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Real Sports Reporting If you want to know how something is done, why not ask an expert? That was the guiding principle...	Framing Production: Technology, Culture, and Change in the British Bicycle Industry (Inside Technology) Best Price: $18.65 The production of bicycles in Britain and the United States recently suffered severe setbacks....	American Baseball: From Postwar Expansion to the Electronic Age Best Price: $25.00 The National Pastime has made big news and big money since its Silver Age (1900-1920), but what...	Gymnastics Safety Manual: The Official Manual of the United States Gymnastics Safety Association The aim of this manual is to raise the level of safety in those recreational and athletic...	Foil, Saber, and Epee Fencing: Skills, Safety, Operations, and Responsibilities Best Price: $20.00 I've always been intrigued by the sport of fencing, and wanting to fill in the gaps of the...



Electric Model Car Racing Written in 1965, this hardback volume covers the early days of tabletop model slotcar racing...	Leisure: An Introduction Best Price: $52.03 Leisure: An Introduction provides a broad and lively understanding of the meaning, significance...	A New Season: Using Title IX to Reform College Sports Best Price: $12.18 This book demonstrates how colleges might retain threatened varsity programs and expand sports...	New Game Plan for College Sport (American Council on Education/Oryx Press Series on Higher Education) Best Price: $30.49 The most critical issues in intercollegiate sport are examined here from a variety of...	Cup Magic



Real Sports Reporting If you want to know how something is done, why not ask an expert? That was the guiding principle...	Framing Production: Technology, Culture, and Change in the British Bicycle Industry (Inside Technology) Best Price: $18.65 The production of bicycles in Britain and the United States recently suffered severe setbacks....	American Baseball: From Postwar Expansion to the Electronic Age Best Price: $25.00 The National Pastime has made big news and big money since its Silver Age (1900-1920), but what...	Gymnastics Safety Manual: The Official Manual of the United States Gymnastics Safety Association The aim of this manual is to raise the level of safety in those recreational and athletic...	Foil, Saber, and Epee Fencing: Skills, Safety, Operations, and Responsibilities Best Price: $20.00 I've always been intrigued by the sport of fencing, and wanting to fill in the gaps of the...

Electric Model Car Racing Written in 1965, this hardback volume covers the early days of tabletop model slotcar racing...	Leisure: An Introduction Best Price: $52.03 Leisure: An Introduction provides a broad and lively understanding of the meaning, significance...	A New Season: Using Title IX to Reform College Sports Best Price: $12.18 This book demonstrates how colleges might retain threatened varsity programs and expand sports...	New Game Plan for College Sport (American Council on Education/Oryx Press Series on Higher Education) Best Price: $30.49 The most critical issues in intercollegiate sport are examined here from a variety of...	Cup Magic

Psychological Foundations of Sport Best Price: $32.70 I had the pleasure of taking a course in Sport Psychology from John Silva himself. He is...	Duke Kahanamoku's world of surfing with Joe Brennan	Australain Horse Racing. A Racegoers Companion to the Australian Turf.	Young Cricketer	Extracts From My Journal, M.dccc.lii; Printed for Private Circulation Only Best Price: $14.13 This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing...

Two Years Before the Mast Best Price: $8.91 This was a POD book that was full of asci characters, it was not formatted, not even chapter...	Tennis for Women Best Price: $19.10 I must have misread the description of this book. Typo's are frequent, the words run...	The Mystery of Mallory and Irvine Best Price: $350.01 The compelling story of the greatest mystery in mountaineering, first published in 1996, has now...	On Beckham	My Father and Other Working Class Football Heroes Best Price: $7.08 A lovely touching story as Gary Imlach, journalist and documentary filmmaker goes off in search...

The Penguin Bicycle HandbooK: How to Maintain and Repair Your Bicycle (Penguin Handbooks)	The Competitive Runners Handbook (A Penguin handbook) This book is the quintessential guide to running for the person who wants to improve their...	Arm-Ball to Zooter Best Price: $17.93 What's the difference between short leg and deep midwicket? When would you be thinking about...	London 1: The City of London (Buildings of England) (v. 1) Best Price: $277.14 Pevsner dedicated his original volume, on the Cities of London & Westminster, to the nights...	Escape from the Antarctic (Great Journeys) Best Price: $17.72 Although Shackleton's (1874-1922) epic expedition to reach the South Pole was a complete...

