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Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
James Nestor - Riverhead Books
Format: Book
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"Fascinating exploration of the history and science around the mechanics of breathing, how it affects our health, and what a large number of us in modern times are doing completely wrong."
~ Drew
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60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Chicago: Including Wisconsin and Northwest Indiana
Ted Villaire - Menasha Ridge Press
Format: Paperback
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The best guide to hiking within an hour's drive of Chicago. 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Chicago by Ted Villaire introduces newcomers and lifelong residents alike to a surprising array of the best day hikes within a 60-mile radius of the Windy City. The new full-color edition includes... |
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Dust Bowl Girls: A Team's Quest for Basketball Glory
Lydia Reeder - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Format: Print book
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At the height of the Great Depression, Sam Babb, the charismatic basketball coach of tiny Oklahoma Presbyterian College, began dreaming. Like so many others, he wanted a reason to have hope. Traveling from farm to farm, he recruited talented, hardworking young women and offered them a chance... |
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Nurturing Children's Talents: A Guide for Parents
Kenneth A. Kiewra - Praeger
Format: Hardcover
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Explains steps that parents can take to help their child develop talent in any activity that has sparked his or her interest.* Covers early experience, environmental factors, and parental roles spurring talent development, from artistry and athleticism to culinary, musical, academic, dance,... |
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Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
KEITH O'BRIEN - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of five women who fought to compete against men in the high-stakes national air races of the 1920s and 1930s - and won Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. Thousands of fans flocked to multiday events, and cities... |
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Let It Bang: A Young Black Man's Reluctant Odyssey into Guns
RJ Young - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A story of race, guns, and self-protection in America today, through the quest - funny and searing - of a young black man learning to shoot a handgun better than a white personThe most RJ Young knew about guns was that they could get him killed. Until, recently married to a white woman... |
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Legend: My Life in Football
JOE NAMATH - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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In the wake of the 50th anniversary of his legendary Super Bowl "Guarantee," the NFL icon who first brought show business to sports shares his life lessons on fame, fatherhood, and football. Three days before the 1969 Super Bowl, Joe Namath promised the nation that he would lead... |
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Ill Show You
Derrick Rose - Triumph Books
Format: Hardcover
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. In 2012, Derrick Rose was on top of the world.. After growing up in Chicagos Englewood neighborhood, Rose achieved an improbable childhood dream: being selected first overall in the NBA draft by his hometown Chicago Bulls. The point guard known to his family as "Pooh" was a phenom,... |
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The Chicago Cubs: Story of a Curse
RICH COHEN - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A captivating blend of reportage and memoir exploring the history of the Chicago CubsFor Rich Cohen and millions of other fans, the Cubs have always been more than a team: they've been the protagonists of a King Arthur epic, in search of the Holy Grail that is winning the World Series.A... |
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Run Fast. Cook Fast. Eat Slow.: Quick-Fix Recipes for Hangry Athletes
SHALANE FLANAGAN - Rodale Books
Format: Hardcover
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Cook the recipes that Shalane Flanagan ate while training for her 2017 TCS New York City Marathon historic win!The New York Times bestseller Run Fast. Eat Slow. taught runners of all ages that healthy food could be both indulgent and incredibly nourishing. Now, Olympian Shalane... |
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Ancient America: Fifty Archaeological Sites to See for Yourself
Kenneth L Feder - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book
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Presenting "the real deal" of American antiquity - as opposed to the hyped fare of many cable TV shows - Kenneth Feder invites readers to explore the stunning technological, architectural, engineering, and artistic achievements of America's first peoples. Part travel guide, part... |
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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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50 Greatest Players in Chicago Cubs History
ROBERT W COHEN - BLUE RIVER PR
Format: Print book
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One of the most storied teams in the MLB, the Chicago Cubs are always a team to beat. This new title, The 50 Greatest Players in Chicago Cubs History will be a perennial favorite. Looking to win the pennant under the direction of their highly praised manager, Joe Maddon, The Cubs are looking... |
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The Official Guidebook to the Rules of Golf
R&A - Hamlyn
Format: Flexibound
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Following seven years of consultations, the governing bodies of the Rules of golf will implement the most comprehensive Rules changes seen in the game for 37 years.In a bid to make the Rules more accessible and straightforward The R&A and USGA have reworded every Rule and made alterations... |
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Hike Smart: Tips and Tactics for Improving Your Treks
Ann Marie Brown - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Are you a first-timer about to take your inaugural trek? Are you a veteran hiker looking to be even more efficient when enjoying the sport you love? Are you someone in between? Then look no further than expert trekker Ann Brown's Hike Smart, the definitive guide to efficient and enjoyable... |
