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Sports Illustrated Almanac 2015
Editors of Sports Illustrated - Sports Illustrated
Format: Book
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America's best-selling sports almanac, now in its 24th year, is as fact-filled and fun as ever. Packed with stats, standings and historical data from Sports Illustrated's award-winning staff, this is the essential reference book for every fan. From pro and college football to Major... |
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WWE 50: Paperback
Kevin Sullivan - DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Format: Print book
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Now a New York Times Best Seller, WWE 50 gives you the behind-the-scenes knowledge and provides a definitive slam-by-slam look at the worldwide wrestling phenomenon.Get detailed histories on all your favorite wrestlers from the 60s and 70s right up to today's WWE stars and on the great... |
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Not a Game: The Incredible Rise and Unthinkable Fall of Allen Iverson
Kent Babb - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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Former NBA superstar Allen Iverson was once one of America's most famous athletes: a trendsetter who transcended race, celebrity, and pop culture, and emerged from a troubled past to become one of the most successful and highly compensated athletes in the world. Now, his life and career... |
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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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Unstoppable: My Life So Far
Maria/ Cohen Rich Sharapova - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover
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From five-time Grand Slam winner Maria Sharapova, the candid, captivating story of her rise to tennis stardomIn the middle of the night, a father and his daughter step off a Greyhound bus in Florida and head straight to the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy. They ring the bell, though no one is expecting... |
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Sports Illustrated Basketball's Greatest
Editors of Sports Illustrated - Sports Illustrated
Format: Hardcover
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Whos the greatest center of all time, Wilt Chamberlain or Kareem Abdul-Jabbar? Where does Shaquille ONeal land in the rankings? Would you pick Tim Duncan or Charles Barkley as the better power forward? Whos your best Sixth Man? Where does LeBron James rank among small forwards? Sports... |
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Teammate: My Journey in Baseball and a World Series for the Ages
DAVID ROSS - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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Foreword by Theo Epstein An inspiring memoir from David Ross, the veteran catcher dubbed "Grandpa Rossy," who became the heart and soul of the Chicago Cubs 2016 World Series championship team.In 2016 the Cubs snapped a 108-year curse, winning the World Series in a history-making,... |
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Buck Simmons: The Living Legend
Gary L. Parker - Waldenhouse Publishers, Inc.
Format: Paperback
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In the early 1960's a teenager by the name of Charles Leroy Simmons began driving the water truck on Saturdays at the Banks County (GA) Speedway. A short while later he began his journey, as a driver, into the dirt racing world. Simmons drove jalopies, modifieds, super modifieds, skeeters,... |
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Undisputed Truth
Mike Tyson - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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A bare-knuckled, tell-all memoir from Mike Tyson, the onetime heavyweight champion of the world—and a legend both in and out of the ring. Philosopher, Broadway headliner, fighter, felon—Mike Tyson has defied stereotypes, expectations, and a lot of conventional wisdom during... |
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Good Call: Reflections on Faith, Family, and Fowl
Jase Robertson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The closer we look at the Robertson family, the more we discover the substance and authenticity below the surface of these well-known TV characters. In this enlightening book, Jase Robertson gives us a deep look behind his funnyman exterior. In addition to stories of life in the Robertson... |
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Boy on Ice: The Life and Death of Derek Boogaard
John Branch - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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"Shows us, in tender detail, a life consumed by our unholy appetites." -- Steve Almond, New York Times Book Review The tragic death of hockey star Derek Boogaard at twenty-eight was front-page news across the country in 2011 and helped shatter the silence about violence and concussions... |
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What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen
KATE FAGAN - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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From noted on-air commentator and sports journalist Kate Fagan, the heartbreaking and vital story of college athlete Maddy Holleran, whose death by suicide rocked the University of Pennsylvania campus and whose life reveals with haunting detail and uncommon understanding the struggle of young... |
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The Keeper: A Life of Saving Goals and Achieving Them
Tim Howard - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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In this inspiring, down-to-earth memoir the revered goalkeeper and American icon idolized by millions worldwide for his dependability, daring, and humility recounts his rise to stardom at the 2014 World Cup, the psychological and professional challenges he has faced, and the enduring faith... |
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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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Snake: The Legendary Life of Ken Stabler
Michael Freeman - Dey Street Books
Format: Print book
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The first in-depth biography of one of the most talented and infamous legends to play in the National Football League - the life and times of pro football's first bad boy, famed Oakland Raiders quarterback Ken Stabler.Ken "The Snake" Stabler was the embodiment of the original... |
