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Walleye: Where To... When To... What to Expect...: A Guide to Michigan's Walleye Waters - Paperback

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by Chuck Stafford (Author) Number of Pages: 168 Dimensions: 0.36 x 11 x 8.25 IN Publication Date: March 02, 2004

Satch, Dizzy, & Rapid Robert: The Wild Saga of Interracial Baseball Before Jackie Robinson - Paperback

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by Timothy M. Gay (Author)"A new classic baseball book" (Library Journal): the story of how Satchel Paige, Dizzy Dean, and Bob Feller introduced integrated baseball to America. Before Jackie Robinson integrated major league baseball in 1947, black and white ballplayers had been playing against one another for decades--even, on rare occasions, playing with each other. Interracial contests took place during the off-season, when major leaguers and Negro Leaguers alike fattened their wallets by p...

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by Bill Edrington (Author) Number of Pages: 108 Dimensions: 0.26 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: December 12, 2003

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by Luther Wright (Author), Karen Hunter (Author)Former NBA star Luther Wright shares his harrowing and uplifting journey of finding God--and himself--when he had nothing else to lose. Luther Wright had the life hoop dreams are made of. A first-round NBA draft pick for the Utah Jazz, he was a rookie on a team with basketball legends Karl Malone and John Stockton. He had money, women, cars, and a luxurious bachelor pad overlooking Salt Lake City. But within a year, ravaged by drugs and unable t...

Water, Water Everywhere: Volume 4 - Paperback

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by Loren Long (Author), Phil Bildner (Author), Loren Long (Illustrator)In over their heads? THE YEAR IS 1899, and the Travelin' Nine are barnstorming their way across the good ol' U.S. of A., trying to raise money to pay off the Payne family's big-league debt. Griffith has a run-in with the Chancellor and learns that the baseball isn't the only item the infamous industrialist is after. Even more mysteriously, the Chancellor claims to have something that the Paynes want. And Ruby. Where in the...

Leaderboard: Conversations on Golf and Life - Paperback

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by Amy Alcott (Author), Don Wade (With), Jim Nantz (Foreword by)Golf legend Amy Alcott talks with twenty-seven celebrated individuals about the one thing they have in common--the game they love. In this entertaining and fascinating collection of candid conversations, Amy Alcott offers a rare look at the personal lives and experiences--both on and off the golf course--of prominent entertainers, athletes, political leaders, and other influential figures. A fierce love of the game connects them ...

Newton on the Tee: A Good Walk Through the Science of Golf - Paperback

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by John Zumerchik (Author)Like no other sport, golf obsesses those poor souls who hope to master its subtleties and abundant complexities. One shot is hit like a dream, the next a nightmare. As a result, the game's disciples have embraced any and all techniques endorsed by pros and hackers, poets and philosophers (these days a good walk is often spoiled by tripping over a sandtrap's worth of Zen meditations and mystical tomes). But while so many have journeyed through golf's metaphysics, no o...

Becoming Manny: Inside the Life of Baseball's Most Enigmatic Slugger - Paperback

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by Jean Rhodes (Author), Shawn Boburg (Author), Leigh Montville (Foreword by)Authorized by the twelve-time all-Star and future Hall of famer himself, and written by the nation's leading expert on youth mentoring and an award-winning investigative journalist, the incredible story behind one of the greatest baseball sluggers of all-time.Manny Ramirez is a future Hall of Fame outfielder who has played in Los Angeles, Boston, and Cleveland. He ranks 17th in career homeruns and eighth in career sl...

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by Bob Nichols (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 220 Dimensions: 0.51 x 8.96 x 6.12 I...

Novice Wild Turkey Hunting In South Carolina - Paperback

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by John C. Lee (Author)This book describes wild turkey hunting experiences in 10 South Carolina counties from 1989 through 2006. Amateur turkey hunters reveal their learning processes and some of the challenging ways of the Eastern wild turkey. Praise for Novice Wild Turkey Hunting in South Carolina "John Lee makes no claim to be a masterful or highly accomplished turkey hunter. He offers no magical calling techniques.... Instead, he lays out before his readers the steps of a magical journey,...

