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  • Fishing With The Fly Fishing With The Fly
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    Fishing With The Fly

    ""Fishing With The Fly: Sketches By Lovers Of The Art, With Illustrations Of Standard Flies"" is a book written by Charles F. Orvis and published in 1886. The book is a comprehensive guide to fly fishing, featuring sketches and illustrations of various...
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  • Floating Flies And How To Dress Them Floating Flies And How To Dress Them
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    Floating Flies And How To Dress Them

    Floating Flies And How To Dress Them: A Treatise On The Most Modern Methods Of Dressing Artificial Flies For Trout And Grayling (1886) by Frederic Michael Halford is a comprehensive guide to the art of fly fishing. The book provides detailed instructions...
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  • Float Fishing And Spinning In The Nottingham Style (1882) Float Fishing And Spinning In The Nottingham Style (1882)
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    Float Fishing And Spinning In The Nottingham Style (1882)

    Float Fishing And Spinning In The Nottingham Style is a comprehensive guide to fishing techniques that were popular in the late 19th century. Written by John William Martin and originally published in 1882, this book provides detailed instructions on how...
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  • Figure-Skating (1898) Figure-Skating (1898)
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    Figure-Skating (1898)

    Figure-Skating is a book written by Monier-Williams and Montagu Sneade that was first published in 1898. This comprehensive guide to figure skating covers everything from the history of the sport to the technical aspects of skating. The authors provide...
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  • Ethics Of Boxing And Manly Sport (1888) Ethics Of Boxing And Manly Sport (1888)
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    Ethics Of Boxing And Manly Sport (1888)

    The Ethics of Boxing and Manly Sport is a book written by John Boyle O'Reilly in 1888. The book is a philosophical exploration of the morality of boxing and other physical sports that were popular at the time. O'Reilly was a poet, journalist, and social...
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  • The '27 Yankees The '27 Yankees
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    The '27 Yankees

    The '27 Yankees is the story of the most legendary and revered team in the annals of baseball: the 1927 New York Yankees, whose magical name even today evokes the standard of excellence in America¿s most treasured sport. The book is the definitive...
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  • Billiard Table Games for Tables of All Sizes Billiard Table Games for Tables of All Sizes
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    Billiard Table Games for Tables of All Sizes

    This vintage book is a complete guide to cue sports, with information on how to play billiards, snooker pool, live pool, Russian pool, pyramids, skittle pool, and more. With simple diagrams and step-by-step instructions, this volume is ideal for the...
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  • Anleitung Zur Forst Und Weidmanns-Sprache Anleitung Zur Forst Und Weidmanns-Sprache
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    Anleitung Zur Forst Und Weidmanns-Sprache

    ""Anleitung zur Forst- und Weidmanns-Sprache: oder Erkl�����rung der �����lteren und neueren Kunstw������rter beim Forst- und Jagdwesen"" ist ein Buch von Georg Ludwig Hartig aus dem Jahr 1821. Das Buch ist eine detaillierte Anleitung zur Fachsprache und...
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  • Anleitung Zur Angelfischerei Anleitung Zur Angelfischerei
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    Anleitung Zur Angelfischerei

    ""Anleitung Zur Angelfischerei: Mit Abbildung Und Beschreibung Der Hiezu Sich Eignenden Fischarten"" ist ein Buch von Wilhelm Bischoff aus dem Jahr 1859. Es ist eine Anleitung zur Angelfischerei und enth�����lt Abbildungen und Beschreibungen der...
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  • Anfangsgrunde Der Gymnastik Oder Turnkunst (1816) Anfangsgrunde Der Gymnastik Oder Turnkunst (1816)
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    Anfangsgrunde Der Gymnastik Oder Turnkunst (1816)

    ""Anfangsgr�����nde der Gymnastik oder Turnkunst"" ist ein Buch von Peter Heinrich Clias, das erstmals im Jahr 1816 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Buch besch�����ftigt sich mit den Grundlagen der Gymnastik und Turnkunst und ist ein wichtiger Beitrag zur...
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  • Traite Sur L'Art De Faire Des Armes (1830) Traite Sur L'Art De Faire Des Armes (1830)
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    Traite Sur L'Art De Faire Des Armes (1830)

    Le Trait����� sur l'Art de Faire des Armes (1830) de Ghersi, I. est un livre qui traite de la fabrication et de l'utilisation des armes. L'auteur y d�����crit en d�����tail les diff�����rentes techniques utilis�����es pour fabriquer des armes, notamment...
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  • Discrimination in Football Discrimination in Football
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    Discrimination in Football

