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Wrigley Field: The Long Life and Contentious Times of the Friendly Confines
Stuart Shea - University Of Chicago Press; Revised edition
Format: Paperback
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In spring 1914, a new ballpark opened in Chicago. Hastily constructed after epic political maneuvering around Chicago’s and organized baseball’s hierarchies, the new Weeghman Park (named after its builder, fast-food magnate Charley Weeghman) was home to the Federal League’s... |
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Home Game: Big-League Stories from My Life in Baseball's First Family
Bret Boone - Crown Archetype
Format: Print book
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From the first third-generation baseball player in Major League Baseball history, a sometimes moving, always candid look at his family's 70 years in the world of professional baseball.A five-foot-ten firecracker who was spurned by scouts for his small size, supposed lack of power, and temper... |
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Mookie: Life, Baseball, and the '86 Mets
Mookie Wilson - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
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They said it was the "Curse of the Bambino." They said "the bad guys won." Now one of baseball's all-time good guys, New York Mets legend Mookie Wilson, tells his side of the story - from the ground ball through Bill Buckner's legs that capped the miraculous... |
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Rozelle: A Biography
Jerry Izenberg - University of Nebraska Press
Format: Hardcover
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Rozelle chronicles the life and times of the architect of the modern National Football League, Pete Rozelle, who transformed football into arguably the most successful sports league in the world. While he was never considered a serious candidate for the job of NFL commissioner early on, the position... |
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A Nearly Perfect Season: The Inside Story of the 1984 San Francisco 49ers
Chris Willis - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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The San Francisco 49ers entered the 1984 season determined to erase the memory of their three point loss to the Washington Redskins in the NFC Championship Game the year before. Nineteen games later, they had not only won the Super Bowl, they had redefined NFL history by becoming the first... |
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Why Football Matters: My Education in the Game
Mark Edmundson - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Acclaimed essayist Mark Edmundson reflects on his own rite of passage as a high school football player to get to larger truths about the ways America's Game shapes its menFootball teaches young men self-discipline and teamwork. But football celebrates violence. Football is a showcase for athletic... |
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The Murder of Sonny Liston: Las Vegas, Heroin, and Heavyweights
Shaun Assael - Blue Rider Press
Format: Print book
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A daring investigation into the mysterious death of Heavyweight Champion Sonny Liston, set against the dawn of the 1970s, when the mob was fighting to keep control of the Las Vegas Strip, Richard Nixon was launching America's first war on heroin, and boxing was in its glory days.On January... |
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Chase Your Shadow: The Trials of Oscar Pistorius
John Carlin - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive account of the rise and fall of South African Olympic and Gold Medal-winning Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius, from his personal and athletic success to the murder charge that rocked the world and put both the man, and post-Apartheid South Africa, on trial.Oscar Pistorius... |
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The Way of the Runner: A Journey into the Fabled World of Japanese Running
Adharanand Finn - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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Welcome to Japan, the most running-obsessed nation on earth, and home to a unique running culture unlike anything Adharanand Finn, author of Running with the Kenyans, has even experienced.It may come as a surprise to many people, but Japan is the most running-obsessed country on earth.... |
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Mad Ducks and Bears: Football Revisited
George Plimpton - Little Brown and Company
Format: Print book
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George Plimpton's follow-up to Paper Lion, one of his personal favorites among his classic books--now repackaged and including a foreword from Steve Almond and never-before-seen content from the Plimpton archives.In MAD DUCKS AND BEARS, George Plimpton's engaging companion to Paper... |
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The Best in the World: At What I Have No Idea
Chris Jericho - Gotham; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author, wrestler, metal rocker, and over-the-top media personality shares his latest wild and hilarious adventuresWorld Wrestling Entertainment has named Chris Jericho as one of the top ten wrestlersand one of the top five talkersof all time. Certainly, the past... |
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Camping Minnesota : a comprehensive guide to public tent and RV campgrounds
Amy C Rea - FalconGuides
Format: eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Camping Minnesota contains comprehensive descriptions of public tent & RV campgrounds throughout the Gopher State. This guide includes information on campground locations, facilities and hookups, fees and reservations, recreational activities, and Leave No Trace camping. |
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I'd Know That Voice Anywhere: My Favorite NPR Commentaries