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Running Man: A Memoir
Charlie Engle - Scribner
Format: Print book
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A compulsively readable, remarkably candid memoir from world class ultra-marathon runner Charlie Engle chronicling his globe-spanning races, his record-breaking run across the Sahara Desert, and how running helped him overcome drug addiction ... and an unjust stint in federal prison.After... |
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Stand Tall: Fighting for My Life, Inside and Outside the Ring
Dewey Bozella - Ecco
Format: Print book
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In this inspiring memoir, Dewey Bozella recounts his life and the twenty-six years he spent behind bars for a murder he did not commit - a stirring tale of courage, strength, faith, and perseverance.In the late 1970s, Dewey Bozella was wrongfully accused of murdering Emma Crapser, a ninety-two-year-old... |
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100 Things Wildcats Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die
Ryan Clark - Triumph Books
Format: Print book
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The University of Kentucky men’s basketball program is the winningest in the history of the sport, and this book explores those wins along with the personalities, events, and facts that any and every Wildcats fan should know. Wildcats stars from more than a century of success are highlighted,... |
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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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Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak
Andy Hall - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
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Denali's Howl is the white-knuckle account of one of the most deadly climbing disasters of all time.In 1967, twelve young men attempted to climb Alaska's Mount McKinley - known to the locals as Denali - one of the most popular and deadly mountaineering destinations in the world.... |
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The 50 Greatest Professional Wrestlers of All Time: The Definitive Shoot
Larry Matysik - ECW Press
Format: Paperback
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A no-holds-barred, definitive look at the greatest pro wrestlers ever Who were the best pro wrestlers of all time? What makes these 50 remarkable performers so special, and what were their contributions to the massively popular spectacle of wrestling? The 50 Greatest Pro Wrestlers of All Time... |
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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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Papi: My Story
David Ortiz - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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An entertaining, unfiltered memoir by one of the game's greatest, most clutch sluggers and beloved personalities David "Big Papi" Ortiz is a baseball icon and one of the most popular figures ever to play the game. As a key part of the Boston Red Sox for 14 years, David has helped... |
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The Closer
Mariano Rivera - Little Brown & Co.
Format: Hardcover
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The greatest relief pitcher of all time shares his extraordinary story of survival, love, and baseball.Mariano Rivera, the man who intimidated thousands of batters merely by opening a bullpen door, began his incredible journey as the son of a poor Panamanian fisherman. When first scouted... |
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Find a Way
Diana Nyad - Knopf
Format: Print book
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Hillary Clinton said that Find a Way would stay with her through the general election: "When you're facing big challenges in your life, you can think about Diana Nyad getting attacked by the lethal sting of box jellyfishes. And nearly anything else seems doable in comparison."... |
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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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Gunslinger: The Remarkable, Improbable, Iconic Life of Brett Favre
Jeff Pearlman - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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From a New York Times best-selling author, the full, definitive biography of Brett Favre A towering figure on the field for two decades who breezed into the Hall of Fame, Brett Favre was one of the game's last cowboys, a fastball-throwing, tobacco-chewing gunslinger who refused to give... |
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Playing Through the Whistle: Steel, Football, and an American Town
S L Price - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Print book
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In the early twentieth century, down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh, the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company built one of the largest mills in the world and a town to go with it. Aliquippa was a beacon and a melting pot, pulling in thousands of families from Europe and the Jim Crow south.... |
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Second Nature: The Legacy of Ric Flair and the Rise of Charlotte
Ric Flair - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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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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The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance
Tom Brady - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The first book by New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady - the five-time Super Bowl champion who is still reaching unimaginable heights of excellence at thirty-nine years old - a gorgeously illustrated and deeply practical "athlete's bible" that reveals Brady's revolutionary... |
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The Boys of Dunbar: A Story of Love, Hope, and Basketball
Alejandro Danois - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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The inspiring true story of a high-school basketball team that overcame desperate circumstances in 1980s Baltimore to produce four NBA players and give hope to a neighborhood and a city, thanks to a remarkable coach who relentlessly pursued perfection.As the crack epidemic swept across... |
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Woodlawn: One Hope. One Dream. One Way.
