History
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Damn Good Dogs!: The Real Story of Uga, the University of Georgia’s Bulldog Mascots
$36.95 Add to cartThe name Uga is synonymous with the Georgia Bulldogs, a perennial powerhouse among the top college football teams in the country. These English bulldogs are so revered that when they die, they are bur
- Author: Hannon, Kent
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 082034088X
- Language: English
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The Betrayal: The 1919 World Series and the Birth of Modern Baseball
$21.99 Add to cartIn the most famous scandal of sports history, eight Chicago White Sox players–including Shoeless Joe Jackson–agreed to throw the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for the promise … [more below]
- Author: Fountain, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0190679182
- Language: English
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They Cleared the Lane: The Nba’s Black Pioneers
$19.95 Add to cartToday, Black players compose more than eighty percent of the National Basketball Association’s rosters, providing a strong and valued contribution to professional basketball. In the first half of the … [more below]
- Author: Thomas, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0803294549
- Language: English
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It’s How You Play the Game: The Powerful Sports Moments That Taught Lasting Values to America’s Finest
$18.99 Add to cartIn life as in sports, it’s how you play the game that matters
You don’t have to be a star athlete to take away valuable lessons from the world of sports, whether it’s learning how to get along with oth
- Author: Kilmeade, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 13 2008
- ISBN10: 0061246328
- Language: English
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Though the Odds Be Great or Small: Notre Dame’s 1957 Comeback Season and the Year That Changed College Football
$17.99 Read moreOn November 16, 1957, an unranked Notre Dame football team squared off against the No. 2 Oklahoma Sooners. It was supposed to be an easy Sooners win. But despite being 19-point underdogs, the Fighting… [more below]
- Author: Brennan, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 24 2021
- ISBN10: 0829451234
- 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
$17.00 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.
In Boston, sports loyalty–and passion–runs de- Author: Massarotti, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1419753592
- Language: English
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Chicago Hoops: Chicago’s Top Players Since 1950 A Personal Story of Books, Basketball, and a Career in Education
$23.95 Add to cartDuring the 1950s, the great migration from the South led many Black families to the city of Chicago. As African American families took up residency all around the city, the talent in the Chicago Publi
- Author: Davis, Calvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 29 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887635521
- Language: English
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The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL
$18.00 Add to cartOn December 28, 1958, the New York Giants and Baltimore Colts met under the lights of Yankee Stadium for the NFL Championship game. Played in front of sixty-four thousand fans and millions of televisi… [more below]
- Author: Bowden, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: April 14 2009
- ISBN10: 0802144128
- Language: English
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New York Times Book of Sports Legends
$25.95 Read moreFrom Simon & Schuster, The New York Times Book of Sports Legends profiles 50 of America’s greatest sports figures, vividly captured in incisive biographical essays, on-the-scene coverage of their triu… [more below]
- Author: Vecchione, Joseph J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 05 2002
- ISBN10: 0671760394
- Language: English
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The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball’s Lost Triumph
$21.99 Add to cartWinner of the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing: The true story of the game that never should have happened — and of a nation on the brink of monumental change.
In the fall of 1943, at- Author: Ellsworth, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0316244627
- Language: English
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The First Tour de France: Sixty Cyclists and Nineteen Days of Daring on the Road to Paris
$40.00 Add to cartFrom its inception, the 1903 Tour de France was a colorful affair. Full of adventure, mishaps and audacious attempts at cheating, it was a race to be remembered.
Cyclists of the time weren’t enthusia- Author: Cossins, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 06 2017
- ISBN10: 1568589840
- Language: English
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Historic Photos of Lsu Football
$42.99 Add to cartPapier-m?h?acute; tigers, riots on the field, Chinese bandits, tailgating before a trip to the stadium nicknamed “Death Valley”-all these things and more describe the events, places, and people associ
- Series: Historic Photos
- Author: Martin, Mark E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1684420881
- Language: English
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A Gamecock Odyssey: University of South Carolina Sports in the Independent Era
$71.23 Read moreMeet the coaches, athletes, and notable characters that laid the foundation for today’s Gamecock Nation.
The summer of 1971 was especially hot in Columbia and not just because of the weather. It was t
- Author: Piercy, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1643364480
- Language: English
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The Official History of the Tour de France: Revised and Updated (2023)
$29.95 Add to cartThe Official History of the Tour de France – fully revised and updated for 2023 – is a celebration of one of the greatest annual sporting events, and the premier competition in world cycling.
Through m
- Author: Edwards-Evans, Luke
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1802795634
- Language: English
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The 20 Greatest Moments in New York Sports History: Our Generation of Memories, from 1960 to Today
$29.99 Read moreCan you guess the most memorable sports moments to happen in the Big Apple?
Collected together for the first time, The 20 Greatest Moments in New York Sports History chronicles the most memorable spo- Author: Ehrlich, Todd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1683584570
- Language: English
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A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers
$19.99 Add to cartDecades after it spent weeks at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, A Season on the Brink remains the most celebrated basketball book ever written–an unforgettable chronicle of his year spent f
- Author: Feinstein, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 01, 2011
- ISBN10: 1451650256
- Language: English
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
$17.99 Add to cartFor readers of Laura Hillenbrand’s Seabiscuit and Unbroken, the dramatic story of the American rowing team that stunned the world at Hitler’s 1936 Berlin Olympics
Daniel James Brown’s robust book tel
- Author: Brown, Daniel James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 741
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 159413779X
- Language: English
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The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America
$32.50 Add to cart“Indispensable history.” -Sally Jenkins, bestselling author of The Right Call
A captivating chronicle of the pivotal decade in American sports, when the games invaded prime time, and sports moved fro- Author: Maccambridge, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 1538706695
- Language: English
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
$34.00 Add to cartNow a Major Motion Picture Directed by George Clooney
The #1 New York Times-bestselling story about the American Olympic rowing triumph in Nazi Germany–from the author of Facing the Mountain. For rea- Author: Brown, Daniel James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 04, 2013
- ISBN10: 067002581X
- Language: English
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
$19.00 Add to cartNow a Major Motion Picture Directed by George Clooney
The #1 New York Times-bestselling story about the American Olympic rowing triumph in Nazi Germany–from the author of Facing the Mountain. For rea- Author: Brown, Daniel James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 27 2014
- ISBN10: 0143125478
- Language: English