Frank Deford - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Print book
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Frank Deford is one of the most beloved sports journalists in America. A contributing writer to Sports Illustrated for more than fifty years, and a longtime correspondent on Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, these days, Deford is perhaps best known for his weekly commentaries on NPR's... |
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The Mannings: The Fall and Rise of a Football Family
Lars Anderson - Ballantine
Format: Print book
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From New York Times bestselling author Lars Anderson comes the first full biography of the top family in American sports. Two generations of Mannings have produced three star quarterbacks: Archie, the folk hero at Ole Miss and a star with the Saints; Peyton, considered one of the best of all time;... |
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Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong
Juliet Macur - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive account of Lance Armstrong's spectacular rise and fall.In June 2013, when Lance Armstrong fled his palatial home in Texas, downsizing in the face of multimillion-dollar lawsuits, Juliet Macur was there—talking to his girlfriend and children and listening to Armstrong's... |
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Under the Stars: How America Fell in Love with Camping
Dan White - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Wide-ranging in research, enthusiasm, and geography, Dan Whites Under the Stars reveals a vast population of nature seekers, a country still in love with its wild places. "The definitive book on camping in America. . . . A passionate, witty, and deeply engaging examination of why humans... |
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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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The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House
Chuck Todd - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Chuck Todds gripping, fly-on-the-wall account of Barack Obamas tumultuous struggle to succeed in Washington. Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008 partly because he was a Washington outsider. But if hed come to the White House thinking he could change the political culture, he soon discovered... |
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Sisterhood in Sports: How Female Athletes Collaborate and Compete
Joan Steidinger - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Sisterhood in Sports How Female Athletes Collaborate and Compete tells the stories of all kinds of female athletes in a variety of sports. Their natural tendency to use talking as a primary form of communication is essential to their experiences and successes in sports. Women and girls... |
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The Baseball Whisperer: A Small-Town Coach Who Shaped Big League Dreams
Michael Tackett - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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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... |
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Bring In the Right-Hander!: My Twenty-Two Years in the Major Leagues
Jerry Reuss - University of Nebraska Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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One of only twenty-nine Major Leaguers to play in four different decades, Jerry Reuss pitched for eight teams, including the Pittsburgh Pirates twice. So when Reuss tells his story, he covers about as much of baseball life as any player can. Bring In the Right-Hander! puts us on the mound... |
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The Goaltenders' Union: Hockey's Greatest Puckstoppers, Acrobats, and Flakes
Greg Oliver - ECW Press
Format: Print book
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In hockey, goalies have always been a contradiction — solitary men in a team game, the last line of defence and the stalwarts expected to save the day after any and every miscue and collapse from his teammates. It’s no wonder that anyone who played the position has had his sanity... |
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Eight World Cups: My Journey through the Beauty and Dark Side of Soccer
George Vecsey - Henry Holt & Co
Format: Hardcover
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On the eve of the 2014 World Cup, New York Times sports columnist George Vecsey offers a personal perspective on the beautiful gameBlending witty travelogue with action on the field--and shady dealings in back rooms--George Vecsey offers an eye-opening, globe-trotting account of the last... |
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Bicycle: The Definitive Visual History
Dorling Kindersley Inc. - Dk Publishing
Format: Print book
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Bicycle showcases classic and cutting-edge bicycles and traces the evolution of cycling from the nineteenth century to today.From BMX and mountain biking to track and road racing, this comprehensive full-color guide features the latest high-performance bikes and cycling technology,... |
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Listening to a Continent Sing: Birdsong by Bicycle from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Donald Kroodsma - Princeton University Pres
Format: Print book
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Join birdsong expert Donald Kroodsma on a ten-week, ten-state bicycle journey as he travels with his son from the Atlantic to the Pacific, lingering and listening to our continent sing as no one has before. On remote country roads, over terrain vast and spectacular, from dawn to dusk and sometimes... |
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The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street: A Novel
