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The Mamba Mentality: How I Play

KOBE BRYANT - MCD
Format: Hardcover

The first book from the basketball superstar Kobe Bryant -- a lavish, deep dive inside the mind of one of the most revered athletes of all timeIn the wake of his retirement from professional basketball, Kobe "The Black Mamba" Bryant has decided to share his vast knowledge and understanding...
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The Incomplete Book of Running

PETER SAGAL - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Peter Sagal, the host of NPR's Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! and a popular columnist for Runner's World, shares lessons, stories, advice, and warnings gleaned from running the equivalent of once around the earth.At the verge of turning forty, Peter Sagal - brainiac Harvard grad,...
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Should the Tent Be Burning Like That?: A Professional Amateur's Guide to the Outdoors

BILL HEAVEY - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

"Bill Heavey is one of the best magazine writers in America. No, he doesn't work for the New Yorker. He writes for Field & Stream, the popular journal for hunters and fishermen." -- Danny Heitman, Wall Street Journal "Bill Heavey is my favorite writer. When I die,...
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Just Show Up: And Other Enduring Values from Baseball's Iron Man

Cal Ripken Jr. - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Iron Man Cal Ripken Jr.the 19-time All-Star, World-Series winning legend, American League MVP, and record holder who played 2,632 consecutive gamesoutlines eight rules for the game of baseball and life, drawn from the lessons he has learned on and off the field.Cal Ripken Jr. is a baseball...
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It's Hard for Me to Live with Me: A Memoir

Rex Chapman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A powerful memoir from the University of Kentucky basketball legend, NBA veteran, and social media influencer about his recovery from addiction.. He is considered by many the greatest basketball player ever produced by the hoops-crazy state of Kentucky. In two years at the University of Kentucky,...
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Play Hungry: The Making of a Baseball Player

Pete Rose - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

The inside story of how Pete Rose became one of the greatest and most controversial players in the history of baseball Pete Rose was a legend on the field. As baseball's Hit King, he shattered records that were thought to be unbreakable. And during the 1970s, he was the leader of the Big Red Machine,...
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No Way But to Fight: George Foreman and the Business of Boxing

Smith, Andrew R. - UNIV OF TEXAS PR


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Game: An Autobiography

GRANT HILL - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

The full, frank story of a remarkable life's journey - to the pinnacle of success as a basketball player, icon, and entrepreneur, to the depths of personal trauma and back, to a place of flourishing and peace - made possible above all by a family's loveGrant Hill always had game....
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Breathless

Amy McCulloch - Anchor
Format: Hardcover

A high-stakes thriller set in the world of extreme-altitude mountaineering that takes a dark turn when a series of deaths can no longer be written off as accidents. "Combines fascinating, authentic mountaineering experience with pure thriller entertainment. The suspense rises like...
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The Grandest Stage: A History of the World Series

Tyler Kepner - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches, a highly entertaining, revelatory history of the WorldSeries, filled with gripping behind-the-scenes stories from 117 years of the Fall Classic.The World Series is the most enduring showcase in American...
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