History
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A People’s History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play
$18.95 Add to cartFrom the author Robert Lipsyte calls “the best young sportswriter in America,” a rollicking, rebellious, myth-busting history of sports in America that puts politics in the ring with pop culture
In th- Series: New Press People’s History
- Author: Zirin, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 15 2009
- ISBN10: 1595584773
- Language: English
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Loyal Sons: The Story of the Four Horsemen and Notre Dame Football’s 1924 Champions (Special Centennial Commemorative Edition)
$24.00 Read more- Author: Lefebvre, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0981884156
- Language: English
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San Francisco 49ers: An Illustrated Timeline
$42.00 Read more- Author: Purdy, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1681065576
- Language: English
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The Ultimate Boston Sports Handbook: What Every True Fan Needs to Know
$16.95 Add to cartThe fans in America’s greatest sports city get the book they’ve been waiting for with The Ultimate Boston Sports Handbook!
Relive the glory of Beantown’s incredible run of championship play, and enjoy
- Author: Doucet, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1646430557
- Language: English
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This Is Our City: Four Teams, Twelve Championships, and How Boston Became the Most Dominant Sports City in the World
$30.00 Read moreThis Is Our City is a celebration of two decades of sports success in Boston from the cohost of the #1 sports radio show in New England, Felger & Mazz.
Boston is a unique sports city. Unlike New York- Author: Massarotti, Tony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1419753584
- Language: English
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Seasons on Ice: The Birth of Wisconsin Badgers Hockey
$21.99 Add to cartSeasons on Ice – The Birth of Wisconsin Badgers Hockey is a never before told story about the Wisconsin Badgers men’s hockey program. It is a meticulously researched chronology documenting the origins… [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Craig P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 358
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 9798989547807
- Language: English
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Three Kings: Race, Class, and the Barrier-Breaking Rivals Who Launched the Modern Olympic Age
$27.99 Read moreFor fans of The Boys in the Boat, and marking the 100th anniversary of the Paris Olympics, the never-before-told story of three athletes who defied the odds to usher in a golden age of sports
Even toda
- Author: Balf, Todd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79887E+12
- Language: English
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The Early Days of ESPN: 300 Daydreams and Nightmares
$29.95 Add to cartThe tales of early ESPN people who gambled their careers while critics carped that “all-sports television will never work” are full of guile, luck, fear, fun, and unbridled optimism. As ESPN’s foundin
- Author: Fox, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1493079573
- Language: English
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Jewish Sports Legends: The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
$39.95 Add to cartFollowing the 1972 Olympics one sportswriter referred to Mark Spitz, winner of seven gold medals, as “the first great Jewish athlete.” He couldn’t have been more wrong. As Jewish Sports Legends shows,
- Author: Siegman, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496201884
- Language: English
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Doping: A Sporting History
$30.00 Read moreA gripping, provocative history of doping in sports–packed with examples–that proposes a new emphasis for modern anti-doping efforts.
Why is doping a perennial problem for sports? Is this solely a- Author: Henning, April
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1789145279
- Language: English
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Loserville: How Professional Sports Remade Atlanta–And How Atlanta Remade Professional Sports
$34.95 Add to cart2023 Bell Award for the Best Book on Georgia History
In July 1975 the editors of the Atlanta Constitution ra
A Sports Collectors Digest Best Baseball Book of 2022
A Public Books Public Pick of 2022- Author: Trutor, Clayton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 149622504X
- Language: English
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100 Glorias de M?xico: de Ni?os a Campeones / 100 Sources of Mexican Pride
$18.95 Read moreC?mo surgieron las mayores glorias del deporte mexicano? Sus or?genes e inicios. Todos los obst?culos a los que se sobrepusieron.
Su vida antes de conquistar el mundo.
Desde peque?os pueblos en el de… [more below]- Author: Lati, Alberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 6073845138
- Language: Spanish
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Boston Celtics: An Illustrated Timeline
$42.00 Read more- Author: Washburn, Gary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1681064448
- Language: English
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Players: How Sports Became a Business
$18.99 Add to cart“Provocative…terrific stories” (The New Yorker) of the people who transformed sports–in the span of a single generation–from a job that required even top athletes to work in the off-season to make… [more below]
- Author: Futterman, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 18 2017
- ISBN10: 147671696X
- Language: English
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Nike Is a Goddess: The History of Women in Sports
$17.00 Add to cartRecent years have seen a huge explosion in the popularity and commercial viability of women’s sports – with new professional leagues for women to play in, new magazines to cover them, and recognition … [more below]
- Author: Smith, Lissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 09 1999
- ISBN10: 0871137615
- Language: English
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The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-Stopping World Series: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the best-selling author of Baseball 100
“Posnanski offers an eloquent reminder that the great Cincinnati Reds teams–especially the ’75 Reds–deserve a place of prominence in our memory, same as t
- Author: Posnanski, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 31 2010
- ISBN10: 0061582557
- Language: English
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
$27.00 Read more#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the author of the runaway phenomenon Unbroken comes a universal underdog story about the horse who came out of nowhere to become a legend.
Seabiscuit was one of the- Author: Hillenbrand, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 06, 2001
- ISBN10: 0375502912
- Language: English
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The Crown Games of Ancient Greece: Archaeology, Athletes, and Heroes
$26.95 Add to cartThe Crown Games were the apex of competition in ancient Greece. Along with prestigious athletic contests in honor of Zeus at Olympia, they comprised the Pythian Games for Apollo at Delphi, the Isthmia
- Series: Sport, Culture, and Society
- Author: Lunt, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1682262014
- Language: English
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Jazz Age Giant: Charles A. Stoneham and New York City Baseball in the Roaring Twenties
$29.95 Add to cartNamed a Best Baseball Book of 2023 by Sports Collectors Digest
In the early 1920s, when the New York Yankees’ first dynasty was taking shape, they were outplayed by their local rival, the New York Gi- Author: Garratt, Robert F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496223713
- Language: English
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A Hero’s Journey: Beyond Little Norway and Olympia Sports Camp
$28.99 Add to cartA Hero’s Journey Beyond Little Norway and Olympia Sports Camp is a compiled history of the Olympia Sports Camp in Huntsville, Ontario, through the lens of its founder and inspiration, Dave Grace, the … [more below]
- Author: Dooley, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1039154468
- Language: English