Susan Jane Gilman - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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A clever and complex woman builds an ice cream empire after immigrating from Russia in this stunning novel of power, Prohibition, and performance set against the backdrop of early 20th-century America.. . In 1913, little Malka Treynovsky flees Russia with her family. Bedazzled by tales... |
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Season of Saturdays: A History of College Football in 14 Games
Michael Weinreb - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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From an award-winning writer, journalist, and college football expert: an entertaining cultural history that highlights the key moments, games, personalities, and scandals of the popular and controversial American pastime.Every Saturday in the fall, countless college students, alumni, and sports... |
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Bigger Than the Game: Restitching a Major League Life
Dirk Hayhurst - Citadel
Format: Paperback
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Old demons together with new enemies and a season ending-- possibly career ending-- injury look to knock Hayhurst out of baseball forever. Isolated from his family, broken, and branded a traitor by his teammates for writing inside the locker room, Hayhurst finds himself at a crossroads:... |
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Ahead of the Curve: Inside the Baseball Revolution
Brian Kenny - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"A delight for baseball lovers" (Kirkus Reviews) and "one of the most significant baseball books of the year" (Bob Costas) Ahead of the Curve uses stories from baseball's present and past to examine why we sometimes choose ignorance over information,... |
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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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Johnny Evers: A Baseball Life
Dennis Snelling - McFarland
Format: Book
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For more than a century Johnny Evers has been conjoined with Chicago Cubs teammates Frank Chance and Joe Tinker, thanks to eight lines of verse penned by a well-known New York columnist. He has been caricatured as a scrawny, sour man who couldn't hit and who owed his fame to that poem.... |
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Parcells: A Football Life
Nunyo Demasio - Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover
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Bill Parcells may be the most iconic football coach of our time. During his decades-long tenure as an NFL coach, he turned failing franchises into contenders. He led the ailing New York Giants to two Super Bowl victories, turned the New England Patriots into an NFL powerhouse, reinvigorated... |
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Draw in the Dunes: The 1969 Ryder Cup and the Finish That Shocked the World
Neil Sagebiel - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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In 1969, the 42-year history of biennial golf matches between the United States and Great Britain reached its climax. The U.S., led by Jack Nicklaus, had dominated competitive golf for years; Great Britain, led by Tony Jacklin, was the undisputed underdog. But in spite of having lost 14 of 17 Ryder... |
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Sports Illustrated Basketball's Greatest
Editors of Sports Illustrated - Sports Illustrated
Format: Hardcover
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Whos the greatest center of all time, Wilt Chamberlain or Kareem Abdul-Jabbar? Where does Shaquille ONeal land in the rankings? Would you pick Tim Duncan or Charles Barkley as the better power forward? Whos your best Sixth Man? Where does LeBron James rank among small forwards? Sports... |
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Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s
Jeff Pearlman - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of Sweetness delivers the first all-encompassing account of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers, one of professional sports' most-revered - and dominant - dynasties. The Los Angeles Lakers of the 1980s personified the flamboyance and excess of the decade... |
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The Perfect Pass: American Genius and the Reinvention of Football
S C Gwynne - Scribner
Format: Print book
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New York Times bestselling, award-winning historian S.C. Gwynne tells the incredible story of how Hal Mumme and Mike Leach - two unknown coaches who revolutionized American football in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s - changed the way the game is played at every level, from high school... |
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The Devil's Snake Curve: A Fan's Notes From Left Field
Josh Ostergaard - Coffee House Press
Format: Paperback
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The Devil's Snake Curve offers an alternative American history, in which colonialism, jingoism, capitalism, and faith are represented by baseball. Personal and political, it twines Japanese internment camps with the Yankees; Walmart with the Kansas City Royals; and facial hair patterns... |
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Rail-Trails Minnesota: The definitive guide to the state's best multiuse trails
Rails-to-Trails Conservancy - Wilderness Press
Format: Print book
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Whether you're looking for a trail for a leisurely stroll, a bike ride with the family or something a bit more challenging, you'll find it in this comprehensive trail guide highlighting the best, most highly rated trails in Minnesota. Many of the trails were converted from unused... |
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Reckless: The Life and Times of Luis Ocaña
