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The Perfect Season: How Penn State Came to Stop a Hurricane and Win a National Football Championship - Paperback

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by M. G. Missanelli (Author)The 1987 NCAA championship game between the Penn State Nittany Lions and the University of Miami Hurricanes is often considered the most memorable championship game in all of college football history. Both teams were undefeated going into the game, but the Hurricanes were heavily favored, as they had demolished each of their opponents during the regular season. On January 2, 1987, Penn State pulled off one of the most surprising upsets in college football by handin...

American Baseball: From the Commissioners to Continental Expansion - Paperback

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by David Quentin Voigt (Author)Organized baseball from the establishment of the National Commission in 1903 to the period of national expansion in the 1950s and 1960s--buffeted by the winds of two world wars and a Great Depression--is chronicled here in colorful detail.The glories of the Silver Age--Ty Cobb's record-setting, Ed Walsh's pitching innovations, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance fielding orchestration--might have been eclipsed by World War I and the 1919 "Black Sox" scandal. Instead, the ...

American Baseball: From Postwar Expansion to the Electronic Age - Paperback

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by David Quentin Voigt (Author)The National Pastime has made big news and big money since its Silver Age (1900-1920), but what old-timer would have dreamed of TV networks bidding tens of millions for camera time, of baseballers getting paid like movie stars, or of all concerned--players, managers, owners, even umpires--having their lives exposed in intimate detail by keyhole journalists? So far the great American game has survived media hype, as this book shows, with the same vitality that br...

The Estuary's Gift: An Atlantic Coast Cultural Biography - Paperback

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by David Griffith (Author)A coastal region's oldest inhabitants, particularly families of watermen and commercial fishers, often possess the deepest knowledge about a region and its ecological problems. Because of this, assaults on watermen lifeways and commercial fishing families--whether from organized recreational interests, real estate developers, or public policy makers--reduce the cultural and biological diversity of the coast and often upset the delicate environmental balance. Through ...

Pioneer Life; or, Thirty Years a Hunter: Being Scenes and Adventures in the Life of Philip Tome - Paperback

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by Philip Tome (Author)Originally published in 1854. Memoirs and observations of Philip Tome, an early Pennsylvania pioneer, adventurer, and hunter who served as an interpreter for two of the Seneca Nation's most important chiefs, Cornplanter and Governor Blacksnake. Includes a preface by folklorist Henry Shoemaker.Author BiographyPhilip Tome (1782-1855) was a renowned hunter, adventurer, and early settler in north-central Pennsylvania who served as an interpreter for the Seneca chiefs Cornpl...

Becoming Centaur: Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship - Paperback

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by Monica Mattfeld (Author)Explores the history of horse-human relationships over the long eighteenth century, and how these relationships in turn influenced performances of gender. Examines the agential influence of horses in their riders' lives, horses on stage and the early circus, and the politicization of human-animal being. Author BiographyMonica Mattfeld is Assistant Professor of English and History at the University of Northern British Columbia and coeditor of Performing Animals, also...

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by Lauren Christenson (Author), Micah Sapaugh (Illustrator)Based on a true story in Texas in the fall of 2021, the Eagles found themselves in the last play of the game in overtime against a rival team competing to go to the state championship. With the game on the line, the coaches and players dug deep on a last chance gamble to finish the game with a trick play. Will they succeed and get their chance to play on the biggest stage of Texas 3A High School football? Lauren Christenson has been a...

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by Rony Kessler (Author)Rachel, the heroine introduced in the "The Mysterious Animal Soup and Rachel's Gifts," returns in this story of suspense taking place at the US Tennis Open Junior competition, where her young brother Johnnie is competing. After a bombing in a facility where Johnnie and his two friends are playing, the Leo Glick family is faced with life and death decisions, and the need to solve the mystery of who is threatening Johnnie's life. Rony Kessler's story involves not only m...

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by Jim Garlock (Author), Sam Radding (Author)GOLD, did you ever wish you could find gold without using a pile full of heavy and expensive equipment? Can a person jump into the water and pick up lots of gold? Well some people do just that, and what they do is called SNIPING. This style of mining is one of the best-kept secrets along many gold-bearing rivers. The equipment is simple and inexpensive, but the rewards can be great, in both the doing and finding. Jump in knowing you have a head sta...

Pickleball Pointers: A Player's Guide to Improving Your Skills - Paperback

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by Ronald Elbe (Author), Ron Elbe (Author)Pickleball Pointers doesn't attempt to provide step-by-step directions on how to play pickleball. Rather, it addresses a wide variety of key mistakes, problems, issues, and shortcomings that are common o many players at all levels. Pickleball Pointers provides unique, advanced insights into solutions for those mistakes, problems, issues, and shortcomings. Topics discussed in detail in Pickleball Pointers include the game itself, equipment for pickleba...

