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  • Momentos Americanos Momentos Americanos
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    Momentos Americanos

    Todo esporte é cercado de histórias e curiosidades que todo amante do esporte gosta de conhecer e contar. Então, este livro mostra os principais momen
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  • Chinas Weg zur Fussballmacht Chinas Weg zur Fussballmacht
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    Chinas Weg zur Fussballmacht

    Der Fussball ist längst keine rein europäische und südamerikanische Angelegenheit mehr. Aktuell drängen die Chinesen sehr aggressiv mit ihren Millionen in den Markt und weiten ihre Macht mehr und mehr aus.In Chinas Weg zur Fussballmacht wird aufgezeigt,...
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  • Miracle on the Gridiron Miracle on the Gridiron
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    Miracle on the Gridiron

    At long last, comes the true story behind one of the most memorable chapters in Texas high school football history: The 1964 Class A State Champion Archer City Wildcats. This enthralling account follows the team from its humble beginnings to its...
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  • When the Monarchs Reigned When the Monarchs Reigned
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    When the Monarchs Reigned

    The Kansas City Monarchs are arguably the best-known of all Negro League teams, thanks in part to the inimitable Satchel Paige's association with the team and longtime Monarch Buck O'Neil's role as an ambassador of Black baseball history.The Monarchs won...
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  • The SHERCO Grand Slam Baseball STORY, Bk. 2 The SHERCO Grand Slam Baseball STORY, Bk. 2
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    The SHERCO Grand Slam Baseball STORY, Bk. 2

    Baseball fans and tabletop board game players get ready for a treat. For over half a century, SherCo Grand Slam has been a beloved pastime, earning the title of the "Most Fun to Play!" tabletop baseball game. Its innovative features -...
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  • Turnstyle Turnstyle
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    Turnstyle

    TURNSTYLE is the literary magazine of the Society for American Baseball Research. Although SABR Is known for publishing baseball history, biographical research, and statistical analysis, in TURNSTYLE we get to see the more artistic side of baseball,...
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  • Au jeu/Play Ball Au jeu/Play Ball
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    Au jeu/Play Ball

    This volume by members of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) presents the 50 greatest games in Montreal Expos history. The games described here recount the exploits of the many great players who wore Expos uniforms over the...
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  • Soccer Practice Soccer Practice
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    Soccer Practice

    This book was written to change the way players think about and play the game of soccer. I struggled for years with sub-average performances as a defender, defensive center midfielder, and outside midfielder. I was often placed in these positions because...
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  • 6 Weeks To Golf Fitness 6 Weeks To Golf Fitness
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    6 Weeks To Golf Fitness

    Looking to increase the distance of your drives, improve the accuracy of your golf shots, lower your handicap or simply to better enjoy the game you love? You've heard (correctly) that fitter golfers generally play better but you don't know what...
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  • Jacobus Community Park - Jacobus, PA. Jacobus Community Park - Jacobus, PA.
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    Jacobus Community Park - Jacobus, PA.

    I’m standing at home plate in a baseball park in my home town of Jacobus, PA. There’s a nice grass field, dugouts, bleachers, a backstop, a scoreboard, and all of the other things that make up a baseball park. Every summer this place is...
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  • Was It All Just for Kicks? Was It All Just for Kicks?
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    Was It All Just for Kicks?

    An Unexpected HonorIt happened on May 1, 2011 on Sunday afternoon with about seventy-five friends, former kickers and families of former kickers, coaches, my family, and other friends from the church and community. The Thomasville Athletic Boosters Club,...
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  • The Golfer's Guide to Pilates The Golfer's Guide to Pilates
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    The Golfer's Guide to Pilates

    PILATES Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced Pilates Workouts to improve your game, plus targeted programs for: flexibility • stance • rotation • core strength • shoulder turn • hip turn • weight shiftThe Golfer’s...
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  • Diaries - Reports & Analysis on Cricket! Diaries - Reports & Analysis on Cricket!
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    Diaries - Reports & Analysis on Cricket!

