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  • AGAINST ALL ODDS
    Dave Scribner
    Periodically, a college produces an athletic team that surpasses all expectations and statistical standards to date. The entire college community becomes mesmerized by the team and attendance soars. Against All Odds is the story about how this happened at Roberts Wesleyan College in the years 1965-67 when the Men’s Basketball team won thirty-eight of forty-four games, set sever...
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    12,98 €

  • Fascinating Historical Facts for Teens
    Thomas J. Anderson
    Fascinating Historical Facts for Teens: Discover the Amazing, Weird, and Mind-Blowing Events that Shaped Our WorldHistory doesn’t have to be boring! Fascinating Historical Facts for Teens is packed with jaw-dropping, little-known facts that bring the past to life in the most intriguing ways. From ancient civilizations and epic battles to mind-blowing inventions and untold stori...
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    16,41 €

  • A Year in the Life and Death of the Melbourne Rebels
    Geoff Parkes
    In November 2023, the Melbourne Rebels began a pre-season full of hope and optimism. With a deep roster and a strong, unifying ’Ubuntu’ culture embedding itself within the franchise, there was high anticipation that the 2024 season - their 14th - would finally deliver success. Granted unprecedented insider access, writer Geoff Parkes set out to document the Rebels’ season and t...
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    21,84 €

  • Earlsferry and Elie - A Scottish Golf Heritage
    Graham Johnston
    Earlsferry and Elie - A Scottish Golf Heritage tells the history of golf on the Fife coast from its early beginnings in the 18thCentury, through the lengthy litigation in the 19th Century with a local landowner and how the current golf course at Elie developed.  Also how the various golf clubs associated with the village came and went and it catalogues the world renowned golf c...
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    34,44 €

  • Sequins, Scandals & Salchows
    Ryan Stevens
    Sequins, Scandals and Salchows: Figure Skating in the 1980s is an extraordinary history of a decade when figure skating was the talk of the town and its stars were household names.This one-of-a-kind book expands far beyond iconic moments like Torvill and Dean’s Bolero and The Battle of The Brians, exploring intriguing connections between figure skating and real-world events tha...
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    30,90 €

  • The History of Fantasy Sports
    Larry Schechter
    Fantasy sports have become as ingrained in American culture as baseball and apple pie. And they have spread worldwide. There are versions of these games for football, baseball, basketball, hockey, soccer, cricket, bull riding, bass fishing, Iditarod and many more. It is one of the most popular forms of entertainment today.But the millions who play mostly have no idea about the ...
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    19,88 €

  • Fond Memories From the Forgettable Decade
    Jim Bellano
    Pitching Memories: A Sports Buff’s Humorous and Irreverent Odyssey Through the Iconic 1970s!Step back in time to an underappreciated, but extraordinary era, the 1970s; an age that impacted the hearts and souls of sports fans across the nation. In Fond Memories From the Forgettable Decade, Jim Bellano, a passionate sports enthusiast, invites you on an exhilarating journey throug...
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    24,45 €

  • Fond Memories From the Forgettable Decade
    Jim Bellano
    Pitching Memories: A Sports Buff’s Humorous and Irreverent Odyssey Through the Iconic 1970s!Step back in time to an underappreciated, but extraordinary era, the 1970s; an age that impacted the hearts and souls of sports fans across the nation. In Fond Memories From the Forgettable Decade, Jim Bellano, a passionate sports enthusiast, invites you on an exhilarating journey throug...
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    12,59 €

  • Championship Rounds (Round 5)
    Bernard Fernandez
    Renowned sportswriter and 2020 International Boxing Hall of Fame Inductee, Bernard Fernández releases his fifth book in the Championship Round series with a Foreword by former heavyweight contender Gerry Cooney.'With this, his fifth anthology on the sport he loves, Bernard Fernandez proves he is a champion writer...'  Dave Kindred (Sportswriter), Washington Post, Atlanta Journa...
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    14,94 €

  • My Hometown, Sports at Glen Rock High School, 1967-1970, The 2024 Edition
    Roy Edgar Lott
    This book recounts the history of Glen Rock High School athletics, with a primary focus on the school’s athletic program during the years of 1967 through 1970, a period when the games of the school’s teams, along with the music of that period, produced the soundtrack of growing up in Glen Rock. This new 2024 edition adds significant details about the history of Glen Rock athlet...
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    13,80 €

  • The Bob Verga Shift
    Michael B Layden
    Can one player truly change the course of history?In 1966, an all-black basketball team from the University of Texas El Paso (then Texas Western University) defeated an all-white team from the University of Kentucky to win the NCAA championship in a game that has become famous as a civil rights milestone. A closer inspection of the events leading to that momentous game reveal t...
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    15,52 €

  • Earnhardt Nation
    Jay Busbee
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    17,00 €

  • FROM CHANG’AN TO ATHENS
    Chongshen Li / Lijuan Mao / LIJUAN MAO CHONGSHEN LI QILIN SUN / Qilin Sun
    This book collects and studies the colourful sports and history of countries along the historical Silk Road from Chang’an to Athens, including a wide range of sports ranging from polo and chess to archery and lion dance. It will examine, research and analyse a large number of sports cultural relics and documentary materials unearthed by archaeology in recent years, and comprehe...
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    166,75 €

  • Seasons on Ice
    Craig P. Nelson
    Seasons on Ice - The Birth of Wisconsin Badgers Hockey is a never before told story about the Wisconsin Badgers men’s hockey program. It is a meticulously researched chronology documenting the origins of ice hockey during the initial era at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from the 1890s on Lake Mendota through the mid-1930s.Hockey developed quite a following in Madison, WI....
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    17,18 €

