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by Ray Sanchez (Author)DON HASKINS is one of the greatest coaches in the history of college basketball. He won 719 games, seven conference championships and earned a trip to 14 NCAA Tournaments. His biggest feat, however, was coaching Texas Western College to a stunning 72-65 upset victory over University of Kentucky in the finals of the NCAA Tournament in 1966. His decision to start five black players against the all-white Kentucky team changed the sport forever. It disproved the theory of ...

Hockey as a Religion: The Montreal Canadiens - Paperback

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by Olivier Bauer (Author)Sport is all about play and game, aesthetic and strength, passion and emotion, challenge and rivalry. But because sometimes players and fans look for a little extra help from God, gods, spirits or any other Supreme Being, sport is also a matter of beliefs and Faith. Often, sport uses religion if the sport itself does not become a religion first. In Montreal, the fans' passion and emotion benefits the Montreal Canadiens, the oldest and the most victorious National Hock...

Rowing Tales: Anthology of Rowing Triumph and Disaster - Paperback

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by Steve Fairbairn (Contribution by), Duncan Holland (Contribution by), Boris Starling (Contribution by)Everybody has a rowing story to tell. And Rowperfect is uniquely placed to collect these stories of triumph and disaster, of friendship and adversity.Rowing has its own collection of anecdotes, and this is Rowperfect's newest project, an anthology about rowing.This book is a collection built on contributors from around the globe - old, young and from many countries. 42 people have contribut...

Unbelievable Stories of Simone Biles: Decoding Greatness For Young Readers (Awesome Biography Books for Kids Children Ages 9-12) - Hardcover

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by Tracy Nicholson (Author)Uncover the secrets of greatness behind Simone Biles' success... Learn about how she overcame obstacles to become one of the greatest gymnasts of all time!We have all seen her on TV or on the internet doing incredible flips and whatnot. But... do you know the stories behind all of her success? There are many stories that we all can relate with that has not been told much by the mass. Lighthearted, funny, cool, and even unbelievable...Within these series, you and you...

Dodge Viper: The Full Story of the World's First V10 Sports Car - Paperback

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by David Zatz (Author)Now in Paperback! The Viper stunned Americans by showing that Dodge, whose cars were all front-wheel drive (and mostly powered by four-cylinder engines), could make a raw, brutal, V10-powered car that could run with the best. Team Viper went a step further at Le Mans, proving that an American car could handle turns, too; so well that it won its class, repeatedly, at a fraction of the cost of the cars it beat. This book covers the transition from a concept to a rough and ...

Lengthen Your Line: The 5 Cs for Exceptional Performance in the Game of Life - Paperback

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by Jim A. Afremow (Author)Lengthen Your Line: The 5 C's for Exceptional Performance in the Game of Life is an innovative, psychological guide that will help you expose your self-limiting beliefs and present you with a mental toolbox for exceptional performance in any life pursuit. What does it mean to lengthen your line? Through his extensive experience working with exceptional people in all areas of life, Dr. Jim Afremow has realized that performers often have a preoccupation with their comp...

Canoeing Adventures in Northern Illinois: Apple River to Zuma Creek - Paperback

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by Bob Tyler (Author)In this book you will find descriptions of over 1500 miles on 59 rivers and creeks in Northern Illinois. You will also discover the Indian villages and early settlers and their stories. The author spent over ten years exploring these unique watersheds. From the "Mighty Mississippi" to smallest canoeable creek, it has all been covered in Canoeing Adventures in Northern Illinois. Number of Pages: 176 Dimensions: 0.32 x 11 x 8.28 IN Publication Date: April 22, 2004

The Scholastic Ice Hockey Playbook: Strategies of a high school coach - Paperback

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by Mike G. Morreale (With), Harvey Cohen (Author)The Scholastic Ice Hockey Playbook: Strategies of a high school coach offers a unique approach at dissecting the game in a way coaches, players and fans will appreciate the fundamentals of hard work while understanding the vast array of systems and formations used in today's game.Co-authors Harvey Cohen, an award-winning coach, and Mike G. Morreale, a distinguished scholastic sports writer in New Jersey, guide readers through the B.E.S.T. appro...

