|
|
|
 |
|
Games People Played: A Global History of Sports
Wray Vamplew - Reaktion Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Games People Played is, surprisingly, the first global history of sports. The book shows how sports have been practiced, experienced, and made meaningful by players and fans throughout history. It assesses how sports developed and diffused across the globe, as well as many other aspects,... |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Cobra: A Life of Baseball and Brotherhood
Dave Parker - University of Nebraska Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Dave Parker was one of the biggest and most badass baseball players of the late twentieth century. He stood at six foot five and weighed 235 pounds. He was a seven-time All-Star, a two-time batting champion, a frequent Gold Glove winner, the 1978 National League MVP, and a World Series... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Banana Ball: The Unbelievably True Story of the Savannah Bananas
Jesse Cole - ?Dutton
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The Savannah Bananas have peeled back the game of baseball and made it fun again. This is their story. For his entire childhood, Jesse Cole dreamed of pitching in the Majors. Now, he has a life in baseball that he could have only imagined: he met the love of his life in the industry;... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Tom Brady: El partido más largo
RUBN IBEAS - Lindhardt og Ringhof Forlag AS
Format: Audiobook
|
|
La NFL es el deporte de equipo por excelencia y el rendimiento de cada jugador está en estrecha relación con lo que hace el resto del conjunto. A lo largo de más de veinte años de carrera profesional, Tom Brady ha puesto en cuestión este principio. Su juego es el que ha elevado el rendimiento... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Running Sideways: The Olympic Champion Who Made Track and Field History
Pauline Davis
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A raw, uplifting story from one of the most important hidden figures in track and field history.When Pauline Davis first began to run, it wasn't with any thought of future Olympic glory. A product of the poor neighborhood of Bain Town in The Bahamas, she carried the family's buckets... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
A Window to Heaven: The Daring First Ascent of Denali: America's Wildest Peak
Patrick Dean - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
In 1913, four men made a months-long journey by dog sled to the base of the tallest mountain in North America. Several groups had already tried but failed to reach the top of a mountain whose size - occupying 120 square miles of the earth's surface - and position as the Earth's... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Sparring with Smokin' Joe: Joe Frazier's Epic Battles and Rivalry with Ali
Glenn Lewis - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
|
|
An intimate portrait of Joe Frazier, whose ferocious rivalry with Muhammad Ali made them both boxing legends and cultural touchstones for an era. Just in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the Fight of the Century (Ali-Frazier I) , Sparring with Smokin' Joe provides a penetrating,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