    This book contains reports on the sport that India fancies passionately-cricket! Matches were covered between 2005 and 2014, and hands-on analyses were prepared alongside following the sport. The author would sit down before a television set and write,...
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  • Explosive Power Explosive Power
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    Explosive Power

    My name is Bert Holcroft, I am a World Accredited Northern & SouthernHemisphere coach. I have spent a lifetime developing specialist fitness,dietry, coaching and training techniques for some of the worlds leadingsports people in All Contact Sports.May we...
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  • Road Trips, Routes, and Royals Road Trips, Routes, and Royals
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    Road Trips, Routes, and Royals

    From the trips as a small child to visit his grandparents in Minnesota and Arkansas, John developed an interest in discovering places along the way. Later on, John combined his fandom for the Kansas City Royals with his love for travel and began...
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  • The Science of Basketball The Science of Basketball
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    The Science of Basketball

    The Science of Basketball is the only book to examine the scientific principles underpinning preparation and performance in basketball, applied to both individual and team contexts.Drawing on the very latest scientific evidence, and including...
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  • Routledge Handbook of Football Studies Routledge Handbook of Football Studies
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    Routledge Handbook of Football Studies

    Football is unquestionably the world's most popular and influential sport. There is no corner of the globe in which the game is not played or followed. More countries are affiliated to FIFA, football's governing body, than to the United Nations. The...
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  • A Sociology of Football in a Global Context A Sociology of Football in a Global Context
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    A Sociology of Football in a Global Context

    Association football is now the global sport, consumed in various ways by millions of people across the world. Throughout its history, football has been a catalyst as much for social cohesion, unity, excitement and integration as it can be for division,...
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  • International Football as Cultural Diplomacy International Football as Cultural Diplomacy
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    International Football as Cultural Diplomacy

    Drawing on wide-ranging archival research, this authoritative new history examines the cultural diplomatic role played by British football in international affairs, British foreign policy, and international football during the 1930s.
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  • We Seek Asylum We Seek Asylum
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    We Seek Asylum

    Using his beloved pastime of baseball as an allegory, poet Gustavo Adolfo Aybar debuts a tour de force meditation on the battle for the soul of the Dominican Republic.Alabanza...and one said with a Spanish tongue:let me play; we have no field here...
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  • A Season in the Sun A Season in the Sun
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    A Season in the Sun

     In 1976 Roger Kahn spent an entire baseball season, from spring training through the World Series, with players of every stripe and competence. The result is this book, in which Kahn reports on a small college team’s successes and hopes,...
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    The Grand Old Man of Baseball

    In The Grand Old Man of Baseball, Norman L. Macht chronicles Connie Mack's tumultuous final two decades in baseball. After Mack had built one of baseball's greatest teams, the 1929-31 Philadelphia Athletics, the Depression that followed the stock market...
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    Little Pancho

     Born into a poor family in Ecuador, Pancho Segura was an undersized and undernourished kid working as a ball boy at an exclusive tennis club when he first picked up a racket. Little Pancho is the story of how this improbable athlete, with his bandy...
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  • Pro Football Schedules Pro Football Schedules
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    Pro Football Schedules

    This book explains how the NFL determines each team's opponents and how the league's scheduling format has evolved throughout the years. It includes a history on the evolution of the pro football schedule, explores all of the scheduling formulas used...
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  • Tris Speaker and the 1920 Indians Tris Speaker and the 1920 Indians
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    Tris Speaker and the 1920 Indians

    During the Cleveland Indians' checkered 110-year history, only two of its teams have brought home baseball's ultimate prize. While the 1948 team continues to be revered by Clevelanders, little has been written about the 1920 team that won the city's...
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  • Of Monarchs and Black Barons Of Monarchs and Black Barons
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    Of Monarchs and Black Barons

    The first African American to play in baseball's recognized major leagues, William Edward White, appeared in 1879, followed by brothers Fleetwood and Welday Walker in 1884. The fourth African American, Jackie Robinson, did not make his major league...
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  • The Cardinals and the Yankees, 1926 The Cardinals and the Yankees, 1926
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    The Cardinals and the Yankees, 1926

