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  • The Crewed Race Around the World
    Gigi Romano
    For more than fifty years, crews have left the safety of harbour to race across the world’s most demanding oceans. They have faced towering Southern Ocean seas, tropical calms, broken masts, damaged keels, exhausting watches and the unforgiving passage around Cape Horn. The Crewed Race Around the World tells the complete story of this extraordinary sporting tradition, from its ...
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    20,80 €

  • Alone Around the World
    Gigi Romano
    For more than three decades, the world’s most demanding solo sailors have left the French coast to face a challenge of extraordinary simplicity and almost unimaginable difficulty: race alone, non-stop and without ordinary assistance around the planet. Alone Around the World tells the complete story of the competition now known as the Vendée Globe, tracing its origins through th...
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    21,04 €

  • A Thousand Sails in Trieste
    Gigi Romano
    On the second Sunday of October, the Gulf of Trieste becomes a sea of sails. What began in 1969 as a modest autumn race involving just fifty-one boats grew into the Barcolana, an extraordinary gathering that has united family cruisers, amateur club sailors, experimental racing yachts and internationally celebrated professionals on the same starting line. Its record fleet of 2,6...
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    20,91 €

  • Cowes and the Solent
    Gigi Romano
    For two centuries, Cowes has stood at the centre of British yacht racing. What began in 1826 with seven cutters competing for a gold cup grew into one of the world’s most enduring regattas-a meeting place for royal yachts, revolutionary designs, professional crews, local one-design fleets and sailors from across the globe. Cowes and the Solent traces the complete history of Cow...
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    20,98 €

  • South to Hobart
    Gigi Romano
    Every Boxing Day, a fleet leaves the brilliance of Sydney Harbour and turns south towards one of the most demanding passages in international sailing. South to Hobart tells the complete story of Australia’s great ocean-racing tradition, from the informal challenge that produced the first race in 1945 to the carbon-fibre supermaxis, two-handed crews and advanced safety systems o...
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    21,11 €

  • Milwaukee baseball
    Gigi Romano
    Milwaukee’s baseball story is not the history of one team. It is the history of a city that repeatedly fought to keep its place in the major leagues. From the early professional clubs and the championship Milwaukee Brewers of the minor leagues to the Milwaukee Bears, the wartime Milwaukee Chicks and the construction of County Stadium, baseball took root long before a permanent ...
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    19,97 €

  • The wandering ball club
    Gigi Romano
    One baseball organisation. Four established homes. More than a century of championships, financial crises, stadium disputes and cities left behind. The Wandering Ball Club traces the extraordinary journey of a professional baseball franchise from its birth in Philadelphia through its years in Kansas City, its championship eras in Oakland, its temporary stay in Sacramento and it...
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    20,13 €

  • Three cities, one diamond
    Gigi Romano
    One baseball franchise. Three cities. More than 150 years of triumph, upheaval and reinvention. Three Cities, One Diamond traces the full history of the professional baseball organisation that began in Boston in 1871, found new life in Milwaukee and built a lasting identity in Atlanta. From dominant nineteenth-century teams and the Miracle championship of 1914 to Braves Field, ...
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    19,99 €

  • From Montreal to Washington
    Gigi Romano
    For thirty-six seasons, professional baseball in Montreal produced unforgettable summers, homegrown stars, packed crowds, heartbreak, and one of sport’s most compelling unfinished stories. From Canada’s first major-league franchise at Jarry Park to the vast Olympic Stadium, Montreal built a unique baseball identity. Gary Carter, Andre Dawson, Tim Raines, Steve Rogers, Larry Wal...
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    20,05 €

  • Paid to Play
    Gigi Romano
    For generations, college sport generated enormous wealth while maintaining that the athletes at its centre were amateurs who could not be paid. That arrangement has now been dismantled. Paid to Play tells the complete story of how name, image and likeness rights, landmark court cases, state legislation, donor-backed collectives, the transfer portal and direct university revenue...
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    20,79 €

  • Arrowhead Ascendant
    Gigi Romano
    From the bold creation of a rival football league to the rise of a modern championship dynasty, Arrowhead Ascendant tells the complete story of professional football in Kansas City. The journey begins with Lamar Hunt, whose unsuccessful attempt to join the established league inspired the formation of an entirely new competition. It follows the Dallas Texans through relocation, ...
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    20,01 €

  • Friday Night America
    Gigi Romano
    Across America, Friday-night football is more than a game. It is the weekly gathering that fills small-town streets, city stadiums and school grounds with marching music, rivalry, expectation and dreams. Friday Night America tells the sweeping story of high school football and the communities that built their identities around it. Beginning with the game’s early development, th...
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    20,82 €

  • Portal Season
    Gigi Romano
    College athletics once treated commitment as permanent, even when coaches departed, promises changed and opportunities disappeared. The transfer portal overturned that arrangement. Portal Season traces the factual rise of athlete mobility from the restrictive transfer system of the past to the fast-moving national marketplace of the present. It explains how immediate eligibilit...
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    20,83 €

  • Pinstripes and Power
    Gigi Romano
    For more than a century, one baseball team has carried a reputation larger than the game itself. Pinstripes and Power tells the story of the New York Yankees, from their early days as the Highlanders to their rise as the most successful franchise in Major League Baseball history. It follows the ownership decisions, legendary players, rivalries, collapses and reinventions that t...
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    20,01 €

  • The Super Bowl Story
    Gigi Romano
    For more than half a century, one game has decided the champion of American professional football. The Super Bowl Story traces the full history of that contest, from the first meeting between rival leagues in 1967 to its rise as a global sporting event watched by hundreds of millions around the world. It follows the teams, coaches, and players who turned a single championship g...
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    19,99 €

