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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 )
A History of Cycling in 100 Objects by Suze Clemitson
epub |eng | 2017-06-15 | Author:Suze Clemitson

The Vélib’ bicycle-sharing scheme was launched in Paris in 2015. The Vélib’ is the clean, green and healthy way to get around the French capital. 50 Home trainer The sight ...
( Category: Mountain Biking June 23,2020 )
Revolutions by Hannah Ross
epub |eng | 2020-06-08 | Author:Hannah Ross

CHAPTER NINE AROUND THE WORLD A Race against the Clock Crowds lined the streets of Naples as a motorcade drove through the city toward Piazza del Plebiscito on December 22, ...
( Category: Cycling June 12,2020 )
The Yucks by Jason Vuic
epub |eng | | Author:Jason Vuic

Chapter Five Go for O! The on-looker can’t help but wonder whether consecutive losing will have permanent results. Will marriages break up? Will off-season jobs become a shambles? . . ...
( Category: History of Sports June 8,2020 )
A Season in Time by Todd Denault
epub |eng | 2012-08-15 | Author:Todd Denault

Notes 1 Martin, Mario, 247. 2 “Lemieux Responds Well to Early Cancer Therapy,” Toronto Star, February 5, 1993. 3 Martin, Mario, 248. 4 Scher, “I'll Be Back When I'm Cured,” ...
( Category: History of Sports June 5,2020 )

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