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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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Leap In: A Woman, Some Waves, and the Will to Swim
ALEXANDRA HEMINSLEY - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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At once inspiring, hilarious, and honest, the new book from Alexandra Heminsley chronicles her endeavor to tackle a whole new element, and the ensuing challenges and joys of open water swimming. "It's a meditative act," they said. But it was far from meditative for Alexandra Heminsley... |
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50 Best Short Hikes in Utah's National Parks
Greg Witt - Wilderness Press; Second Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Utah’s five national parks—Arches, Bryce, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, and Zion—hold some of the most awe-inspiring geology on the planet. Each park offers visitors the dramatic scenery that invites exploration and discovery.In 50 Best Short Hikes in Utah’s National... |
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Along the Appalachian Trail
Leonard M. Adkins - Arcadia Publishing
Format: Book
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Crossing through 14 states from Maine to Georgia, the Appalachian Trail enters New Jersey through the Delaware Water Gap, crosses New Yorks Hudson River, and rises over Connecticuts Lions Head. The area is considered by some to be the pathways birthplace, for in 1923, just two years after... |
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Junior Seau: The Life and Death of a Football Icon
Jim Trotter - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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A moving portrait of the life and legendary career of one of the NFL's most beloved players Tiaina Baul "Junior" Seau is widely considered one of the best linebackers ever to play the game. A ten-time All-Pro and twelve-time Pro Bowl selection, Seau was picked for the NFL's "All-Decade... |
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My Cubs: A Love Story
Scott Simon - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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NPR's Scott Simon's personal, heartfelt reflections on his beloved Chicago Cubs, replete with club lore, memorable anecdotes, frenetic fandom and wise and adoring intimacy that have made the world champion Cubbies baseball's most tortured - and now triumphant - franchise.No metaphor is necessary;... |
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Backpacker's The National Parks Coast to Coast: 100 Best Hikes
Backpacker magazine - Falcon Guides
Format: Paperback
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With expert content and beautiful photos provided by Backpacker magazine, this treasured collector's item belongs as much on the coffee table as does in the backpack. Released in time for the National Park Service's 100th anniversary, Backpacker's The National Parks Coast to Coast... |
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Concussion
Jeanne Marie Laskas - Random House
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Now a major motion picture starring Will Smith, Concussion is the riveting, unlikely story of Dr. Bennet Omalu, the pathologist who made one of the most significant medical discoveries of the twenty-first century, a discovery that challenges the existence... |
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The Pride of the Yankees: The Movie that Defined the Legacy of Lou Gehrig
Richard Sandomir - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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"I CONSIDER MYSELF THE LUCKIEST MAN ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH."On July 4, 1939, baseball great Lou Gehrig delivered what has been called "baseball's Gettysburg Address" at Yankee Stadium and gave a speech that included the phrase that would become legendary. He died two years... |
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Lonely Planet Australia
Lonely Planet. - Lonely Planet, 2015.
Format: Print book
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Lonely Planet Australia is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. While away the day on Sydney's Bondi Beach; explore tropical jungle in ancient Daintree Rainforest; and experience the unique Indigenous culture... |
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A Life Well Played: My Stories
Arnold Palmer - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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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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Gironimo!: Riding the Very Terrible 1914 Tour of Italy
Tim Moore - Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The 1914 Giro d'Italia: The hardest bike race in history. Eighty-one riders started and only eight finished after enduring cataclysmic storms, roads strewn with nails, and even the loss of an eye by one competitor. And now Tim Moore is going to ride it. And he's committed to total... |
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Lonely Planet Nepal
Lonely Planet - Lonely Planet; 10 edition
Format: Print book
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#1 best-selling guide to Nepal* Lonely Planet Nepal is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Soak in the hustle-and-bustle of Kathmandu's Durbar Square, trek to the base of the world's highest mountain,... |
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Game of My Life New York Mets: Memorable Stories of Mets Baseball
Michael Garry - Sports Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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This new addition to the Game of My Life series takes a personal look inside the biggest moments of the Mets' greatest and most beloved players, from journeymen to superstars. Their most unforgettable games paint a picture of Mets history, as the franchise morphed from a dismal (though... |
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Running with the Champ: My Forty-Year Friendship with Muhammad Ali
Tim Shanahan - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A personal tribute to the remarkable friendship between Tim Shanahan and Muhammad Ali, including dozens of never-before-told stories about Ali, his family, his entourage, and various celebrities along the way - as well as never-before-published personal photos.In 1976 Tim Shanahan was a medical-instruments... |
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Game 7, 1986: Failure and Triumph in the Biggest Game of My Life
