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The All Americans

Lars Anderson St. Martin's Griffin

On November 29, 1941, Army played Navy in front of 100,000 fans. Eight days later, the Japanese attacked and the young men who battled each other in that...

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Basketball Junkie

A Memoir

Chris Herren and Bill Reynolds St. Martin's Press

I was dead for thirty seconds. That’s what the cop in Fall River told me. When the EMTs found me, there was a needle in my arm and a packet of heroin...

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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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Society of Midland Authors Book Awards - Winner - Adult Nonfiction

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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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The Book on The Book

An Inquiry into Which Strategies in the Modern Game Actually Work

Bill Felber St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books

"Full-blown fanatics will probably read the book straight through, but casual fans will find plenty of reward simply browsing through selected chapters, such as 'The Decline and Fall of the Starting Pitcher,' and 'Highly Paid Irrelevance,' and 'Rating the General Managers.'"—BookPage

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...

Hardcover : $24.95 Buy	Change Up An Oral History of 8 Key Events That Shaped Baseball Larry Burke and Peter Thomas Fornatale with Jim Baker Rodale Books Change Up is every fan’s box-seat ticket to a remarkable baseball event: a round-table conversation among the participants themselves about pivotal...

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The Dancer's Way

The New York City Ballet Guide to Mind, Body, and Nutrition

Linda H. Hamilton, Ph.D., and New York City Ballet St. Martin's Griffin

In the current dance scene, performers contend with choreography that involves extreme dance, multiple techniques, and acrobatic moves, exemplified in the...

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Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	Eagle Blue A Team, a Tribe, and a High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska Michael D'Orso Bloomsbury USA Eagle Blue follows the Fort Yukon Eagles, winners of six regional championships in a row, through the course of an entire 28-game season, from their first day...

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Eight Men Out

The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series

Eliot Asinof; Introduction by Stephen Jay Gould Holt Paperbacks

The headlines proclaimed the 1919 fix of the World Series and attempted cover-up as "the most gigantic sporting swindle in the history of America!" First...

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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 : $13.00 Buy	Fathers Playing Catch with Sons Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball) Donald Hall North Point Press In the pantheon of great sports literature, not a few poets have tried their hand at paying tribute to their love affair with the game -- Walt Whitman,...

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The Fish's Eye

Essays About Angling and the Outdoors

Ian Frazier Picador

"There is nothing so rare as a perfect book . . . The Fish’s Eye, by Ian Frazier, is one of these happy few . . . It is a charming and idiosyncratic collection in which Frazier reflects on his life of fly-fishing, the great outdoors, the natural worlds of the city and suburb, and their unique travails and pleasures."—Chicago Tribune

Trade Paperback : $6.95 Buy	Fishing A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press George S. Fichter and Phil Francis, under the editorship of Herbert S. Zim; Illustrated by Tom Dolan, Ken Martin, and Harry McNaught Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press have been updated and revised to revitalize the complete line of guides for a new generation of students.

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The Game from Where I Stand

From Batting Practice to the Clubhouse to the Best Breakfast on the Road, an Inside View of a Ballplayer's Life

Doug Glanville St. Martin's Griffin

"Filled with sharp insights, keen observations, and great stories, his book is championship caliber." —The Philadelphia Inquirer Doug Glanville, a former...

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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...

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...

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 : $28.00 Buy	The Gloves A Boxing Chronicle Robert Anasi North Point Press "The Gloves, told in pitch-perfect prose, is enormously empathetic, grimly funny, in the end almost unbearably heartbreaking, and has more actual insights into class and race and masculinity than any hundred sociological studies."—David Shields, author of Black Planet

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 : $39.95 Buy	Horses, 3rd Edition A Guide to Selection, Care, and Enjoyment Warren J. Evans Holt Paperbacks For almost twenty years, Horses has been the definitive horse care manual, an indispensable reference for anyone who shows, races, breeds, or rides horses....

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	The Junction Boys How 10 Days in Hell with Bear Bryant Forged A Champion Team at Texas A&M Jim Dent; Foreword by Gene Stallings St. Martin's Griffin The legendary Paul "Bear" Bryant is recognized nationwide as one of the greatest coaches ever. So why did he always cite his 1-9 A&M team of 1954 as his...

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...