Can We Have Our Balls Back, Please?: How the British Invented Sport (and Then Almost Forgot How to Play It) Best Price: $12.32 Americans may like to think they invented baseball (even if Jane Austen wrote about it decades...	Devilfish: The Life and Times of a Poker Legend Best Price: $7.23 'You only win big when you risk big.' Tough, revealing and hilarious - this is...	War Without Death: A Year of Extreme Competition in Pro Football Best Price: $0.01 In this masterpiece of sports reportage, Washington Post staff writer Mark Maske?one of the...	Odd Man Out: A Year on the Mound with a Minor League Misfit Best Price: $2.00 "The best baseball book since Moneyball ." Hailed by critics as one of the great...	Jacob's Beach: The Mob, the Fights, the Fifties Best Price: $23.45 The glamorous and violent story of boxing in its heyday, the Fifties. It?s a story of a man...

Jack Hobbs: England's Greatest Cricketer Best Price: $22.43 The first comprehensive biography of the biggest run scorer that cricket has ever known. ...	A Life Too Short: The Story of Robert Enke Best Price: $20.48 Why does an international footballer with the World at his feet decide to take his own life? On...	Seve: The Official Autobiography This book is one long whine from beginning to end. Poor Seve, he won a few but for every one he...	The Manager: My Football Journey	How I Won the Yellow Jumper: Dispatches from the Tour de France Best Price: $10.17 A funny and frank account of falling in love with the Tour de France that explores the highs,...

Race, Culture, and the Revolt of the Black Athlete: The 1968 Olympic Protests and Their Aftermath Best Price: $64.97 Ever since 1968 a single iconic image of race in American sport has remained indelibly etched on...	The Rules of Golf in Plain English, Second Edition Best Price: $6.66 Both authors are lawyers and prolific writers. Both authors believe that legal jargon and by...	Hustlers, Beats, and Others Best Price: $87.14 Hustlers, Beats and Others is Ned Polsky's fascinating examination of the underground life...	All Weather Yachtsman The author's experiences skippering in heavy weather conditions are related in this...	K2: Mountain of Mountains Best Price: $343.14 Hail to the king of the mountaineers! Read about Messner's climb of K2 without oxygen - an...

Great Explorations: Australian Anthology Best Price: $132.52 Explorers such as Charles Sturt, Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, Edward John Eyre, Ludwig...	The Himalayan Journal: Volume 51: 1995 (v. 51) The most authoritative source of information on the Himalaya, Kakakorum and Hindu Kush ranges,...	Running Injuries: How to Prevent and Overcome Them I've had this book for about 7 years and it is showing the wear! Whenever a runner comes to...	A Dictionary of Sports Studies (Oxford Paperback Reference) Best Price: $11.20 Sports Studies is a fast-growing academic discipline, with programs across the country. The...	Paediatric Exercise Science and Medicine Best Price: $39.00 Now in its second edition, Paediatric Exercise Science and Medicine is the leading reference...

Advancing the Ball: Race, Reformation, and the Quest for Equal Coaching Opportunity in the NFL (Law and Current Events Masters) Best Price: $14.16 I was on a plane to Fort Myers on Super Bowl Sunday, during the 3 hour flight, I could scarcely...	Hot rod doom A bank robbery and a forest fire threatening their city play an important part in six hot rod...	Heavy Justice: The State of Indiana V. Michael G. Tyson Best Price: $4.99 When the state of Indiana indicted former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson for the date rape of a...	Magic's Touch: From Fundamentals to Fast Break With One of Basketball's All-Time Greats Best Price: $109.28 Here is Magic's game the way Magic plays it, available for the first time in trade...	Leisure and Consumption: Common Ground/Separate Worlds Best Price: $88.97 The study of consumption has never seriously examined the role of leisure. This ambitious,...

C.L.R. James and the Study of Culture Best Price: $22.00 This book provides the first dedicated introduction to the cultural writings and analyses of the...	Bamboo Goalposts: One Man's Quest to Teach the People's Republic of China to Love Football Best Price: $17.97 More than two decades ago Rowan Simons moved to China, and soon after he began working to expose...	Womens' Sports History Best Price: $152.82 -- A. Bartlett Giamatti, late Commissioner of Baseball	Manchester United 100 Greatest Players Formed in 1878 and originally known as Newton Heath, Manchester United is one of the most famous...	Looniness of the Long Distance Runner Take one unfit 39-year-old Londoner and present him with the challenge of training for, and...

