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Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner
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Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner
by Dean Karnazes

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Ultrarunning legend Dean Karnazes has run 262 miles-the equivalent of ten marathons-without rest. He has run over mountains, across Death Valley, and to the South Pole-and is probably the first person to eat an entire pizza while running. With an insight,...
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Out of Nowhere: The Inside Story of How Nike Marketed the Culture of Running
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Out of Nowhere: The Inside Story of How Nike Marketed the Culture of Running
by Geoff Hollister

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How does a boy from a small Oregon farm town get swept up in the politics of his chosen sport? Out of Nowhere takes the reader along on Geoff Hollister's 33 year journey at the center of Nike, the company that would change not only the world of athletic...
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Tiki: My Life in the Game and Beyond
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Tiki: My Life in the Game and Beyond
by Tiki Barber

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Tiki Barber, former running back for the New York Giants and current Today show correspondent, has seemingly led a charmed life. Whether on the field or in front of the camera, the Smiling Giant makes everything look easy. But it has taken a lot of...
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Adventures in Larryland!
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Adventures in Larryland!
by Larry Zbyszko

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Wrestling’s self-proclaimed “Living Legend” may never wear a championship belt again, but he’s definitely not down for the count, as this memoir shows in its entertaining, often hilarious story of a remarkable ascent to wrestling...
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Un Sueno Americano: Mi Historia
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Un Sueno Americano: Mi Historia
by Oscar De La Hoya

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Oscar De La Hoya, uno de los luchadores mas celebrados en la historia del boxeo, nos brinda su historia franca y conmovedora sobre como logro el Sueno Americano: su ascenso al exito, el poder de una etica de trabajo solida, la dolorosa perdida de su...
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Yankee for Life
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Yankee for Life
by Bobby Murcer

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A former Yankees great remembers his years in pinstripes and talks candidly about his courageous battle with brain cancer. As he stepped to the plate at Yankee Stadium on Opening Day in 1966, Bobby Murcer carried with him the hopes and expectations of...
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American Son: My Story
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American Son: My Story
by Oscar De La Hoya

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From Oscar De La Hoya, one of the most celebrated fighters in the history of boxing, comes a frank and touching memoir about achieving the American Dream: his rise to the top, the power of a solid work ethic, his mother's painful death from cancer, the...
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It's Not about the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
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It's Not about the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
by L Armstrong

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The #1 New York Times bestseller from the cancer survivor who became a four-time Tour de France champ....
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Ted Dibiase
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Ted Dibiase
by Ted Dibiase

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Everyone's got a price. Everyone's got to pay. 'Cause the Million Dollar Man always gets his way. After proving his point, Ted DiBiase would laugh and fan out his large roll of hundreds, worsening the degradation of whoever had been foolish enough to...
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Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
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Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
by Joe Simpson

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Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his leg. In the hours that followed, darkness fell and a...
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Ty and the Babe: Baseball's Fiercest Rivals: A Surprising Friendship and the 1941 Has-Beens Golf Championship
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Ty and the Babe: Baseball's Fiercest Rivals: A Surprising Friendship and the 1941 Has-Beens Golf Championship
by Tom Stanton

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Early in the twentieth century, fate thrust a young Babe Ruth into the gleaming orbit of Ty Cobb. The resulting collision produced a dazzling explosion and a struggle of mythic magnitude. At stake was not just baseball dominance, but eternal glory and...
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Pre: The Story of America's Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine
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Pre: The Story of America's Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine
by Tom Jordan

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The story of America's greatest running legend. For five years, no American runner could beat him at any distance over a mile. But at the age of 24, with his best years still ahead, long-distance runner Steve Prefontaine finally lost. Driving alone...
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An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King
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An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King
by William F. Pepper

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-324) and index....
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The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America
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The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America
by Joe Posnanski

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An award-winning sports columnist and a baseball legend tour the country to recapture the joys and wonders of America's greatest pastime....
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Cliff Allison: From the Fells to Ferrari
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Cliff Allison: From the Fells to Ferrari
by Graham Gauld

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This book is the biography of Cliff Allison who started motor racing over fifty years ago with a little Cooper 500. Very much a countryman at heart Allison was not one of the party-going racing drivers but a driver with a huge ambition to race in Formula...
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Babe: The Legend Comes to Life (Fireside Sports Classics)
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Babe: The Legend Comes to Life (Fireside Sports Classics)
by Robert Creamer

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"I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can." -- Babe Ruth Babe Ruth is without a doubt the most famous character ever produced by the sport of baseball. A legendary player, world-famous for his...
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Swimming To Antarctica : Tales of a Long-distance Swimmer (04 Edition)
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Swimming To Antarctica : Tales of a Long-distance Swimmer (04 Edition)
by Lynne Cox

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The first to swim the Strait of Magellan, the Bering Strait, and the Cape of Good Hope, Lynne Cox, from the age of fourteen, began forcing the world's best long-distance swimmers to reconsider what might be possible in the water. Dive in and brace...
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Veeck As in Wreck : the Autobiography of Bill Veeck (01 Edition)
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Veeck As in Wreck : the Autobiography of Bill Veeck (01 Edition)
by Bill Veeck

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"There couldn't be a better moment for the reissue of Bill Veeck's Veeck: As in Wreck. Originally published in 1962, this greatest of all baseball memoirs returns at a time when player salaries have reached new heights of absurdity and the sport seems...
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Always by My Side: A Father's Grace and a Sports Journey Unlike Any Other
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Always by My Side: A Father's Grace and a Sports Journey Unlike Any Other
by Jim Nantz

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In the bestselling tradition of Big Russ and Me, America's most visible sports commentator tells the stories of some of the most dramatic moments in American sports and pays tribute to the man who inspired him to pursue his broadcasting dreamhis beloved...
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My Life on the Run: The Wit, Wisdom, and Insights of a Road Racing Icon
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My Life on the Run: The Wit, Wisdom, and Insights of a Road Racing Icon
by Bart Yasso

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     Dubbed the "Mayor of Running," Bart Yasso is one of the best-known figures in the sport, but few people know why he started running competitively, how it changed his life, or how his brush with a crippling illness nearly ended...
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