Secrets from a Golf Pro: A to Z - Paperback

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by Barry Clayton (Author)From PGA Class A professional golfer Barry Clayton comes a useful and easy-to-understand golf instruction guide perfect for amateurs and the seasoned professional. Brimming with invaluable tips and advice, Secrets from a Golf Pro: A to Z is the ideal tool to help you improve your game. Drawing on his extensive experience golfing with the PGA and teaching the game, Clayton offers a unique way to fix your golfing faults. Based on a cause and effect system, this guide in...

Out of the Blue: The story of the Anaheim Angels' improbable run to the 2002 World Series title - Paperback

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by Joe Haakenson (Author)Out of the Blue is the story of the 2002 World Series champion Anaheim Angels, chronicling the championship season while reflecting on the franchise's star-crossed history, starting with original owner Gene Autry's acquisition of the club in 1961. Out of the Blue includes profiles of certain players, like shortstop David Eckstein, first baseman Scott Spiezio and right fielder Tim Salmon. Included is a profile of manager Mike Scioscia, who put into practice the club's ...

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by Tim L. Lewis (Author)The pages of this book have captured, distilled, and illuminated the wonders of the wild lands and the whitetails that haunt them, the other creatures that render the swamps magical and intriguing, and the quiet thump of a bow and hiss of an arrow. Midnight black raccoons, ghost-like piebalds, silent bobcats, antlered monarchs, charging hogs, moonlight adventures all add to the spice and excitement. Any aficionado of nature or whitetail deer, any sportsman or hunter, a...

Lightweight Camping for Motorcycle Travel - Paperback

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by Frazier Douglass (Author)Frazier Douglass has camped with a motorcycle for over ten years and quickly learned that it's an inexpensive way to travel. Increasing gasoline prices now make motorcycle-camping a viable vacation option for an increasing number of people. It's easy to experience nature, travel and camp comfortably in state, national or private campgrounds. Douglass shares his tips on camping gear, including sleeping bags, sleeping pads, kitchen supplies, cooking and many other it...

Pirate Odyssey, A 75 Year History of East Carolina Football Volume I: The Early Years: 1932-1969 - Paperback

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by William M. Ritenour (Author)Where it's a first down Pirates Few moments capture the passion of East Carolinians more than when these words are pronounced on football Saturdays at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium. The thrill of watching the Pirates play amidst a sea of purple is an experience near to heaven in a place called Pirate Country. The chill of autumn air, the taste of Down East BBQ, the sound of Purple Haze, the smell of cannon smoke and the sight of the Jolly Roger hoisted high after an EC...

Lessons with the Master: 279 Shotokan Karate Lessons with Master Hirokazu Kanazawa - Paperback

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by Paul A. Walker (Author)A detailed and unique training resource, Lessons with the Master is a meticulous account of the teaching methods and lesson strategies of world-famous karate master Hirokazu Kanazawa, chief instructor and president of the Shotokan Karate International Federation of Japan. Author and karate instructor Paul Walker spent three years studying karate under the direct guidance of Master Kanazawa and his expert instructors and has now compiled his diary entries of those yea...

Personal Best: Chasing the Wind Above and Below the Equator - Paperback

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by Edward Muesch (Author)Personal Best: Chasing the Wind Above and Below the Equator is more than a sailing adventure. It's the story of one man's drive to realize his dream. Finally it is time for his dream to be realized. Ed and his wife will sail around the world. Sail with them as they experience the wonders, triumphs, and difficulties of living their dream. Storms, breakdowns, personal loss, and a miraculous escape from drowning in the 2004 Tsunami in Thailand serve as the backdrop to se...