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Never Settle: Sports, Family, and the American Soul
Marty Smith - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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The amazing and blessed life of popular ESPN reporter and correspondent for College GameDay, Marty Smith, whose mission in this thoughtful and funny memoir is to return fans to the true soul of sports in this country. You know Marty right? The guy during College GameDay hanging... |
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The Incomplete Book of Running
PETER SAGAL - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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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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Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: And Other Lessons in Life
Charles Jardine - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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With over 100 movies and two Academy Awards to his credit over six decades, Hollywood legend Michael Caine shares the wisdom, stories, insight, and skills that life has taught him in his remarkable career--and now his 85th year. One of our best-loved actors Michael Caine has starred in a huge... |
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Ballpark: Baseball in the American City
Paul Goldberger - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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An exhilarating, splendidly illustrated, entirely new look at the history of baseball: told through the stories of the vibrant and ever-changing ballparks where the game was and is staged, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic.From the earliest corrals of the mid-1800s (Union... |
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LeBron, Inc.: The Making of a Billion-Dollar Athlete
Brian Windhorst - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Return of the King comes the story of LeBron James's incredible transformation from basketball star to sports and business mogul. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;... |
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Upon Further Review: The Greatest What-Ifs in Sports History
MIKE PESCA - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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From Mike Pesca, host of the popular Slate podcast The Gist, comes the greatest sports minds imagining how the world would change if a play, trade, injury, or referee's call had just gone the other way. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Calibri} p.p2 {margin:... |
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Game-Day Eats: 100 Recipes for Homegating Like a Pro
Eddie Jackson - Harper Design
Format: Hardcover
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Create epic feasts for game days at home with this full-color cookbook from former NFL star and celebrity chef Eddie Jackson that includes 100 fresh and inventive recipes for tailgating at home.There's nothing like day full of football and great food. While many fans tailgate on game days... |
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Backpacker Hidden Gems: 100 Greatest Undiscovered Hikes Across America
MAREN HORJUS - Falcon Guides
Format: Paperback
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Nothing against the Bright Angel Trail, the Narrows, the Presidential Traverse, or Half Dome, which are all certainly worth of their popularity, but hikers don't need another resource pointing them toward those conga lines. It's time we rewrite the backpacker's life list. Enter Backpacker... |
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Mastering Judo
Masao Takahashi - Human Kinetics
Format: Paperback
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Immerse yourself in the art and sport of judo like never before in Mastering Judo. Gain a rich understanding of the philosophy, history, and practices that distinguish judo from other martial arts. Become more proficient in the techniques, tactics, and training necessary to rise through... |
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Belichick: The Making of the Greatest Football Coach of All Time
Ian O'Connor - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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From a New York Times best-selling author, the definitive biography of the NFL's most enigmatic, controversial, and yet successful coach, Bill Belichick.Bill Belichick is perhaps the most fascinating figure in the NFL - the infamously dour face of one of the winningest franchises... |
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The Last Cowboys: A Pioneer Family in the New West
JOHN BRANCH - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A gripping portrait of one family's gamble that rodeo and ranching are the future of the West -- and not just its past.For generations, the Wrights of southern Utah have raised cattle and world-champion saddle-bronc riders -- some call them the most successful rodeo family in history. Now Bill... |
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Running with Sherman: The Donkey with the Heart of a Hero
Christopher McDougall - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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"A delight, full of heart and hijinks and humor . . . McDougall is a gifted storyteller who gets to the heart of the human-animal connection." --John Grogan, author of Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst DogFrom the best-selling author of Born to Run,... |
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NFL Century: The One-Hundred-Year Rise of America's Greatest Sports League
Joe Horrigan - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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From the former executive director of the Pro Football Hall of Fame comes a sweeping and lively history of the National Football League, timed to coincide with the NFL's 100th anniversary season. "I can think of no one better qualified - or more enthusiastic - to chronicle the National... |
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The Legendary Harry Caray: Baseball's Greatest Salesman
Don Zminda - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Harry Caray is one of the most famous and beloved sports broadcasters of all time, with a career that lasted over 50 years. Always a baseball fan, Caray once vowed to become a broadcaster who was the true voice of the fans. Caray's distinctive style soon resonated across St. Louis,... |