  • Why We Root (Vol. 1)
    Jack M Silverstein
    Why We Root: Mad Obsessions of a Chicago Sports Fan is a collection of Jack M Silverstein’s sportswriting, including pieces from 1999 to 2023 that reveal the sports-fan mindset and show readers why we root for our teams. This collection of eighty-one articles is organized based on a fan’s emotional journey-from learning the game, to knowing the game, to emotional heartbreak, an...
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    32,27 €

  • Technical Merit
    Ryan Stevens
    'Nowadays, figure skating is largely about jumps and the impressiveness of how many spins you can make in the air. However, the jumps have not always been figure skating’s most prominent feature. When did the jumps emerge, how, and why? Who invented them - if that is even possible to know? These questions are addressed in Ryan Stevens’ book.' - Anna Maria Hellborg, Department o...
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    28,05 €

  • A League of Our Own
    Langshaw Mark
    A League of Our Own is the first book to tell the remarkable story of the establishment and 30-year history of the League of Wales, which was rebranded as the Welsh Premier League in 2010 and the Cymru Premier in 2019. ...
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    38,77 €

  • Racing Hell
    Peter Cate
    The veteran British endurance racing driver with the most Nürburgring 24 hour race starts at the fearsome ’Green Hell’, Peter Cate has achieved success across more than thirty years of top-level competition.RACING HELL is a candid, behind-the-scenes exposé for aspiring racers to better prepare for the realities of a career on the grid and for serious enthusiasts to understand w...
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    21,12 €

  • Racing Hell
    Peter Cate
    The veteran British endurance racing driver with the most Nürburgring 24 hour race starts at the fearsome ’Green Hell’, Peter Cate has achieved success across more than thirty years of top-level competition.RACING HELL is a candid, behind-the-scenes exposé for aspiring racers to better prepare for the realities of a career on the grid and for serious enthusiasts to understand w...
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    30,22 €

  • Through the Lens
    Matison Little / Steve Priest
    Through the Lens: A captivating collection of sports’ most iconic moments preserved by renowned photographer, Steve Priest. A look into some of the world’s greatest sporting events, through Priest’s handpicked selection of his favorite shots.From notable photos of Michael Jordan’s first games to the exhilarating moments of Derek Jeter’s last swing, Priest’s lens preserves the ac...
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    30,35 €

  • Through the Lens
    Matison Little / Steve Priest
    Through the Lens: A captivating collection of sports’ most iconic moments preserved by renowned photographer, Steve Priest. A look into some of the world’s greatest sporting events, through Priest’s handpicked selection of his favorite shots.From notable photos of Michael Jordan’s first games to the exhilarating moments of Derek Jeter’s last swing, Priest’s lens preserves the ac...
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    39,25 €

  • ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE SPORT
    Chongshen Li / Lijuan Mao / LIJUAN MAO CHONGSHEN LI QILIN SUN / Qilin Sun
    Through the use of archaeology, anthropology, sociology, and iconography, this book utilizes a multidisciplinary approach to research Chinese sports. A unique aspect of this book is that it documents the history and culture of Chinese sports through relics of mythology, rock paintings, painted pottery, oracle bones, bronzes, tomb bricks, paintings, porcelain, copper mirrors, an...
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    190,35 €

  • Arthur Gould
    Gwyn Prescott / Prescott Gwyn
    Arthur Gould is the definitive biography of the record-breaking Welsh international player who is widely acknowledged as the first superstar of rugby. Such was his fame and renown, that upon his tragic, early death in 1919, aged just 54, Gould’s funeral in Newport was reported as the biggest Wales had ever seen.Nicknamed ’Monkey’ due to his childhood fondness for climbing trees...
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    38,83 €

  • Backseat Quarterback
    Perian Conerly
    Before cable television and mega-contracts, professional jocks’ lives were little different from those of the fans in the stands. Back then, the game they played was much simpler but far rougher than anything seen today. Ever cheering from the sidelines, Perian Conerly, wife of the New York Giants’ star quarterback Charlie Conerly, and the first female sportswriter in the Nati...
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    35,38 €

  • Routledge Handbook of Sport History
    The Routledge Handbook of Sport History is a new and innovative survey of the discipline of sport history. ...
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    84,64 €

  • Rugby League History Western and Southern NSW 1920-1976
    Greg James Riach
    Rugby League History Western & Southern NSW 1920-1976. This book takes the reader on a journey through the history of football in the Western and Southern districts of NSWfrom 1920-1976. It encompasses groups 9, 10, 11, 14 and 15. Much of the content has been sourced from newspaper reports and photographs of players and teams throughout the decades. It is divided into three sec...
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    73,91 €

  • Hail to the Redskins
    Adam Lazarus
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    16,92 €

  • American Big-Game Hunting The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club
    'American Big-Game Hunting: The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club' is a captivating and authoritative volume that delves deep into the rich history, daring adventures, and conservation efforts of big-game hunting in North America. Named after two legendary figures in American hunting lore, Daniel Boone and Theodore Roosevelt, the Boone and Crockett Club has played a pivotal r...
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    19,80 €

  • The Modern Medicine Game
    Travis Taylor
    IN 2010, MEMBERS OF THE HAUDENOSAUNEE NATIONALS (formerly the Iroquois Nationals) lacrosse team, representing the Haudenosaunee Confederacy of six Indigenous Nations in North America, were sitting in a hotel in New York City instead of playing on the field in Manchester, England, competing for a world championship. The Nationals were told they couldn’t use their Haudenosaunee p...
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    23,22 €

  • Latin American Sport Media
    This book provides an historical overview of the formation of sports media in Latin America and its role in the construction of the political history of Latin American sport. The sports press was a privileged observer of the development of modern sports, but it was also a key factor in the making of professional sports in Latin America. Most of the literature on sport in Latin ...
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    48,34 €