The Fisherman's Prayer: Stories, Poems, and Prayers from the Olympic Peninsula - Paperback

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by Pat Neal (Author)Pat Neal has a problem. It's not gambling, drinking, or sex. His addiction comes in the form of the salmon and steelhead that swim in the rainforest rivers of the Olympic Peninsula. As a child, he was diagnosed with a severe case of fishing attention deficit disorder (FADD), a disease that plagues him to this day. Of his fellow fishing enthusiasts, Neal notes: "People with fishing problems may spend inordinate amounts of time talking about their disease, even if they do s...

The Ancient Taiji Art of Lazhu Fangfa: The Candle Method of Taiji - Paperback

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by Willard J. Lamb (Author)The best of Chinese martial artists fear an expert of Taiji Chuan. In English, Taiji Chuan means "grand ultimate fist." Tales of ancient masters developing this incredible force are legendary. Those who become well versed in the Yang style of Taiji, noted for its use of Lazhu Fangfa, are among the most renowned and feared martial artists in the world. In The Ancient Taiji Art of Lazhu Fangfa, Willard J. Lamb, a fifty-year student of martial arts, unveils the complex...

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by Dragan Vujic (Author)A comprehensive book on hunting whitetails with a bow. Loaded with information, this book has something for everyone from novice to veteran. Topics include selecting the right bow, gaining familiarity with whitetails, learning what drives whitetails, kill zones on a whitetail, styles of hunting, trailing and recovering whitetails, effective strategies and tactics, and how to hunt and harvest a nocturnal buck during legal shooting hours. Over forty pictures are included...

Dawn of a Dynasty: The Incredible and Improbable Story of the 1947 New York Yankees - Hardcover

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by Frank Strauss (Author)At the start of the 1947 baseball season, reporters projected the Boston Red Sox would repeat as American League champions. The New York Yankees were picked to finish no higher than third place. The reporters were wrong. The Yankees were a veteran team as Joe DiMaggio, Phil Rizzuto, Tommy Henrich, and Charlie Keller returned from World War II military service. It was also a team that introduced New York fans to rookies Yogi Berra, Bobby Brown, and Frank Shea. The team...

Top Speed: Dodge and Plymouth Stock Car Racing - Paperback

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by Frank Moriarty (Author)"The Chrysler engineers went through every combination that was possible. Whether it was different springs, different shocks, different sway bars, different weights.They had a book, it must have been about a two-by-three foot book It was a heck of an engineering force." -Richard Petty Seven-time NASCAR champion Winner of 200 Grand National/Winston Cup races Across decades of thrilling competition, many of NASCAR's greatest drivers-from Marvin Panch to Jim Paschal, R...

Growing Up with Harry: Stories of Character - Hardcover

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by Sherman Baldwin (Author)"What would Harry do?" is a question author Sherman Baldwin asks himself when faced with a difficult decision. Henry "Harry" deForest Baldwin is his father who died in 1997 at the age of sixty-six after a battle with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. Harry was a man of character. This personal memoir captures that character and the strong values Harry exhibited to his family and friends during his lifetime. Harry lived by the credos ...

Ireland's Professional Amateurs: A Sports Season at Its Purest - Paperback

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by Andy Mendlowitz (Author)When American sportswriter Andy Mendlowitz took a summer vacation to Ireland, his itinerary included visiting medieval castles and drinking dark beer. He soon discovered a world where big-time sports aren't yet a business, but still a game. Ireland's rough-and-tumble pastimes of hurling and Gaelic football attract crowds of up to 80,000 fans a contest. The high-profile players, though, are amateurs. They train as professionals but must work fulltime jobs to pay the ...

The Original Mr. Met Remembers: When the Miracle Began - Hardcover

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by Dan Reilly (Author)In 1964, Dan Reilly landed the dream job of every New York Mets fan. Pulled from his humble position in Shea Stadium's ticket office to become the Mets' mascot-and Major League Baseball's first official mascot-Reilly donned the baseball-shaped, papier-m ch head of Mr. Met and began a career rubbing elbows with some of the game's most illustrious players. The Original Mr. Met Remembers is packed with never-before-told anecdotes, detailed team history, and intimate glimps...

