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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Baseball in Kennesaw Images of Baseball
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) New England Candlepin Bowling
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Savannahs Daffin Park and Parkside Place Images
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Pennsylvania High School Hockey Championships
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) The Philadelphia Eagles
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Arcadia Publishing The Philadelphia Flyers Images of Sports
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Arcadia Publishing The Wall of Death Carnival Motordromes Postcards
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Hidden History of Horse Racing in Kentucky
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History Press Gotham Baseball New Yorks AllTime Team Sports
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GLOBAL PUBLISHER SERVICES POWERHOUSES OF OHIO HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
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History Press Detroit Tigers Gone Wild Mischief Crimes and Hard
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History Press Red Sox in 5s and 10s Sports
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History Press Three Rivers Stadium A Confluence of Champions
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History Press Baseball in Evansville Booms Busts and One Global
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History Press Connecticut Boxing The Fights the Fighters and
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History Press Hidden History of Twin Cities Sports
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History Press Virginias Lost Appalachian Trail
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Mexican American Boxing from the Golden State
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Atria Books The End of the Perfect 10
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Simon & Schuster Horns Hogs and Nixon Coming Texas Vs Arkansas in
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Cornell University Press Forever Faithful
Book SynopsisForever Faithful celebrates the history of Cornell hockey, focusing on twenty-four memorable games played by the men's and women's teams since the opening of Lynah Rink in 1957. The foreword was written by Ken Dryden (Cornell '69), who led the Big Red team to its first NCAA championship in 1967, won six Stanley Cups with the Montreal Canadiens, and is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame. The narrative begins with an early history of the program, when games were played outdoors on Beebe Lake, and moves on to chapters celebrating the rituals and traditions of the Lynah Faithful and the key rivalries of both the men's and women's teams. Game accounts follow, each one featuring insights from coaches and players who were involved and illustrated by many color and black-and-white photographs of the players and game action. The book concludes with an appendix that lists key statistics and accomplishments of the men's and women's programs.Trade Review"Forever Faithful tells the story of Cornell hockey with great respect for the passion of the fans and wonderful insight into the experience of the players and coaches. It is a pleasure to read Jim Roberts’s accounts of the memorable games and to relive this important period in collegiate hockey." -- Digit Murphy, Cornell Women’s Hockey 1979-1983, winningest coach in Division I women’s hockey history, and head coach in Chief for the Chinese National Hockey Program"In Forever Faithful Jim Roberts takes me back to my playing days. He captures the key moments by highlighting the history of the rink, the traditions of the Lynah Faithful, and the development of the Big Red hockey program. The great illustrations that appear throughout the book freshen our memories of the games, the players and coaches, and the fans in the stands." -- Joe Nieuwendyk, Cornell Men’s Hockey 1984-1987, and named as one of the 100 Greatest Players by the National Hockey League"The evocative writing and the brilliant photographs in Forever Faithful made me feel that I was right there [at Lynah] again at the big games. Thanks to Jim Roberts and Arthur Mintz for allowing us all to relive those magical moments." -- Doug Derraugh, Cornell Men’s Hockey 1987-1991, and coach of the Cornell Women’s Hockey team"Forever Faithful shows why Cornell hockey and the experience at Lynah Rink have touched so many lives in so many different ways." -- Mike Schafer, Cornell Men’s Hockey 1982-1986, and coach of the Cornell Men’s Hockey team
£25.77
Random House USA Inc Basketball: A Love Story
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Rowman & Littlefield Red Grange: The Life and Legacy of the NFL's