The Last Horsemen: A Year at Sillywrea, Britain's Only Horse-Powered Farm Best Price: $199.95 The Last Horsemen is the inspiring story of John Dodd and his family, who have lived on...	Whispering Death Pb Holding looks back on a career which saw him take 249 test wickets and play a leading role in...	Official Manchester United Illustrated Encyclopedia Hb From the early days of Newton Heath, through the years of near bankruptcy, tragedy at Munich,...	Glenn Hoddle: My 1998 World Cup Story Best Price: $39.99 In his gripping journal of the 1998 World Cup Finals, Glenn Hoddle reveals every aspect of the...	Collecting Football Programmes

The Nazi Olympics (Sport and Society) Best Price: $25.00	Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don't Play Baseball Best Price: $8.49 Too bad the original cover photo for the book was rejected due to NCAA interference. The player...	Writing Baseball Best Price: $3.99 I enjoyed reading every piece in this book, which although ostensibly scholarly, is a joy for...	The New American Sport History: Recent Approaches and Perspectives (Sport and Society) Best Price: $15.78	Josh Gibson: THE POWER AND THE DARKNESS Best Price: $5.95 The 2004 paperback edition leads off with author Mark Ribowsky taking Barry Bonds to task for...

Before the Curse: The Chicago Cubs' Glory Years, 1870-1945 Best Price: $14.23 Before the Curse: The Chicago Cubs' Glory Years, 1870?1945 brings to life the early history...	Pioneers of the Hardwood: Indiana and the Birth of Professional Basketball Best Price: $10.75 As fire is to prairie or water to fish, so is basketball part of the natural environment in...	The Greatest Basketball Story Ever Told: The Milan Miracle, Then and Now First, just to set the records straight - Milan wasn't the underdogs that the movie...	Imagining Baseball: America's Pastime and Popular Culture Best Price: $24.22 If you love baseball - this is for you. If you hate Baseball - don't waste your time!!! The...	Baseball: Our Game Best Price: $1.94 John Thorn, one of baseball's foremost experts and a creator of "Total Baseball: The...

A Magic Summer: The '69 Mets Best Price: $20.00 In 1969, ending seven years of lovable futility, the New York Mets won the World Series. How...	Wayne Gretzky (Sports Star) A biography for beginning readers of the star player of Canada's Edmonton Oilers hockey team...	The Underwater Australia Dive Guide	Baseball: The Golden Age (Vol 2) Best Price: $74.00 I had first read this book during the early 70's when I was Still in my teens,because...	Baseball: The People's Game The People's Game (Vol 3) Best Price: $51.80 Harold Seymour made the right move as a kid when he waited on Bedford Avenue outside the right...

Cages to Jump Shots: Pro Basketball's Early Years Best Price: $40.84 In Cages to Jump Shots , Robert Peterson--one of America's foremost writers on sports...	Past Time: Baseball as History Best Price: $22.94 I probably grew up in "the middle" of baseball history avidly watching...	Rockne of Notre Dame: The Making of a Football Legend Best Price: $2.08 While acknowleging the legends surrounding one of the greatest coaches in any sport anywhere,...	The Kid of Coney Island: Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusements Best Price: $5.63 Fred Thompson was the "kid" (he was in his early twenties when he built Luna...	Cricket's Big Day Out Hb

Up N'Under (Sports Comedy)	Manchester United Insider's Guide Pb Best Price: $30.59	Golf Uncovered Never again will a round of golf or a bucket of balls on the range be the same; every air shot,...	The Boss Best Price: $7.78 This is John Gregory's sensational story of his time at Aston Villa, having been...	Official Manchester United's 100 Greatest Players The 100 Greatest Players features essays on the 100 finest ever to pull on a United shirt, as...

Geoffrey Boycott (Profiles (Hamilton))	Happy Isles of Oceania Paddling The Best Price: $50.00 In 1980 I proofread a magazine excerpt of a Paul Theroux book. It began with his getting up...	History of Yachting Best Price: $386.44 The author of this beautiful older history of yachting is a naval engineer and, as such, is...	Fifty Years a Cricketer

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