top of the Soccer World
Carli Lloyd - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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From the celebrated star of the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team, an inspiring, uplifting, and candid memoir of how she got there In 2015, the U.S .Women's National Soccer Team won its first FIFA championship in sixteen years, culminating in an epic final game that electrified... |
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Slow Jogging: Get Fit, Lose Weight, Stay Healthy, and Have Fun with Easy Running
Hiroaki Tanaka - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book
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Running is America's most popular participatory sport, yet more than half of those who identify as runners get injured every year. Falling prey to injuries from overtraining, faulty form, poor eating, and improper footwear, many runners eventually, and reluctantly, abandon the sport... |
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Lonely Planet Africa
LONELY PLANET. - Lonely Planet
Format: Paperback
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Lonely Planet Africa is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Wander the cobbled streets and graceful pracas rimmed by once grand churches and stately colonial-era buildings, against a backdrop of turquoise... |
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The Games: A Global History of the Olympics
David Goldblatt - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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The definitive sports and social history of the modern Olympic Games -- by one of the most celebrated sportswriters of our time. Renowned sportswriter David Goldblatt has been hailed by the Wall Street Journal for writing "with the expansive eye of a social and cultural critic"... |
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The Big Fix: The Hunt for the Match-Fixers Bringing Down Soccer
Brett Forrest - William Morrow; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Game of Shadows meets Among the Thugs in this revelatory true-to-life crime thriller and expose involving greed, corruption, an Asian crime syndicate, and the fixing of international soccer matches at the highest levels of the game, including the UEFA Champions League and the World Cup.In... |
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Total Gun Manual
David E Petzal - Weldon Owen
Format: Paperback
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This revised edition of the popular 2012 title is the most up-to-date and extensive guide to guns available. Updated and expanded for 2017, including an entire new section on range-shooting skills and 30 new items, one of the most trusted brands in outdoor sports brings you the new The Total... |
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Basic Rockhounding and Prospecting: A Beginner's Guide
Garret Romaine - Falcon Guides
Format: Paperback
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A Beginner's Guide to Rockhounding, Gem Collecting, Gold Prospecting, and Fossil HuntingBasic Rockhounding and Prospecting is aimed at anyone who is interested in learning the basics of collecting rocks and minerals. It's the perfect companion title to the more advanced Modern Rockhounding... |
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Beckett Graded Card Price Guide 2013
Beckett Media LLC - Beckett Pubns; 4 edition
Format: Paperback
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This is the one book you will need to value your collections, make the smart buy and just get in touch with the art of graded cards. Learn how the grading process works plus the things to look for in cards you buy. With everything from vintage to modern day Baseball, Football, Basketball,... |
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A Woman's Place Is at the Top: A Biography of Annie Smith Peck, Queen of the Climbers
HANNAH KIMBERLEY - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Annie Smith Peck is one of the most accomplished women of the twentieth century that you have never heard of. Peck was a scholar, educator, writer, lecturer, mountain climber, suffragist, and political activist. She was a feminist and an independent thinker who refused to let gender stereotypes... |
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All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard--Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy
Phil Keith - Hanover Square Press
Format: Hardcover
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"A truly inspiring story of courage and triumph." - Nelson DeMilleThe incredible life story of Eugene Bullard, the first African American military pilot in WWI, who went on to become a self-taught jazz musician, a Paris nightclub impresario, a spy in the French Resistance and an American... |
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Spirit of '67: The Cardiac Kids, El Birdos, and the World Series that Captivated America
THOMAS J WHALEN - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Using the colorful and tumultuous 1960s as a backdrop, acclaimed author Thomas J. Whalen's Spirit of '67: The Cardiac Kids, El Birdos, and the World Series that Captivated America shows how the Red Sox and Cardinals waged an epic battle for baseball supremacy that captured the imagination... |
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Football For Dummies
Howie Long - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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Are you ready for some football? New stadiums have been built, new stars have been born, and records have been broken since the last edition of Football For Dummies. This new edition is the fan's ultimate, up-to-date guide to all things pigskin. Perfect for new and veteran fans of the sport... |
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Truth Doesn't Have a Side: My Alarming Discovery about the Danger of Contact Sports
Bennet Omalu - Zondervan
Format: Hardcover
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One day in 2002 the fifty-year old body of former Pittsburgh Steeler and hall of famer Mike Webster was laid on a cold table in front of pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu. Webster's body looked to Omalu like the body of a much older man, and the circumstances of his behavior prior to his death... |
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The Kevin Show: An Olympic Athlete's Battle with Mental Illness
Mary Pilon - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Monopolists, the incredible story of Olympic sailor Kevin Hall, and the psychiatric syndrome that makes him believe he stars in a television show of his life.Meet Kevin Hall, brother, son, husband, father, and Olympic and America's... |
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Earnhardts : the saga of nascar's first family.