Book SynopsisIn celebration of the National Football League’s 100th season in the fall of 2019, noted NFL historian Chris Willis brings to life the story of Red Grange, the nation’s first professional football star, in this definitive biography. Harold “Red” Grange became a national sensation as a junior halfback at the University of Illinois in the 1920s. He quickly joined other great athletes of the Roaring Twenties such as Bobby Jones, Jack Dempsey, and Babe Ruth in enthralling audiences on the radio and in newspapers on a daily basis. A year later Grange stunned the country by dropping out of school after his last collegiate game and going pro with the six year old NFL, signing with the Chicago Bears. In Red Grange: The Life and Legacy of the NFL’s First Superstar, Chris Willis tells the remarkable story of a humble football player who rose to fame in the 1920s and became an icon. With unlimited access and complete cooperation of the Grange family, Willis offers new insight into Grange’s rags-to-riches story, including details about his tomboy mother who died when Grange was six years old and never-before-published information on Grange’s barnstorming tour with the Chicago Bears that instantly gave credibility to the fledgling NFL. With over fifty original interviews, personal letters to and from Grange, and more than forty photos, this definitive biography reveals in intimate detail the life of a sports pioneer. Whether as a player, coach, broadcaster, pitchman, Hall of Famer, ambassador, or icon, Red Grange was, and still is, the face of the early NFL and one of the greatest athletes of all-time.Trade ReviewThere is no better way to understand the 100th season of the NFL than to begin with the remarkable story of Red Grange, whose singular talent changed the way football was marketed and consumed at a time in this country when people of all walks of life were starving for big stars on the big stage. Chris Willis of NFL Films, the brilliant biographer of our national obsession, has told this story as only he can—with unparalleled scholarship and in entertaining detail. -- Sal Paolantonio, National Correspondent, ESPN, and author of How Football Explains AmericaChris Willis didn’t know Red Grange. He didn’t see him play. But, if there is anyone who might make you believe he did, it’s Chris Willis. Truly one of pro football’s leading historians, Willis combines well-researched facts with a human touch and an unequaled understanding of the game and the era of which he writes. Few others have his appreciation for the unquestionable impact Grange had on professional football during its formative years. During a time when college coaches like Amos Alonzo Stagg were calling the pro game “a menace to college football,” Willis chronicles how Grange—a model of good behavior and sportsmanship—converted pro football naysayers to enthusiastic supporters. There is no one better suited to tell the tale than Chris Willis. -- Joe Horrigan, Executive Director, Pro Football Hall of FameThere are few figures in football history more mythic or more seminal than Harold "Red" Grange. In his carefully-researched new biography, Chris Willis expertly puts Grange in the context of his times, showing his outsized influence on the collegiate game and the immense importance of his arrival in the fledgling universe of the National Football League. The heart of the book is Willis's portrayal of Grange's punishing 1925-26 coast-to-coast barnstorming tour with the Bears—aptly described by one writer as a "national hysteria"—when the biggest star in college football helped legitimize the NFL. -- Michael MacCambridge, author of America's Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation
£47.63
Rowman & Littlefield Mantle: The Best There Ever Was
Book SynopsisI really do believe I would be way up at the top of everything if I hadn’t been injured. When I was healthy, I really believe I was the best of anyone I ever saw play.—Mickey Mantle, reflecting on his career Mickey Mantle is one of baseball’s all-time greats. Playing for the New York Yankees for his entire professional career, Mantle was named to the All-Star team for 11 consecutive seasons, won three MVP awards, and was a seven-time World Series champion. He quickly became an icon who achieved hero status even while playing through injuries for most of his career. In Mantle: The Best There Ever Was, Tony Castro makes the impassioned argument that Mickey Mantle truly was the greatest ballplayer of all time. Acclaimed by the New York Times as the definitive biographer of baseball’s fabled number 7, Castro shares many of his personal conversations with Mantle, demystifying the legend and revealing intimate, never-before-published details from Mantle’s personal life. In addition, Castro offers illuminating new insights into Mantle’s extraordinary career, including the head-turning conclusion based on the evolution of analytics that the beloved Yankee switch-hitting slugger may ultimately win acclaim as having fulfilled the weighty expectation once placed on him: being even greater than Babe Ruth. Drawing from hundreds of interviews with ex-teammates, friends, and family—including Mantle’s widow and longtime