Mickey Mantle: Rookie in Pinstripes - Hardcover

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by Fred Glueckstein (Author)Major League Baseball's Opening Day, 1951. Nineteen-year-old Mickey Mantle puts on the New York Yankees' famous white pinstriped uniform. His stomach roils. Sweat beads his brow. Today is his first major league game in front of a near-capacity crowd at Yankee Stadium, and there is one man Mickey doesn't want to disappoint above all others: his father. Mickey Mantle: Rookie in Pinstripes is the uplifting true story of how a painfully shy teenager from rural Commerce...

The NBA From Top to Bottom: A History of the NBA, From the No. 1 Team Through No. 1,153 - Paperback

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by Kyle Wright (Author)What NBA team was the greatest ever? For basketball fans, that question can lead to widespread debate. Sports journalist and basketball enthusiast Kyle Wright has created a new and unique computer formula to rank every team in NBA history. Coining it as the POST formula, Wright assigns ratings to all NBA teams based on how they stack up to other comparable teams during any year-from the number of wins and losses to points scored and points allowed. The result is a compl...

The Hagakure: Yamamoto Tsunetomo - Hardcover

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by Yamamoto Tsunetomo Tsuneto D. E. Tarver (Author)Everything about what it means to be a warrior can be found within the pages of this book, and it s just as relevant today as the day it was written. Words like sacrifice, integrity, and honor are more then just words to us; they are a mantra that sends shivers down our spines. It is this spirit of heart and calling that makes some rush to enlist during times of trouble while others burn draft cards and run for the border. Number of Pages: 13...

Hike/Bike America: Hike the Appalachian Trail End-to-End Bike Across America Coast-to-Coast - Hardcover

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by Paul Wittreich (Author)Two journal tales of travel: one taking you by foot on the whole Appalachian Trail plus The Long Trail in Vermont; then a venture of pedaling across mid America coast to coast on a two wheeler. Number of Pages: 320 Dimensions: 0.88 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 13, 2002

The Bogeyman: Stalking and Its Aftermath - Hardcover

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by Sherry L. Meinberg (Author) Number of Pages: 316 Dimensions: 1 x 8.72 x 7.02 IN Publication Date: February 24, 2003

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by David Paul Miller (Author)The story of the physical and spiritual development of a Catholic High School boy with his two brothers, two girlfriends, teachers and buddies. Number of Pages: 112 Dimensions: 0.55 x 9.38 x 6.4 IN Publication Date: March 25, 2003

Black Genesis: The History of the Black Prizefighter 1760-1870 - Hardcover

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by Kevin R. Smith (Author)Black Genesis: The History of the Black Prizefighter 1760-1870 chronicles the saga of the black prizefighter from the birth of the modern ring through the conclusion of the bare-knuckle era. A series of historical biographies, gleaned from hundreds of primary sources, Black Genesis tells a story seldom told, adding a chapter to black history, as well as the annals of boxing, that has largely been ignored for the better part of two centuries. From the black Frenchmen ...

Soccer is a Thinking Game: A Simple Approach to Coaching Youth Soccer (Ages 5-12) - Paperback

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by Darren McKnight (Author), Radovan Pletka (Author)"I wish that this book had been published several years ago when I was assistant coaching my daughter's team. It has a wealth of useful insights for both the nonsoccer coach as well as the seasoned one." -Katy Hwostow, recreational soccer player turned soccer mom, Centreville, Virginia Now you can take your coaching-and your team-to the next level with this innovative and down-to-earth approach to coaching youth soccer. Most soccer coaching ...

Pirate Odyssey, A 75 Year History of East Carolina Football Volume 2: The Modern Era: 1970-2007 - Paperback

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by William M. Ritenour (Author)The culmination of 75 years of East Carolina football is now in your grasp Within lies a treasure trove of many heroes. Led by coaching greats Randle and Dye, legends such as Kepley and Green thrilled Pirate fans during the glory days of yesteryear. Afterwards, Coach Emory came along to lead the Pirates to a top twenty ranking in 1983. Coach Lewis then took the Pirates to unprecedented heights. The names of Blake, Jones, and the rest shall be long remembered fo...