Alasdair Fotheringham - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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Luis Ocaña seemed doomed to live in the shadow of cycling's greatest ever rider, Eddy Merckx-"The Cannibal". Their rivalry defined Ocaña's entire career, yet he was the one rider capable of beating the all-conquering Merckx in his prime. After an impoverished... |
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Fair Play: How LGBT Athletes Are Claiming Their Rightful Place in Sports
Cyd Zeigler - Edge Of Sports
Format: Print book
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"This important and accessible book about the evolving treatment of LGBTQ athletes in organized sports should be required reading for anyone involved in the playing, coaching, and administration of organized sports. Zeigler, an expert in LGBTQ athletics and cofounder of the online... |
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Playing Through the Whistle: Steel, Football, and an American Town
S L Price - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Print book
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In the early twentieth century, down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh, the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company built one of the largest mills in the world and a town to go with it. Aliquippa was a beacon and a melting pot, pulling in thousands of families from Europe and the Jim Crow south.... |
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Chicago Portraits
Chicago Tribune Staff - Agate Midway
Format: Hardcover
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The Chicago Tribune possesses a vast photo archive spanning its more than 150 years in publication. From the Civil War era through today, its photographers have captured thousands of people, from everyday Chicagoans to visitors to the Second City to well-known artists, athletes, and politicians.For... |
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Life Is a Wheel: Love, Death, Etc., and a Bike Ride Across America
Bruce Weber - Scribner Book Company
Format: Hardcover
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Based on his popular New York Times series, bestselling author Bruce Weber shares the adventures of his solo bicycle ride from coast to coast. Riding a bicycle across the United States is one of those bucket-list goals that many dream about but few fulfill. During the summer and fall of 2011,... |
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The Magnificent Masters: Jack Nicklaus, Johnny Miller, Tom Weiskopf, and the 1975 Cliffhanger at Augusta
Gil Capps - Da Capo Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The 1975 Masters Tournament always seemed destined for the record books. A veritable Hall of Fame list of competitors had gathered that spring in Augusta, Georgia, for the game's most famous event, including Arnold Palmer, Tom Watson, Gary Player, Lee Trevino, Hale Irwin, Billy Casper,... |
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The Kentucky Derby: How the Run for the Roses Became America's Premier Sporting Event
James C. Nicholson - The University Press of Kentucky; 1st edition
Format: Print book
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Each year on the first Saturday in May, the world turns its attention to the twin spires of Churchill Downs for the high-stakes excitement of the "greatest two minutes in sports," the Kentucky Derby. No American sporting event can claim the history, tradition, or pageantry that... |
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John Wayne: The Life and Legend
Scott Eyman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Book
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Drawing on interviews that author Scott Eyman conducted with John Wayne before his death and more than 100 interviews with the actor's family, co-stars, and close associates, this revelatory biography shows how both the facts and fictions about Wayne illuminate his singular life.John Wayne... |
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Mastering Running
Cathy Utzschneider - Human Kinetics
Format: Book
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Run faster, stronger, and longer—and remain injury free. With Mastering Running, regardless of your age, optimal performance and new personal bests await. Cathy Utzschneider, highly accomplished and renowned masters runner and coach, has created the definitive guide for runners,... |
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The Naked Mountaineer: Misadventures of an Alpine Traveler
Stephen C. Sieberson - University of Nebraska Press
Format: Book
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The Naked Mountaineer recounts a series of solo journeys to some of the world's most exotic peaks in places such as Switzerland, Japan, and Borneo. However, it is far from the typical heroic mountain-expedition book. Although Steve Sieberson did reach many summits, in most cases his travels... |
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Hockey Abstract Presents... Stat Shot: The Ultimate Guide to Hockey Analytics
Rob Vollman - ECW Press
Format: Print book
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"Hockey Abstract Presents... Stat Shot" is a guide fans can use to understand and enjoy what analytics brings to the game of hockey. In a fun and informative way, it explores how to build a team, what can be learned from a player s junior numbers, how to measure faceoff success,... |
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Thrown
Kerry Howley - Sarabande Books
Format: Paperback
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In this darkly funny work of literary nonfiction, a bookish young woman insinuates herself into the lives of two cage fighters - one a young prodigy, the other an aging journeyman. Acclaimed essayist Kerry Howley follows these men for three years through the bloody world of mixed martial... |