mistress—Castro masterfully blends Mantle’s public and private selves to present a fully rounded portrait of this complex, misunderstood national hero.Trade ReviewThe secret love life of Mickey Mantle, the New York Yankee’s fabled baseball home-run hitter and 20th century American icon, was a scoop that veteran journalist Tony Castro swore to keep secret—until now. Whether you’re a baseball fan or not, Castro’s book will take you into a world of myth, magic, and reckless heroism of a bygone era that comes brilliantly alive in this wild, intimate, and astonishing book. -- Rex Weiner, author of Woodstock Census: Nationwide Survey of the Sixties Generation and The (Original) Adventures of Ford FairlaneIf you wish to fully understand the complicated life of Mickey Mantle, Tony Castro has written an extraordinary book. There has been a library of books written on Mantle, but none will explain him the way this book does. For you millions of Mantle lovers, this book is “The Best There Ever Was.” Don't you dare miss it. -- Peter Golenbock, author of Dynasty, The Bronx Zoo, and 7: The Mickey Mantle NovelIn this warm, intimate, and often startling book, Tony Castro relies on his own long relationship with Mickey Mantle, a great deal of research, and a remarkable series of interviews with the woman the Yankees star loved before and during his long marriage to give us an unforgettable portrait of a man whose talent and accomplishments were matched only by the demons he couldn’t escape. Mantle: The Best There Ever Was presents an American sports hero in all his glory, and all his torment. -- Ron Rapoport, author of Let’s Play Two: The Legend of Mr. Cub, the Life of Ernie BanksHow could such a young man from Commerce, Oklahoma, become such a hero to so many? Tony accurately brings to light in great detail the accolades as well as demons that Mickey endured both on and off the field. -- Andrew Vilacky, Safe at Home, Cooperstown, NYBeing a longtime friend of Mickey’s I personally witnessed many of the challenges he encountered in both his personal and professional life. Statistically, Mickey did not have the best numbers of all time, but Mantle: The Best There Ever Was solidifies what a great teammate and friend Mickey was. -- Tom Catal, Mickey Mantle Museum, Cooperstown, NYTony Castro scores a perfect 10 for #7 with his new bio of my childhood hero Mickey Mantle, for whom I took subways with my brothers from Brooklyn to the Bronx in those years when the Yankees were the only team in town. I’ve read many other books on The Mick in the years since but Castro has smacked a grand slam here, the best I ever read about The Best There Ever Was. -- Denis Hamill, former columnist, New York Daily NewsAuthor Tony Castro returns to the life of Mickey Mantle in the third volume of his trilogy about the New York Yankees baseball star, Mantle: The Best There Ever Was—and the reader is swept along on a journey through Mantle’s life, both the personal and the professional. And what a complicated life Castro portrays, including unbelievable success on the baseball field, a difficult marriage, a longtime affair, injuries, and a decades-long struggle with alcoholism. Castro, who as a child idolized Mantle, incorporates his own recollections of meeting and interviewing the then-retired Mantle, introducing a deeper layer to the story. You don’t have to be a baseball fan to enjoy this book. -- Deborah Kalb, writer, editor, and book bloggerIn Mantle: The Best There Ever Was, Tony Castro adds another compelling account to his Mickey Mantle Trilogy. Written with the authority of an insider, Castro adds new detail and dimension to Mantle’s life and career in this well-sourced page-turner. -- Dale Tafoya, autho, Bash Brothers: A Legacy SubpoenaedA handful of baseball immortals—like Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, and Joe DiMaggio—have achieved levels of greatness such that their names are known to even casual fans. Was Mantle the greatest of them all? Author Tony Castro explores this question and makes a compelling case for "The Mick" in Mantle: The Best There Ever Was. Castro describes some of the monstrous seasons Mantle had, charts Mantle’s athletic career, and takes the reader into The Mick's often turbulent personal life. Reading the book, one can only wonder what Mantle may have achieved if he'd taken care of himself the way modern-day athletes do. -- Ruben Castaneda, staff writer, US News and World Report, and author, S Street RisingAn American literary stylistic masterpiece. Tony Castro paints Mickey Mantle through a prism of genius with the pinstripe magic of Gabriel Garcia Marquez phantasmagoria and realism. -- Tom Wolfe, author and journalist
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Rowman & Littlefield Sons of Baseball: Growing Up with a Major League
