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  • The Modern Medicine Game The Modern Medicine Game
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    The Modern Medicine Game

    IN 2010, MEMBERS OF THE HAUDENOSAUNEE NATIONALS (formerly the Iroquois Nationals) lacrosse team, representing the Haudenosaunee Confederacy of six Indigenous Nations in North America, were sitting in a hotel in New York City instead of playing on the...
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    Gridiron Wisdom

    Competitiveness. Leadership. Inclusiveness. Discipline. Dedication to community. Together, these traits form the blueprint for teams that not only win, but transcend sport and develop a purpose to keep on winning for the good of the communities that...
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  • Football in the Nordic Countries Football in the Nordic Countries
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    Football in the Nordic Countries

    This book explores football culture, organisation and development in the five Nordic countries - Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Sweden and Norway. These countries represent an important case study in sport culture, policy and management, being shaped by...
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  • Talent Identification and Development in Youth Soccer Talent Identification and Development in Youth Soccer
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    Talent Identification and Development in Youth Soccer

    Talent development pathways in youth soccer provide opportunities for young players to realise their potential. Such programmes have become increasingly popular throughout governing bodies, professional clubs, and independent organisations. This has...
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  • A Constraints-Led Approach to Baseball Coaching A Constraints-Led Approach to Baseball Coaching
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    A Constraints-Led Approach to Baseball Coaching

    A Constraints-Led Approach to Baseball Coaching presents a new approach to baseball coaching and practice. Applying a CLA to the player development process across the skill spectrum from the beginners to elite, this book uses practical examples to...
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  • Critical Issues in Football Critical Issues in Football
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    Critical Issues in Football

    Showcasing some of the most important current research in football studies, this book demonstrates the value of social theory and sociology in helping us to better understand the world's favourite sport.This book sheds critical new light on key issues in...
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  • Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes
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    Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...
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  • Men of Sunday Men of Sunday
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    Men of Sunday

    Step into the locker rooms and living rooms of NFL players and personnel to see how a close relationship with God guides football's biggest stars.Compiled from dozens of interviews, Men of Sunday marks the intersection of two Sunday traditions:...
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  • What a Game They Played What a Game They Played
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    What a Game They Played

    In their own words, the pioneers and legends of professional football tell of the early glory years of the National Football League. From the 1920s through the 1940s, pro football players were paid only hundreds of dollars per game and rarely had...
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  • The Unforgettable Season The Unforgettable Season
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    The Unforgettable Season

    One of Sports Illustrated's top 100 sports books of all-timeThe 1908 National League pennant race was without question the most exciting and dramatic battle of all time. Three teams, the Giants, the Cubs, and the Pirates, battled from start to finish,...
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  • Baseball and Other Matters in 1941 Baseball and Other Matters in 1941
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    Baseball and Other Matters in 1941

    "This is a baseball book, but whether Creamer intended it or not, it's much, much more."-Sports Illustrated. "[Creamer] recalls this momentous year in baseball and world history. He reprises Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak, Ted Williams's .406...
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  • The Origins of the Jump Shot The Origins of the Jump Shot
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    The Origins of the Jump Shot

    Before the jump shot, basketball was an earth-bound game. In fact, inventor James Naismith did not originally intend for players to move with the ball. The inspired invention of the dribble first put the ball handler in motion. The jump shot then took...
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  • Mike Torrez Mike Torrez
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    Mike Torrez

    The history of baseball is filled with players whose careers were defined by one bad play. Mike Torrez is remembered as the pitcher who gave up the infamous three-run homer to Bucky "Bleeping" Dent in the 1978 playoffs tie-breaker between the Red Sox...
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  • A Scout's Report A Scout's Report
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    A Scout's Report

    Many in baseball consider the scout to be the most important figure in any organization: It is the scout's work in the high school and college bleachers that unearths future legends. Few have achieved more--and in such grand style--than George...
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  • The Haymakers, Unions and Trojans of Troy, New York The Haymakers, Unions and Trojans of Troy, New York
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    The Haymakers, Unions and Trojans of Troy, New York

    The Troy Haymakers were a pioneer baseball team legendary for exploits on and off the field. Formed in 1860 in Troy, New York--a rapidly growing industrial city--the team was embraced by the tough-minded Trojans as emblematic of their vigorous...
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  • Our Bums Our Bums
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    Our Bums

    Baseball fans may know the story of the Brooklyn Dodgers, but they don't know the whole story. With a foreword by Branch Barrett Rickey (grandson of Branch Rickey), this book fills the void in Dodgers scholarship, exploring their impact on popular...
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  • The Negro Southern League The Negro Southern League
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    The Negro Southern League