Jay Busbee - Harpercollins, 2016.
Format: Print book
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A colorful, fearless portrait of the larger-than-life first family of NASCAR, the Earnhardts, and the rise of the world's fastest stock car racing organization.More than sixty years ago, Ralph Earnhardt toiled in a cotton mill in his native North Carolina to support his growing family.... |
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The Secrets of My Life
KATHERINE SUE NEWPORT - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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In this remarkable memoir-written during her pivotal first years of becoming her authentic self-Caitlyn Jenner reflects on her past as she looks to her future. |
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Casey Stengel: Baseball's Greatest Character
Marty Appel - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Print book
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The definitive biography of one of baseball's most enduring and influential characters, from New York Times bestselling author and baseball writer Marty Appel. As a player, Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel's contemporaries included Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, and Christy Mathewson... |
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Tigerbelle: The Wyomia Tyus Story
WYOMIA TYUS - Edge of Sports
Format: Hardcover
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"[Dave] Zirin's Edge of Sports imprint at Akashic is publishing Tigerbelle (Sept.) , a memoir from two-time Olympic gold medalist sprinter Wyomia Tyus. The daughter of a tenant farmer in rural Georgia, she won top honors at the 1964 and 1968 Olympics. In the book, coauthored... |
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GOLF The Best Putting Instruction Book Ever!
Editors of Golf Magazine - Time Home Entertainment; Har/DVD edition
Format: Hardcover
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Much has been written about the putter (both the instrument and the one wielding it), but never like what you'll find in The Best Putting Instruction Book Ever!, your ultimate guide to learning how to read putts and stroke them consistently into the hole. In this fourth installment... |
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Billy Martin: Baseball's Flawed Genius
Bill Pennington - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of one of baseball's most celebrated, mercurial, and misunderstood figures Billy Martin is a story of contrasts. He was the clutch second baseman for the dominant New York Yankees of the 1950s. He then spent sixteen seasons managing in the big leagues, and is considered... |
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Writings on the Wall: Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - Time Home Entertainment
Format: Print book
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Bestselling author, basketball legend and cultural commentator Kareem Abdul-Jabbar explores the heart of issues that affect Americans today.Since retiring from professional basketball as the NBA's all-time leading scorer, six-time MVP, and Hall of Fame inductee, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has become... |
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Skateboarding: Legendary Tricks 2
Steve Badillo - Tracks Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Compiling more legendary skateboarding figures and their pioneering tricks, this comprehensive resource details dozens of spectacular stuntscombining invaluable technical information with insightful historical perspectives. Each feat is captured in action sequence and captioned allowing... |
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Quarterback: Inside the Most Important Position in the National Football League
John Feinstein - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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A major new book from #1 New York Times bestseller and sports-writing legend John Feinstein, QUARTERBACK dives deep into the most coveted and hallowed position in the NFL - exploring the stories of five top quarterbacks and taking readers inside their unique experiences of playing... |
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When the Blues Go Marching In: An Illustrated Timeline of St. Louis Blues Hockey
Dan O'Neill - Reedy Press, LLC
Format: Hardcover
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From humble beginnings, there always has been something special about this hockey franchise and its connection to St. Louis, something about the Note on the sweater, the names who have worn it and the narrative they have create ... something that has resonated over 50 years. If you were... |
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Baseball's First Lady: Helene Hathaway Robison Britton and the St. Louis Cardinals
Joan M. Thomas - Reedy Press
Format: Book
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Baseball s First Lady is the story of Helene Hathaway Robison Britton, the first woman owner of a major league baseball club, and her influence on the evolution of the St. Louis Cardinals. Late in life, Cardinals owner M. Stanley Robison willed his club and ballpark to niece Helene Britton.... |
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A Wrestling Life: The Inspiring Stories of Dan Gable
Scott Schulte - University Of Iowa Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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What does it take to be an Olympic gold medalist and to coach a collegiate team to fifteen NCAA titles? In A Wrestling Life: The Inspiring Stories of Dan Gable, famed wrestler and wrestling coach Dan Gable tells engaging and inspiring stories of his childhood in Waterloo, Iowa; overcoming... |
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The Box Wine Sailors: Misadventures of a Broke Young Couple at Sea
