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Hardcover : $25.99 Buy	Carry the Rock Race, Football, and the Soul of an American City Jay Jennings Rodale Books In 1957, nine African American teenagers faced angry mobs and the resistance of a segregationist governor to claim their right to educational equality. The...

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Knight

My Story

Bob Knight with Bob Hammel; With a New Afterword St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books

Few people in sports have had more books written about them. This is the first by Bob Knight---one of the most literate, candid, quoted, and outspoken men in...

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Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	West of Jesus Surfing, Science, and the Origins of Belief Steven Kotler Bloomsbury USA A spiritual and scientific surf quest, West of Jesus tracks a contemporary surfing myth and looks at the neuroscience that connects spirituality and high risk...

Trade Paperback : $12.99 Buy	The Rider Tim Krabble Bloomsbury USA A literary sports classic, finally available in the U.S. Originally published in Holland in 1978, The Rider became an instant cult classic, selling over...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	The Sweet Science A. J. Liebling; With a Foreword by Robert Anasi North Point Press "In The Sweet Science—in all his books—Liebling himself, the voice and the character, is immensely appealing."—David Remnick, The New Yorker

Trade Paperback : $15.99 Buy	The Long Run A New York City Firefighter's Triumphant Comeback from Crash Victim to Elite Athlete Matt Long with Charles Butler Rodale Books A New York City firefighter’s emotional and inspiring memoir of learning to run again after a debilitating accident, based on the wildly popular March 2009...

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Positively Fifth Street

Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker

James McManus Picador

In the spring of 2000, Harper's Magazine sent James McManus to Las Vegas to cover the World Series of Poker, in particular the progress of women in the $23...

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Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	Levels of the Game John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks This account of a tennis match played by Arthur Ashe against Clark Graebner at Forest Hills in 1968 begins with the ball rising into the air for the initial...

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A Sense of Where You Are

Bill Bradley at Princeton

John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

When John McPhee met Bill Bradley, both were at the beginning of their careers. A Sense of Where You Are, McPhee’s first book, is about Bradley when he was the...

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Trade Paperback : $15.95 Buy	The Gladiators History's Most Deadly Sport Fik Meijer St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books Superfit, muscled, and macho, gladiators were hero-worshipped for their skills and courage as they fought to the death, yet despised for their humble status....

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	The Hustle One Team and Ten Lives in Black and White Doug Merlino Bloomsbury USA “Merlino, a former contributor to The Seattle Times and briefly a member of the team, does an excellent job of reporting, and he’s particularly sharp when he details how Lakeside students succeed.”—Charles R. Cross, The Seattle Times

Trade Paperback : $16.99 Buy	Gold in the Water The True Story of Ordinary Men and Their Extraordinary Dream of Olympic Glory P. H. Mullen, Jr. St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books In California, a team of talented young men begin pursuing the most elusive dream in sports, the Olympic Games. The pressure steadily increases as two best...

Trade Paperback : $15.99 Buy	Knee Surgery The Essential Guide to Total Knee Recovery Daniel Fulham O'Neill, M.D., Ed.D. St. Martin's Griffin Millions of people have knee surgery each year, and in the years to come millions more will head to the O.R. Chances are, you or someone you know has had or...

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The Silver Linings Playbook

A Novel

Matthew Quick Sarah Crichton Books

Why did NPR’s popular librarian Nancy Pearl pick The Silver Linings Playbook as one of summer’s best reads for 2009? "Aawww shucks!” Pearl said. “I know...

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Trade Paperback : $16.99 Buy	Fall River Dreams A Team's Quest for Glory, A Town's Search for It's Soul Bill Reynolds St. Martin's Griffin In this deeply felt, unforgettable book, Bill Reynolds journeys with a high school basketball team through the past and present of an American town. Fall...

Trade Paperback : $27.00 Buy	A Whole Other Ball Game Women's Literature on Women's Sport Edited and with an introduction by Joli Sandoz Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks Since the late 1800s, women have repeatedly proven their fitness for competitive sport...simply by playing the game. Any game. Off court and on; despite all...

Trade Paperback : $27.00 Buy	Whatever It Takes Women on Women's Sport Edited by Joli Sandoz and Joby Winans Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks From Elizabeth Cady Stanton on bicycling to Anna Seaton huntington on rowing, the first anthology of women's personal essays on sports. With edge, passion,...

Trade Paperback : $18.99 Buy	Games Girls Play Understanding and Guiding Young Female Athletes Caroline Silby, Ph.D., with Shelley Smith St. Martin's Griffin A Reviving Ophelia for soccer moms: Games Girls Play gives parents advice for encouraging their daughters to participate in sports and making sure their...

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Beer and Circus

How Big-Time College Sports Has Crippled Undergraduate Education

Murray Sperber Holt Paperbacks

"Sperber now stands alone in his ability . . . to unravel and describe the forces that have given us the dismaying spectacle of big-time college sports . . . This is an important book that should worry anyone concerned with what is really wrong about American higher education."—William Chace, president of Emory University

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Blood Horses

Notes of a Sportswriter's Son

John Jeremiah Sullivan Picador

"A splendid account of [the] Triple Crown . . . In horses' beauty and power, and with their hint of danger even when schooled, Sullivan senses a restoration of what has been lost to us."—The New York Times

PEN Literary Award - Finalist - Art of the Memoir

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Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	A Game Plan for Life The Power of Mentoring Don Yaeger John Wooden Bloomsbury USA After eight books, many of them bestsellers, A Game Plan for Life was the one closest to John Wooden's heart: a moving and inspirational guide to the power of...