Miami Inverted: A Skateboarder's Retrospective - Paperback

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by Robbie Weir (Author), Willie Miller (Author) Number of Pages: 164 Dimensions: 0.38 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: October 03, 2005

Ruthless Baseball: Yankees Purified by Fire Stadium Construction - Hardcover

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by Harry Swanson (Author)This story is about endless problems and assaults against the Yankee franchise between 1919 and 1923. It involves bookmakers, racetrack owners, bootleggers, gamblers, shakedown artist, promoters, murderers, those with political clout and simply an over supply of corrupt underhanded individuals. They would and could muscle anyone that was a threat or hadn't earned the right to succeed. Some of the same individuals that frustrated the Yankee club were also actively invo...

Swim, Bike, Run, Laugh!: A Lighthearted Look at the Serious Sport of Triathlon and the Ironman Experience - Paperback

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by Dan Madson (Author)Most books written about the sport of triathlon are pretty serious-Triathlon 101, Triathlon Training for Women, or Triathlon Training on Four Hours a Week. When I began training to become a triathlete, I looked for books that related to my life situation but could find nothing like Triathlon Training for the Married, Sleep-Deprived Father of Three or How to Do an Ironman without Training at All. When I decided to write a book about the sport of triathlon and the Ironman ...

Eddie Sachs: the Clown Prince of Racing: The Life and Times of the World's Greatest Race Driver - Paperback

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by Denny Miller (Author)EDDIE SACHS--THE CLOWN PRINCE OF RACING is a thoroughly researched biography of the "self-proclaimed" World's Greatest Race Car Driver. In the books introduction, the author states that just like there will never be another Bob Hope or John Wayne or Billy Graham, there will never be another Eddie Sachs. No race driver, past or present, can match the flamboyancy, zeal and zaniness of the Clown Prince of Racing. Sachs was also a great orator who could hold audiences spel...

Pride and Poise: The Oakland Raiders of the American Football League - Hardcover

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by Jim McCullough (Author)Pride and Poise: The Oakland Raiders of The American Football League takes a definitive look into the formation and turbulent early history of the Oakland Raiders. Beginning with the hurried scramble to bring professional football to a city that couldn't provide a home for the team only to suffer through three losing seasons a combined 9-33 record with 19 consecutive losses. After plodding through three head coaches and an alarming player turn around before finding a...

Reflections on San Francisco Bay: A Kayaker's Tall Tales Volume 7: A Kayaker's Tall Tales: - Paperback

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by John Boeschen (Author)For a group of San Francisco Bay Area residents, Thursday nights are reserved for kayaking on the bay. Islands, bights, caves, and more . . . no corner of the bay and its history are left unexplored. While the tales in this volume chronicle only the paddles in 2010, they are part of a longer time flow, starting in 2000. Better than any travel guide on San Francisco Bay, these volumes capture the flavor of one of the world's most renown bodies of water.Author Biography...

Walking Softly: A Collection of Mostly Gentle Walks in Sonoma County, California - Paperback

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by Sarah Cornelius (Author)This book describes level walks along the creeks and in the parks of Sonoma County, California. The writer, Sarah Cornelius, originated The Walking Class at Santa Rosa Junior College, where it is still taught. Sarah Cornelius originated The Walking Class at Santa Rosa Junior College, California for 20 years. This book is a result of that experience. At age 70 when arthritis became a factor, it was necessary to find level places to walk. We who live in Sonoma County ...

Legends Of the Leafs: Toronto's 200 Greatest Hockey Heroes - Paperback

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by Bruce Meharg (Author)This book probably never would have been written without the owners' lockout which led to the cancelled 2004-05 season. Missing the fastest game in the world and my team, the Maple Leafs, I instead spent many cold and quiet winter nights last season wondering just who were the greatest Leaf players of all-time. What started out as a search for a method of ranking the players evolved into a need to justify the results by organizing all the biographical and statistical d...

The Last Safari: A Season of Discovery in Zimbabwe - Paperback

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by Bruce Vanbuskirk (Author)This is the true story of an American hunter, Bruce VanBuskirk, who spent the 2001 season living a dream, working on safari in Zimbabwe. Full of fascinating characters, adventure and excitement, it also deals truthfully with the hard lessons learned about the future of hunting in Africa. This is a day by day description of the events, places and people who make the safari industry work in Zimbabwe. If you're tired of reading the same old books from the professional...