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Ballplayer
Chipper Jones - Dutton
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Before Chipper Jones became an eight-time All-Star who amassed Hall of Fame-worthy statistics during his nineteen-year career with the Atlanta Braves, he was a country boy from small-town Pierson, Florida, who played baseball in the backyard with his dad and dreamed of the major leagues.... |
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Republicans Buy Sneakers Too: How the Left Is Ruining Sports with Politics
CLAY TRAVIS - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover
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Sports media superstar Clay Travis wants to save sports from the social justice warriors seeking to turn them into another political battleground.Have you ever tuned into your favorite sports highlights show, only to find the talking heads yammering about the newest Trump tweets or what... |
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The Story of the America's Cup 1851 - 2013
Ranulf Rayner - Antique Collectors Club Dist
Format: Hardcover
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Title: The Story of the America's Cup 1851- 2013 Binding: Hardcover Author: RanulfRayner Publisher: ACCDistribution |
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Moon Blue Ridge & Smoky Mountains
Jason Frye - Avalon Travel
Format: Print book
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Travel writer Jason Frye offers his firsthand experience and advice on the Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountains - including North Carolina High Country, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and the Cherokee Indian Reservation. Huso includes travel strategies, such as More Than a Drive: Top Hikes... |
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The Streak: Lou Gehrig, Cal Ripken, and Baseball's Most Historic Record
John Eisenberg - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating story of baseball's legendary "Ironmen," two players from different eras who each achieved the coveted and sometimes confounding record of most consecutive games played When Cal Ripken Jr. began his career with the Baltimore Orioles at age twenty-one, he had no idea... |
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Life Is a Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance
Matt Fitzgerald - Lifelong Books
Format: Hardcover
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An endurance athlete and coach reveals how the marathon transforms the lives of everyone who attempts it--and how it has helped his own family cope with serious adversityStep after step for 26.2 miles, hundreds of thousands of people run marathons. But why--what compels people past pain,... |
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Basketball: A Love Story
DAN KLORES - Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping and revelatory history of basketball, drawing upon hundreds of hours of interviews with the greatest players, coaches, executives, and journalists in the history of the game.In an effort to tell the complete story of basketball in all its fascinating dimensions, celebrated journalists... |
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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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Road Trips: A Guide to Travel, Adventure, and Choosing Your Own Path
Jen CK Jacobs - Roost Books
Format: Paperback
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Be inspired to take your next adventure - practical tips, fresh ideas, and stories to spark wanderlust. There is no one way to road trip. From introspective solo journeys to romantic weekend getaways, friend-filled excursions, and more, Road Trips presents eight stories... |
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Racing to the Finish: My Story
DALE EARNHARDT JR - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover
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It was a seemingly minor crash at Michigan International Speedway in June 2016 that ended the day early for Dale Earnhardt Jr. What he didn't know was that it would also end his driving for the year. He'd dealt with concussions before, but concussions are like snowflakes - no two are the same.... |
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Rank Analysis Handicapping: How to Bet Thoroughbred Races Instead of Horses
A. O. Abbott - Independently published
Format: Paperback
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A powerful new approach for handicapping thoroughbred races, in publication for the first time. For the beginning horseplayer, this approach provides intuitive and proven strategies for developing a solid betting strategy. Rank Analysis Handicapping will enable the experienced horseplayer... |
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The Cup of Coffee Club: 11 Players and Their Brush with Baseball History
Kornhauser, Jacob - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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The Cup of Coffee Club shares the stories of eleven men who played in just a single major league baseball game and how they responded to the heartache of never making it back. Featuring exclusive interviews with each of the players, their insight provides a unique look into the struggles... |
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Running with a Police Escort: Tales from the Back of the Pack
Jill Grunenwald - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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In the fall of 2012, quirky and cat-loving Cleveland librarian Jill Grunenwald got an alarming email from her younger sister: her sister was very concerned with Jill's weight and her overall mental and physical health. Having always struggled with her weight, Jill was currently hitting... |
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Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times
Mark Leibovich - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Town, an equally merciless probing of America's biggest cultural force, pro football, at a moment of peak success and high anxietyLike millions of Americans, Mark Leibovich has spent more of his life tuned into pro football than... |
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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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Tinker to Evers to Chance: The Chicago Cubs and the Dawn of Modern America