Ron Darling - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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Every little kid who's ever taken the mound in Little League dreams of someday getting the ball for Game Seven of the World Series. Ron Darling got to live that dream - only it didn't go exactly as planned. In Game 7, 1986, the award-winning baseball analyst looks back at what might... |
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Lucky Bastard: My Life, My Dad, and the Things I'm Not Allowed to Say on TV
Joe Buck - Dutton
Format: Print book
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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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Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty
Charles Leerhsen - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Finally - a fascinating and authoritative biography of perhaps the most controversial player in baseball history, Ty Cobb.Ty Cobb is baseball royalty, maybe even the greatest player who ever lived. His lifetime batting average is still the highest of all time, and when he retired in 1928,... |
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Split Season: 1981: Fernandomania, the Bronx Zoo, and the Strike that Saved Baseball
Jeff Katz - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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The never-before-told story of the momentous season torn in half by the bitter players strike.1981 was a watershed moment in American sports, when players turned an oligarchy of owners into a game where they had a real voice. Midway through the season, a game-changing strike ripped baseball... |
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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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North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail
SCOTT JUREK - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the bestseller Eat and Run, a thrilling new memoir about his grueling, exhilarating, and immensely inspiring 46-day run to break the speed record for the Appalachian Trail.Scott Jurek is one of the world's best known and most beloved ultrarunners. Renowned for his remarkable... |
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18 Holes with Bing: Golf, Life, and Lessons from Dad
Nathaniel Crosby - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this love letter to his father, former professional golfer Nathaniel Crosby shares memories of Bing Crosby on the golf course, and the lessons he taught him about the game and about life. With a Foreword by Jack Nicklaus."Bing Crosby was a great ambassador for our game, as well... |
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I'm Fascinated by Sacrifice Flies: Inside the Game We All Love
Tim Kurkjian - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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ESPN baseball commentator Tim Kurkjian is fascinated by sacrifice flies. In fact, he is fascinated by so many aspects of baseball that he's written a book to show baseball fans where this fascination comes from and how they, too, can find it. In the aftermath of the Steroid Era that... |
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Muhammad Ali: A Tribute to the Greatest
Thomas Hauser - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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Stripping away the revisionism to reveal the true nature of the man himself, this new book recounts the life journey of a fighter universally recognized as a unique and treasured world icon. Few global personalities have commanded an all-encompassing sporting and cultural audience like... |
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Boost!: How the Psychology of Sports Can Enhance your Performance in Management and Work
Michael Bar-Eli - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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To perform better in any situation - in your career, hobbies, relationships, or in any facet of your life - it is critical to develop psychological skills, which, just like physical abilities, can be taught, learned, and practiced. Both as individuals and as groups, we can tone these psychological... |
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Dinner with DiMaggio: Memories of An American Hero
Rock G Positano - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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The real Joe DiMaggio, remembered by the man who knew him best in the last decade of his life - candid and little-known stories about icons from Ted Williams, Lou Gehrig, and his Yankees teammates on the field to Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and other great celebrities off the field.Dr.... |
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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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Runner's World The Runner's Brain: How to Think Smarter to Run Better
Jeff Brown - Rodale Books
Format: Paperback
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As a runner, your biggest asset (or sometimes your greatest enemy) is your brain. What you think and feel on and off the road also has a huge influence over how you perform once you lace up. Runner's World The Runner's Brain shows you how to unlock and capture the miraculous potential... |
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Wake Up Happy: The Dream Big, Win Big Guide to Transforming Your Life
Michael Strahan - 37 INK/ATRIA
Format: Print book
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From America's favorite football player turned morning talk show host - a man who makes just about everything look easy - a mlange of stories and motivational advice to inspire the reader to turn up the heat and go from good to great in pursuit of their personal ambitions.Michael Strahan... |
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Concussion
Jeanne Marie Laskas - Random House Trade
Format: Paperback
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Now a major motion picture starring Will Smith, Concussion is the riveting, unlikely story of Dr. Bennet Omalu, the pathologist who made one of the most significant medical discoveries of the twenty-first century, a discovery that challenges the existence... |
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Return to Glory: The Story of Ford's Revival and Victory in the Toughest Race in the World
MATTHEW DEBORD - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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In January 2015 at the Detroit Auto Show, Ford unveiled a new car and the automotive world lost its collective mind. This wasn't some new Explorer or Focus. Onto the stage rolled a supercar, a carbon-fiber GT powered by a mid-mounted six-cylinder Ecoboost engine that churned out over 600 horsepower.... |
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When It Was Just a Game: Remembering the First Super Bowl
Harvey Frommer - Taylor Trade Publishing, 2015.
