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Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter by Frank Deford Publisher Comments Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter is as unconventional and wide-ranging as Frank Deford's remarkable career, in which he has chronicled the heroes and the characters of just about every sport in nearly every medium. Deford joined Sports Illustrated in... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why by Laurence Gonzales Publisher Comments After her plane crashes, a seventeen-year-old girl spends eleven days walking through the Peruvian jungle. Against all odds, with no food, shelter, or equipment, she gets out. A better-equipped group of adult survivors of the same crash sits down and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Everything They Had: Sports Writing from David Halberstam by David Halberstam Publisher Comments "Sometimes sports mirrors society, sometimes it allows us to understand the larger society a little better. But mostly, it is a world of entertainment of talented and driven young men and women who do certain things with both skill and passion."... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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A People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play by Dave Zirin Publisher Comments In this long-awaited book from the rising superstar of sportswriting, whose blog The Edge of Sports is read each week by thousands of people across the country, Dave Zirin offers a riotously entertaining chronicle of larger-than-life sporting characters... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Breaks of the Game by David Halberstam Staff Pick Portland: Read this. The Breaks of the Game, finally back in print, is almost certainly one of the best books ever written about the NBA, but that statement hardly does it justice. Halberstam's subject far transcends any action on the court. In 1979... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ecstasy of Defeat: Sports Reporting at Its Finest by Editors of the Onion Publisher Comments The Sports Page As You've Never Seen It Before From painfully obvious steroid revelations to sex scandals and superstars who announce trades in over-the-top TV specials, the wide world of sports can often seem too ridiculous for words. Well, attention... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $14.50 Used - Trade Paper
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No Shortage of Good Days by John Gierach Publisher Comments In No Shortage of Good Days John Gierach takes readers from the Smokies in Tennessee to his home waters in Colorado, from the Canadian Maritimes to Mexico—saltwater or fresh, its all fishing and all irresistible. As always he writes... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Best American Sports Writing (Best American Sports Writing) by Jane Leavy Publisher Comments The Best American Series(R) First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Grantland Issue 2 by Bill (edt) Simmons Synopsis Grantland Quarterly is a collaboration between McSweeney's and Grantland, the popular website founded and edited by Bill Simmons. It features the best long-form sports and culture writing from the site as well as new print exclusives, delivered in a... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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Won't Back Down: Teams, Dreams, and Family by Kim Mulkey Publisher Comments Kim Mulkey has been a gutsy trailblazer her entire life. Growing up in Hammond, Louisiana, she was the first girl in her hometown to play on an all-boys baseball team. And she is the only woman or man to win an NCAA championship as a player (twice at... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Best American Sports Writing (Best American Sports Writing) by Rick Reilly Publisher Comments Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sports Illustrated Almanac 2011 (Sports Illustrated Almanac) by Sports Illustrated Synopsis America's favorite sports almanac since its introduction 20 years ago, the Sports Illustrated Almanac now has 2010 covered, from football to fencing, hockey to handball, and everything in between. The Sports Illustrated Almanac features essays by top... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sports Book by DK Publishing Publisher Comments Featuring the largest and most diverse range of sports of any comparable book—more than 200 in all—from basketball to bobsledding, karate to korfball, synchronized swimming to ski-jumping, this up-to-date and authoritative guide presents information... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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It's All about the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels by Robert Penn Staff Pick If you're not already enchanted by the idea of two-wheeled adventure, you will be by the time you finish It's All about the Bike. Lifelong cycling enthusiast Robert Penn recounts his quest to build the perfect bike in this funny, engaging, and... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Hardcover
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Over Time by Frank Deford Publisher Comments Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter is as unconventional and wide-ranging as Frank Deford's remarkable career, in which he has chronicled the heroes and the characters of just about every sport in nearly every medium. Deford joined Sports Illustrated in... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $22.19 Google eBooks - Electronic
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What Is Sport? by Roland Barthes Publisher Comments In this elegant paperback gift edition, one of the major figures of 20th-century French literature and thought offers a poetic meditation on professional sport.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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One on One: Behind the Scenes with the Greats in the Game by John Feinstein Publisher Comments John Feinstein's illuminating recollections from two decades of interviews with sports legends. John Feinstein's career is a sports fan's dream-a lifetime of encounters with the great figures in sports, not just on the field, but in the locker room and... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Renegade Sportsman: Drunken Runners, Bike Polo Superstars, Roller Derby Rebels, Killer Birds and Other Uncommon Thrills on the Wild Frontier by Zach Dundas Publisher Comments A face-first dive into America's sporting underbelly. A lifelong sports fan, Zach Dundas asks: What happened to the fun, loud-mouthed, down-and-dirty sporting culture he always loved? Has it been replaced with performance-enhancing drugs, fat... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Best by Number: Who Wore What with Distinction by Ron Smith Publisher Comments This colorfully illustrated book takes readers behind the scenes with amazing anecdotes of why players chose--or were assigned--their famous numbers. Most importantly, "Sporting News" reveals the best of the best, 0-99. 300 photos, many in color.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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An Accidental Sportswriter: A Memoir by Robert Lipsyte Publisher Comments Growing up, Robert Lipsyte was the smart-aleck fat kid, the bully magnet who went to the library instead of the ballpark. As the perpetual outsider, even into adulthood, his alienation from Jock Culture made him a rarity in the press box: the... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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