    While football does not generate discriminatory behaviour, it often replicates the very same social issues that concern any given society. Evidently, football has witnessed an alarming increase in the number of disturbing incidents on the grounds of...
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  • Base Ball And Base Ball Players; A History Of The National Game Of America, And Important Events Connected Therewith From Its Origin Down To The Present Time Base Ball And Base Ball Players; A History Of The National Game Of America, And Important Events Connected Therewith From Its Origin Down To The Present Time
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    Base Ball And Base Ball Players; A History Of The National Game Of America, And Important Events Connected Therewith From Its Origin Down To The Present Time

    Elwood Andrew Roff's book provides a comprehensive history of baseball in America, including its origins, major players, and important events throughout history. Drawing on a range of primary and secondary sources, Roff provides a compelling narrative...
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  • Some Reminiscences Of Cricket In Philadelphia Before 1861 Some Reminiscences Of Cricket In Philadelphia Before 1861
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    Some Reminiscences Of Cricket In Philadelphia Before 1861

    This is a fascinating look at the early days of American cricket, as seen through the eyes of one of its most passionate advocates. Wister provides an overview of the game's history in Philadelphia, and his vivid descriptions of matches and players make...
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  • Fred Clarke Fred Clarke
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    Fred Clarke

    Elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1945, Fred Clarke began his career in 1894 with a record day at the plate, going 5 for 5. He would go on to play for 21 years spending most of that time as the player-manager of the Pirates, a team he led to...
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  • When the Dodgers Were Bridegrooms When the Dodgers Were Bridegrooms
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    When the Dodgers Were Bridegrooms

    Urbane real estate investor Charles Byrne and hustling news editor George J. Taylor joined forces in 1883 to create the club that would become the Brooklyn Dodgers. Nicknamed the "Bridegrooms" by sportswriters after several players got married, they...
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  • Long Taters Long Taters
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    Long Taters

    When African American first baseman George "Boomer" Scott made his debut in the major leagues in 1966, he took the field for the Boston Red Sox--the last major league team to field a black ballplayer, only seven years before. An eight-time Gold Glove...
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  • The American League in Transition, 1965-1975 The American League in Transition, 1965-1975
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    The American League in Transition, 1965-1975

    In the years following the decline of the New York Yankees dynasty that ended in 1964, three American League teams endeavored to stake their claim to the Junior Circuit's crown. From 1965 to 1975, the Minnesota Twins, Baltimore Orioles, and Oakland...
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  • The California Winter League The California Winter League
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    The California Winter League

    The California Winter League was the first to bring together Negro League teams and white professional teams in one league. It operated from October through February each year from the early part of the century until the late 1940s and generally...
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  • Huskerville Huskerville
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    Huskerville

    This work reveals the storied love affair that has long existed between native Nebraskans and the University of Nebraska football team. The author draws upon his experiences as a devoted "Huskerviller," and the insights of more than 500 other Husker...
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  • Black Baseball Players in Canada Black Baseball Players in Canada
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    Black Baseball Players in Canada

    In an era when black baseball players had limited playing prospects in the United States, they found a more hospitable and level playing field in Canada. The entries in this dictionary contain biographical sketches, career highlights and statistics...
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  • The Arrival of the American League The Arrival of the American League
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    The Arrival of the American League

    In 1901, Charles Comiskey and Ban Johnson launched a brazen challenge to the National League's supremacy. This book covers the American League's origins in the Western League, the decisions and planning that laid the groundwork for the American...
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  • Baseball and the Blame Game Baseball and the Blame Game
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    Baseball and the Blame Game

    Most baseball fans know what links Fred Merkle, Fred Snodgrass, Mickey Owen and Bill Buckner. It's a pantheon of public failure. They would be harder put to say what links Eric Byrnes, Tony Fernandez, and Babe Ruth, though these players made misplays...
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  • DiMaggio's Yankees DiMaggio's Yankees
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    DiMaggio's Yankees

    When Babe Ruth left the New York Yankees in 1935, some feared that the loss would cripple the club for years. However, the post-Ruth era Yankees continued to dominate until the start of World War II. Their forward-thinking administrative staff signed...
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  • The National Basketball League The National Basketball League
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    The National Basketball League

    The NBA has gained worldwide popularity with its high-flying stars and slam-dunking giants, but the early professional hoops game was played below the rim. This book provides the first history of the National Basketball League, which held court from...
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  • Satchel Paige and Company Satchel Paige and Company
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    Satchel Paige and Company