Todd Gerelds - Howard Books
Format: Paperback
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This riveting true story of courage, strength, and football at the height of racial tension in Birmingham, Alabama, inspired the motion picture Woodlawn, and tells the story of Coach Tandy Gerelds, his running back Tony Nathan, and a high school football game that healed a city.... |
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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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Ahead of the Curve: Inside the Baseball Revolution
Brian Kenny - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"A delight for baseball lovers" (Kirkus Reviews) and "one of the most significant baseball books of the year" (Bob Costas) Ahead of the Curve uses stories from baseball's present and past to examine why we sometimes choose ignorance over information,... |
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Red Clay and Dust
Gary L. Parker - Waldenhouse Publishers, Inc.
Format: Paperback
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History of automobile racing on dirt tracks in the southern United States. Focuses on the first Dirt Cars of the late 1950's, the "late models," the "super late models," and on the Dirt Racing Speedways and series. Includes short biographies of 25 famous drivers... |
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Gun Digest 2018
Jerry Lee - Gun Digest Books
Format: Paperback
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Theorld's greatest gu04 n book! For more than 70 years, Gun Digest has been the number one go-to source and research guide for firearms enthusiasts worldwide. Informative and entertaining articles by the top writers in the field cover every aspect of the shooting sports including... |
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Fields of Battle: Pearl Harbor, the Rose Bowl, and the Boys Who Went to War
Brian Curtis - Flatiron Books
Format: Print book
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In the wake of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the 1942 Rose Bowl was moved from Pasadena to Durham, North Carolina, out of fear of Japanese attacks on the West Coast. It remains the only Rose Bowl game to ever be played outside of Pasadena. Duke University, led by legendary coach Wallace... |
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The Duck Commander Devotional
Alan Robertson - Howard Books
Format: Book
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With the Robertson clan’s flair for down-home wisdom and their wholesome family values, this 365-day devotional reveals the heart and faith of this much-loved family from A&E’s hit show Duck Dynasty. Loyal fans of the Duck Dynasty family will relish this collection... |
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Boxing Basics: The Techniques and Knowledge Needed to Excel in the Sport of Boxing
Al Gotay - Outskirts Press
Format: Print book
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The Techniques and Knowledge Needed to Excel in the Sport of BoxingThe illustrations, explanations, and techniques presented in Boxing Basics provide everything needed to excel in the sport of boxing. Easy to follow explanations and illustrations introduce the reader to the sport by providing... |
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Pete Rose: An American Dilemma
Kostya Kennedy - Little Brown & Co
Format: Hardcover
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"Kennedy's book on the tarnished and enigmatic Rose is exceptional. Like the best writing about sport--Liebling, Angell--it qualifies as stirring literature. I'd read Kennedy no matter what he writes about." --Richard FordPete Rose played baseball with a singular and headfirst... |
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Finding Gobi: A Little Dog with a Very Big Heart
DION LEONARD - Thomas Nelson
Format: Paperback
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A man, a dog, and the lengths to which love will go to sacrifice for its companion. Finding Gobi is the miraculous tale of Dion Leonard, a seasoned ultramarathon runner who crosses paths with a stray dog while competing in a 155-mile race through the Gobi Desert in China. The lovable pup,... |
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The Secrets of My Life
KATHERINE SUE NEWPORT - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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In this remarkable memoir-written during her pivotal first years of becoming her authentic self-Caitlyn Jenner reflects on her past as she looks to her future. |
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Bigger Than the Game: Restitching a Major League Life
Dirk Hayhurst - Citadel
Format: Paperback
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Old demons together with new enemies and a season ending-- possibly career ending-- injury look to knock Hayhurst out of baseball forever. Isolated from his family, broken, and branded a traitor by his teammates for writing inside the locker room, Hayhurst finds himself at a crossroads:... |
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Parcells: A Football Life
Nunyo Demasio - Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover
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Bill Parcells may be the most iconic football coach of our time. During his decades-long tenure as an NFL coach, he turned failing franchises into contenders. He led the ailing New York Giants to two Super Bowl victories, turned the New England Patriots into an NFL powerhouse, reinvigorated... |
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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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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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Salt, Sweat, Tears: The Men Who Rowed the Oceans
