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    One Last Strike

    In this New York Times best-selling comeback story, legendary baseball manager Tony La Russa reveals the thrilling behind-the-scenes details of how he led the St. Louis Cardinals to the 2011 World Series victory, despite countless injuries, mishaps,...
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    Taking Shots

    Bring a family of four to an NBA game today, and it costs around $500 to watch a bunch of seven-footers take bad shots. Perhaps the quote often attributed to P.T. Barnum is true—there really is a sucker born every minute.The NBA is in trouble. And as...
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    Slider

    Each summer, on the fields of glorious Cape Marlin, off theNew England coast, the nation's best college players gatherto play the most important baseball of their lives.Jack Faber is a young hotshot pitcher with an unhittable slider and a rocket for a...
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    Do You Love Football?

    When Jon Gruden asks his Tampa Bay Bucs, "Do you love football!" it's to remind them why they pull on their shoulder pads every Sunday morning. It's not about the money or the fame; it's about their passion for what they do.And passion is something...
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  • Don't Die With the Music in You
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    Don't Die With the Music in You

    Wayne Bennett, coach of the Brisbane Broncos, is known as one of Rugby League's shrewdest and most innovative managers and motivators. He is also a man of great compassion, courage, tenacity and humour with powerful family ties. In this book, Bennett...
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  • Bat, Ball and Field
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    Bat, Ball and Field

    Bat, Ball and Field is a wonderful foray into the history and culture of cricket.‘Hotten is not just good, he is one of the best’ Cricketer Chronicling the evolution of the sport since its earliest years, highlighting transcendent moments as well as...
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  • Playmaker
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    Playmaker

    ‘On the pitch he was a magician’ – Arsène WengerThe first full autobiography from former footballer and England manager Glenn Hoddle Glenn Hoddle was one of the most celebrated footballers of his generation. A wonderfully talented No. 10 – he formed...
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    Beyond Broadway Joe

    On the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of the New York Jets' historic achievement, a nostalgic, inside look from the men who composed the team behind Joe Namath’s Super Bowl III win, filled with exclusive insights and stories from the...
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  • Johnathan Thurston
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    Johnathan Thurston

    He is Johnathan Thurston. JT, one of the greats, simply the best. His status as one of the greats of rugby league cannot be questioned - an Australian international, Queensland State of Origin and Indigenous All Stars representative. In 2015, he became...
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  • Not Everything Counts but Everything Matters
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    Not Everything Counts but Everything Matters

    How connection and courage teach us to win - an NRL leadership story, from the history-making coach who pulled off the impossible to inspire, mentor and lead a grassroots club to the pinnacle of performance and become the undisputed champions of the...
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    Hoop Atlas

    "When discussing greatness, we have too often distilled it down to how many rings someone has won, neglecting to celebrate the incredible influence that players have had on the evolution of basketball. Kirk's book beautifully explains this other side...
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  • Hoop Dreams Down Under
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    Hoop Dreams Down Under

    Twenty-five home-grown Aussie superstars who have taken American basketball by storm. Ever since Luc Longley lit up the court as the first Australian to play in the NBA in 1991, Australians have made an indelible impact on the world's best basketball...
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    Carn

    There have been histories of Australian football before. There has not been one like Carn. Carn tells the story of the Victorian Football League and its successor, the Australian Football League, from 1897 to the present day, by focusing on 50 of the...
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    Sandy Koufax

    “The incomparable and mysterious Sandy Koufax is revealed.... This is an absorbing book, beautifully written.” —Wall Street Journal “Leavy has hit it out of the park...A lot more than a biography. It’s a consideration of how we create our heroes, and...
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    Spinning The Globe

    Before Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, Julius Erving, or Michael Jordan––before Magic Johnson and Showtime––the Harlem Globetrotters revolutionized basketball and spread the game around the world. In Spinning the Globe, author Ben Green tells the story...
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    Remarkable Cricket Grounds
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    Remarkable Cricket Grounds

    Across six of the seven continents on which cricket is played, there are some remarkable cricket grounds. From a tidal strip of sand outside the Ship Inn at Elie, in Fife, to the monumental Melbourne Cricket Ground with its 100,000 capacity, this book...
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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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  • 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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  • George Varnell George Varnell
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    George Varnell

    "A marvelous job of unveiling the rich and intriguing tapestry of George Varnell's life." - Daniel James Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat "This deeply researched book relays the facts about Varnell while imparting the...
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  • Race, Ethnicity and Football Race, Ethnicity and Football
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    Race, Ethnicity and Football

    As the first edited collection dedicated specifically to race, ethnicity and British football, this book brings together a range of academics, comprising both established commentators and up-and-coming voices. Combining theoretical and empirical...
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  • Football, Politics and Identity Football, Politics and Identity
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    Football, Politics and Identity

