Sports
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On This Day in Roger Federer History
$19.95 Read moreOne of the world’s most well-known and respected athletes, Roger Federer has had a career that ranks among the most celebrated and successful in all of tennis history. This entertaining and illuminati… [more below]
- Author: Walker, Randy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: July 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1937559963
- Language: English
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Baseball Heaven: Up Close and Personal, What It Was Really Like in the Major Leagues
$28.95 Read more“With its personal feel and near-mystical quality, this highly recommended work will mesmerize baseball lovers and casual fans.” Library Journal, Starred Review
A behind-the-scenes look at baseball his
- Author: Golenbock, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1538181827
- Language: English
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Four Days to Glory: Wrestling with the Soul of the American Heartland
$17.99 Add to cartSomewhere beyond the circle of money, glitz, drugs, and controversy that characterizes professional sports in America, remnants of an ideal exist. In Iowa, that ideal survives in the form of high scho
- Author: Kreidler, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0060823194
- Language: English
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One Goal: A Coach, a Team, and the Game That Brought a Divided Town Together
$21.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of Friday Night Lights and Outcasts United, One Goal tells the inspiring story of the soccer team in a town bristling with racial tension that united Somali refugees and multi-generat… [more below]
- Author: Bass, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 26 2019
- ISBN10: 0316396559
- Language: English
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Dream Golf: The Making of Bandon Dunes
$30.00 Add to cart“Mike Keiser followed his instincts to build courses that speak to golf as a rugged adventure. Steve Goodwin’s spirited book will speak to the golfing soul in you.” –Lorne Rubenstein, columnist for T… [more below]
- Author: Goodwin, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: June 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1565129814
- Language: English
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Jackie Robinson: An Integrated Life
$29.93 Add to cartJ. Christopher Schutz reveals the real Jackie Robinson, as a more defiant, combative spirit than simply the “turn the other cheek” compliant “credit to his race.” Examining this key figure at the cros… [more below]
- Series: Library of African American Biography
- Author: Schutz, J. Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: February 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1538110202
- Language: English
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The Secret of Golf: The Story of Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus
$19.00 Add to cartFrom “one of the best sportswriters in America” (The Washington Times)–the New York Times bestselling story of the friendship and rivalry between golf legends Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus, whose spar… [more below]
- Author: Posnanski, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 28 2016
- ISBN10: 1476766444
- Language: English
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Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy
$19.99 Add to cart“The incomparable and mysterious Sandy Koufax is revealed…. This is an absorbing book, beautifully written.” —Wall Street Journal
“Leavy has hit it out of the park…A lot more than a biography. It
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Leavy, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0061779008
- Language: English
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Under the Black Hat: My Life in the Wwe and Beyond
$17.99 Add to cartFrom legendary wrestling announcer Jim Ross, this candid, colorful memoir about the inner workings of the WWE and the personal crises he weathered at the height of his career is “a must-read for wrest… [more below]
- Author: Ross, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1982130547
- Language: English
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Racing Through the Dark: Crash, Burn, Coming Clean, Coming Back
$22.99 Add to cart“WORLD-CLASS CYCLIST”,” “Tour de France stage winner, and time trial specialist David Millar offers a vivid portrait of his life in professional cycling–including his soul-searing detour into perform… [more below]
- Author: Millar, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: October 24 2015
- ISBN10: 1501133659
- Language: English
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Men in Green
$17.99 Add to cartThe instant New York Times bestseller from acclaimed Sports Illustrated writer Michael Bamberger–a warm, nostalgic, intimately reported account of golf’s greatest generation, and “maybe the best golf… [more below]
- Author: Bamberger, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1476743835
- Language: English
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Cinderella Man: James J. Braddock, Max Baer, and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History
$21.99 Add to cartA riveting tale of perseverance in the face of hardship, Cinderella Man is the chronicle of the boxer James J. Braddock, whose exceptional story of achievement against all odds was the subject of a ma… [more below]
- Author: Schaap, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 18 2011
- ISBN10: 0618711902
- Language: English
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Fifty-Nine in ’84: Old Hoss Radbourn, Barehanded Baseball, and the Greatest Season a Pitcher Ever Had
$15.99 Add to cart“First-class narrative history that can stand with everything Steven Ambrose wrote. . . . Achorn’s description of the utter insanity that was barehanded baseball is vivid and alive.” —Boston Globe
“A
- Author: Achorn, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0061825875
- Language: English
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How You Bear It: Triumph and Resiliency in Life
$19.99 Add to cartJiu-jitsu champion, professional fighter, and world-class coach Tom DeBlass became a hero in the martial arts community for his blue-collar roots and no-excuses approach to life. Today, he heads dozen
- Author: Deblass, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: November 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1956019359
- Language: English
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Get Up, Baby!: My Seven Decades with the St. Louis Cardinals
$30.00 Read moreAn unforgettable look at a lifetime of Cardinals baseball packed with Mike Shannon’s passion for the game
Mike Shannon’s voice served as the soundtrack of St. Louis Cardinals baseball for 50 years.- Author: Hummel, Rick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1629379867
- Language: English
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Althea Gibson: I Always Wanted to Be Somebody
$19.95 Add to cartI Always Wanted To Be Somebody is the intimate and candid story of a girl who grew up in the asphalt environs of Harlem, skipping school, drinking hard liquor, stealing and fist-fighting, but went on … [more below]
- Author: Gibson, Althea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1937559971
- Language: English
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The Way of Baseball: Finding Stillness at 95 MPH
$18.99 Add to cartTwo-time All Star Shawn Green shows how the surprising lessons the game has taught him transcend baseball and compose a life well lived.
Shawn Green’s career statistics can be found on the backs of ba- Author: Green, Shawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 05 2012
- ISBN10: 1439191204
- Language: English
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Caught Inside: A Surfer’s Year on the California Coast
$19.00 Add to cartA wondrous, uproarious, and surprisingly informative account of a year spend surfing, Caught Inside marks the arrival of an exuberant new voice of the outdoors.
This remarkable narrative of Daniel Dua- Author: Duane, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 10 1997
- ISBN10: 0865475091
- Language: English
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Touching My Father’s Soul: A Sherpa’s Journey to the Top of Everest
$17.99 Add to cartIn a story of Everest unlike any told before, Jamling Tenzing Norgay gives us an insider’s view of the Sherpa world. As Climbing Leader of the famed 1996 Everest IMAX expedition led by David Breashear… [more below]
- Author: Norgay, Jamling T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 14 2002
- ISBN10: 0062516884
- Language: English
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The Head Case
$17.95 Add to cartThe National Football League was sued for hiding the dangers of brain injury from their former players from an unlikely source. A young trial lawyer from Pittsburgh, Jason Luckasevic, stood up against
- Author: Luckasevic, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 1098043618
- Language: English