    The Negro Southern League was a baseball minor league that operated off and on from 1920 to 1951. It served as a valuable feeder system to the Negro National League and the Negro American League. A number of NNL and NAL stars got their start in the...
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  • Black Ball and the Boardwalk Black Ball and the Boardwalk
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    Black Ball and the Boardwalk

    The Giants' accomplishments took place against an historical backdrop of a change in the African-American experience. The original players from Jacksonville, Florida, joined the northward black migration during World War I. The team was named after...
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  • Finding the Left Arm of God Finding the Left Arm of God
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    Finding the Left Arm of God

    This is the story of the L.A. Dodgers' volatile fortunes during Sandy Koufax's transformation from a wild left-hander with a losing record on the verge of quitting the game, to an artist with exquisite control of the baseball--a veritable Mozart on...
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  • Bud Fowler Bud Fowler
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    Bud Fowler

    This is the biography of Bud Fowler (ne John Jackson), the first African American to play in organized baseball, and the longest tenured at the time that the color line was drawn. In addition to his professional playing career, which lasted more than...
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  • The Boyer Brothers of Baseball The Boyer Brothers of Baseball
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    The Boyer Brothers of Baseball

    This the story of the seven baseball-playing Boyer brothers from western Missouri who signed professional contracts in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Led by oldest brother Cloyd, a pitcher, third baseman Ken and third baseman Clete, three of the seven...
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  • New York Versus New York, 1962 New York Versus New York, 1962
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    New York Versus New York, 1962

    Between October 1961 and October 1962, the Yankees and the Mets shared the city for the first time, their front offices located on opposite sides of Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan, and their playing fields--Yankee Stadium and the Polo...
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  • When Baseball Was Still King When Baseball Was Still King
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    When Baseball Was Still King

    Baseball in the 1950s comes to life through the words of 92 players from the fifties. In their conversations with author Gene Fehler, they tell, in more than a thousand stories and comments, of memorable moments, their dealings with umpires and...
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  • Duke Slater Duke Slater
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    Duke Slater

    Fred "Duke" Slater was the greatest African American football player of the first half of the 20th century. Born into poverty, he developed into a two-time All-American tackle at the University of Iowa from 1918 to 1921. When the College Football Hall...
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  • Black Baseball Out of Season Black Baseball Out of Season
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    Black Baseball Out of Season

    Negro League ballplayers, earning paychecks comparable to those of blue-collar workers, needed an off-season source of income to make ends meet. Many of them found the answer in baseball, by joining racially integrated barnstorming teams that toured...
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  • Early Black Baseball in Minnesota Early Black Baseball in Minnesota
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    Early Black Baseball in Minnesota

    Though they played in the years before Rube Foster formed the first Negro League, the St. Paul Gophers and their bitter crosstown rivals, the Minneapolis Keystones, had the talent, bench depth, and determination to rival many of those later, better...
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  • August Garry Herrmann August Garry Herrmann
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    August Garry Herrmann

    August Garry Herrmann entered the murky waters of 19th century machine politics in Cincinnati, serving as a trusted lieutenant to one of the most powerful political bosses in the country, George B. Cox. Herrmann, a gifted man who introduced modern...
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  • Base Ball on the Western Reserve Base Ball on the Western Reserve
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    Base Ball on the Western Reserve

    Cleveland and the surrounding area was home to one of the earliest and most active baseball scenes outside of the eastern seaboard. This extraordinarily detailed history combines author commentary with first-hand accounts to document baseball's rapid...
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  • Professional Baseball in North Carolina Professional Baseball in North Carolina
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    Professional Baseball in North Carolina

    Hundreds of major leaguers--including the Hall of Fame's Hank Greenburg, Johnny Mize, Rod Carew, Carl Yastrzemski and Joe Morgan--got their starts in North Carolina, where baseball has been a fixture in the state for nearly 100 years--in Charlotte and...
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  • Orator O'Rourke Orator O'Rourke
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    Orator O'Rourke

    As a player, manager, team captain, umpire, owner and league president, Hall of Famer Jim O'Rourke (1851-1918) spoke for the players in the emerging game of baseball. O'Rourke's career paralleled the rise of the game from a regional sport with few...
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  • Free Agency and Competitive Balance in Baseball Free Agency and Competitive Balance in Baseball
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    Free Agency and Competitive Balance in Baseball

    As early as the 1880s, baseball owners and sportswriters were decrying the greediness of players as the leading threat to the national pastime. Nearly a century later in 1976, the Player's Association was able to finally tear down baseball's permanent...
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  • Backstop Backstop
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    Backstop

