Category - Sports & Recreation
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Not for Long: The Life and Career of the NFL Athlete
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 NFL is the most popular professional sports league in the United States. Its athletes receive multimillion-dollar contracts and almost endles...
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Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports And Why We're Afraid To Talk About It
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /In virtually every sport in which they are given opportunity to compete, people of African descent dominate. East Africans own every distance run...
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Playing America's Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Although largely ignored by historians of both baseball in general and the Negro leagues in particular, Latinos have been a significant presence ...
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The Best Pitcher in Baseball: The Life of Rube Foster, Negro League Giant
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /When Rube Foster was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981, his rightful place alongside baseball's greatest black heroes was ...
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Game Changers: Dean Smith, Charlie Scott, and the Era That Transformed a Southern College Town
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Among many legendary episodes from the life and career of men's basketball coach Dean Smith, few loom as large as his recruitment of Charlie Scot...
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Only the Ball Was White: A History of Legendary Black Players and All-Black Professional Teams
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Early in the 1920s, the New York Giants sent a scout to watch a young Cuban play for Foster's American Giants, a baseball club in the Negro Leagu...
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Lacrosse Legends of the First Americans
PaperbackOriginal price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /An ancient Native American sport, lacrosse was originally played to resolve conflicts, heal the sick, and develop strong, virile men. In Lacrosse...
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The Black Bruins: The Remarkable Lives of UCLA's Jackie Robinson, Woody Strode, Tom Bradley, Kenny Washington, and Ray Bartlett
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The Black Bruins chronicles the inspirational lives of five African American athletes who faced racial discrimination as teammates at UCLA in the...
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Invisible Men: Life in Baseball's Negro Leagues
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Jackie Robinson was a Negro Leaguer before he became a Major Leaguer. So too were Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Monte Irvin, Roy Campanella, Willie...
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American Indian Lacrosse: Little Brother of War
PaperbackOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /To understand the aboriginal roots of lacrosse, one must enter a world of spiritual belief and magic where players sewed inchworms into the innar...
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Like Water: A Cultural History of Bruce Lee
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Highlights Bruce Lee's influence beyond martial arts and film An Asian and Asian American icon of unimaginable stature and influence, Bruce Lee rev...
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Passion Plays: How Religion Shaped Sports in North America
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Randall Balmer was a late convert to sports talk radio, but he quickly became addicted, just like millions of other devoted American sports fans. A...
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Imperial Gridiron: Manhood, Civilization, and Football at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$83.99$83.99 - $83.99Current price $83.99| /The Imperial Gridiron examines the competing versions of manhood at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School between 1879 and 1918. Students often arr...
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They Call Me Goose: My Life in Kentucky Basketball and Beyond
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /When Jack "Goose" Givens first walked onto the basketball court at Lexington's Douglass Park for the legendary Dirt Bowl league, it was the begin...
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Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this extraordinary work of journalism, bestselling and award-winning author Larry Colton journeys into the world of Montana's Crow Indians and...
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Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A 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. ...
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Rise of the Black Quarterback: What It Means for America
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A compulsively readable sports narrative by senior NFL writer for ESPN’s The Undefeated (now Andscape), Jason Reid, chronicling both the history ...
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The Real Hank Aaron: An Intimate Look at the Life and Legacy of the Home Run King
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A heartfelt portrait of Hank Aaron, featuring nearly 40 years of stories plus never-before-told insights from the home run king When journalist T...
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Thursday Night Lights: The Story of Black High School Football in Texas
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /At a time when "Friday night lights" shone only on white high school football games, African American teams across Texas burned up the gridiron on ...
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Zoom: The Playing Field of Daryl E. Johnson
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A biography with pictures about the career and life of Daryl E. Johnson, who attended Maggie L. Walker High School, Morgan State University and was...
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The Real Hank Aaron: An Intimate Look at the Life and Legend of the Home Run King
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A heartfelt portrait of Hank Aaron, featuring nearly 40 years of stories plus never-before-told insights from the home run king. When journalist T...
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Black Cowboys of Rodeo: Unsung Heroes from Harlem to Hollywood and the American West
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /They ride horses, rope calves, buck broncos, ride and fight bulls, and even wrestle steers. They are Black cowboys, and the legacies of their pursu...
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Charley Burley, The Life & Hard Times of an Uncrowned Champion
HardcoverOriginal price $36.49 - Original price $36.49Original price $36.49$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /Before I checked out the Charley Burley book, I visualized it to be another life story of a great fighter whose name I became familiar with during ...
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Major Taylor in Australia
PaperbackOriginal price $22.50Original price $22.50 - Original price $22.50Original price $22.50Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Black American cyclist, Major Taylor, winner of the 1899 World Sprint Championship, was the highest paid and most famous athlete in what was then t...
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