Adam Rackley - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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A riveting first-person account and history of rowers who have attempted to navigate across the AtlanticMore people have climbed Mount Everest than have rowed across the Atlantic. For more than seventy days, Adam Rackley and his rowing partner ate, slept and rowed in a boat seven meters... |
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Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life In the Minor Leagues of Baseball
John Feinstein - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed #1 bestselling author . . . a riveting journey through the world of minor-league baseball "No one grows up playing baseball pretending that they're pitching or hitting in Triple-A." - Chris Schwinden, Triple-A pitcher "If you don't like it here,... |
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No Excuses: Growing Up Deaf and Achieving My Super Bowl Dreams
Marcus Brotherton - Gallery/Jeter Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Trailblazing Seattle Seahawks fullback Derrick Coleman Jr. - the first deaf athlete to play offense in the NFL - tells his inspirational journey of persevering through every obstacle, remaining dedicated to the hard work and a no-excuses attitude that ultimately earned him a Super Bowl... |
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Unscripted: The Unpredictable Moments That Make Life Extraordinary
ERNIE JR JOHNSON - BAKER Book House
Format: Print book
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Ernie Johnson Jr. has been in the game a long time. With one of the most recognized voices in sports broadcasting, he is a tireless perfectionist when it comes to preparing and delivering his commentary. Yet he knows that some of sports' greatest triumphs--and life's greatest rewards--come... |
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Billy Martin: Baseball's Flawed Genius
Bill Pennington - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of one of baseball's most celebrated, mercurial, and misunderstood figures Billy Martin is a story of contrasts. He was the clutch second baseman for the dominant New York Yankees of the 1950s. He then spent sixteen seasons managing in the big leagues, and is considered... |
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Life Is a Wheel: Love, Death, Etc., and a Bike Ride Across America
Bruce Weber - Scribner Book Company
Format: Hardcover
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Based on his popular New York Times series, bestselling author Bruce Weber shares the adventures of his solo bicycle ride from coast to coast. Riding a bicycle across the United States is one of those bucket-list goals that many dream about but few fulfill. During the summer and fall of 2011,... |
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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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When Nobody Was Watching: My Hard-Fought Journey to the Top of the Soccer World
Carli Lloyd - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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From the celebrated star of the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team, an inspiring, uplifting, and candid memoir of how she got there In 2015, the U.S .Women's National Soccer Team won its first FIFA championship in sixteen years, culminating in an epic final game that electrified... |
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Chase Your Shadow: The Trials of Oscar Pistorius
John Carlin - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive account of the rise and fall of South African Olympic and Gold Medal-winning Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius, from his personal and athletic success to the murder charge that rocked the world and put both the man, and post-Apartheid South Africa, on trial.Oscar Pistorius... |
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The Baseball Whisperer: A Small-Town Coach Who Shaped Big League Dreams
Michael Tackett - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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From an award-winning journalist, a real Field of Dreams story about a legendary coach and the professional-caliber baseball program he built in America's heartland, where boys come summer after summer to be molded into ballplayers - and men Clarinda, Iowa, population 5,000, sits... |
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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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Rickey & Robinson: The True, Untold Story of the Integration of Baseball
Roger Kahn - Rodale Books
Format: Hardcover
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In Rickey & Robinson, legendary sportswriter Roger Kahn at last reveals the true, unsanitized account of the integration of baseball, a story that for decades has relied on inaccurate, second-hand reports. This story contains exclusive reporting and personal reminiscences that no other... |
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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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Qb : an autobiography
Steve Young - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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In the most candid and compelling sports memoir since Andre Agassi's riveting bestseller Open, former San Francisco 49er, Super Bowl champion, NFL MVP, and Hall of Famer Steve Young gives readers an unprecedented and stunning inside look at what it takes to become a super-elite professional... |
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Moon Great Smoky Mountains National Park
JASON FRYE - AVALON TRAVEL Publishing
Format: Print book
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Find Your AdventureTravel writer and avid outdoorsman Jason Frye shares his expert perspective on Great Smoky Mountains National Park, guiding you on a memorable and unique experience.Along with a wide variety of specific itineraries and trip ideas, Frye includes suggestions for the best... |