Book SynopsisA rare glimpse of professional ballplayers, not as pitchers, hitters, managers, and coaches, but as dads and grandads. Sons of major league baseball players grow up in a unique environment, not only because they are raised in part by professional athletes, but also because they are raised by the game itself. They come of age immersed in the distinct sounds and aromas of baseball. The locker rooms, the cinderblock-lined corridors beneath the stands, the dugouts, and the fields are the playgrounds of their youth. In Sons of Baseball, Mark Braff interviews 18 men who share their exclusive stories, ballpark memories, and the challenges and rewards of having fathers whose talents enabled them to reach the pinnacle of their profession. Each chapter is devoted to one son talking about his experiences, from the poignancy of one son’s disclosure that his dad has not been able to acknowledge his son’s sexuality as a gay man, to the humor of another son absconding with the groundskeepers’ cart in Cleveland. Including the sons of well-known players such as Cal Ripken, Yogi Berra, and Mariano Rivera as well as beloved lesser-known players, Sons of Baseball provides a unique, well-rounded perspective on the lives of professional ballplayers and their families. And with father-son photos from the families’ personal collections, this book is a rare, first-of-its kind compilation for all fans of the game. Table of ContentsForeword by Cal Ripken JrIntroduction Chapter 1. Jerry Hairston Sr. & Jr.—Following grandpa and dad into the family business Chapter 2. Roger & Kevin Maris—Still teaching lessons from dad Chapter 3. Larry Dobby Sr. & Jr.—From baseball to Billy Joel Chapter 4. John & Dusty Wathan—Cup ball and stories from Buck O’NeilChapter 5. Henry & David Rodriguez—Seeking dad’s acceptance: “All I wanted was a Barbie”Chapter 6. Mariano & Jafet Rivera—“Come on, Rivera, throw the cutter” Chapter 7. Vada Pinson Jr. & III—Yearning for a father’s loveChapter 8. Yogi & Larry Berra—Fielding fungoes from Mickey Mantle Chapter 9. Dave & Jeff McNally—A national television debut at age seven Chapter 10. Jack & Matt Aker—If it’s Tuesday, this must be LynchburgChapter 11. John W. Powell Sr & Jr—Stealing (and abandoning) the groundskeepers’ cartChapter 12. Gil Hodges Sr & Jr.—Embracing the legacyChapter 13. Tony Pena Sr & Jr.—Poking sleeping players with toothpicksChapter 14. Jim & Michael Bouton—Riding upside down to Yankee StadiumChapter 15. Leo Cardenas Sr & Jr.—“I should have made it” Chapter 16. Bobby & Robby Richardson—Getting past Frank Crosetti, baseball cop Chapter 17. Mike & Andy Hargrove—Fishing off Bo Jackson’s lapChapter 18. Ron & Brandon Guidry—Handfuls of Bazooka and other stadium funAcknowledgments A Note on SourcesAbout the Author
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PublicAffairs Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the
Book SynopsisA story about baseball, family, the American Dream, and the fight to turn Los Angeles into a big league city. Dodger Stadium is an American icon. But the story of how it came to be goes far beyond baseball. The hills that cradle the stadium were once home to three vibrant Mexican American communities. In the early 1950s, those communities were condemned to make way for a utopian public housing project. Then, in a remarkable turn, public housing in the city was defeated amidst a Red Scare conspiracy. Instead of getting their homes back, the remaining residents saw the city sell their land to Walter O’Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Now LA would be getting a different sort of utopian fantasy—a glittering, ultramodern stadium. But before Dodger Stadium could be built, the city would have to face down the neighborhood’s families—including one, the Aréchigas, who refused to yield their home. The ensuing confrontation captivated the nation—and the divisive outcome still reverberates through Los Angeles today.
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Paragon House Publishers After Jackie: Fifteen Pioneers Who Helped Change
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Avalon Publishing Group Ajax the Dutch the War The Strange Tale of Soccer
Book SynopsisIn Ajax, New York Times bestselling author Simon Kuper compiles a comprehensive history of soccer in Holland and the supremely influential Ajax club's "Total Football" method, uncovering, in the process, the untold story of the Holocaust in Europe.
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Triumph Books ESPN Creating an Empire: The No-Holds-Barred
Book SynopsisStuart Evey, the founding chairman of ESPN, details the difficult, thrilling, and contentious creation of ESPN in this insider’s account. From altercations with Ted Turner at the Playboy mansion to manufacturing a high-stakes, multi-million dollar bidding war between media giants based on nothing more than carefully placed insinuations, Evey was at the center of everything regarding ESPN's infancy and early years. Featured among the many riveting stories are a look inside the dysfunctional family empire that was worth billions, why the young network cut Dick Vitale's microphone off in mid-interview, how Evey duped ABC into investing millions into ESPN, and why Bristol, Connecticut was chosen as the home of a burgeoning media monolith.