    It's often said that catcher is the most important, most demanding defensive position in baseball. This view explains why so many light-hitting catchers have enjoyed long--and by all accounts successful--major league careers. Yet arguments over the...
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  • A Cunning Kind of Play A Cunning Kind of Play
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    A Cunning Kind of Play

    The rivalry between the Chicago Cubs and the New York Giants--the National League's greatest teams in its early days--took hold with the founding of the league in 1876. Between the two bitter rivals there were nine first-second finishes, eight...
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  • Coaching Youth Soccer Coaching Youth Soccer
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    Coaching Youth Soccer

    The popularity of youth soccer in the United States has increased dramatically in recent years. The number of players and spectators has risen and soccer now rivals the more traditional American sports of baseball, basketball, and football. This is a...
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  • Late and Close Late and Close
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    Late and Close

    Relief pitchers have important roles in baseball today, often coming in to pitch at some of the game's most critical and exciting moments, but they have not always been a part of the game. This work provides a history of relief pitching in the major...
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  • Following the Ton Following the Ton
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    Following the Ton

    This book is a comprehensive account of author Roger Graham's 36 years of covering the games and affairs of Greenock Morton Football Club while sports editor of the evening newspaper, the Greenock Telegraph. It includes the highs of a period under Benny...
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    Kansas Baseball, 1858-1941

    As baseball was becoming the national pastime, Kansas was settling into statehood, with hundreds of towns growing up with the game. The early history of baseball in Kansas, chronicled in this book, is the story of those towns and the ballparks they...
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    The Containment of Soccer in Australia

    This book investigates some of the ways that soccer has been maintained as marginal to Australian identity, and why the sport remains vitally important to some marginalised groups within these communities.This book was previously published as a special...
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  • Routledge International Handbook of Golf Science Routledge International Handbook of Golf Science
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    Routledge International Handbook of Golf Science

    Golf is one of the world's major sports and consequently the focus of world-class scientific research. This landmark publication is the most comprehensive book ever published on the science of golf, covering every sub-discipline from physiology,...
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  • The Rise and Rise of Illegal Ticket Touting The Rise and Rise of Illegal Ticket Touting
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    The Rise and Rise of Illegal Ticket Touting

    This book presents an ethnographic study of contemporary ticket touts in the UK. Despite the recent interest in the topic of black-market ticket sales, media coverage and parliamentary interventions over the last ten years have revealed a widespread lack...
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  • Fortaleza Mental para Jóvenes Atletas Fortaleza Mental para Jóvenes Atletas
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    Fortaleza Mental para Jóvenes Atletas

    Tu rendimiento deportivo depende al 100% de lo que pasa por tu mente. Tus pensamientos afectan a tus actos y pueden hacerte ganar o perder... ¡Quieres ser el mejor de los mejores! El nivel de excelencia deportiva se eleva cada vez que alguien gana...
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  • Major League Hitting Answers from the Third Guarantee Major League Hitting Answers from the Third Guarantee
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    Major League Hitting Answers from the Third Guarantee

    About the Book"The outcome isn't in doubt. These guys will hit. I'm life's third guarantee." - the Third GuaranteeIn your hands you hold the answers to hitting major league down/away pitches, off or over the open side power alley wall. You also hold...
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  • Soul Food in A2 Soul Food in A2
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    Soul Food in A2

    We are challenged every day with adversity. We would like to think we are in control of all that transpires in our lives; however, we are not in control, but God is. Faith allows us to discern what God is accomplishing in our lives. Faith gives us...
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  • Football Poetry Memory Book - Red and Gold Edition Football Poetry Memory Book - Red and Gold Edition
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    Football Poetry Memory Book - Red and Gold Edition

    Football Poetry Memory Book: Red and Gold Edition is a memory book that belongs to the Sports Poetry Memory Book Series by Walter the Educator. Collect them all and more books at WaltertheEducator.com. USE THE EXTRA SPACE TO DOCUMENT YOUR FOOTBALL...
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  • 110 Golf Limericks 110 Golf Limericks
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    110 Golf Limericks

    Step onto the course of humor with '110 Golf Limericks', the ultimate collection of playful and side-splitting golf-themed limericks. Perfect for any golf aficionado, this book is a fun and entertaining way to pass the time between rounds or to share...
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  • Hook em' Horns - History of Texas Longhorns Football Hook em' Horns - History of Texas Longhorns Football
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    Hook em' Horns - History of Texas Longhorns Football

    If you love Football, then you will enjoy reading about the history of the Texas Longhorns. Inside you will read about every season in Longhorns history. Since 1893 the Longhorns have been a fixture in the state of Texas and the Southwestern part of the...
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