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Baltimore Orioles by Jeff Seidel
epub |eng | 2014-01-01 | Author:Jeff Seidel

#22 JIM PALMER • P Seasons with the Orioles: 1965-1967, 1969-1984 Best Season with the Orioles: 1975 Highlight Stats from that Season: The Hall of Famer was the Cy Young ...
( Category: Essays January 9,2023 )
The Best of Frank Deford by Frank Deford
epub |eng | 2013-05-15 | Author:Frank Deford

The Field General The quarterback. Signal caller. Field general. I like that the best: field general. There’s absolutely nothing else like a quarterback in team sports. Oh, to be sure, ...
( Category: Essays January 9,2023 )
This Is Our City: Four Teams, Twelve Championships, and How Boston Became the Most Dominant Sports City in the World by Tony Massarotti
epub |eng | 2022-10-18 | Author:Tony Massarotti

CHAPTER 9 MARATHON MONDAY Settle down, it’ll all be clear Don’t pay no mind to the demons They fill you with fear —“Home” by Phillip Phillips The Boston Marathon is ...
( Category: Essays January 8,2023 )
Incredible—and True!—Fishing Stories by Shaun Morey
epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:Shaun Morey

[ Classic ] Robert Lindsey sat at the bow of the ski boat, watching his young daughter busily playing at the stern. It was an ideal summer day, and Lindsey ...
( Category: Essays January 7,2023 )
The Outsider’s Curse: A Memoir of the First “Outsider” Lady IAS Officer of Jammu & Kashmir by Kumar Sonali & Kumar Prasenjeet
epub |eng | 2017-05-26 | Author:Kumar, Sonali & Kumar, Prasenjeet [Kumar, Sonali]

To Peshawar “Without Permission” T HERE WAS A day’s break before we could take a flight back home. An NGO from Pakistan insisted that we utilise that break to visit ...
( Category: Essays January 6,2023 )
The Best Sports Writing of Pat Jordan by Pat Jordan
epub |eng | | Author:Pat Jordan

Tom Seaver & Pat Jordan The Best of Friends (from People, the New York Times, and Newsday Sunday Magazine, 1978–1988) PROLOGUE Tom seaver and I are friends. Not best friends. ...
( Category: Essays December 29,2022 )
Need for the Bike by Paul Fournel
epub |eng | 2020-12-16 | Author:Paul Fournel

Flags I’ve gone up unbelievable passes but gotten no credit for it because a champion hadn’t marked them. Back from vacation, if I say to a friend: ‘I climbed the ...
( Category: Essays December 24,2022 )
Classic Golf Stories by Jeff Silverman
epub |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:Jeff Silverman

“I mean, I don't want to be coddled because I'm a beginner.” “The ball is always teed up for the drive,” I assured him. “Oh, well, if you say so. ...
( Category: Essays December 21,2022 )
The Celebrant by Eric Rolfe Greenberg
epub |eng | 2014-10-15 | Author:Eric Rolfe Greenberg [Greenberg, Eric Rolfe]

I adored the aspect of the Ansonia Hotel. For two years I’d watched swarms of masons inventing every manner of decoration for its ledges, its balconies, its apses and domes ...
( Category: Essays October 5,2022 )
The Mad Dog 100 by Chris Russo & Allen St. John
epub |eng | 2003-05-13 | Author:Chris Russo & Allen St. John

* * * MR. GOOD EXAMPLE: OWNERS WHO DO IT RIGHT Peter Magowan: I hate to bring him up because everybody knows I'm a Giants fan. He kept the team ...
( Category: Essays October 3,2022 )
Legendary Lessons by Claudia Mazzucco
epub |eng | 2016-01-11 | Author:Claudia Mazzucco

1900 In 1900, Vardon made more money playing golf than any other person on the planet. Spalding engaged Vardon for a tour in United States. The matches began on February ...
( Category: Essays October 2,2022 )
The Gilded Age of Sport, 1945–1960 by Herbert Warren Wind
epub |eng | | Author:Herbert Warren Wind

II In a game this winter in which the league-leading Philadelphia Warriors defeated the Boston Celtics 109–108, Bob Cousy of the Celtics enjoyed what was, even by the standards an ...
( Category: Essays September 28,2022 )
How to Fish by Chris Yates
epub |eng | 2012-08-01 | Author:Chris Yates [YATES, CHRIS]

TWELFTH CAST The Seasons of an Angler The obvious temptation now, after I’ve spent the last hour or so taking dictation from the river, is to cast again and try ...
( Category: Essays September 19,2022 )
Freezing Cold Takes by Fred Segal
epub |eng | 2022-08-09 | Author:Fred Segal [Segal, Fred]

Ron Wolf zeroes in on his franchise quarterback (1991) When Wolf said he wanted to move fast on the rebuild, he wasn’t kidding. On December 1, 1991, five days after ...
( Category: Essays September 19,2022 )
The football fan's manifesto by Michael Tunison
epub |eng | 2009-08-18 | Author:Michael Tunison [Michael Tunison]

VI.2 Know Your Fantasy League or Know Draft Defeat When diving headlong into the choppy waters of fantasy football, it helps to know that the act of drafting is an ...
( Category: Essays May 24,2022 )

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