Category - Sports & Recreation
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The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball's Lost Triumph
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Winner of the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing: The true story of the game that never should have happened — and of a nation on th...
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A Boxing Legacy: The Life and Works of Writer and Cartoonist Ted Carroll
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /This book is a celebration of legendary African American sports writer and boxing cartoonist Ted Carroll, whose career spanned one of the most exci...
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The Stars Shone on Philadelphia: The 1934 Negro National League Champions
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /In 1934, Ed Bolden's Philadelphia Stars joined the new Negro National League II (NNL2), which had been founded one year earlier. After fending off ...
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Leveling the Playing Field: The Story of the Syracuse 8
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Leveling the Playing Field tells the story of the African American members of the 1969-70 Syracuse University football team who petitioned for raci...
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The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /New York Times Bestseller • The ultimate gift for sports lovers By the author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definitive biogra...
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Roaring Back: The Fall and Rise of Tiger Woods
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The incredible true story of Tiger Woods’s dramatic return to glory at the 2019 Masters following his humbling and very public personal, physical...
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The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The True Story of America's First Black World Champion: The True Story of America's First Black World Champion
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Born in 1878, bicycle racer Marshall Major Taylor became the first Black sports star to become a global celebrity when he won the world cycling cha...
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Sweetwater: A Biography of Nathaniel Sweetwater Clifton
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /When Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey decided to break the "color line" and integrate major league baseball in the 1940s, he spent ye...
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Jackie Robinson: An Integrated Life
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /J. Christopher Schutz reveals the real Jackie Robinson, as a more defiant, combative spirit than simply the "turn the other cheek" compliant "credi...
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The Last Folk Hero LP
PaperbackOriginal price $34.00Original price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /A New York Times BestsellerBy the author of Showtime--the source for HBO's Winning Time--the definitive biography of mythic multi-sport star Bo Jac...
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Black Mercuries: African American Athletes, Race, and the Modern Olympic Games
HardcoverOriginal price $38.00 - Original price $38.00Original price $38.00$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /"An essential source on African American athletes and Olympic history." --Booklist, Starred Review This book chronicles the struggles and triumphs ...
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Remember Their Sacrifice: Stories of Unheralded Athletes of Color
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /An invaluable and inspiring compilation that shines a light on unsung athletes of color. Sports have long been used as a vehicle for change, as a w...
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We Will Win the Day: The Civil Rights Movement, the Black Athlete, and the Quest for Equality
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /In this exceedingly timely book, Louis Moore looks at the history of Black activist athletes and the important role of the Black community in insis...
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The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /New York Times Bestseller • The ultimate gift for sports lovers By the author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definitive biogra...
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Rocket Men: The Black Quarterbacks Who Revolutionized Pro Football
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /An acclaimed sportswriter offers an inside look at the Black quarterbacks whose skill and grit transformed the NFL In Rocket Men, John Eisenberg o...
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Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The riveting story of four men—Larry Doby, Bill Veeck, Bob Feller, and Satchel Paige—whose improbable union on the Cleveland Indians in the late ...
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Jumpman: The Making and Meaning of Michael Jordan
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /How Michael Jordan's path to greatness was shaped by race, politics, and the consequences of fame To become the most revered basketball player in ...
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Black Baseball Entrepreneurs, 1860-1901: Operating by Any Means Necessary
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An account of the birth of black baseball and its dramatic passage from grass-roots venture to commercial enterprise. It assesses the impact of u...
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