Category - Sports & Recreation
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Loserville: How Professional Sports Remade Atlanta-and How Atlanta Remade Professional Sports
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /2023 Bell Award for the Best Book on Georgia History A Sports Collectors Digest Best Baseball Book of 2022 A Public Books Public Pick of 2022 In ...
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Green Bay Packers: Legends in Green and Gold
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Their football legacy is second to none--12 NFL Championships, 25 Pro Football Hall of Fame members, and names like Lombardi, Lambeau, and Favre,...
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No Ordinary Joe: The Biography of Joe Paterno
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Author Michael O'Brien authoritatively paints the consummate Paterno portrait, the result of more than ten years of work that included 137 interv...
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Mustang Miracle
HardcoverOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /In 1957, when very few Mexican-Americans were familiar with the game of golf, and even less actually played it, a group of young caddies which ha...
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Toxophilus - The School of Shooting (History of Archery Series)
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Toxophilus, originally published in 1545, is considered to be the first book on archery written in English. This comprehensive treatise on longbo...
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New Kids in the World Cup: The Totally Late '80s and Early '90s Tale of the Team That Changed American Soccer Forever
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /In 1990, though no one knew it then, a fearless group of players changed the sport of soccer in the United States forever. Young, bronzed, and mu...
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Cleveland Browns History
HardcoverOriginal price $40.99Original price $40.99 - Original price $40.99Original price $40.99Current price $37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /There was little fanfare when Art "Mickey" McBride flew into Chicago in 1945 to purchase a professional football team for Cleveland. But that act...
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Unrivaled: UConn, Tennessee, and the Twelve Years that Transcended Women's Basketball
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /For twelve years the women's basketball rivalry between UConn and Tennessee was the most iconic matchup in women's sports. Even now, twenty years...
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Long-Range Goals: The Success Story of Major League Soccer
HardcoverOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /All over the world, soccer is known as "the Beautiful Game" and is the most popular sport. But in the United States, professional soccer still ha...
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Carry the Rock: Race, Football, and the Soul of an American City
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /In 2007, as the fiftieth anniversary of the fight to integrate Little Rock Central High School approached, veteran sportswriter and native son of...
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Citation: In a Class by Himself
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Based on interviews from those who knew the thoroughbred, including famed jockey Eddie Arcaro, this book is the full story of the greatest sports...
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The Cap: How Larry Fleisher and David Stern Built the Modern NBA
HardcoverOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Today the salary cap is an NBA institution, something fans take for granted as part of the fabric of the league or an obstacle to their favorite ...
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Make It Count: The Life and Times of Basketball Great JoJo White
HardcoverOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /In an age dominated by overhyped athletes who are sometimes short on character, JoJo White's story offers a refreshing look back at one athlete's...
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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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Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Heels
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The colorful villains, heels, bad guys, and rule breakers worthy of a spot in the pro wrestling hall of fame In The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: ...
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The Onion Picker: Carmen Basilio and Boxing in the 1950s
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /On September 23, 1957, Carmen Basilio moved up in weight class to challenge the great Sugar Ray Robinson, pound for pound the greatest boxer of a...
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Mad Ducks and Bears: Football Revisited
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /George Plimpton's follow-up to Paper Lion, one of his personal favorites among his classic books -- repackaged and including a foreword from Stev...
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Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The adjectives associated with the University of Washington's 2000 football season-mystical, magical, miraculous-changed when Ken Armstrong and N...
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A History of Skiing in Colorado
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Colorado definitely is known as a ski state, but did you know the sport dates back over 100 years to the days when it was called "snowshoeing." T...
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Hope: A School, a Team, a Dream
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The inspirational true story about the trials and victories of the Hope High School basketball team in inner-city Providence, Rhode Island.Hope H...
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Running Throughout Time
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Every runner’s story is part of a great tradition of running stories. Running Throughout Time tells the best and most important of them. From Ata...
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Best of Rivals: Joe Montana, Steve Young, and the Inside Story behind the NFL's Greatest Quarterback Controversy
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /In this revealing, in-depth look at the NFL's greatest quarterback controversy, Adam Lazarus takes readers into the locker room and inside the hu...
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Underdawgs: How Brad Stevens and Butler University Built the Bulldogs for March Madness
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“In the best John Feinstein tradition” (Booklist) the greatest college basketball story in decades—the Butler Bulldogs and their improbable run t...
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