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  • The League

    How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports Empire

    The epic tale of the five owners who shepherded the NFL through its tumultuous early decades and built the most popular sport in AmericaThe National Football League is a towering, distinctly American colossus spewing out $14 billion in annual revenue. But it was not always a success. In The League, John Eisenberg focuses on the pioneering sportsmen who kept the league alive in the 1920s, 1930s, ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Native Dancer

    The Grey Ghost Hero of a Golden Age

    The remarkable story of Native Dancer, one of the most celebrated thoroughbred racehorses of all time, will captivate the same readers who made Seabiscuit a #1 New York Times bestseller.In the early 1950s, a rising star flickered across millions of black-and-white TV sets. Nicknamed “The Grey Ghost,” Native Dancer was a blueblood thoroughbred with a taste for drama, courtesy of his come-from ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • The Streak

    Lou Gehrig, Cal Ripken Jr., and Baseball's Most Historic Record

    "A line-drive hit of a book" about the Iron Horse and the Iron Man—two legends from two eras of baseball—and the nature of human endurance ( The Wall Street Journal).When Cal Ripken Jr. began his career with the Baltimore Orioles at age twenty-one, he had no idea he would someday beat the historic record of playing 2,130 games in a row, a record set forty-two years before by the fabled "Iron Horse ... Leer más

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  • Ten-Gallon War

    The NFL's Cowboys, the AFL's Texans, and the Feud for Dallas's Pro Football Future

    "It's every bit as fascinating to read about the battles between the Cowboys and the Texans as it is to follow today's never-ending NFL dramas." —Mike Florio, ProFootballTalkIn the 1960s, on the heels of the "Greatest Game Ever Played," professional football began to flourish across the country—except in Texas, where college football was still the only game in town. But in an unlikely series of ... Leer más

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  • Rocket Men

    The Black Quarterbacks Who Revolutionized Pro Football

    An acclaimed sportswriter offers an inside look at the Black quarterbacks whose skill and grit transformed the NFLIn Rocket Men, John Eisenberg offers the definitive history of Black quarterbacks in the NFL—men who shaped not only the history of football but the cause of civil rights in America. From early pioneers like Fritz Pollard to groundbreaking modern standouts like Marlin Briscoe and James ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • That First Season

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

    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 ... Leer más

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  • The Great Match Race

    When North Met South in America's First Sports Spectacle

    "A heart-stopping account of a race that surely must rank as one of the most thrilling on record" from the acclaimed author of The League ( The New York Times).The Great Match Race is a captivating account of America's first sports spectacle, a horse race that pitted North against South in three grueling heats. On a bright afternoon in May 1823, an unprecedented sixty thousand people showed up to ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    Rocket Men

    The Black Quarterbacks Who Revolutionized Pro Football

    Narrado por Brad Sanders ...

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    14 hora 39 minutos

    An acclaimed sportswriter offers an inside look at the Black quarterbacks whose skill and grit transformed the NFLIn Rocket Men, John Eisenberg offers the definitive history of Black quarterbacks in the NFL—men who shaped not only the history of football but the cause of civil rights in America. From early pioneers like Fritz Pollard to groundbreaking modern standouts like Marlin Briscoe and James ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • The Longest Shot

    Lil E. Tee and the Kentucky Derby

    On the first Saturday in May every year in Louisville, Kentucky, shortly after 5:30 PM, a new horse attains racing immortality. The Kentucky Derby is like no other race, and its winners are the finest horses in the world. Covered in rich red roses, surrounded by flashing cameras and admiring crowds, these instant celebrities bear names like Citation, Secretariat, Spectacular Bid, and Seattle Slew. ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

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    The League

    How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports Empire

    Narrado por Daniel Thomas May ...

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    11 hora 50 minutos

    The “deeply researched, surprise-on-every-page, and altogether marvelous” (Weekly Standard) tale of the five owners who shepherded the NFL through its tumultuous early decades and built the most popular sport in AmericaThe National Football League is a towering, distinctly American colossus spewing out $14 billion in annual revenue. But it was not always a success. In The League, John Eisenberg ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • My Guy Barbaro

    A Jockey's Journey Through Love, Triumph, and Heartbreak With America's Favorite Horse

    A new superstar appeared on the American sports landscape in the spring of 2006. Barbaro, a three-year-old racehorse, won the Kentucky Derby by the largest margin of victory in sixty years, stirring talk of a possible Triple Crown. But in the opening yards of the Preakness Stakes two weeks later, the magnificent animal suffered a catastrophic leg injury that ended his un-defeated career and left ... Leer más

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  • John Stuart Mill on History

    Human Nature, Progress, and the Stationary State

    Though Mill has been the subject of an imposing volume of scholarship, his philosophy of history has received scant attention. This inquiry considers the role of history in Mill’s break from the Benthamite radicals, his effort to define a methodology for the study of society modelled on the natural sciences, and his speculations about the course and meaning of history. A dominant theme is Mill’s ... Leer más

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