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Coming Out to Play
Robbie Rogers - Penguin Books
Format: Book
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“Rogers made history.” —Sports IllustratedRobbie Rogers knows better than most that keeping secrets can crush you. But for much of his life Robbie lived in paralyzing fear that sharing his big secret would cost him the love of his family and his career as a professional... |
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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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They Called Me God: The Best Umpire Who Ever Lived
Doug Harvey - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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In the pageantry of baseball, one select group is virtually unknown in the outside world, derided by fans, faced with split-second choices that spell victory or defeat. These men are up-close observers of the action, privy to inside jokes, blood feuds, benches-clearing brawls, and managers'... |
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Showboat: The Life of Kobe Bryant
Roland Lazenby - Little
Format: Print book
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Seventeen-time all-star; scorer of 81 points in a game; MVP and a shooting guard second only to Jordan in league history: Kobe Bryant is one of basketball's absolute greatest players, a fascinating and complicated character who knew when he was a mere boy that he would be better than Jordan... |
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Gunslinger: The Remarkable, Improbable, Iconic Life of Brett Favre
Jeff Pearlman - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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From a New York Times best-selling author, the full, definitive biography of Brett Favre A towering figure on the field for two decades who breezed into the Hall of Fame, Brett Favre was one of the game's last cowboys, a fastball-throwing, tobacco-chewing gunslinger who refused to give... |
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Why Soccer Matters
Pelé - Celebra
Format: Hardcover
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Soccer. Football. The beautiful game. The world's most popular sport goes by many names, but for decades, fans have agreed on one thing: the greatest player of all time was Pel. Now the legendary star, ambassador, and humanitarian shares a global vision for what soccer can accomplish.... |
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Mr. Hockey: My Story
Gordie Howe - G.P. Putnam's Sons; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive autobiography from hockeys greatest living legendMr. 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 of Famer... |
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Black and White: The Way I See It
Richard Williams - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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He’d set his mind to raise two of the greatest women champions in professional tennis well before they could even hold a racket. The father of Venus and Serena Williams had a grand plan for his daughters. The source of his vision, the method behind his execution, and the root of his indomitable... |
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Mavericks, Money, and Men: The AFL, Black Players, and the Evolution of Modern Football
Charles Kenyatta Ross - Temple University Press
Format: Print book
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The American Football League, established in 1960, was innovative both in its commitment to finding talented, overlooked players - particularly those who played for historically black colleges and universities - and in the decision by team owners to share television revenues. In Mavericks,... |
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Called Out but Safe: A Baseball Umpire's Journey
Al Clark - University of Nebraska Press,
Format: Print book
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If an umpire could steal the show in a Major League game, Al Clark might well have been the one to do it. Tough but fair, in his thirty years as a professional umpire he took on some of baseball's great umpire baiters, such as Earl Weaver, Billy Martin, and Dick Williams, while ejecting... |
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The Soccer Diaries: An American’s Thirty-Year Pursuit of the International Game
Michael J Agovino - University of Nebraska Press
Format: Hardcover
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Although soccer had long been the world’s game when Michael J. Agovino first encountered it in 1982, here it was just a poor cousin to American football, to be found on obscure UHF channels and in foreign magazines. But as Agovino himself passionately pursued soccer, Americans... |
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One Night Only: Conversations with the NHLs One-Game Wonders
Ken Reid - ECW Press
Format: Paperback
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Get to know the men who fulfilled their childhood dream From the beer league to the minor league, hockey players from coast to coast often say theyd give anything to play just one game in the NHL. One Night Only brings you the stories of 39 men who lived the dream -- only to see it fade... |
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Who Invented the Bicycle Kick?: Soccer's Greatest Legends and Lore
Paul Simpson - William Morrow Paperbacks
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Published in time for the 2014 World Cup, the ultimate collection of soccer’s greatest lore and legends, illustrated with 100 black-and-white photos, by two of the world’s most knowledgeable soccer journalists.Who Invented the Bicycle Kick? is a rollicking ride through soccer... |
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Friday, Saturday, Sunday in Texas: A Year in the Life of Lone Star Football, from High School to College to the Cowboys
Nicholas Eatman - Dey St.