Amy McCullough - Academy Chicago Publishers,
Format: Print book
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Amy and Jimmie were not sailors. Their experience included reading a few books, watching a couple of instructional videos, and sailing once a week for a year. They were land-lubberly, middle-class twentysomethings, audacious and in love. All they wanted was to be together and do something... |
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Fast Girl: A Life Spent Running from Madness
Suzy Favor Hamilton - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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The former middle distance Olympic runner and high-end escort speaks out for the first time about her battle with mental illness, and how mania controlled and compelled her in competition, but also in life. This is a heartbreakingly honest yet hopeful memoir reminiscent of Manic, Electroboy,... |
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Remembering the Stars of the NFL Glory Years: An Inside Look at the Golden Age of Football
Wayne Stewart - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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The 1950s and 60s was a golden age for professional football. It was perhaps the toughest and roughest era for the sport, before rules were created to better protect the players, but it was also a time when legends were born. To many football fans this era remains the Glory Years of the NFL,... |
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The Cardinals Way: How One Team Embraced Tradition and Moneyball at the Same Time
Howard Megdal - Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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The St. Louis Cardinals have experienced the kind of success that is rare in baseball. Regarded by many as the premier organization in Major League Baseball, they not only win, but do so with an apparently bottomless pool of talent, one that is mostly homegrown.Despite years of phenomenal... |
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Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory
DEENA KASTOR - Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover
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From an Olympic medalist runner and the record-holder in the women's marathon and half-marathon, a lyrical, inspirational memoir on how harnessing the power of the mind can unlock hidden potentialDeena Kastor was a star youth runner with tremendous promise, yet her career almost ended after... |
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Beckett Hockey Price Guide #27
Beckett Staff - Beckett Pubns
Format: Paperback
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Complete checklists and pricing for every known hockey card set from 1910 to present, including series featuring players from the NHL, minor and junior leagues and European leagues. Pricing for more than 11,000 card sets. Front photos of an example card for most major sets. Complete checklists... |
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12: The Inside Story of Tom Brady's Fight for Redemption
Casey Sherman - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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The incredible story of Tom Brady and the Patriots' tumultuous 2016 season: from national disgrace to the greatest Super Bowl comeback of all time. In January 2015, rumors circulated that the New England Patriots--a team long suspected of abiding by the "if you ain't cheating... |
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The Keeper: A Life of Saving Goals and Achieving Them
Tim Howard - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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In this inspiring, down-to-earth memoir the revered goalkeeper and American icon idolized by millions worldwide for his dependability, daring, and humility recounts his rise to stardom at the 2014 World Cup, the psychological and professional challenges he has faced, and the enduring faith... |
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Beautiful on the Outside: A Memoir
Adam Rippon - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Former Olympic figure skater and self-professed America's Sweetheart Adam Rippon shares his underdog journey from beautiful mess to outrageous success in this hilarious, big-hearted memoir that the Washington Post calls "comedic gold."Your mom probably told you it's what... |
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Mike and Mike's Rules for Sports and Life
Mike Greenberg - ESPN; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Every morning more than three million listeners tune in to Mike and Mike in the Morning on ESPN Radio - mostly to hear the Mikes' (Golic and Greenberg) riotous back-and-forth on everything from why baseball managers should dress like real people to how to lose a fight with the wife... |
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Ballpark: Baseball in the American City
Paul Goldberger - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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An exhilarating, splendidly illustrated, entirely new look at the history of baseball: told through the stories of the vibrant and ever-changing ballparks where the game was and is staged, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic.From the earliest corrals of the mid-1800s (Union... |
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Skate the World: Photographing One World of Skateboarding
Jonathan Mehring - National Geographic,
Format: Print book
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Hit the streets with 200 exhilarating photographs of the world's greatest professional skateboarders in action. In this dynamic collection, award-winning photographer Jonathan Mehring takes us from New York to Hong Kong to Istanbul and beyond as he sets out to capture the heart and soul... |
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