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Speed Kings: The 1932 Winter Olympics and the Fastest Men in the World
Andy Bull - AVERY, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Format: Print book
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A story of risk, adventure, and daring as four Americans race to win the gold medal in the most dangerous competition in Olympic history. In the 1930s, as the world hurtled toward war, speed was all the rage. Bobsledding, the fastest and most thrilling way to travel on land, had become... |
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Superfans: Into the Heart of Obsessive Sports Fandom
GEORGE DOHRMANN - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist pulls back the curtain on the extraordinary inner lives of America's most obsessive sports fans. There are fans, and then there are fanatics. In this wondrously immersive look at American sports fandom, George Dohrmann travels the country to find out what... |
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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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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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Shades of Gray, Splashes of Color: A Thru-hike of The Colorado Trail
Bill Cooke - Createspace
Format: Paperback
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Product Description The Colorado Trail wends its way through the Rocky Mountains of the Centennial State, traversing a landscape as changing and diverse as the swirling afternoon clouds presaging the daily summer thunderstorms. Shades of Gray, Splashes of Color narrates... |
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Hang Time: My Life in Basketball
ELGIN BAYLOR - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Hardcover
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Elgin Baylor's memoir of an epic all-star career in the NBA--during which he transformed basketball from a horizontal game to a vertical one--and his fights against racism during his career as a player and as general manager of the LA Clippers under the infamous Donald SterlingPeople think... |
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Rock-em, Sock-em, Travelin' Sideways Dirt Show: A History of Robert Smawley's NDRA
Gary L. Parker - Waldenhouse Publishers, Inc.
Format: Paperback
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Tells the story of the first national touring series for dirt late model cars. Robert Smawley, founder of the National Dirt Racing Association (NDRA) was a visionary promoter who was clearly years ahead of his time. He brought money and national fame to late model dirt racing and its drivers.... |
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The Death of WCW
R.D. Reynolds - ECW Press; Tenth Anniversary Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In 1997, World Championship Wrestling was on top. It was the number-one pro wrestling company in the world, and the highest-rated show on cable television. Each week, fans tuned in to Monday Nitro, flocked to sold-out arenas, and carried home truckloads of WCW merchandise. It seemed the company... |
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99: Stories of the Game
Wayne Gretzky - Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook
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In this sports memoir, Wayne Gretzky weaves memories of his legendary career with an inside look at professional hockey and the heroes and stories that inspired him. From minor-hockey phenomenon to Hall of Fame sensation, Wayne Gretzky rewrote the record books, his accomplishments becoming... |
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Become an American Ninja Warrior: The Ultimate Insider's Guide
EXPERTS AND CONTESTANTS OF AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR. - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Hardcover
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The first official book adapted from the hit NBC show, American Ninja Warrior -- published to coincide with the 10th anniversary.Every week, millions of viewers tune in to NBC's American Ninja Warrior, to watch as ninjas from every walk of life attempt to complete a series... |
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Golden: The Miraculous Rise of Steph Curry
Marcus Thompson - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover
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The incredible and inspiring story of Stephen Curry, the greatest shooter basketball has ever seen, and the ascension of the Golden State Warriors, a team on the verge of being an NBA dynasty, by long-time Warriors beat reporter and Bay Area News Group sports columnist Marcus Thompson.When... |
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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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Limits of the Known
DAVID ROBERTS - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A celebrated mountaineer and author searches for meaning in great adventures and explorations, past and present.David Roberts, "veteran mountain climber and chronicler of adventures" (Washington Post) , has spent his career documenting voyages to the most extreme landscapes... |
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami - Vintage International
Format: Paperback
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An intimate look at writing, running, and the incredible way they intersect, from the incomparable, bestselling author Haruki Murakami.While simply training for New York City Marathon would be enough for most people, Haruki Murakami's decided to write about it as well. The result is a beautiful... |
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