    Though Satchel Paige lived into the early 1980s, much of our information about his life and especially his career is the stuff of anecdote. He is nevertheless a central figure--arguably the central figure--in our reconstructions of Negro Leagues...
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  • Uniform Numbers of the NFL Uniform Numbers of the NFL
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    Uniform Numbers of the NFL

    Football is a game of numbers--fourth and inches, the three-man rush, a two point conversion, first down. Even with the obvious numbers in the statistics, rules and game situations, the players' uniform numbers themselves have become part of...
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  • Joe McCarthy Joe McCarthy
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    Joe McCarthy

    Joe McCarthy was headed towards a career as a plumber--until the parish priest intervened, and convinced McCarthy's mother that he could make more of himself in baseball. She relented, and Joseph Vincent McCarthy embarked on a career that ranks him...
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  • Big and Little Poison Big and Little Poison
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    Big and Little Poison

    The Waner brothers, Paul and Lloyd--also known as "Big Poison" and "Little Poison"--played together for fourteen seasons in the same Pittsburgh outfield in the 1920s and 1930s. More than half a century after retiring, they still rank as the...
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  • That Was Part of Baseball Then That Was Part of Baseball Then
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    That Was Part of Baseball Then

    In this collection of interviews, baseball players, coaches, and managers speak candidly about their most memorable moments and experiences in baseball's big leagues. Their recollections of the former big leaguers often come from their early years...
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  • Rugby Backs Moves - Colour Edition Rugby Backs Moves - Colour Edition
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    Rugby Backs Moves - Colour Edition

    "Rugby - Backs Moves" is a collection of moves or "plays" which any group of backs in a rugby team can use during a match. The book is intended to be something which anyone who coaches senior or junior rugby, at rugby clubs or in schools, can use to...
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  • Rudy Rudy
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    Rudy

    Rudy became the inspiration for millions when a Hollywood film depicting his journey as a Notre Dame football player became one of the most influential sports movies ever made. In Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger's only autobiography, go behind the...
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  • Africa, Football and FIFA Africa, Football and FIFA
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    Africa, Football and FIFA

    This book explores the role of FIFA in brokering the development of football in Africa and its relationship with that continent's football associations and regional governing body. Africa is no longer on the periphery of world football but the economic...
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  • Cricket and the Law Cricket and the Law
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    Cricket and the Law

    Cricket, law and the meaning of life ...In a readable, informed and absorbing discussion of cricket's defining controversies - bodyline, chucking, ball-tampering, sledging, walking and the use of technology, among many others - David Fraser explores the...
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  • British Football & Social Exclusion British Football & Social Exclusion
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    British Football & Social Exclusion

    This book takes stock of British football at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is written by a range of concerned academics and writers, all of whom have an active relationship with the contemporary football world. The book assesses the...
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  • The Competitive Parent The Competitive Parent
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    The Competitive Parent

    "Every youth football coach should follow this comprehensive recipe for successful coaching."-Edward Palmer, author of Getting Started Sports BooksCoaching youth football is a great way to support your child's athletic career, but without the right tools...
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  • Don't Let Anyone Take Your Joy Away Don't Let Anyone Take Your Joy Away
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    Don't Let Anyone Take Your Joy Away

    In this personal history of the Negro Leagues, Stanley Glenn gives an intimate and in-depth look at the daily trials and tribulations of a Negro League Baseball player. With wisdom, wit and perspective, Glenn recalls the indignities he and his teammates...
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  • Jeremy's Journey Jeremy's Journey
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    Jeremy's Journey

    In May 2004, Jeremy Lanosga was a talented competitive racquetball player with a promising future in the world of sports. On a beautiful Sunday evening, Jeremy decided to travel to the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to take photographs...
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  • Haskins Haskins
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    Haskins

    DON HASKINS is one of the greatest coaches in the history of college basketball. He won 719 games, seven conference championships and earned a trip to 14 NCAA Tournaments. His biggest feat, however, was coaching Texas Western College to a stunning 72-65...
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  • Corruption, Mafia Power and Italian Soccer Corruption, Mafia Power and Italian Soccer
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    Corruption, Mafia Power and Italian Soccer

    Whilst corruption and organized crime have been widely researched, they have not yet been specifically linked to sport. Corruption, Mafia Power and Italian Soccer offers an original insight into this new research area. Adopting a psycho-social approach...
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