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Triumph Books The Bronx Zoo: The Astonishing Inside Story of
Book SynopsisThis bestselling, highly-acclaimed account is a hilarious but scathing baseball tell-all. After being voted the 1977 American League Cy Young Award winner, Sparky Lyle was rewarded for his efforts by being benched. The Yankees, a leader of free agency, signed Goose Gossage as their closer. Things only went downhill from there and the 1978 season turned out to be one of controversy, firings, fights and acrimony. In short, it was a zoo.
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Triumph Books Ernie Harwell: My 60 Years in Baseball
Book SynopsisFor many fans, their lifetime of experience with the Detroit Tigers ensured them that when their team roared, it would be Ernie Harwell's smooth southern voice that would be heard above the din. After 42 years as the "Voice of the Detroit Tigers," the 2002 retirement of Harwell signaled the end of an era. This profile on the famed broadcaster provides the lesser-known details on the background of a Detroit institution. Known for his voice and talent for calling games, fans will be able to know the man himself and what brought him to—and kept him in—the Motor City. The only play-by-play broadcaster to cover games across seven decades, Harwell saw (and accumulated accompanying stories about) everyone from Babe Ruth to Ichiro Suzuki, many of which are shared in this entertaining biography.
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Triumph Books Red Sox Essential: Everything You Need to Know to
Book SynopsisA one-stop record containing everything Red Sox fans want to know about their favorite baseball team, this resource is packed with anecdotes, history, explanations of traditions, statistics, trivia, and photos.
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Triumph Books Game Day: Notre Dame Football: The Greatest
Book SynopsisWhether rediscovering the best team moments, or initiating into the histories and traditions of Fighting Irish fandom, this book about the University of Notre Dame football team is both a useful resource and cherishable memorabilia. Packed with anecdotes of the players, explanations about the beginnings of rivalries and traditions, detailed histories about the greatest players and moments in the school’s history, lists of the most successful seasons, recaps of the most exciting games ever played, and year-by-year statistics, this collectible book is the primary source for anyone eager to be an expert regarding anything about the Fighting Irish. The book captures the essence of what it means to be a true Notre Dame fan: more national championships than any program, seven Heisman Trophy winners, blue and gold (and sometimes green), the House That Rockne Built, the Golden Dome, Touchdown Jesus, Ara, “The Victory March,” pep rallies in the JACC, gold dust, Fair Catch Corby, the Irish Guard, “Notre Dame, Our Mother,” and the Four Horsemen.
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Triumph Books The Stark Truth: The Most Overrated and
Book SynopsisEvery baseball fan knows New York Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter is a great all-around player. But how about Alex Rodriguez, Jeter's teammate, former American League MVP, and probable future Hall of Famer? Many would argue he's even better than Jeter. And what about Jeter's seemingly unassailable status as one of the greatest Yankees of all time? Such discussions highlight one of the great joys of being a baseball fan: arguing over who's really great and who falls just short, who doesn't get the respect he deserves and who gets too much. In other words, who's overrated and who's underrated. In this book, baseball analyst, writer, and researcher Jayson Stark of ESPN considers the entire history of professional baseball and picks the most overblown and underappreciated players in the history of the game. His results, based on extensive research using both traditional and more modern methods of evaluating baseball players and performance, are provocative, entertaining, and go a long way toward settling many of baseball's most persistent debates. No book can hope to settle every baseball argument, but this book takes one of baseball's most enduring debates and provides some compelling and stunning clarity.
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Triumph Books The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly: Seattle Seahawks: Heart-Pounding, Jaw-Dropping, and Gut-Wrenching Moments from Seattle Seahawks History
Book SynopsisGenuine fans take the best team moments with the less than great, and know that the games that are best forgotten make the good moments truly shine. This monumental book of the Seattle Seahawks documents all the best moments and personalities in the history of the team, but also unmasks the regrettably awful and the unflinchingly ugly. In entertaining—and unsparing—fashion, this book sparkles with Seahawks highlights and lowlights, from wonderful and wacky memories to the famous and infamous. Such moments include the Jim Zorn fake field goal and the heady play of Steve Largent, as well as the Brian Bosworth fiasco and the near move to Los Angeles. Whether providing fond memories, goose bumps, or laughs, this portrait of the team is sure to appeal to the fan who has been through it all.
