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Last Team Standing by Matthew Algeo
epub |eng | 2006-06-29 | Author:Matthew Algeo

As was customary, the release was published nearly verbatim in the Chicago papers. Almost immediately, the phone at the Chicago office of the War Manpower Commission began ringing. Callers were ...
( Category: State & Local June 30,2016 )
Watching Baseball Smarter by Zack Hample
epub |eng | 2008-12-23 | Author:Zack Hample [Hample, Zack]

THE STRIKE ZONE Most fans have a general concept of the strike zone. They know it's over the plate and between the hitter's knees and his chest. Or is it ...
( Category: History of Sports May 21,2016 )
This Is Your Brain on Sports: The Science of Underdogs, the Value of Rivalry, and What We Can Learn From the T-Shirt Cannon by L. Jon Wertheim & Sam Sommers
mobi |eng | 2016-02-02 | Author:L. Jon Wertheim & Sam Sommers

Corlett’s deduction from this research is that it’s not necessarily the “runner’s high” or the neurochemistry that comes with ultrarunning that is so appealing to some people (including, it seems, ...
( Category: Sociology of Sports April 25,2016 )
Loose Balls by Terry Pluto
epub |eng | 1990-04-22 | Author:Terry Pluto

TOM MESCHERY: You could take one look at Johnny Neumann and know he never should have left school early. Signing kids like that was one of the things the ABA ...
( Category: History of Sports April 23,2016 )
Dark Horses & Underdogs by Les Krantz
epub |eng | 2009-10-30 | Author:Les Krantz [KRANTZ, LES]

BOOM-BOOM BORIS When Boris Becker won Wimbledon in 1985, he became the youngest champion in the history of the men’s singles at the storied event. He also became the only ...
( Category: History of Sports April 23,2016 )
The Telegraph Book of the Tour de France by Martin Smith
epub |eng | | Author:Martin Smith [Smith, Martin]

31 JULY 1998 TRAGIC SPECTACLE OF AN EPIC EVENT BEING TORN TO PIECES Phil Liggett For 26 years I have followed every day of the Tour de France. I have ...
( Category: Bike Repair April 8,2016 )
The Legends Club by John Feinstein
epub |eng | 2016-02-29 | Author:John Feinstein

21 The Mississippi Valley State game had proven to be the toughest test Duke faced in the East Regionals. Johnny Dawkins had taken over the game in the final eight ...
( Category: State & Local April 8,2016 )
Gironimo! by Tim Moore
epub |eng | 2014-04-30 | Author:Tim Moore [Tim Moore]

CHAPTER 12 I will never forget the day I climbed the Puy Mary. There were two of us on a fine day in May. We started in the sunshine and ...
( Category: Cycling April 4,2016 )
Boys Among Men by Abrams Jonathan
epub |eng | 2016-03-14 | Author:Abrams, Jonathan

At the age of 14, Moses Malone scribbled in the back of his Bible that he wanted to be a professional athlete. He turned pro in 1974 after an ABA ...
( Category: History of Sports March 20,2016 )
The Dirtiest Race in History by Richard Moore
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-13 | Author:Richard Moore

Saturday, 29 August 1987 In Rome’s Stadio Olimpico, built under orders from Mussolini, it was a latter-day Italian dictator, Primo Nebiolo, who beamed with pride as the second World Athletics ...
( Category: Olympic Games February 14,2016 )
From Jack Johnson to LeBron James by Lamb Chris; Lamb Chris;
epub |eng | 2015-11-04 | Author:Lamb, Chris; Lamb, Chris; [Lamb, Chris]

Notes 1. John Bracey, August Meier, and Elliot Rudwick, Black Nationalism in America (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1970); Wilson J. Moses, The Golden Age of Black Nationalism (New York: Oxford University Press, ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism January 24,2016 )
The Night Climbers of Cambridge by Whipplesnaith
mobi |eng | 2010-11-04 | Author:Whipplesnaith

North Face of Pembroke. Get a knee on to the lower cross-bar, using half a pull-up and half a press-up on the bar above, avoiding the slippery dust with the ...
( Category: History of Sports January 10,2016 )
The Great White Hopes by Graeme Kent
epub |eng | 2013-03-27 | Author:Graeme Kent

The first semi-official gathering of some of the White Hopes occurred on 11 May 1911 at the National Sporting Club in New York. Promoter Tom O’Rourke announced that, in order ...
( Category: Boxing January 8,2016 )
The Arc of Boxing by Mike Silver
epub |eng | 2012-09-05 | Author:Mike Silver

“Fighting Willie Pep is like trying to stamp out a grass fire,” said one opponent after fighting the elusive “Will-o-the-Wisp.” Pep (left) jabs the great Chalky Wright in 1942. Pep ...
( Category: Boxing December 26,2015 )
Fearless on Everest: The Quest for Sandy Irvine by Julie Summers
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-01 | Author:Julie Summers [Summers, Julie]

A selection of bills from Sandy’s collection showing equipment he purchased for the expedition When I read the reference to camp equipment I really began to get a feeling for ...
( Category: History of Sports December 14,2015 )

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