Category - Sports & Recreation
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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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Extra Bases: Reflections on Jackie Robinson, Race, and Baseball History
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Few sports have as much power and magic as baseball, and few writers have addressed the history of the game as well as Jules Tygiel. In his role as...
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Crossing the Line: Black Major Leaguers, 1947-1959
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From 1947, when Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, through 1959, when the Boston Red Sox became the last Major League team to integrate, ...
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A Course of Their Own: A History of African American Golfers
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Bill Spiller was forty-seven when he was forced by desperate finances to caddie at the Hillcrest Country Club in Los Angeles. One day Spiller was c...
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Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /In the words of more than 200 of Ali's family members, opponents, friends, world leaders, and others who have known him best, the real Muhammad Ali...
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There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James--from the author of the National Book Award final...
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King James
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /King James offers a fascinating, inside look at the early years of the king of the basketball court, Lebron James.LeBron is a six-foot-eight gift f...
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Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy (Anniversary)
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In this gripping account of one of the most important steps in the history of American desegregation, Jules Tygiel tells the story of Jackie Robins...
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The Book of James: The Power, Politics, and Passion of Lebron
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The unique social, cultural, and political life of the incomparable LeBron James LeBron James is the hero in two very American tales: one, a succe...
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Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A vital narrative history of 1970s pro basketball, and the Black players who shaped the NBA Against a backdrop of ongoing resistance to racial de...
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The Rhythm Boys of Omaha Central: High School Basketball at the '68 Racial Divide
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In the spring of 1968, the Omaha Central High School basketball team made history with its first all-black starting lineup. Their nickname, the R...
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The Pussycat of Prizefighting: Tiger Flowers and the Politics of Black Celebrity
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /In 1926 Theodore “Tiger” Flowers became the first African American boxer to win the world middleweight title. The next year he was dead, the vict...
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The Integration of the Pacific Coast League: Race and Baseball on the West Coast
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /While Jackie Robinson's 1947 season with the Brooklyn Dodgers made him the first African American to play in the Major Leagues in the modern era, t...
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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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Hot Potato: How Washington and New York Gave Birth to Black Basketball and Changed America's Game Forever
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"The players today are much better than we were.... But there is one thing that we could do better. We could pass the ball better than they can n...
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Blacks at the Net: Black Achievement in the History of Tennis: Volume 1
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /While much has been written about black triumphs in boxing, baseball, and other sports, little has been said of similar accomplishments in tennis...
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Blacks at the Net: Black Achievement in the History of Tennis, Volume Two
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /While much has been written about black triumphs in boxing, baseball, and other sports, little has been said of similar accomplishments in tennis...
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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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