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Smithsonian Books Game Worn: Baseball Treasures from the Game's
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Tyndale House Publishers Pete Maravich
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer
Book SynopsisThe definitive book about soccer, from the author of The Games: A Global History of the Olympics. There may be no cultural practice more global than soccer. Rites of birth and marriage are infinitely diverse, but the rules of soccer are universal. No world religion can match its geographical scope. The single greatest simultaneous human collective experience is the World Cup final. In this extraordinary tour de force, David Goldblatt tells the full story of soccer's rise from chaotic folk ritual to the world's most popular sport-now poised to fully establish itself in the USA. Already celebrated internationally, The Ball Is Round illuminates soccer's role in the political and social histories of modern societies, but never loses sight of the beauty, joy, and excitement of the game itself.
£28.50
Penguin Putnam Inc Golazo!: The Beautiful Game from the Aztecs to
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Arcadia Publishing A History of College Football in South Carolina
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Arcadia Publishing Title Town USA
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Gray & Company Publishers Mike Hargrove and the Cleveland Indians: A
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Gray & Company Publishers Weird Moments in Cleveland Sports: Bottlegate,
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The Library of America American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith: A
Book SynopsisSpanning nearly fifty years and featuring hard-to-find pieces, this anthology collects the most essential writings on American baseball, boxing, and more, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning sports journalistWalter Wellesley “Red” Smith was the most widely read sports writer of the last century and the first to win the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. From the 1940s to the 1980s, his nationally syndicated columns for the New York Herald Tribune and later for The New York Times traversed the world of sports with literary panache and wry humor. “I’ve always had the notion,” Smith once said, “that people go to spectator sports to have fun and then they grab the paper to read about it and have fun again.” Now, writer and editor (and inventor of Rotisserie League Baseball) Daniel Okrent presents the best of Smith’s inimitable columns—miniature masterpieces that remain the gold standard in sports writing.Here are Smith’s indelible profiles of sports luminaries, which show his gift for distilling a career’s essence in a single column. Unforgettable accounts of historic occasions—Bobby Thompson’s Shot Heard ’Round the World, Don Larsen’s perfect game in the 1956 World Series, the first Ali-Frazier fight—are joined by more offbeat stories that display Smith’s unmistakable wit, intelligence, and breadth of feeling. Here, too, are more personal glimpses into Smith’s life and work, revealed in stories about his lifelong passion for fishing and in “My Press-Box Memoirs,” a 1975 reminiscence for Esquire collected here for the first time.
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Triumph Books (IL) Yogi Was Up with a Guy on Third... : Hall of
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Triumph Books Ernie Banks: Mr. Cub and the Summer of '69
Book SynopsisRespected by his baseball peers and beloved by Chicago fans and teammates, Ernie Banks did everything there was to do in the game he loved. Everything, that is, except play in a World Series. How and why that experience eluded him during one season of particular promise—1969—is a key storyline of this fresh look at one of baseball's legendary players. The life of Banks, who had picked cotton outside Dallas as a youth, ascended from a barnstorming semipro team to the major leagues after Kansas City Monarchs manager Buck O'Neil placed him with the Cubs, is detailed in this biography of Mr. Cub. During his time in Chicago, Banks won two MVPs and received an education far better than the one he received in the segregated schools he'd attended, gaining important life skills while playing the game he was born to play.
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Triumph Books Sparky Anderson: The Life of a Baseball Legend
Book SynopsisWith his familiar shock of white hair an craggy, prematurely aged face and twinkling eyes, Hall of Fame manager Sparky Anderson was a one of a kind personality beloved by generations of fans not just in the two cities he led to World Series championships, but throughout the baseball world. When he retired in 1995 he was third on the list of all-time winningest managers, have accumulated 2,194 victories in managing the Cincinnato Reds to two championships in nine years and adding another with the Detroit Tigers whom he managed for seventeen seasons.
£13.25
Triumph Books Pride of the Lions: The Biography of Joe Paterno
Book SynopsisJoe Paterno has scaled the heights of his profession, winning more than 400 games, a pair of national championships and nationwide respect for the program he built and sustained. In his mid-eighties now, he has vowed to continue with coaching, excited by the prospect of another promising team, and another autumn in Happy Valley. In this exciting new biography of a coaching icon, Frank Fitzpatrick, author of The Lion in Autumn, chronicles the life and career of the winningest coach in Division 1 football history.
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