  • The Quarterback
    Gigi Romano
    The quarterback began as little more than a position in an unfamiliar formation. Over more than a century, changing rules, revolutionary coaches, extraordinary athletes and national television transformed that position into the strategic, financial and cultural centre of American football. The Quarterback traces this remarkable evolution from Walter Camp’s early signal callers ...
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    19,87 €

  • The Dallas Football Empire
    Gigi Romano
    Few sporting organisations have inspired such extraordinary devotion, opposition and expectation as the Dallas Cowboys. From an unprepared expansion team in 1960 to five-time champions and one of the world’s most recognisable sporting institutions, the Cowboys have occupied a central place in the history of professional American football. Their story includes Tom Landry’s patie...
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    19,93 €

  • Green Banners
    Gigi Romano
    Few sporting organisations have shaped their league as profoundly as Boston’s legendary professional basketball franchise. From its uncertain beginnings in 1946 to the raising of a record eighteenth championship banner, Green Banners tells the complete story of a team whose history became inseparable from the development of professional basketball itself. The narrative follows ...
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    20,13 €

  • From Survival to Sellouts
    Gigi Romano
    Women’s professional basketball did not begin with packed arenas, major media agreements or valuable expansion franchises. It began with athletes competing on the margins, unstable leagues, uncertain salaries and the persistent belief that women deserved a lasting professional game of their own. From Survival to Sellouts traces the complete development of women’s professional b...
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    19,84 €

  • The Women’s Tournament
    Gigi Romano
    Before the record-breaking audiences, sold-out arenas and nationally recognised stars, women’s college basketball was built by athletes, coaches and organisers who fought simply to create a meaningful national stage. The Women’s Tournament traces the rise of the women’s collegiate championship, from early national competitions and the pioneering work of the AIAW to the modern N...
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    21,55 €

  • The World Series
    Gigi Romano
    For more than a century, baseball’s ultimate championship has produced unforgettable victories, devastating defeats and moments that have become part of American sporting history. The World Series: An Independent History of Baseball’s Greatest Championship traces the complete evolution of the Fall Classic, from the uncertain beginnings of the early twentieth century to the glob...
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    20,01 €

  • Six Rings in New England
    Gigi Romano
    For nearly two decades, professional football repeatedly passed through New England. What began with an overlooked sixth-round quarterback, a demanding new head coach, and a franchise still searching for its first championship became one of the most successful dynasties in sporting history. Six Rings in New England tells the complete story of that era-from Robert Kraft’s purcha...
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    19,99 €

  • Six Banners in Chicago
    Gigi Romano
    Six championships. Two historic three-peats. One basketball dynasty that captured a city and helped take the professional game to audiences around the world. Six Banners in Chicago tells the complete story of the extraordinary team that defined basketball during the 1990s. Beginning with a struggling franchise searching for direction, it follows the arrival of a transformative ...
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    20,20 €

  • The Summer the World Played Football
    Gigi Romano
    For thirty-nine unforgettable days, forty-eight nations transformed Canada, Mexico and the United States into the centre of the football world. The Summer the World Played Football tells the complete story of the great 2026 tournament-from the anticipation surrounding its unprecedented expansion and the arrival of the competing nations to the drama of the group stage, the new R...
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    19,99 €

  • The Lacrosse Rise
    Gigi Romano
    Lacrosse is one of America’s fastest, most distinctive sports: a game of sticks, speed, skill, school pride, college dreams, youth tournaments, professional ambition, and deep cultural memory. But behind the helmets, gloves, goggles, turf fields, highlight goals, and recruiting showcases is a story far older than modern sport. The Lacrosse Rise: Old Roots, College Dreams, and A...
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    21,07 €

  • The Rowing Life
    Gigi Romano
    The Rowing Life: Rivers, Crews, Pain, and the Rhythm of the Boat is a clear, engaging, plain-English journey into one of the world’s most demanding and quietly beautiful sports. From school crews and university boathouses to Olympic lanes, club regattas, head races, masters rowing, women’s rowing, coxing, training, injuries, access, tradition, and the future of the sport, this ...
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    20,98 €

  • The Sunday League
    Gigi Romano
    The Sunday League: Parks, Pitches, Pub Teams, and Football’s Everyday Soul is a warm, funny, and clear-eyed portrait of amateur football at its most human. From early alarms, muddy pitches, borrowed kit, pub sponsors, late arrivals, group chats, volunteer referees, unpaid subs, and heroic organisers, this book explores the culture that keeps ordinary football alive week after w...
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    21,02 €

  • The Women’s Football Boom
    Gigi Romano
    Women’s football has moved from the margins of sport into packed stadiums, major broadcasts, professional leagues and global conversation. But the rise of the women’s game is not a simple overnight success story. It is a story of bans, barriers, volunteers, school pitches, national-team breakthroughs, club investment, player activism, media visibility, commercial growth and the...
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    21,08 €

  • The Free Agency Era
    Gigi Romano
    The Free Agency Era: Player Power, Loyalty, Money, and the Modern Sports Market is a clear, fact-based sports-business and sports-culture book about one of the biggest changes in modern professional sport: the rise of player choice. For generations, clubs, owners, franchises and leagues controlled where athletes played, how long they stayed, and how much freedom they had when c...
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    21,13 €

  • The Three-Point Revolution
    Gigi Romano
    Basketball was once ruled by the rim, the post, and the mid-range jumper. Then one line on the floor began to change everything. The Three-Point Revolution: How One Shot Changed Basketball is a clear, engaging, fact-based guide to how the three-point shot reshaped the modern game. From early experiments and specialist shooters to analytics, spacing, stretch bigs, deep-range gua...
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    21,08 €


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