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The Three-Year Swim Club by Julie Checkoway
epub |eng | 2015-10-27 | Author:Julie Checkoway [CHECKOWAY, JULIE]

The Coral Casino Club at the Biltmore hotel was no casino at all but an exclusive and private beach club, contemporary and sleek and opened in the summer of 1937. ...
( Category: Asian American Studies July 20,2020 )
Arnold Palmer: A Tribute to an American Icon by David Fischer & David Aretha
epub |eng | 2017-05-01 | Author:David Fischer & David Aretha [Fischer, David & Aretha, David]

Autograph seekers at Congressional Country Club in Washington, D.C., besiege Palmer after he completed a practice round in preparation for the 1964 U.S. Open. (AP Photo) Recruitment into Arnie’s Army ...
( Category: Golf July 20,2020 )
All In by Vince McKee
epub |eng | 2019-03-04 | Author:Vince McKee

( Category: History of Sports July 20,2020 )
Incredible Golf Stories by Julie Ganz
epub |eng | 2016-07-14 | Author:Julie Ganz

CHAPTER 14 PLAYING PINE VALLEY—AN OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE JOHN SABINO A dear friend who shot 78 the first time he played Royal Melbourne’s West course gave me a wooden board that ...
( Category: History of Sports July 11,2020 )
The Football Man by Arthur Hopcraft
epub |eng | | Author:Arthur Hopcraft [Hopcraft, Arthur]

5 Sir Alf Ramsey (and strategy) In football, as in any sport, victory and defeat are repeatedly decided on the knife-edge of chance. Sir Alf Ramsey, manager of the England ...
( Category: History of Sports July 11,2020 )
Before Wrigley Became Wrigley: The Inside Story of the First Years of the Cubs? Home Field by Sean Deveney
epub |eng | 2014-03-06 | Author:Sean Deveney [Deveney, Sean]

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Lazy Days On Saturday, June 20, Hal Chase was at Comiskey Park on the South Side, manning first base for the White Sox. He went 0-for-3 with a ...
( Category: Essays July 7,2020 )
Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World by David Maraniss
epub |eng | 2008-07-01 | Author:David Maraniss [Maraniss, David]

EARLY THAT evening at the Palazzetto dello Sport, a sellout crowd gathered for the most anticipated basketball match of the Games, the United States versus the Soviet Union. Tickets were ...
( Category: History of Sports July 7,2020 )
Gloves Off by Lowell Cohn
epub |eng | 2020-07-02 | Author:Lowell Cohn

26 WHY SPORTS WRITERS ARE “YOU GUYS” IT WAS IN BASEBALL THAT I LEARNED to love the third person. In my life “BB,” before baseball, I was accustomed to people ...
( Category: History of Sports July 3,2020 )
Continental Divide by Maurice Isserman
epub |eng | | Author:Maurice Isserman

Charlie was a prince. I had been a bit afraid about how I should get on with him after Crillon but we are now the best of friends. He has ...
( Category: United States July 3,2020 )
The View from the O-Line by howard mudd richard lister
epub |eng | 2019-03-27 | Author:howard mudd, richard lister

( Category: Football July 3,2020 )
The File by San Charles Haddad
epub |eng | 2020-01-30 | Author:San Charles Haddad

CHAPTER 9 The Newspaper Incident 1. While Yosef Yekutieli was preparing to send athletes to India, Waldo Heinrichs was instead dealing with the nefarious Nazi presence at the Jerusalem YMCA. ...
( Category: Olympic Games July 3,2020 )
10 Things You Might Not Know About Nearly Everything by Mark Jacob
epub |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:Mark Jacob

10 Things You Might Not Know About Twins 1. Many of us started out as twins, whether we know it or not. An estimated one in eight natural pregnancies begins ...
( Category: Trivia July 1,2020 )
Lancashire Turf Wars by Steve Tongue
epub |eng | 2018-07-14 | Author:Steve Tongue

* * * * * If Liverpool had a figure in the immediate post-war period to rival Matthews, Finney and Lofthouse, in local popularity at least, it was Billy Liddell. ...
( Category: History of Sports July 1,2020 )
The Hurt Business by George Kimball & John Schulian
epub |eng | | Author:George Kimball & John Schulian [Kimball, George and Schulian, John]

He signed it “Dick Tiger Ihetu.” We walked across Eighth Avenue in the brilliant, chilly afternoon, and up the post office steps. Tiger said, “If they ask me how much ...
( Category: Boxing July 1,2020 )
The Title by Scott Murray
epub |eng | 2019-11-24 | Author:Scott Murray

12 Yvonne stokes a militant mood (1959–60 to 1961–62) The quiz show Double Your Money was a ratings smash during the early days of ITV. The genius of the format ...
( Category: History of Sports June 28,2020 )

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