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Tales from the 1967 Red Sox Dugout
A Collection of the Greatest Stories Ever Told from the Impossible Dream Season
Sports Publishing
By the end of 1966, the Boston Red Sox were a team in serious trouble. The Red Sox had not won a pennant in twenty years and had not posted a winning record in eight. Pampered by their benevolent owner, Tom Yawkey, the Red Sox had developed a ...
Kaiser!
The Greatest Footballer Never to Play Football
Sports Publishing
The improbable story of a soccer player who scammed his way into a lengthy career…without ever playing in a game. Born in Rio Pardo, Brazil, Carlos Henrique Raposo had dreams of becoming a professional soccer (futbol) player. After a youth ...
Mount Rushmore of the New York Mets
The Best Players by Decade to Wear the Orange and Blue
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Mount Rushmore, located in the Black Hills of Keystone, South Dakota, is one of the most iconic landmarks in the United States. The face of the mountain features 60-foot heads of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore ...
1930
The Story of a Baseball Season When Hitters Reigned Supreme
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The 1930 Major League baseball season was both marvelous and horrendous, great for hitters, embarrassing for pitchers. In totality it was just this side of insane as an outlier among all seasons.Major League Baseball began with the founding of ...
The Negro Baseball Leagues
Tales of Umpiring Legendary Players, Breaking Barriers, and Making American History
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Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Negro Leagues with updates and additions throughout! The Kansas City Monarchs, the Chicago American Giants, the St. Louis Stars, the Birmingham Black Barons, the Homestead Grays, and the Indianapolis ...
Tales from the New York Giants Sideline
A Collection of the Greatest Giants Stories Ever Told
Sports Publishing
Few sports franchises can match the long, storied history, rich tradition, and legion of passionate, loyal fans of the New York Giants. In this newly-updated edition of Tales from the New York Giants Sideline, memories, anecdotes, names, faces, ...
Fabric of the Game
The Stories Behind the NHL's Names, Logos, and Uniforms
Sports Publishing
An in-depth look into the origins of how each NHL team was named, received their logo and design, with interviews by those responsible. Written by those most knowledgeable, you'll learn why every hockey team to every play in the National Hockey ...
The (Inter) National Basketball Association
How the NBA Ushered in a New Era of Basketball and Went Global
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For most of its existence, the National Basketball Association was a league filled with (almost) all American-born players. Players from overseas were looked at as less-skilled and not worth the risk. Americans playing overseas were looked at as ...
Cleveland Browns A - Z
An Alphabetical History of Browns Football
Sports Publishing
Relive memorable moments in Browns history—newly updated! A must-have book for any Cleveland Browns fan, this updated edition of Cleveland Browns A - Z is compiled alphabetically for easy accessibility. The book offers a complete history of the ...
Heaven Is a Playground
A Journey Into the Sweet World of Street Basketball
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"The best basketball book I've ever read." —Barack ObamaHeaven Is a Playground, now in its fifth edition to include more information on Fly Williams, was the first book on the uniquely American phenomenon of urban basketball. Rick Telander, a ...
The College Football Problem
How Money and Power Corrupted the Game and How We Can Fix That
Sports Publishing
A detailed expose on the corruption in college football by acclaimed sportswriter Rick Telander, with a foreword by Rick Reilly! In 1989, when Rick Telander first published The Hundred Yard Lie, he proposed that big-time college football should ...
Your Inner Golf Guru
The Science of Rethinking, Relearning, & Revamping Your Golf Swing
Sports Publishing
Lower your handicap and revamp your swing as you become your own best golf instructor.Conventional methodologies, which emphasize ball-striking dictated mostly by bio-mechanics and kinesiology, have failed to enhance the competencies of worn, ...
Football's Fearless Activists
How Colin Kaepernick, Eric Reid, Kenny Stills, and Fellow Athletes Stood Up to the NFL and President Trump
Sports Publishing
For the first time, here is the full story of the NFL player protests that rocked a nation and turned our country upside down. This is the players' side, one that has largely been ignored by the media.On September 1, 2016, Colin Kaepernick took ...
How Life Imitates Sports
A Sportswriter Recounts, Relives, and Reckons with 50 Years on the Sports Beat
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Memorable Stories From a Half Century of Sports Journalism For the last half century, Pulitzer Prize–winning sportswriter Ira Berkow has been at the center of some of the most memorable moments in sports history. From the World Series, NBA ...
Dodgers vs. Yankees
The Long-Standing Rivalry Between Two of Baseball's Greatest Teams
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A History of the Epic Rivalry between Two of Baseball's Powerhouses that Has Spanned Over Eighty Years—from Ebbets Field to Dodger Stadium, from Babe Ruth to Reggie Jackson The Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees are two of the most storied ...
Phillies 1980!
Mike Schmidt, Steve Carlton, Pete Rose, and Philadelphia's First World Series Championship
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How the 1980 Philadelphia Phillies Won the First World Series Championship in Franchise History The road was rocky and the suspense intense as a make-or-break 1980 baseball season unfolded for the Philadelphia Phillies under a new, ...
A Fan's Guide to Baseball Analytics
Why WAR, WHIP, wOBA, and Other Advanced Sabermetrics Are Essential to Understanding Modern Baseball
Sports Publishing
Broken up into sections (pitching, fielding, hitting), this authoritative yet fun and easy guide will help readers young and old fully understand and comprehend the statistics that are the present and future of our national pastime. We all know ...
The Ultimate Book of Golf Trivia
600 Questions and Answers
Sports Publishing
Become a golf trivia expert with these challenging questions about Jack Nicklaus, the Masters, Tiger Woods, and more! The Ultimate Book of Golf Trivia tests and expands your knowledge of golf—covering the sport from the 1970s (and earlier) up ...
Tales from the Duke Blue Devils Locker Room
A Collection of the Greatest Duke Basketball Stories Ever Told
Sports Publishing
Revised and updated through the 2018-2019 season. The Duke Blue Devils have a long and glorious history of success, and that history comes alive within these pages, as detailed by Duke historian James Sumner. The Blue Devils’ storied past ...
The Official Rules of Baseball Illustrated
An Irreverent Look at the Rules of Baseball and How They Came to Be What They Are Today
Sports Publishing
Completely updated and expanded through the 2019 baseball season! In a game that has been our national pastime since the 1850s, there have been countless changes, additions and adaptations to the rules of baseball. But while the sport has ...