    This book presents a series of fascinating case studies that show how the lives and bodies of clubs, players and fans around the world are enmeshed with politics. It draws on original research in countries including England, Scotland, Ireland,...
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  • A Handy Bridge Player's Guide to Duplicate A Handy Bridge Player's Guide to Duplicate
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    A Handy Bridge Player's Guide to Duplicate

    Duplicate Bridge is a fun and yet challenging card game, the world's best mind sport.Let me be your newcomer guide and mentor. Learn from my mistakes/experiences.I still remember my first game: I just walked into a bridge club without a partner, not...
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  • First Call Outs First Call Outs
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    First Call Outs

    Calling Anthony Toscano an underdog is an understatement. "First Call-Outs" is the story of a high school wrestler with big dreams. A coming-of-age tale about a boy from small town America who comes face-to-face with adversity, defeat, and...
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    The Long Snapper The Long Snapper
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    The Long Snapper

    Brian Kinchen was a thirty-eight-year-old father of four and seventh-grade Bible teacher whose professional football career had been over for three years when he received the call of a lifetime. The New England Patriots needed him to fill in for their...
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    Cage Rat Cage Rat
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    Cage Rat

    The Hitting Coach for the New York Yankees, Kevin Long trains power-hitters in the fine art of hitting a baseball well--a talent the legendary Ted Williams once called, "the most difficult skill in sport." In Cage Rat, the man who helps sharpen the...
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    The Ball The Ball
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    The Ball

    Anthropologist John Fox sets off on a worldwide adventure to thefarthest reaches of the globe and the deepest recesses of our ancientpast to answer a question inspired by his sports-loving son: "Why do we play ball?"From Mexican jungles to the small-town...
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  • Analytical Psychology of Football Analytical Psychology of Football
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    Analytical Psychology of Football

    Jungian psychology of football is a new and cutting edge approach being applied by Champions league teams and used in youth football training. Implications for the wider role of football organisations in society as models for the diagnosis and management...
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  • Football Fans, Rivalry and Cooperation Football Fans, Rivalry and Cooperation
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    Football Fans, Rivalry and Cooperation

    Football is undoubtedly the sport with the largest following in the world, attracting billions of fans across the globe. These fans play an integral part in determining the identity of the football club they support. Many studies have focused on the...
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  • Baseball's Greatest Quotations Rev. Ed. Baseball's Greatest Quotations Rev. Ed.
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    Baseball's Greatest Quotations Rev. Ed.

    Baseball has always had its share of colorful characters, and over the years they have expressed themselves in eminently quotable ways. In this treasury of more than 5,000 quotations, noted baseball writer and observer Paul Dickson has captured the...
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    The Spirit of St. Louis The Spirit of St. Louis
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    The Spirit of St. Louis

    No metropolis in America has more pure baseball spirit than St. Louis, Missouri. It's a love affair that began in 1874, when a band of local boosters raised $20,000 to start a professional ball club, and the honeymoon still isn't over. Now Peter...
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    Playing Off the Rail Playing Off the Rail
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    Playing Off the Rail

    When David McCumber armed himself with large amounts of cash and hit the road with ace pool player Tony Annigoni, he transformed himself overnight from journalist to "stakehorse" - a guy who provides financial backing to a pool hustler in return for a...
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  • Coach Education in Football Coach Education in Football
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    Coach Education in Football

    Coach Education in Football is the first book to explicitly explore social, cultural, and historical aspects, by providing critical insight into football coach education programmes from across the globe.
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    The Only Del

    Charismatic Ed Delahanty, the most talented teenager on the sandlots of Cleveland, is subjected to the same persecution as his fellow immigrants from the Emerald Isle and bristles at signs like “No dogs or Irish allowed.” Del struggles in his...
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  • TABLE TENNIS KILLER TIPS TABLE TENNIS KILLER TIPS
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    TABLE TENNIS KILLER TIPS

    In the Olympics, some countries are historically or exceptionally dominant in certain sports. However, Rio 2016 proved that China dominated table tennis like no other country did any other sports. According to the International Olympic Committee (IOC),...
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  • Youth Baseball Bible Youth Baseball Bible
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    Youth Baseball Bible

    Youth baseball instruction guide by former MLB player Dan Gray who was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers as a catcher. Includes praise from numerous baseball luminaries including Joe Girardi and Bernie Williams. Dan’s love of baseball started way...
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  • We are the Champions Now We are the Champions Now
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    We are the Champions Now

    In 2021, Mississippi State University battled Vanderbilt University for the title of College World Champions. A known avid Mississippi State fan, author Sedgie Taylor was challenged by his friends to write a poem during the game. Sedgie agreed and...
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