Coaching Middle School Cross Country and Track & Field: Practical Guidance and Sample Workouts for Beginner Coaches - Paperback

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by Timothy Rayle (Author)In Coaching Middle School Cross Country and Track & Field, Practical Guidance and Sample Workouts for Beginner Coaches, author and coach Timothy Rayle focuses on helping coaches new to the sports navigate with administrative guidance and sample workout plans for successful coaching at the middle school level. The thorough yet simple presentation provides coaches helpful information to be utilized starting from the first day on the job through the end of the season...

Thank God for Football!: The Illustrated Companion - Paperback

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by Peter Lupson (Author)The original Thank God for Football! was published to great acclaim in 2006. This new edition, with abbreviated text, contains almost 120 illustrations. It gathers together a huge number of rare images of founders, founding churches and early teams. It includes contemporary photographs of streets where players lived, pubs in which they socialized and churches where they gathered. Furthermore, it offers images reflecting the impact of Thank God for Football!: the restor...

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by David Alloway (Author)Remote desert locations, including the Chihuahuan Desert of northern Mexico, southern Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, draw adventurers of all kinds, from the highly skilled and well prepared to urban cowboys who couldn't lead themselves (much less a horse!) to water. David Alloway's goal in this book is to help all of them survive when circumstances beyond their control strand them in the desert environment. In simple, friendly language, enlivened with humor and stori...

A Guide to Golf - How to get out of your own way - Paperback

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by Sam Hale (Author)PGA Professional Sam Hale writes a Guide to Golf; Low on fluff and complex instruction, this guide intends to give the average golfer precisely what they need to swing a golf club successfully, no more, no less.You will learn to: Break mental blocks and practice mental skills Hit a golf ball better than you ever have Learn from the pros and apply it to your own game Develop Consistency Improve from the living room Transfer from the Driving Range to the golf course Navigat...

A Cooper Tails Book: My First Snow - Paperback

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by B. K. Sterling (Author), Judy Weber (Cover Design by), Judy Weber (Illustrator)This is Cooper's second Tale in a series of Cooper Tails Books. Imagine Cooper's shock waking up one morning and seeing snow for the first time. Follow Cooper's adventure through the snow with his barnyard siblings and riding a snowmobile for the first time. Number of Pages: 24 Dimensions: 0.07 x 8.5 x 8.5 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: July 19, 2019

The Hidden History of Capoeira: A Collision of Cultures in the Brazilian Battle Dance - Paperback

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by Maya Talmon-Chvaicer (Author)Capoeira, a Brazilian battle dance and national sport, has become popular all over the world. First brought to Brazil by African slaves and first documented in the late eighteenth century, capoeira has undergone many transformations as it has diffused throughout Brazilian society and beyond, taking on a multiplicity of meanings for those who participate in it and for the societies in which it is practiced. In this book, Maya Talmon-Chvaicer combines cultural hi...

Playing While White: Privilege and Power on and off the Field - Hardcover

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by David J. Leonard (Author)Playing While White argues that whiteness matters in sports culture, both on and off the field. Offering critical analysis of athletic stars such as Johnny Manziel, Marshall Henderson, Jordan Spieth, Lance Armstrong, Josh Hamilton, as well as the predominantly white cultures of NASCAR and extreme sports, David Leonard identifies how whiteness is central to the commodification of athletes and the sports they play.Leonard demonstrates that sporting cultures are a key...

Ready All! George Yeoman Pocock and Crew Racing - Hardcover

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by Gordon Newell (Author), Dick Erickson (Foreword by)In the 1920s, an upstart West Coast college began to challenge the Eastern universities in the ancient sport of crew racing. Sportswriters scoffed at the "crude western boats" and their crews. But for the next forty years, the University of Washington dominated rowing around the world. The secret of the Huskies' success was George Pocock, a soft-spoken English immigrant raised on the banks of the Thames. Pocock combined perfectionism with ...

Walking Trails of Eastern and Central Wisconsin - Paperback

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by Robert F. Crawford (Author)The sheer physical beauty and varied landscapes of eastern and central Wisconsin are best experienced on its walking trails. Walking Trails of Eastern and Central Wisconsin is a handy guide to trails that wind through the streets of old Milwaukee and the forests of the Kettle Moraine, across the Niagara Escarpment, along the shores of picturesque Door County, or up the sandstone mound at Lone Rock for a panoramic view of flatlands that once were the bed of glacia...

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by Richard L. Yatzeck (Author)Hunting the Edges offers both fine and funny examples of the classic hunting story, and something more: an acknowledgment of that edge between the cycles of modern life and the age-old seasonal call of the hunt. Dick Yatzeck's tales of hunting and fishing through his youth and adulthood will resonate with many readers who also leave behind a job and house in town for boots and camouflage and the wild cries of geese.Author BiographyRichard L. Yatzeck lives in Bear...

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by Elizabeth D. Hailman (Author)Six deaths mar the holiday mood as summer vacationers enjoy Wisconsin s beautiful Door County peninsula. Murders, or bizarre accidents? Newly hired park ranger Dave Cubiak, a former Chicago homicide detective, assumes the worst but refuses to get involved. Grief-stricken and guilt-ridden over the loss of his wife and daughter, he s had enough of death. Forced to confront the past, the morose Cubiak moves beyond his own heartache and starts investigating, even a...

