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The Longest Shot: Lil E. Tee and Kentucky Derby - Paperback

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by John Eisenberg (Author)" On the first Saturday in May every year in Louisville, Kentucky, shortly after 5:30 PM, a new horse attains racing immortality. The Kentucky Derby is like no other race, and its winners are the finest horses in the world. Covered in rich red roses, surrounded by flashing cameras and admiring crowds, these instant celebrities bear names like Citation, Secretariat, Spectacular Bid, and Seattle Slew. They're worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. But in 1992, a funny...

Sidelined: How American Sports Challenged the Black Freedom Struggle - Hardcover

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by Simon Henderson (Author)In 1968, noted sociologist Harry Edwards established the Olympic Project for Human Rights, calling for a boycott of that year's games in Mexico City as a demonstration against racial discrimination in the United States and around the world. Though the boycott never materialized, Edwards's ideas struck a chord with athletes and incited African American Olympians Tommie Smith and John Carlos to protest by raising their black-gloved fists on the podium after receiving ...

The 1937 Newark Bears: A Baseball Legend - Paperback

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by Ronald a. Mayer (Author)Here is the fascinating account, rich in nostalgia, of the greatest minor league team in the history of baseball. Ronald Mayer recounts the wonderful early years of the Newark Bears when millionaire beer baron Jacob Ruppert, owner of the New York Yankees, purchased the team from the newspaper publisher Paul Block in 1931. Mayer traces the Bears' exciting first five seasons under Ruppert and the building of a farm system that eventually produced the great Yankee dyna...

Heroes and Horses: Tales of the Bluegrass - Paperback

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by Philip Ardery (Author)War hero. Lawyer. U.S. Senate candidate. Horse lover. Farm boy. Fundraiser. To this impressive list add one more role ably filled by Philip Ardery: master storyteller. Heroes and Horses presents a series of delightful vignettes evoking a way of life almost beyond recall. Bourbon County, the touchstone for Ardery's life, is the center that holds together the tales in the collection. Stories about Ardery's family home, "Rocclicgan," boyhood activities on the farm, and t...

The Last Good Water: Prose and Poetry, 1988-2003 - Paperback

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by Michael Delp (Author)Michael Delp conjures with his writing the intense pull of nature on Michiganders and he allows the reader to discover--or rediscover--the marvels of life and sport amidst the Great Lakes. This collection of new work, along with some of Delp's important earlier work, will inspire anyone with a fondness for water, fishing, and Michigan's great outdoors. Delp's writing is richly nuanced and sharply imaged with an authenticity that comes only from someone native to such ...

Public Dollars, Private Stadiums: The Battle Over Building Sports Stadiums - Paperback

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by Kevin J. Delaney (Author), Rick Eckstein (Author)The authors provide an eye-opening account of recent battles over publicly financed stadiums in some of America's largest cities. Their interviews with the key decision makers present a behind-the-scenes look at how and why powerful individuals and organizations foist these sports palaces on increasingly unreceptive communities. Delaney and Eckstein show that in the face of studies demonstrating that new sports facilities don't live up to t...

Ohio State Athletics, 1879-1959 - Paperback

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by James E. Pollard (Author)Ohio State Athletics, 1879-1959 represents the first archival project devoted to describing the history of The Ohio State University's athletic program, including the growth of athletics at OSU and the achievements of some of the many athletes who played for Ohio State in those early years. The work was undertaken by James E. Pollard, who, in 1959, continued the work of The Ohio State University Development Fund, the Alumni Varsity "O" Association, and early Athlet...

The Greatest Ballpark Ever: Ebbets Field and the Story of the Brooklyn Dodgers - Paperback

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by Bob McGee (Author)Generations after its demise, Ebbets Field remains the single most colorful and enduring image of a baseball park, with a treasured niche in the game's legacy and the American imagination. In this lively story of sports, politics, and the talented, hilarious, and charming characters associated with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Bob McGee chronicles the ballpark's vibrant history from the drawing board to the wrecking ball, beginning with Charley Ebbets and the heralded opening i...

