Category - Sports & Recreation
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The Cup of Coffee Club: 11 Players and Their Brush with Baseball History
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"This is one of the very best baseball books in years." Booklist, Starred Review - Most baseball players will never reach the major leagues--and ...
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The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“Easily the best baseball book ever produced by anyone.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer “This was the best baseball book published in 1966, it is the be...
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The History of Tennis: Legendary Champions. Magical Moments.
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00Original price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00Current price $47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /All the passion, drama, and beauty of tennis is captured in this most up-to-date comprehensive history—from its early beginnings as a sport, the ...
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Boxed out of the NBA: Remembering the Eastern Professional Basketball League
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /This book tells the story of the Eastern Professional Basketball League, a pro basketball institution for over 30 years. The league featured top ...
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Squash: A History of the Game
HardcoverOriginal price $58.00Original price $58.00 - Original price $58.00Original price $58.00Current price $55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /The first comprehensive history of squash in the United States, Squash incorporates every aspect of this increasingly popular sport: men's and wo...
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War Football: World War I and the Birth of the NFL
HardcoverOriginal price $41.00 - Original price $41.00Original price $41.00$56.99$56.99 - $56.99Current price $56.99| /War Football reveals for the first time how World War I gave birth to the NFL. It tells the story of the army, navy, and marine teams that saved ...
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The Rise of American High School Sports and the Search for Control: 1880-1930
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Nearly half of all American high school students participate in sports teams. With a total of 7.6 million participants as of 2008, this makes the...
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The Hundred Day Winter War: Finland's Gallant Stand against the Soviet Army
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /When the Red Army invaded Finland in November 1939 most observers expected a walkover. Instead, in a gallant stand that captured the world's imag...
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Cincinnati Red and Dodger Blue: Baseball's Greatest Forgotten Rivalry
HardcoverOriginal price $48.00 - Original price $48.00Original price $48.00$64.99$64.99 - $64.99Current price $64.99| /Call it the forgotten rivalry. The Cincinnati Reds and the Los Angeles Dodgers may not share geographical boundaries, and today they don’t even p...
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Horse Racing the Chicago Way: Gambling, Politics, and Organized Crime, 1837-1911
HardcoverOriginal price $85.00 - Original price $85.00Original price $85.00$106.99$106.99 - $106.99Current price $106.99| /Chicago may seem a surprising choice for studying thoroughbred racing, especially since it was originally a famous harness racing town and did no...
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Greatest of All Time. A Tribute to Muhammad Ali
HardcoverOriginal price $150.00 - Original price $150.00Original price $150.00$181.99$181.99 - $181.99Current price $181.99| /Greatest of All Time: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali is not just a book; it is a testament to the extraordinary life of one of the world’s most famous...
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Tales from the Sacramento Kings Locker Room: A Collection of the Greatest Kings Stories Ever Told
HardcoverOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Jerry Reynolds was country before country was cool. He also was part of the Sacramento Kings before that was cool. 2015 marks the team’s 30th sea...
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Formula One: The Pinnacle: The Pivotal Events That Made F1 the Greatest Motorsport Series
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00Original price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /As Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc battle it out head-to-head in the most hotly contested championship in years, this in-depth b...
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Walking Alone: The Untold Journey of Football Pioneer Kenny Washington
HardcoverOriginal price $36.00 - Original price $36.00Original price $36.00$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Walking Alone is the inspirational story of African American trailblazer Kenny Washington, the first player to reintegrate the NFL and the first Bl...
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The Master: The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! A major biography of the most iconic men's tennis player of the modern era.There have been other biographies...
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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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Dark Goals: How History's Worst Tyrants Have Used and Abused the Game of Soccer
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Evita and Juan Peron, Augusto Pinochet, and Pablo EscobarSoccer has been the world's most popular sport for the las...
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Switching Fields: Inside the Fight to Remake Men's Soccer in the United States
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 Pulitzer Prize-winning sports journalist unravels why the United States has failed to produce elite men's soccer players for so long--and shows w...
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Hole in the Roof: The Dallas Cowboys, Clint Murchison Jr., and the Stadium That Changed American Sports Forever
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In 1966, when the still-young Dallas Cowboys franchise ended six years of agony with their first winning season, the team's owner and founder, Cli...
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A Fall into Redemption: A Father's Account of His Son's Remarkable Rise to Baseball Success, a Life Cut Short by Addiction, and His Ultimate D
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /... I looked around his room at all of his things and I realized there was only one thing that was obviously and painfully missing... Tyler. I cont...
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The Ghost Racetracks of Portland, Oregon
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /The Portland Speedway, dating back to 1924, stood as the anchor for automobile racing in Portland, Oregon, principally from 1936 until its demise i...
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Baseball at the Abyss: The Scandals of 1926, Babe Ruth, and the Unlikely Savior Who Rescued a Tarnished Game
HardcoverOriginal price $36.00 - Original price $36.00Original price $36.00$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Baseball at the Abyss is the story of one of baseball's darkest days and how innovative, behind-the-scenes work of the first-ever player agent push...
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Victory in the Pool: How a Maverick Coach Upended Society and Led a Group of Young Swimmers to Olympic Glory
HardcoverOriginal price $36.00 - Original price $36.00Original price $36.00$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /This book tells the inspiring story of a swim club that accepted minority swimmers when others would not, a swim coach who could not swim, and his ...
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Soccer Grannies: The South African Women Who Inspire the World
HardcoverOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /The inspirational story of an amazing group of soccer-playing South African "grannies" and their journey to the U.S. These women play together desp...
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