Format: Print book
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Written by acclaimed sports author and oral historian Harvey Frommer and with an introduction by pro football Hall of Famer Frank Gifford, When It Was Just a Game tells the fascinating story of the ground-breaking AFL-NFL World Championship Football game played on January 15, 1967: Packers... |
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Cheerleading: Technique-Training-Show
Miriam Lopez Hernandez de Alba - Meyer & Meyer Fachverlag und Buchhandel GmbH; 2 edition
Format: Paperback
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This book presents the basics of learning for potential cheerleaders and the basics of teaching for coaches and teachers. Cheerleading is not just dance, acrobatics, speachsong and spectacle; it is above all a team sport requiring a lot of hard work. But anyone who has been touched by the spirit... |
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Sting Like a Bee: Muhammad Ali vs. the United States of America, 1966-1971
LEIGH MONTVILLE - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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An insightful portrait of Muhammed Ali from the New York Times bestselling author of At the Altar of Speed and The Big Bam. It centers on the cultural and political implications of Ali's refusal of service in the military - and the key moments in a life that was as high... |
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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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438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea
Jonathan Franklin - Atria Books
Format: Print book
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"The best survival book in a decade" (Outside magazine) , 438 Days is the true story of the fisherman who survived fourteen months in a small boat drifting seven thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean.On November 17, 2012, a pair of fishermen left the coast of Mexico... |
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The Slide: Leyland, Bonds, and the Star-Crossed Pittsburgh Pirates
RICHARD PETERSON - UNIV OF PITTSBURGH PRESS
Format: Print book
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In the deciding game of the 1992 National League Championship Series against the Atlanta Braves, the Pittsburgh Pirates suffered the most dramatic and devastating loss in team history when former Pirate Sid Bream slid home with the winning run. Bream's infamous slide ended the last game... |
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Belize, Guatemala & Southern Mexico Handbook
Richard Arghiris - Footprint Handbooks; Third Edition edition
Format: Book
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Blessed with a tropical climate, abundant wildlife and a varied landscape, it's easy to understand the appeal of this beguiling region. Footprint's Belize, Guatemala & Southern Mexico Handbook will guide you from monumental Mayan ruins, through hypnotic fiestas, to sparking... |
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Pitch by Pitch: My View of One Unforgettable Game
Bob Gibson - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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Pitch by Pitch gets inside the head of Bob Gibson on October 2, 1968, when he took the mound for game one of the World Series against the Detroit Tigers and struck out a record seventeen batters. With the tension rising in the stadium, an uproarious crowd behind him, and the record... |
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Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
William Finnegan - Audible Studios
Format: Audiobook
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Pulitzer Prize, Biography, 2016A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writer. Barbarian Days is William Finnegans memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates it is something else entirely: a beautiful... |
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Best Bike Rides Connecticut: The Greatest Recreational Rides in the State
David Streever - Falcon Guides
Format: Print book
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Best Bike Rides Connecticut describes 40 of the greatest recreational rides in the Connectiut. Road rides, rail rides, bike paths, and single-track mountain bike rides all get included. Most rides are in the 5- to 35-mile range, allowing for great afternoon outings and family adventures... |
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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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Stronger, Faster, Smarter: A Guide to Your Most Powerful Body
Ryan Ferguson - Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, a member of Penguing Group (USA)
Format: Print book
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After a decade behind bars for a murder he did not commit, Ryan Ferguson learned that physical strength and confidence are keys to survival - he now shares his strength secrets in Stronger, Faster, Smarter--the smartest, realest, and most doable fitness guide you'll ever read. How many... |
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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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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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American Pharoah: The Untold Story of the Triple Crown Winner's Legendary Rise
Joe Drape - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERHistory was made at the 2015 Belmont Stakes when American Pharoah won the Triple Crown, the first since Affirmed in 1978. As magnificent as the champion is, the team behind him has been all too human while on the road to immortality.Written by an award-winning... |
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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Philip H Knight - Scribner
Format: Print book
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In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world's most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands.Young, searching,... |
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Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History, 1843 to the Present
