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  • Still A Legend
    Harvey Rosenfeld
    In 1961 Roger Maris made Baseball history by hitting 61 home runs...and beating the great Babe Ruth’s record. Yet he’s still on the outside of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Has his time finally come? Did Maris earn his 'title to fame?' 3 ...
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    31,47 €

  • I Remember Bud Wilkinson
    Mike Towle
    Boomer Sooner!Bud Wilkinson was one of America’s greatest football coaches. His incredible achievements at the helm of the Oklahoma Sooners set a new benchmark for all college football coaches. During his seventeen years as the Sooners’ head coach, Wilkinson amassed a stellar 145-29-4 record that included winning streaks of 31 and 47 games, three national titles, four undefeate...
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    15,59 €

  • Rememberin’ Life in the Trenches
    Mike Current
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    13,42 €

  • Deep Descent
    Kevin F. McMurray / Kevin FMcMurray
    On a foggy July evening in 1956, the Italian cruise liner Andrea Doria, bound for New York, was struck broadside by another vessel. In eleven hours, she would sink nearly 250 feet to the murky Atlantic Ocean floor. Thanks to a daring rescue operation, only 51 of more than 1,700 people died in the tragedy. But the Andrea Doria is still taking lives.Considered the Mt. Everest of ...
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    18,97 €

  • Foggy on Bikes
    Carl Fogarty
    Carl Fogarty, four-time Superbike World Champion and bestselling author, draws on 18 years of international motorcycle riding to give readers a comprehensive guide to bikes, and how to ride them, from competition to leisure biking. He begins by describing how he started out in bike racing by going to race schools. Advice is given on how to get started in the sport befo...
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    22,57 €

  • My Time At Bat
    Chuck Hinton
    Chuck Hinton is the founder of The Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association. Voted into the 1964 All-Star game, Hinton? ...
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    13,16 €

  • And They’re Off!
    Phil Georgeff
    Part memoir, part historical analysis, and part nostalgic remembrance, this book is the quintessential guide to the history of thoroughbred racing in the twentieth century. ...
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    18,89 €

  • Holding Serve
    Michael Chang
    Tennis pro Michael Chang shares his personal story of faith, family, and the determination that made him one of America’s greatest athletes. ...
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    21,31 €

  • Just Joey
    Jimmy Walker
    Biography of the late Irish motorcycle racing legend, Joey Dunlop, who won a record 26 Isle of Man TT races over the famous road circuit, as well as a host of other titles, during a 30-year career. Joey Dunlop, ‘Yer Man’, as he was affectionately known, was a racing legend, adored by the Irish people. Born and raised in Ballymoney, Co. Antrim, Dunlop started racing in ...
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    26,05 €

  • Botham’s Century
    Ian Botham
    One hundred colourful portraits of the cricketing characters whom Ian Botham has come into contact with during his eventful career and who have influenced the game for good during this time: from top players, umpires and coaches to pop stars, writers and philanthropists. Among the cast of characters who feature in Botham’s own Who’s Who of cricket are many of the world...
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    28,63 €

  • 'that Was Part of Baseball Then'
    Victor Debs
    In this collection of interviews, baseball players, coaches, and managers speak candidly about their most memorable moments and experiences in baseball’s big leagues. Their recollections of the former big leaguers often come from their early years spent learning the game, their first time stepping on the field as a big leaguer, their first strikeout as a pitcher, or their first...
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    50,21 €

  • Touching My Father’s Soul
    Jamling T Norgay / Jamling T. Norgay / Jamling TNorgay
    In a story of Everest unlike any told before, Jamling Tenzing Norgay gives us an insider’s view of the Sherpa world. As Climbing Leader of the famed 1996 Everest IMAX expedition led by David Breashears, Jamling Norgay was able to follow in the footsteps of his legendary mountaineer father, Tenzing Norgay, who with Sir Edmund Hillary was the first to reach the summit of Mount Ev...
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    16,18 €

  • I Remember Ted Williams
    David Cataneo
    The legendary Red Sox outfielder is remembered through dozens of anecdotes, stories, and insights from former teammates, friends, associates, baseball officials, and fishing buddies. ...
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    25,32 €

  • A Pitcher’s Story
    Roger Angell
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    24,55 €

  • The Rookie
    Jim Morris / Joel Engel
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    22,21 €

  • The Bowden Way
    Bobby Bowden
    As head football coach at Florida State, Bobby Bowden has won two national championships and compiled an astounding resume of all-time credentials. Filled with personal anecdotes, famous names, and fascinating stories, The Bowden Way promises to be the leadership book that will redefine the game. With lessons from his years of coaching, this book puts readers inside the mind of...
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    13,70 €

  • Blackball, the Black Sox, and the Babe
    Robert C Cottrell
    Nineteen-twenty was a crucial year not just for the Chicago White Sox but for the game of baseball, in the aftermath of the 1919 World Series scandal. This work is both a collective biography of four individuals whose careers in baseball were forever altered in 1920 and an examination of the 1920 baseball season as a whole. It highlights four legendary personalities--Judge Kene...
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    42,42 €

  • I Remember Al McGuire
    Mike Towle
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    24,76 €

  • I Remember Jim Valvano
    Mike Towle
    College basketball and its annual March Madness extravaganza have emerged over the last three decades as one of the most popular sporting phenomena in America. Perhaps no one personifies the excitement of this tournament better than Jim Valvano, whose heavily underdog North Carolina State Wolfpack achieved the pinnacle of success in college basketball in 1983 with an unlikely r...
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    24,76 €

  • Final Calls to Absent Friends
    Cliff Guilliams
    Final Calls to Absent Friends is a collection of newspaper columns and personal reminiscences in tribute to numerous jockeys, horses, and people related to horse racing. ...
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    13,58 €

  • Final Calls to Absent Friends
    Cliff Guilliams
    Final Calls to Absent Friends is a collection of newspaper columns and personal reminiscences in tribute to numerous jockeys, horses, and people related to horse racing. ...
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    26,99 €

  • 'It’s More Than a Notion!!'
    Henry Jones
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    27,81 €

  • I Remember Paul 'Bear' Bryant
    Al Browning
    In this personal look at Bear Bryant, the legendary college coach, dozens of his contemporaries, former players, childhood friends, family, competitors, opponents, and his ''boys'' offer in their own words their favorite memories of this man they loved so much. Illustrations. ...
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    23,45 €

  • I Remember Vince Lombardi
    Mike Towle
    Of all the great National Football League coaches, none have earned the level of respect and reputation that Vince Lombardi merited during his tenure as head coach of the Green Bay Packers. Both feared and beloved by players and peers, Lombardi coached the Packers to five NFL championships and victories in the first two Super Bowls ever played. Over ten seasons, his Green Bay t...
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    22,54 €

  • Trolling on the Edge
    Jeanne Duncan
    The true story of a young Mendocino Coast fisherman who tells us first-hand about the life and its terrors and charms. He takes us with him on small, wooden boats to fish for salmon and albacore, and into his worst Pacific storm. ...
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    17,59 €

  • Fiery Fast-Baller
    Wint Capel
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    15,22 €

  • No Hurdle Too High
    Mona Pastroff Goldstein
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    15,07 €

  • Tin Cup Dreams
    Michael D’Antonio
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    24,53 €

  • Steady Training
    Antonio Bustillo
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    20,68 €

  • War on the Floor
    Jeff Foley
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    24,10 €