    The two pennant winners in 1926, the National League's Cardinals and the American League's Yankees, were a study in contrasts. The Yankees were heavily composed of first- and second-generation Americans and based in New York, the epicenter of...
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  • The Santurce Crabbers The Santurce Crabbers
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    The Santurce Crabbers

    The first owner of the Santurce Crabbers, Pedrin Zorrilla, was a visionary, with many Negro League and big league contacts (he signed up Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige, Roy Campanella, Ray Dandridge and Leon Day in the first decade). Santurce was the most...
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  • The A's The A's
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    The A's

    This is a straightforward history of the Athletics franchise, from its Connie Mack years in Philadelphia with teams featuring Eddie Collins, Chief Bender, Jimmy Foxx, Mickey Cochrane and Lefty Grove, through its 13 years in Kansas City, under Arnold...
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  • When the Cubs Won It All When the Cubs Won It All
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    When the Cubs Won It All

    In the fall of 1908, no one could have guessed that the Chicago Cubs, a team that had dominated the National league three straight years, would for a century be shut out in its efforts to reclaim the world championship. Stars like Frank Chance, Ed...
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  • Big Ed Walsh Big Ed Walsh
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    Big Ed Walsh

    As a young man living in the Anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania, it seemed Ed Walsh's course in life was set. But he emerged from the hardscrabble life of the mines to become one of the Deadball Era's greatest pitchers, winning fame, world...
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  • Eddie Collins Eddie Collins
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    Eddie Collins

    In what is sure to be the definitive book on Eddie Collins's life and long career, author Rick Huhn covers the Hall of Fame player's experiences from childhood through his days at Columbia University, his tenure with the great Athletics clubs of...
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  • An Indian Summer An Indian Summer
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    An Indian Summer

    This is the story of one of the all-time great teams of major league baseball, the 1957 Milwaukee Braves. The Braves boasted a lineup packed with power and a pitching staff anchored by three aces. Four future Hall of Famers led the team to the...
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    The 1945 Detroit Tigers

    Having finished the previous season a mere game behind pennant-winning St. Louis, the Detroit Tigers entered spring training in 1945 determined to complete their drive to the top. Led by the pitching duo of Hal Newhouser and Paul Trout, benefiting...
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  • Black Barons of Birmingham Black Barons of Birmingham
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    Black Barons of Birmingham

    A unique approach to the history of a Negro League team: The first half of this book covers the leagues and the players of the 1920s, the 1930s, and 1940 through 1947 (when Robinson broke the color barrier). The second half is devoted to the Black...
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  • Frank Home Run Baker Frank Home Run Baker
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    Frank Home Run Baker

    In the decades before baseball fans became enamored of sluggers like Babe Ruth and Jimmie Foxx, very few players were identified with the long ball. Instead, the game was dominated by men like Ty Cobb and Honus Wagner, players who sprayed the ball...
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  • The League That Lasted The League That Lasted
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    The League That Lasted

    In the early 1870s, baseball was chaos, mired in mismanagement and corruption. William Hulbert, the owner of Chicago's National Association team, believed that a league run efficiently with honest competition would survive and flourish. Hulbert,...
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  • Mexican Raiders in the Major Leagues Mexican Raiders in the Major Leagues
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    Mexican Raiders in the Major Leagues

    In 1946 American baseball was a shadow of its former self. In the wake of depression and war, attendance had spiraled down. Management was at odds with players, and some began to wonder if there might be other career options. Enter the five Pasquel...
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  • Sylvia Hatchell Sylvia Hatchell
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    Sylvia Hatchell

    As a young girl, Sylvia Hatchell longed to play little league baseball and, later, high-school basketball, but both were closed to her because she was a girl. In college, her world shifted when she discovered a passion for coaching that would lead her...
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  • Football, Europe and the Press Football, Europe and the Press
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    Football, Europe and the Press

    This book examines the construction of national, regional, and group identities in the football journalism of five European countries: England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Notions of the respective national stereotypes are explored in each of the...
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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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