Gail Buckland - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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From the creator/editor of Who Shot Rock & Roll ("I loved this book" - Dwight Garner, The New York Times. "Whatever Gail Buckland writes, I want to read") , a book that brings together the work of 165 extraordinary photographers, most of their images heralded, most... |
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Backlund: From All-American Boy to Professional Wrestling's World Champion
Bob Backlund - Sports Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Bob Backlund began life as a poor farm boy in the little village of Princeton, Minnesota, with a population of just over 2,000 people. He was a below-average student with a lackluster work ethic and a bad attitude, who hung with the wrong crowd and made a lot of bad choices. He was a kid whose... |
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Ali: A Life
JONATHAN EIG - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2018 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing Winner of The Times Sports Biography of the Year "Stunning . . . Eig's brilliant, exhaustive book is the biography the champ deserves." - NPR.orgThe definitive biography of an American icon, from a New York Times... |
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The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball's Lost Triumph
Scott Ellsworth - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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The true story of the game that never should have happened--and of a nation on the brink of monumental changeIn the fall of 1943, at the little-known North Carolina College for Negroes, Coach John McLendon was on the verge of changing basketball forever. A protg of James Naismith, the games... |
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Game Worn: Baseball Treasures from the Game's Greatest Heroes and Moments
Stephen Wong - Smithsonian Books
Format: Print book
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Game Worn: Baseball Treasures from the Game's Greatest Heroes and Moments is a richly illustrated exploration and first-of-its-kind compendium study of the world's most coveted and precious baseball uniforms worn by Major League ballplayers during the twentieth century. This coffee-table... |
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World Heritage Sites: A Complete Guide to 1,007 UNESCO Workd Heritage Sites
UNESCO - Firefly Books
Format: Paperback
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"No school, public, or academic library could go wrong including the very affordable World Heritage Sites in both reference and circulating collections." --BOOKLIST (for a previous edition) More than 52,000 copies of the previous editions of World Heritage Sites have been... |
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Off Speed: Baseball, Pitching, and the Art of Deception
Terry McDermott - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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A wonderfully informative, exuberant, and entertaining book that explores the evolution and history of baseball pitching through the story of one "perfect" game. Tracing the evolution of pitching and the pitcher's art of deception, Terry McDermott tells the fascinating story... |
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Late to the Ball: Age. Learn. Fight. Love. Play Tennis. Win.
Gerald Marzorati - Scribner
Format: Print book
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An award-winning author shares the inspiring and entertaining account of his pursuit to become a nationally competitive tennis player - at the age of sixty.Being a man or a woman in your early sixties is different than it was a generation or two ago, at least for the more fortunate of us. We aren't... |
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Molina: The Story of the Father Who Raised an Unlikely Baseball Dynasty
Bengie Molina - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller "It's this year's baseball book most likely to be made into a terrific movie." - The Chicago Tribune "Affecting...A simply told, deeply moving story, quite unlike the usual baseball book." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A baseball... |
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Bicycling the Blue Ridge: A Guide to the Skyline Drive and the Blue Ridge Parkway
Elizabeth Skinner - Menasha Ridge Press; Fifth Edition edition
Format: Book
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There is no ribbon of highway more ideal for cycling than the Skyline Drive and Blue Ridge Parkway – they both entice the senses and physically challenge the body. This new edition continues as the definitive guide to a cyclist’s dream road, offering completely updated information... |
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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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A Speck in the Sea: A Story of Survival and Rescue
John Aldridge - Weinstein Publishing
Format: Print book
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In the dead of night on July 24, 2013, John Aldridge was thrown of the back of the Anna Mary while his fishing partner, Anthony Sosinski, slept below. As desperate hours ticked by, Sosinski, the families, the local fishing community, and the U.S. Coast Guard in three states mobilized in an unprecedented... |
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The Inner Runner: Running to a More Successful, Creative, and Confident You
Jason Karp - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book
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Why are so many people drawn to running? Why is running the most common physical activity? What is it about running that empowers so many people? And how can runners harness that power to create a more meaningful life? The Inner Runner addresses these questions and a whole lot more. This... |
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Unrivaled: UConn, Tennessee, and the Twelve Years that Transcended Women’s Basketball
Jeff Goldberg - University of Nebraska Press
Format: Hardcover