Summer Up North: Henry Aaron and the Legend of Eau Claire Baseball - Paperback

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by Jerry Poling (Author), N. N. Glatzer (Contribution by)June 12, 1952--only a local sportswriter showed up at the Eau Claire airport to greet a newly signed eighteen-year-old shortstop from Alabama toting a cardboard suitcase. "I was scared as hell," said Henry Aaron, recalling his arrival as the new recruit on the city's Class C minor league baseball team.Forty-two years later, as Aaron approached the stadium where the Eau Claire Bears once played, an estimated five thousand people surround...

Net Results: Great Fishing Spots in Southern Wisconsin - Paperback

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by Bob Riepenhoff (Author)This is your guide to cooking wildfoods that you can hunt, fish, or forage--or buy from a growing number of wildfoods vendors--in the Upper Midwest. You'll savor treasured recipes like Rabbit Pie, Venison Stew, Orange Pheasant, Morel Mushroom Scramble, and Cathy's Plum Lake Bluegill. You'll also discover a wealth of dishes reflecting the region's ethnic riches--from Hassenpfeffer to savory Pierogies with Oyster Mushrooms, from flaky-crusted Goose Tortiere to Catfish ...

Lords of the Ring: The Triumph and Tragedy of College Boxing's Greatest Team - Paperback

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by Doug Moe (Author) Lords of the Ring revives the exciting era-now largely forgotten-when college boxing attracted huge crowds and flashy headlines, outdrawing the professional bouts. On the same night in 1940 when Joe Louis defended his heavyweight crown before 11,000 fans in New York's Madison Square Garden, collegiate boxers battled before 15,000 fans in Madison . . . Wisconsin. Under legendary and beloved coach John Walsh, the most successful coach in the history of American collegiate b...

Wisconsin Where They Row: A History of Varsity Rowing - Paperback

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by Bradley F. Taylor (Author)Wisconsin Where They Row is the definitive history of rowing at the University of Wisconsin. Although this oldest of intercollegiate sports had its American beginnings in 1852 as a contest among Ivy League men, it would soon have to make room for the stubborn steadfastness of Wisconsin's athletes. Author Brad Taylor captures the unique character of Wisconsin crew and its athletes in this meticulously researched and abundantly illustrated book. Taylor recounts rowi...

Ready All! George Yeoman Pocock and Crew Racing - Paperback

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Crossing the Driftless: A Canoe Trip Through a Midwestern Landscape - Paperback

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by Lynne Diebel (Author)The Driftless Area is the land the glaciers missed, an ancient landscape of bluffs, ridgetops, and steep valleys that long ago was a seabed. Covering much of southwestern Wisconsin, its contours were deeply carved from bedrock, not by ice but by many rivers. Crossing the Driftless is both a traveler's tale and an exploration of this dramatic environment, following the streams of geologic and human history. Lynne Diebel and her husband, Bob, crossed the Driftless Area ...

The Kings and Their Hawks: Falconry in Medieval England - Hardcover

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by Robin S. Oggins (Author)In medieval Europe, falconry was perhaps the most popular form of hunting among the aristocracy. Owning a falcon, and the necessary falconer to go with it, was a status symbol throughout the middle ages. This book is the first broad history of English royal falconry in medieval times, a book that draws on forty years of research to provide a full description of the actual practice and conditions of the sport and of the role of falconers in the English royal househol...

Climber's Guide to Devil's Lake - Paperback

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by Sven Olof Swartling (Author)Devil's Lake State Park in Wisconsin is the most popular rock-climbing area in the Midwest. It features spectacular cliffs and other rock formations where the Ice Age glacier's terminal moraine meets an ancient landscape of rock. This third edition of the popular Climber's Guide to Devil's Lake has been thoroughly updated for twenty-first-century climbers and hikers and includes information for use with GPS receivers. It provides information for climbers of all ...

History of Badger Baseball: The Rise and Fall of America's Pastime at the University of Wisconsin - Hardcover

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by Steven D. Schmitt (Author)From 2001 to 2006, Richard L. Cates Jr. interviewed senior members of more than 30 families living in and around Arena township, a small community in southern Wisconsin. He asked them about growing up in rural America and their connection to a way of life that is vanishing in the twenty-first century.The result, Voices from the Heart of the Land, is a collection of reminiscences, observations, and opinions celebrating the stewardship of the land and the values of ...

Grouse Hunter's Almanac: The Other Kind of Hunting - Paperback

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by Mark Parman (Author)Like that earlier grouse hunter Aldo Leopold, Mark Parman takes to the woods when the aspens are smoky gold. Here, in an evocative almanac that chronicles the early season of the grouse hunt through its end in the snows of January, Parman follows his dog through the changing trees and foliage, thrills to the sudden flush of beating wings, and holds a bird in hand, thankful for the meal it will provide. Distilling twenty seasons of grouse hunting into these essays, he wr...