Essays
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Hoop: A Basketball Life in Ninety-Five Essays
$21.95 Add to cartBrian Doyle himself explains it best: “A few years ago I was moaning to my wry gentle dad that basketball, which seems to me inarguably the most graceful and generous and swift and fluid and ferocious
- Series: Crux: The Georgia Literary Nonfiction
- Author: Doyle, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0820355445
- Language: English
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The Cost of These Dreams: Sports Stories and Other Serious Business
$19.00 Add to cartThe instant New York Times bestseller!
From one of America’s most beloved sportswriters and the bestselling author of Pappyland, a collection of true stories about the dream of greatness and its cost- Author: Thompson, Wright
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 014313387X
- Language: English
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All Fishermen Are Liars: True Tales from the Dry Dock Bar
$19.99 Add to cartJust before Christmas, Linda meets up with her best friend and fellow fisherman Alden Leeman for lunch and a drink at the Dry Dock, a well-worn watering hole in Portland, Maine. Alden, the captain of … [more below]
- Author: Greenlaw, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0786888784
- Language: English
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Gloves Off: 40 Years of Unfiltered Sports Writing
$26.95 Read moreAfter forty years inside the press box delivering unique perspectives on the biggest stars, events, and storylines in sports, former San Francisco Chronicle and Press Democrat columnist Lowell Cohn ha… [more below]
- Author: Cohn, Lowell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 1949480089
- Language: English
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Bodies Built for Game: The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Sports Writing
$26.95 Add to cartSport has always been central to the movements of both the nation-state and the people who resist that nation-state. Think of the Roman Colosseum, Jesse Owens’s four gold-medal victories in the 1936 N… [more below]
- Author: Diaz, Natalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 402
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 149621773X
- Language: English
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The Year’s Best Sports Writing 2023
$19.95 Add to cartA must-read collection featuring the best in sports journalism
Richard Deitsch, a media reporter at The Athletic and a former Sports Illustrated writer, has curated an essential anthology showcasing- Author: Deitsch, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 1637274459
- Language: English
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Got Your Number: The Greatest Sports Legends and the Numbers They Own
$25.99 Read moreESPN personality (Get Up and #Greeny) and New York Times bestselling author Mike Greenberg partners with mega-producer Hembo to settle once and for all which legends flat-out own which numbers. In sho… [more below]
- Author: Greenberg, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1368073565
- Language: English
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In Deep: The Collected Surf Writings
$33.33 Add to cart“IN DEEP” by surf journalist Matt George is a soul-stirring compilation that spans nearly four decades of surf writing, offering readers an immersive journey into the heart of surfing culture through
- Author: George, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 526
- Publish Date: May 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1955690456
- Language: English
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Sidecountry: Tales of Death and Life from the Back Roads of Sports
$18.95 Add to cartNew York Times reporter John Branch’s riveting, humane pieces about ordinary people doing extraordinary things at the edges of the sporting world have won nearly every major journalism prize. Sidecou
- Author: Branch, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021888
- Language: English
