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Three and Out
Rich Rodriguez and the Michigan Wolverines in the Crucible of College Football

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Three and Out tells the story of how college football’s most influential coach took over the nation’s most successful program, only to produce three of the...
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Moving the Chains
Tom Brady and the Pursuit of Everything

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
When Tom Brady entered the 2005 NFL season as lead quarterback for the New England Patriots, the defending Super Bowl champions, he was hailed as the best to...
  
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The Bronx is Burning
1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City

Picador
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Scheduled for release in July 2007 as an ESPN original miniseries, starring John Turturro as Billy Martin, Oliver...
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Soccerhead
An Accidental Journey into the Heart of the American Game

North Point Press
A YOUTH SOCCER COACH'S INVESTIGATION INTO THE ORIGINS OF SOCCERMANIA Before his son enlisted for a season of Youth Soccer at the neighborhood Boys and...
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning
1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City

Picador
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Scheduled for release in July 2007 as an ESPN original miniseries, starring John Turturro as Billy Martin, Oliver...
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Blood Horses
Notes of a Sportswriter's Son

Picador
"Sullivan has found the transcendent in the horse."--Sports Illustrated Winner of a 2004 Whiting Writers' Award One evening late in his life, veteran...
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Autumn Glory
Baseball's First World Series

Hill and Wang
A suspenseful account of the glorious days a century ago when our national madness began A post-season series of games to establish supremacy in the major...
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The Sweet Science

North Point Press
A.J. Liebling's classic New Yorker pieces on the "sweet science of bruising" bring vividly to life the boxing world as it once was. It depicts the great...
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The Fish's Eye
Essays About Angling and the Outdoors

Picador
In The Fish’s Eye: Essays About Angling and the Outdoors, Ian Frazier explores his lifelong passion for fishing, fish, and the aquatic world. He sees the...
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Whatever It Takes
Women on Women's Sport

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,...

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Levels of the Game

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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Caught Inside
A Surfer's Year on the California Coast

North Point Press
A wondrous, uproarious, and surprisingly informative account of a year spend surfing, Caught Inside marks the arrival of an exuberant new voice of the...
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The Survival of the Bark Canoe

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
In Greenville, New Hampshire, a small town in the southern part of the state, Henri Vaillancourt makes birch-bark canoes in the same manner and with the same...
  
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Fathers Playing Catch with Sons
Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)

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,...