Format: Print book
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A veteran Texas sports writer offers a lively, up-close look at football in Texas - the fullest portrait ever conceived - viewed through the interwoven stories of three teams, Plano Senior High School, Baylor University, and the Dallas Cowboys, during one season.In Texas, Friday, Saturday,... |
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Off Course: Inside the Mad, Muddy World of Obstacle Course Racing
Erin Beresini - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A?fun, funny, fist-pumping?romp through the thriving new fitness culture of obstacle course racing? Obstacle course racing is the fastest-growing sport in U.S. history. Every week, thousands of marathoners, CrossFitters, and casual weekend warriors shell out money to run through mud and fire,... |
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How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
Bart D. Ehrman - HarperOne; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesuss divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early church.The claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. But this is not what the original disciples believed... |
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The Ultimate Super Bowl Book: A Complete Reference to the Stats, Stars, and Stories Behind Football's Biggest Game--and Why the Best Team Won - Second Edition
Bob McGinn - MVP Books; Second Edition, Second, Revised Edition edition
Format: Print book
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With a television viewership of over 100 million people and hundreds of millions of dollars spent each year on tickets, concessions, and merchandise alone, the Super Bowl is the greatest game on Earth. Offering in-depth analysis, detailed statistics, play-by-play recaps, and post-game insights... |
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Throwback: A Big-League Catcher Tells How the Game Is Really Played
Jason Kendall - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Ever Wonder What's Being Said at Home Plate?How a Team Silently Communicates?What Goes on in the Clubhouse Behind Closed Doors?America's pastime has always left fans and amateur players alike yearning for the answers to questions about how pros play the game. Jason Kendall is an All-Star... |
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Adventure Carolinas: Your Go-To Guide for Multi-Sport Outdoor Recreation
Joe Miller - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Book
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Have you ever wanted to take up a new outdoor sport but thought, "Not me" or "Where do I begin"? In this unique take-it-with-you guide, outdoors and fitness writer Joe Miller introduces you to sixteen adventure sports in the Carolinas, from water to land and through... |
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Ping-Pong Diplomacy: The Secret History Behind the Game That Changed the World
Nicholas Griffin - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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THE SPRING OF 1971 heralded the greatest geopolitical realignment in a generation. After twenty-two years of antagonism, China and the United States suddenly moved toward a dtente - achieved not by politicians but by Ping-Pong players. The Western press delighted in the absurdity of the moment... |
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The Original Six: How the Canadiens, Bruins, Rangers, Blackhawks, Maple Leafs, and Red Wings Laid the Groundwork for Today's National Hockey League
Lew Freedman - Sports Publishing/Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book
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Since the inception of the National Hockey League on November 26, 1917, the sport of hockey has been one of the most popular games across the globe.After the National Hockey Association (NHA) , which had been founded in 1909, ceased operations, the NHL took over and became a mainstay for the sport.... |
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