Fashioning Celebrity: Eighteenth-Century British Actresses and Strategies for Image Making - Paperback

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by Laura Engel (Author)This volume takes a new approach to the study of late eighteenth-century British actresses by examining the significance of leading actresses' autobiographical memoirs, portraits, and theatrical roles together as significant strategies for shaping their careers. In an era when acting was considered a suspicious profession for women, eighteenth-century actresses were "celebrities" in a society obsessed with fashion, gossip, and intrigue. Fashioning Celebrity: Eighteenth-...

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by Lucy D. Rosenfeld (Author), Marina Harrison (Author)New Jersey has a varied and fascinating history-from its earliest Native American settlements, through its central role in the Revolutionary War, to its strategic position in the major events of our country's past. In History Walks in New Jersey, Lucy D. Rosenfeld and Marina Harrison treat readers to a comprehensive statewide guidebook that includes detailed information on forty-eight of the best sites for historical walks. These outings ...

12 Boxing Principles of Success: Train Like A Fighter, Think Like A Champion - Hardcover

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by Kieran Ekeledo (Author)Unlock the door to better physical and mental health through boxing In 12 boxing principles of success, Kieran Ekeledo examines the habits, rituals and routines that have led to the boxing elites becoming champions of boxing and champions of life. Kieran has over 10 years' experience in boxing and has worked with some of the leading brands in the fitness industry including The National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM), David Lloyd Leisure and Orange Theory Fitness.K...

The Big Onion Guide to Brooklyn: Ten Historic Walking Tours - Paperback

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by Seth I. Kamil (Author), Eric Wakin (Author), Kevin Baker (Foreword by)The Big Onion Guide to Brooklyn is an entertaining and informative walking guide to the historic people and places of Brooklyn. Ten fascinating, fact-filled walks are featured, inviting the reader to take an intimate tour through Brooklyn's important historic sites, neighborhoods, cultural institutions, and shops.From the iconic brownstones of Brooklyn Heights to the famous piers on Coney Island, this book covers all of ...

Squash Racquets: The Khan Game (Revised) - Paperback

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by Hashim Khan (Author), Richard E. Randall (Author), Arthur B. Sonneborn (Foreword by)Hashim Khan, the legendary squash rackets player, established a record of victories that has no parallel in the game. This book is his story. The style may startle the reader at first. Hashim never learned to write English, or even speak it in the textbook fashion. So he "talked" the book in a great number of sessions, in the court and out of it, with Richard E. Randall, one of his students and a professio...

Women of Steel: Female Bodybuilders and the Struggle for Self-Definition - Paperback

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by Maria R. Lowe (Author)A lot of people in the general public think female bodybuilding is gross and freaky . . . that that's not what a woman is supposed to look like. So says Michelle, a national bodybuilding judge. In fact, athletic women, especially those in sports where strength, muscle, and sweat feature prominently, are typically viewed by the public as being outside the boundaries of appropriate femininity. And perhaps no group of women athletes embodies this gender outlaw status mor...

Bathed in Blood: Hunting and Mastery in the Old South - Paperback

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by Nicolas W. Proctor (Author)The hunt, like the church, courthouse, and family, played an integral role in southern society and culture during the antebellum era. Regardless of color or class, southern men hunted. Although hunters always recognized the tangible gains of their mission--meat, hides, furs--they also used the hunt to communicate ideas of gender, race, class, masculinity, and community. Hunting was very much a social activity, and for many white hunters it became a drama in which...

Cobb Would Have Caught It: The Golden Age of Baseball in Detroit - Paperback

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by Richard Bak (Author)The period from 1920 through the early post-World War II years remains the greatest in the long history of the Detroit Tigers Baseball Club. Between 1920 and 1950 the club won four pennants and two World Series, placed second seven times, and regularly fielded exciting, competitive teams. Richard Bak spent ten years recording the life stories of nearly two dozen Tigers players from Detroit's "golden age." There was no pattern to how life had treated them since their pl...