The Day Commodus Killed a Rhino: Understanding the Roman Games - Paperback

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by Jerry Toner (Author)In ancient times, the Roman games--that heady cocktail of mass slaughter, gladiatorial combat, and chariot racing--made strong political, social, and cultural statements.The Roman emperor Commodus wanted to kill a rhinoceros with a bow and arrow, and he wanted to do it in the Colosseum. Commodus's passion for hunting animals was so fervent that he dreamt of shooting a tiger, an elephant, and a hippopotamus; his prowess was such that people claimed he never missed when h...

Believe: Journey from Jacksonville - Paperback

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by Ken Norton (Author), John V. Amodeo (Author), Donald Hennessey Jr. (Author)Imagine yourself transfixed into a totally strange, unfamiliar and non-controlling environment-an environment whose only sound is the constant din of a machine attached to your body. An environment so foreign with malodorous, strange smells and barren, plain blanched walls. Your once Adonis-like physique now captive to an audience not of adoring, envious fans but a steady parade of white-clad staff with whom your o...

A Football Band of Brothers: Forging the University of Washington's First National Championship - Paperback

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by W. Thomas Porter (Author)Led by Coach Jim Owens, Washington's 1959 and 1960 teams forged one of the two best records in collegiate football, back-to-back Rose Bowls victories, and the Huskies' first national championship. Number of Pages: 280 Dimensions: 0.63 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: June 29, 2007

Aquatastic: Swimming Made Simple - Paperback

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by Ronda Brodsky M. S. (Author)The basic message is to teach people how to swim while acclimating to the aquatic environment. The individual will gain and attain a high comfort level in and around the aquatic environment. Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.23 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: March 26, 2007

Managing Performance Anxiety in Tennis - Paperback

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by Andrew David Peden (Author)If you worry before matches or feel anxious and tense on court, this book will give you the psychological tools to cope and play better tennis. Number of Pages: 100 Dimensions: 0.24 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: June 25, 2007

Hbr's 10 Must Reads on Strategic Marketing (with Featured Article Marketing Myopia, by Theodore Levitt) - Paperback

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by Harvard Business Review (Author), Clayton M. Christensen (Author), Theodore Levitt (Author)Stop pushing products--and start cultivating relationships with the right customers.If you read nothing else on marketing that delivers competitive advantage, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you reinvent your marketing by putting it--and your customers--at the center of your business....

Hbr's 10 Must Reads on Collaboration (with Featured Article Social Intelligence and the Biology of Leadership, by Daniel Goleman and Richard Boyatzis) - Paperback

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by Harvard Business Review (Author), Daniel Goleman (Author), Richard E. Boyatzis (Author)Join forces with others inside and outside your organization to solve your toughest problems.If you read nothing else on collaborating effectively, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you work more productively with people on your team, in other departments, and in other organizations.Leading...

The Irish Champion Peter Maher: The Untold Story of Ireland's Only World Heavyweight Champion and the Records of the Men He Fought. - Paperback

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by Matt Donnellon (Author)The Irish Champion Peter Maher: The untold story of Ireland's only World Heavyweight Champion and the records of the men he fought. Number of Pages: 364 Dimensions: 0.75 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: July 16, 2008

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by Brian N. Watson (Author) In 1882, Kano opened his Kodokan dojo in Tokyo, where he taught jujutsu to his first class of nine students. His choice of the name 'Kodokan' symbolizes precocity in one so young and is highly significant, for it means 'the institute where one is guided along the road to follow in life', that is to say, a road that one travels as a means of self-cultivation, which Kano regarded as the optimum way to live one's life. This cultivation, however, can only be attained f...

A Damn Good Yankee: Xen Scott and the Rise of the Crimson Tide - Hardcover

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by Gregory Kordic (Author)The beginning of the University of Alabama's rise to one of the all-time winningest programs in the history of college football started with a diminuative sportswriter from Cleveland, Ohio named Xen C. Scott. In the Fall of 1919 he went south to start a seasonal job as head football coach at Alabama. During his four season tenure, he laid the foundation that would transform the school's football program from a moderately successful regional program to one of the grea...

A Damn Good Yankee: Xen Scott and the Rise of the Crimson Tide - Paperback

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by Theodore Roosevelt (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 88 Dimensions: 0.18 x 11 x 8....

Wilderness Reserves: The Yellowstone Park - Paperback

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