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The Boston Globe Story of the Red Sox: More Than a Century of Championships, Challenges, and Characters

The Boston Globe - ?Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Hardcover

Experience the illustrious and passionate history of the Boston Red Sox, one of the most storied franchises in baseball, as it happened through the articles, features, and lens of their hometown and national news outlet, The Boston Globe. The Boston Red Sox are the most winning baseball...
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The Art of Bouncing Back: Find Your Flow to Thrive at Work and in Life ? Any Time You're Off Your Game

Darleen "Coach Dar" Santore - McGraw Hill
Format: Hardcover

Find out how world-class athletes and leaders survive defeat and come back even stronger -- and how you can, too -- with the blueprint from the coach who helps set them up for successWith apologies to Benjamin Franklin, there are actually three things in life that are certain: Death, taxes,...
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All the Time in the World (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)

John Gierach - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Discover the answer to life's most pressing problems through the joy of fly-fishing from master philosopher John Gierach.. Once again, John Gierach tells the world why the pastime of fly-fishing makes so much sense - except when it doesn't. In sparkling prose, with more than a touch...
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Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA

Theresa Runstedtler - Bold Type Books
Format: Hardcover

A vital narrative history of 1970s pro basketball, and the Black players who shaped the NBA. Against a backdrop of ongoing resistance to racial desegregation and strident calls for Black Power, the NBA in the 1970s embodied the nation's imagined descent into disorder. A new generation...
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The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team

Kara Goucher - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

In this unvarnished and affecting memoir, Olympian Kara Goucher reveals her experience of living through and speaking out about one of the biggest scandals in running. . Kara Goucher grew up with Olympic dreams. She excelled at running from a young age and was offered a Nike sponsorship...
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