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  • The Road to Lisbon

    A Novel

    by Martin Greig, Charles McGarry ...
    A young fan invests his hope in his heroes in this "spectacular" novel inspired by the true story of a hardscrabble Scottish football club's 1967 season ( Scottish Daily Mail).In 1967 Celtic manager Jock Stein stepped from the tunnel of Lisbon's Estadio Nacional and took up a position pitch-side as his team of homegrown players ran out to face the might of Inter Milan, the charismatic superstars ... Read more

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  • Coach Wooden and Me

    Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court

    by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ...
    Former NBA star and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Kareem Abdul-Jabbar explores his 50-year friendship with Coach John Wooden, one of the most enduring and meaningful relationships in sports history.When future NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was still an eighteen-year-old high school basketball prospect from New York City named Lew Alcindor, he accepted a scholarship from UCLA largely on ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Mastering Yang Style Taijiquan

    by Fu Zhongwen ...
    Translated by Louis Swaim ...
    Fu Zhongwen's classic guide offers the best documentation available of the Yang style of taijiquan. The superbly detailed form instructions and historic line art drawings are based on Fu’s many years as a disciple of Yang Chengfu, taijiquan’s legendary founder. Also included are concise descriptions of fixed-step, moving-step, and da lu push hands practices. Additional commentary by translator ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • That First Season

    How Vince Lombardi Took the Worst Team in the NFL and Set It on the Path to Glory

    by John Eisenberg ...
    The story of a team, a town, and a leader: Vince Lombardi's first year as head coach of the Green Bay Packers, and how he turned them into a powerhouse.The once-vaunted Green Bay Packers were a laughingstock by the late 1950s. They hadn't fielded a winning team in more than a decade, and were close to losing their franchise to another city. They were in desperate need of a savior—and he arrived in ... Read more

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  • Steel City Rivals - One City. Two Football Clubs, One Mutually Shared Hatred

    by Steve Cowens ...
    Football rivalry is a common factor anywhere in the world where the sport is played. But some take it far more seriously than others. In Sheffield, the traditional capital of Britain's steel manufacturing industry, there is no greater tribal divide than that between fans of Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday. The two clubs' supporters berate each other with a venomous passion, their long ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Derby County FC: The History of the Baseball Ground

    by Andy Ellis ...
    Derby County's Baseball Ground was a football stadium known all over the world for its unique atmosphere, proximity of the crowd, odd shaped stands and the setting of the Leys factory on one side and terraced houses everywhere else. This is its story. Although known as a football setting, it was originally designed as a baseball stadium for the Derby Baseball Club. The baseball and football clubs ... Read more

    $2.72 USD

  • Emperors and Idiots

    The Hundred Year Rivalry Between the Yankees and Red Sox, From the Very Beginning to the End of the Curse

    by Mike Vaccaro ...
    The New York Yankees. The Boston Red Sox. For a hundred years, no two teams have locked horns as fiercely or as frequently – and no two seasons frame the colossal battle more perfectly than 2003 and 2004. Now, with incredible energy and access, leading sports columnist Mike Vaccaro chronicles the history of the greatest rivalry in sports, and the two stunning American League Championship Series ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Fishing, A Very Peculiar History

    by Rob Beattie ...
    Series Book 31 - A Very Peculiar History
    Fishing, A Very Peculiar History' explores one of the most ancient and popular pastimes in the world in the unique Peculiar History style, packed full of fascinating facts, quirky trivia and mind-boggling statistics. Rob Beattie tackles everything from the history of fish and chips to fish that look like celebrities and from what the well-dressed angler is wearing this season to brave fishing ... Read more

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  • Re:Cyclists

    200 Years on Two Wheels

    by Mr Michael Hutchinson ...
    'As if Bill Bryson had taken to two wheels' - FTSomewhere in a German forest 200 years ago, during the darkest, wettest summer for centuries, the story of cycling began. The calls to ban it were more or less immediate.Re:Cyclists is the tale of the following two centuries. It tells how cycling became a kinky vaudeville act for Parisians, how it was the basis of an American business empire to rival ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • What If the Babe Had Kept His Red Sox?

    And Other Fascinating Alternate Histories from the World of Sports

    by Bill Gutman ...
    What if Babe Ruth had not been sold to the Yankees in 1920 and instead played his entire career in Boston? What if Muhammad Ali had lost or quit in his first fight against Sonny Liston? What if the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants had never moved to the West Coast? What if Vince Lombardi had become head coach of his hometown Giants instead of heading to Green Bay? How would sports history, and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Disqualified

    Eddie Hart, Munich 1972, and the Voices of the Most Tragic Olympics

    by Hart ...
    Having previously tied the world record, Eddie Hart was a strong favorite to win the 100-meter dash at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany. Then the inexplicable happened: he was disqualified after arriving seconds late for a quarterfinal heat. Ten years of training to become the “World’s Fastest Human,” the title attached to an Olympic 100-meter champion, was lost in a heartbeat. But who was to ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Ride Through the Greatest Cycling Stories

    by Giles Belbin ...
    Series series Around the World in 80 Days
    Cycling's vast history is a fascinating mix of gripping sporting moments, inspired pursuits, and a whole host of heroes, hellions, and legend-makers.A Ride Through the Greatest Cycling Stories brings together the most important, memorable, and intriguing moments of cycling's illustrious past.From the death of the great Fausto Coppi through to the dominance of Sir Bradley Wiggins and the intrepid ... Read more

    $14.39 USD