Under the Influence of Water: Poems, Essays, and Stories - Paperback

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by Michael Delp (Author)Although the theme is fly fishing, this book is really about the more esoteric, spiritual aspects of fishing. Through his poetry, essays, and short fiction, Delp writes about being haunted by fishing, about being taken over, literally, by the desire to fish and spend time alone on trout streams. He describes the experience as "a pause, a deep breath in the crush of living. It seems incredibly simple, yet trout fishing illuminates an inner life, asks the mind and body t...

A Place for Summer: A Narrative History of Tiger Stadium - Hardcover

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by Richard Bak (Author)On April 28, 1896, baseball fans traveled in horse-drawn buggies to watch the Detroit Tigers play their first baseball game at the site on the corner of Michigan and Trumbull Avenues. Starting out as Bennett Park, a wooden facility with trees growing in the outfield, Tiger Stadium has played a central role in the lives of millions of Detroiters and their families for more than a century. During the last century, millions of fans have come to Michigan and Trumbull to wa...

Golf and the Game of Leadership: An 18-Hole Guide for Success in Business and in Life - Paperback

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by Donald E. McHugh (Author)Golf and the Game of Leadership shows how qualities like focus, consistency, confidence, and "playing by the rules" all apply to the way you perform in the professional realm.Assuming you're not Tiger Woods or Annika Sorenstam, chances are your golf-playing (or watching) time is interrupted on a regular basis by the demands of your work. But the approach you use on the links translates surprisingly well to the office and the boardroom. Don McHugh, whose management ...

Faithful to Fenway: Believing in Boston, Baseball, and Americaas Most Beloved Ballpark - Paperback

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by Michael Ian Borer (Author)Read the review at MLB.comThe Green Monster. Pesky's Pole. The Lone Red Seat. Yawkey Way. To baseball fans this list of bizarre phrases evokes only one place: Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox. Built in 1912, Fenway Park is Americas oldest major league ballpark still in use. In Faithful to Fenway, Michael Ian Borer takes us out to Fenway where we sit in cramped wooden seats (often with obstructed views of the playing field), where there is a hand-operated sc...

Unpacking Depth Sport Psychology: Case Studies in the Unconscious - Paperback

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by Tom Ferraro (Author)This book utilizes a wealth of case studies to demonstrate the importance of using depth sport psychology to explore and understand athletes' unconscious feelings and fears, and provides the knowledge needed to help athletes deal with pressures faced throughout their sporting career.Applying the theories of Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, Carl Jung, Margaret Mahler, Melanie Klein, Heinz Kohut, Donald Winnicott, and Christopher Bollas to explain the dynamics within the athl...

A Sailor's Logbook: A Season Aboard Great Lakes Freighters - Paperback

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by Mark L. Thompson (Author)In this firsthand account of life aboard the ships of the Great Lakes, Mark Thompson weaves together the threads of a story that relives a centuries-old tradition. Thompson began his logbook after he reported for duty aboard the Calcite II at Fraser Shipyard in Superior, Wisconsin, for the 1996 shipping season. A Sailor's Logbook is the first such book to chronicle a sailor's life at the end of the twentieth century. Not just a detailing of weather, cargo, and crew...

First in Thirst: How Gatorade Turned the Science of Sweat Into a Cultural Phenomenon - Paperback

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by Darren Rovell (Author)Gatorade is an enthralling story, brought to life in bright color and sharp detail in this book as journalist and author Darren Rovell chronicles every astonishing milestone of the company's history.With unprecedented access to the inventors, the marketers, the analysts and observers, and key company figures past and present, Rovell recounts the sweat-drenched University of Florida football practices, the first (unpalatable) prototypes, and the commercial and financia...