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For twelve years the women's basketball rivalry between UConn and Tennessee was the most iconic matchup in women's sports. Even now, twenty years since the annual series started, the competition between these two storied programs still provokes heated argument and bitter resentment. Led by Hall... |
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Best Easy Day Hikes Salt Lake City
Greg Witt - Falcon Guides; Third Edition edition
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Best Easy Day Hikes Salt Lake City features twenty-one easily manageable hikes in this great hiking destination. Where else can you spot elk and raptors and still be within 300 yards of downtown? Discover a range of hikes in Salt Lake Valley, as well as nearby Big Cottonwood Canyon and Little... |
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A Hole in the Wind: A Climate Scientist's Bicycle Journey Across the United States
DAVID GOODRICH - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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An epic bicycle journey across the American hinterland that engages the challenges of climate change alongside a diverse array of American voices. After a distinguished career in climate science as the Director of the UN Global Climate Observing System in Geneva, David Goodrich returned... |
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Pedro
Pedro Martinez - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A bold, no-holds-barred memoir from one of the most dominant and dynamic pitchers to ever play the game Before Pedro Martinez was the eight-time All Star, three-time Cy Young Award winner, and World Series champion, before stadiums full of fans chanted his name, he was just a little kid from... |
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Love Game: A History of Tennis, from Victorian Pastime to Global Phenomenon
Elizabeth Wilson - The University of Chicago Press
Format: Print book
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Tennis has never been played better than it is today. To watch Rafael Nadal spin a forehand at 4000 rpm, Maria Sharapova arabesque out of a serve, Serena Williams utterly destroy a short ball, or Roger Federer touch a volley into an impossibly angled winner is to watch not only the best... |
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Arnie: The Life of Arnold Palmer
TOM CALLAHAN - HARPERCOLLINS
Format: Print book
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In this definitive biography, veteran sportswriter Tom Callahan shines a spotlight on one of the greatest golfers ever to play the game, Arnold Palmer.The winner of more than ninety championships, including four Masters Tournaments, Arnold Palmer was a legend in twentieth century sports:... |
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Federer and Me: A Story of Obsession
William Skidelsky - Atria Books
Format: Print book
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In this wildly entertaining and informative memoir reminiscent of Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch - but for the world of tennis - one man recounts his all-consuming obsession with Roger Federer and delves into the fascinating history and evolution of this beloved sport.For much of the past... |
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Water Exercise
Melissa Layne - Human Kinetics
Format: Print book
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Looking for exercises to improve your fitness, maximize your cross-training, or recover from an injury or condition--all with little or no impact? "Water Exercise" is your complete resource for fitness and rehabilitation exercises. Water workouts are a fabulous way to exercise,... |
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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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Back from the Dead
Bill Walton - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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This inspiring memoir from sports and cultural icon Bill Walton recounts his devastating injuries and amazing recoveries, set in the context of his UCLA triumphs under John Wooden, his storied NBA career, and his affinity for music and the Grateful Dead.In February 2008, Bill Walton suffered... |
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Shackleton's Heroes: The Epic Story of the Men Who Kept the Endurance Expedition Alive
Wilson Mcorist - W W Norton
Format: Print book
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The Unbelievable Story of Six Men Who Trekked Across the Great Ice Barrier in Support of Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic ExpeditionOne hundred years ago, Sir Ernest Shackleton embarked on the legendary 1914-1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, defying the odds and accomplishing one of history's... |
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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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Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
Robert Kurson - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A thrilling adventure of danger and deep-sea diving, historic mystery and suspense, by the author of Shadow Divers Finding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. But two men - John Chatterton and John Mattera - are willing to risk... |
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Forward: A Memoir
Abby Wambach - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Lucid and wrenching...Forward puts [Wambach's] achievement in context with painful and beautiful candor." - NPR"Forward is the powerful story of an athlete who has inspired girls all over the world to believe in themselves." - Sheryl Sandberg,... |
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Ice Bowl '67: The Packers, the Cowboys, and the Game That Changed the NFL
Chuck Carlson - Sports Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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For those players who remain, the scars still run deep when it comes to the infamous "Ice Bowl," played December 31, 1967, between the Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys.There are players even today who suffer the ravages of frostbite and lung damage from a game many of the players... |
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