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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
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

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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Best Tent Camping: Pennsylvania: Your Car-Camping Guide to Scenic Beauty, the Sounds of Nature, and an Escape from Civilization

Matt Willen · Menasha Ridge Pr
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

Between the state's two major population centers, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania offers the outdoor enthusiast thousands of square miles of hills, forests, and rivers to pursue a variety of outdoor activities--hiking, bicycling, skiing, fishing, boating, and camping.Best...
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Confessions of an OSU Usher: The Ohio State Buckeye Usher Journal

Trevor Zahara · Proving Press
Format: Print book

The Ohio State Buckeye Usher Journal features inside stories of the most famous stadium in the world. Trevor Zahara, alongside photos and stories from his fellow ushers, explores the sports history and traditions of The Ohio State University from the unique perspective of a stadium...
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Three and Out: Rich Rodriguez and the Michigan Wolverines in the Crucible of College Football

John U. Bacon · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Three and Out tells the story of how college footballs most influential coach took over the nations most successful program, only to produce three of the worst seasons in the histories of both Rich Rodriguez and the University of Michigan.  Shortly after his controversial move from West...
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Jackie Robinson: An Integrated Life

J. Christopher Schutz · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 175
Format: Hardcover

Jackie Robinson's story is not only a compelling drama of heroism, but also as a template of the African American freedom struggle. A towering athletic talent, Robinson's greater impact was on preparing the way for the civil rights reform wave following WWII. But Robinson's story has always...
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Secretariat

William Nack · Hyperion; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback

“Secretariat is an elegantly crafted, exhilarating tale of speed and power, grace and greatness, told with such immediacy that the reader is lost in the rush of horses and the clatter and ring of the grandstand.” —Laura Hillenbrand, bestselling author of Seabiscuit Updated...
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K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches

Tyler Kepner · Doubleday
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times baseball columnist, an enchanting, enthralling history of the national pastime as told through the craft of pitching, based on years of archival research and interviews with more than three hundred people from Hall of Famers to the stars of today

The...
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Second Nature: The Legacy of Ric Flair and the Rise of Charlotte

Ric Flair · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

WOOOOOO! Are you ready for this, WWE Universe? For the first time ever, WWE's illustrious father-daughter duo "Nature Boy" Ric Flair and Charlotte come together to tell their legendary story. Ric Flair is a 16-time World Champion and two-time WWE Hall of Fame Inductee. His four-decades...
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Older, Faster, Stronger: What Women Runners Can Teach Us All About Living Younger, Longer

Margaret Webb · Rodale Books
Format: Book

One part personal quest to discover running greatness after age 50, one part investigation into what the women's running boom can teach athletes about becoming fitter, stronger, and faster as we age, Older, Faster, Stronger is an engrossing narrative sure to inspire women of all ages....
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