River of Mountains: A Canoe Journey Down the Hudson - Paperback

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by Peter Lourie (Author)Lourie completed his trip. It took him three weeks and marked the first time anyone has traveled from the source of the Hudson to the mouth in a single vessel. The Hudson proved to be a very changeable river. It includes seven locks and nine power dams. The northern half is a true river with strong current, but the lower half is tidal, a sunken river from the days of glaciers. In its first 165 miles, it drops more than 4,000 feet to Albany. The second half falls no mor...

The Brooklyn Cyclones: Hardball Dreams and the New Coney Island - Hardcover

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by Ben Osborne (Author)When professional baseball returned to Brooklyn in 2001, fans were jubilant and the media swarmed. After losing the Brooklyn Dodgers to California 44 years ago, Brooklyn baseball fans could once again claim a team of their own: the Cyclones, a Class A affiliate of the New York Mets. The Brooklyn Cyclones: Hardball Dreams and the New Coney Island recounts that first season of the Cyclones. From the construction of the incredible Keyspan Park at Coney Island to their impr...

They're Off!: Horse Racing at Saratoga - Hardcover

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by Hotaling Edward (Author)This is the story of how one of America's first national resorts gave birth to the first national sport of horse racing. It introduces a parade of champions and their spectacular supporting characters.Back JacketHere, for the first time, is the story of how America's first national resort gave birth to, then nurtured, its first national sport, introducing the country to a parade of champions and their spectacular supporting characters. To experience this adventure i...

The Best Pitcher in Baseball: The Life of Rube Foster, Negro League Giant - Paperback

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by Robert Charles Cottrell (Author)When Rube Foster was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981, his rightful place alongside baseball's greatest black heroes was at last firmly established. A world-class pitcher, a formidable manager, and a brilliant administrator, Rube Foster was arguably more influential in breaking down the color barrier in major league baseball than the venerable Jackie Robinson. Born in 1879, Rube Foster pitched for the legendary black baseball teamsthe...

Boats and Boating in the Adirondacks - Paperback

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by Hallie Bond (Author)Adirondack history is a tale written o the water. In the Adirondacks, people have traveled, conducted warfare, hunted and fished, gone to church, proposed marriage, and driven logs in, on, from, or by water. Without boats, small and large, Adirondack history--social, recreational, commercial, and environmental--would be an affair entirely different from what we have come to know. In this lavishly illustrated account, Hallie E. Bond presents a history of these boats--can...

They're Off!: Horse Racing at Saratoga - Paperback

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by Ed Hotaling (Author)This is the story of how one of America's first national resorts gave birth to the first national sport of horse racing. It introduces a parade of champions and their spectacular supporting characters. Number of Pages: 368 Dimensions: 1.2 x 10.03 x 7.11 IN Publication Date: May 01, 1998

Strength and Conditioning for Young Athletes: Science and Application - Paperback

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by Rhodri Lloyd (Editor), Jon Oliver (Editor)Strength and Conditioning for Young Athletes: Science and Application offers an evidence-based introduction to the theory and practice of strength and conditioning for young athletes. Fully revised and updated, this second edition draws on leading research to offer a holistic approach to training centred on the concept of long-term athletic development and the welfare of the young athlete.With 20 new authors and 8 new chapters, the book explores ev...

Glory Bound: Black Athletes in a White America - Paperback

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by David Wiggins (Author)African American athletes have experienced a tumultuous relationship with mainstream white America. Glory Bound brings together for the first time eleven essays that explore this complex topic. In his writings, well-known sports scholar David K. Wiggins recounts the struggle of black athletes to participate fully in sports while maintaining their own cultural identity and pride. Wiggins examines the seminal moments that defined and changed the black athlete's role in ...

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by Pamela Cooper (Author)Boston established a footrace but New York City created a marathon culture that annually draws tens of thousands of runners to each of the major American events. The American Marathon is the first in-depth study of the marathon as a cultural performance that has as much power to unite communities across lines of race, ethnicity, class, and gender as it does to empower individuals. This book encompasses more than a century, from the fledgling days of the footrace in th...