David Rapp - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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Their names were chanted, crowed, and cursed. Alone they were a shortstop, a second baseman, and a first baseman. But together they were an unstoppable force. Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chance came together in rough-and-tumble early twentieth-century Chicago and soon formed the defensive... |
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Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field
Howard Bryant - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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A bold and impassioned meditation on injustice in our country that punctures the illusion of a postracial America and reveals it as a place where authoritarianism looms large.Whether the issues are protest, labor, patriotism, or class division, it is clear that professional sports are no longer... |
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Brainwashed: The Bad Science Behind CTE and the Plot to Destroy Football
Merril Hoge - Mascot Books / Amplify
Format: Hardcover
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The outcry surrounding CTE is missing something critical: the science to justify it. When post-concussion syndrome forced star NFL running back Merril Hoge into early retirement in 1994, research on football-related head injuries wasn't a priority. At the time, football was heavily... |
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America's Game: The NFL at 100
Jerry Rice - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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The authors of the New York Times bestseller 50 Years, 50 Moments celebrate the first 100 years of the National Football League, interweaving history, personal stories, memories, and observations of some of its greatest players, coaches, and advocates to chronicle footballs amazing evolution... |
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Top Trails: Great Smoky Mountains National Park: 50 Must-Do Hikes for Everyone
JOHNNY MOLLOY - WILDERNESS PR
Format: Print book
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Johnny Molloy, who has spent more than 800 nights backpacking in the Smokies, has updated his classic guide Top Trails: Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This revised edition has been completely updated, including the new backcountry reservation system implemented in the park.He has also... |
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Ten Innings at Wrigley: The Wildest Ballgame Ever, with Baseball on the Brink
Kevin Cook - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic story of a legendary 1979 slugfest between the Chicago Cubs and the Philadelphia Phillies, full of runs, hits, and subplots, at the tipping point of a new era in baseball historyIt was a Thursday at Chicago's Wrigley Field, mostly sunny with the wind blowing out. Nobody expected... |
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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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The 1969 Cubs: Long Rememebered - Long Remembered - Not Forgottten
Fergie Jenkins - John Schenk & Associates, LLC
Format: Paperback
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An integrated league was discovering its strength. A chewing gum magnate was shaping his unique franchise's identity. The stage was set for the 1969 Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field, where the lights didn't shine at night, but they did in the eyes of every hopeful fan. They were a team... |
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Quarterback: Inside the Most Important Position in the National Football League
John Feinstein - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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A major new book from #1 New York Times bestseller and sports-writing legend John Feinstein, QUARTERBACK dives deep into the most coveted and hallowed position in the NFL - exploring the stories of five top quarterbacks and taking readers inside their unique experiences of playing... |
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The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created
JANE LEAVY - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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From Jane Leavy, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax, comes the definitive biography of Babe Ruth - the man Roger Angell dubbed "the model for modern celebrity."He lived in the present tense - in the camera's lens. There was no frame... |
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Not for Long: The Life and Career of the NFL Athlete
Robert W Turner, II - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The NFL is the most popular professional sports league in the United States. Its athletes receive multimillion-dollar contracts and almost endless media attention. The league's most important game, the Super Bowl, is practically a national holiday. Making it to the NFL, however, is not about... |
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The Lucky Thirteen: The Winners of America's Triple Crown of Horse Racing
Edward Bowen - Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover
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In more than a century of American Thoroughbred racing, only thirteen horses have won the Triple Crown (the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont Stakes, all won in the same season) . Veteran turf writer and racing historian Edward L. Bowen takes us through the rich history... |
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Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty
Charles Leerhsen - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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A fascinating and authoritative biography of perhaps the most controversial player in baseball history, Ty Cobb - "The best work ever written on this American sports legend: It's a major reconsideration of a reputation unfairly maligned for decades" (The Boston Globe) .Ty Cobb... |
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This Much Country
Kristin Knight Pace - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A memoir of heartbreak, thousand-mile races, the endless Alaskan wilderness and many, many dogs from one of only a handful of women to have completed both the Yukon Quest and the Iditarod.In 2009, after a crippling divorce that left her heartbroken and directionless, Kristin decided... |
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