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The Art of Sportscasting: How to Build a Successful Career: How to Build a Successful Career
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The Art of Sportscasting: How to Build a Successful Career: How to Build a Successful Career
by Tom Hedrick

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This no-holds-barred, play-by-play manual on professional sportscasting gives you an inside course at the sportscaster's challenges and victories....
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Harvey Penick's Little Red Book: Lessons and Teachings from a Lifetime in Golf
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Harvey Penick's Little Red Book: Lessons and Teachings from a Lifetime in Golf
by Harvey Penick

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Harvey Penick's life in golf began when he started caddying at the Austin, (Texas), Country Club at age eight. Eighty-one years later he is still there, still dispensing wisdom to pros and beginners alike. His stature in the golf world is reflected in...
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An Incomplete and Inaccurate History of Sport: And Other Random Thoughts from Childhood to Fatherhood
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An Incomplete and Inaccurate History of Sport: And Other Random Thoughts from Childhood to Fatherhood
by Kenny Mayne

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Painstakingly faithful to its title, Kenny Mayne's book is neither complete nor is it particularly accurate. Ostensibly an A-to-Z encyclopedia of all known sports, many sports are never mentioned. There's not a word about rugby, volleyball, Roller Derby,...
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Sportscape : The evolution of sports photography
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Sportscape : The evolution of sports photography
by Paul Wombell

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Sportscape tells the story of how sport has been shown by photographers over a period of 100 years, focusing on the beauty and interest of the photographs and what they are telling us about the development of sport. Many photographs have never been...
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God Save the Fan: How Preening Sportscasters, Athletes Who Speak in the Third Person, and the Occasional Convicted Quarterback Have Take
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God Save the Fan: How Preening Sportscasters, Athletes Who Speak in the Third Person, and the Occasional Convicted Quarterback Have Take
by Will Leitch

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ESPN thinks its viewers are stupid. The Olympics claw at your inner sap. Barbaro, after all, was just a horse. So says Will Leitch, founding editor of Deadspin.com, whose God Save the Fan is your new manifesto. Arch and unrepentant, Leitch is the...
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The Straight Pool Bible: Personal Instruction from a World Champion
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The Straight Pool Bible: Personal Instruction from a World Champion
by Arthur Cranfield

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From minimizing cue ball movement to handling the pressure of competition, this guide imparts the skills necessary to master pool's most demanding game....
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The Pleasures of Computer Gaming: Essays on Cultural History, Theory and Aesthetics
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The Pleasures of Computer Gaming: Essays on Cultural History, Theory and Aesthetics
by Melanie (edt) Swalwell

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This collection of essays situates the digital gaming phenomenon alongside broader debates in cultural and media studies. Contributors to this volume maintain that computer games are not simply toys, but rather circulate as commodities, new media...
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Sports Heroes, Fallen Idols
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Sports Heroes, Fallen Idols
by Stanley Teitelbaum

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On the court and on the field they are the world’s winners, exhibiting a natural grace and prowess their adoring fans can only dream about. Yet so often, off the field our sports heroes lose their perspective, their balance, and ultimately their...
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Ten Moments That Shook the Sports World: One Sportswriter's Eyewitness Accounts of the Most Incredible Sporting Events of the Past Fifty Years
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Ten Moments That Shook the Sports World: One Sportswriter's Eyewitness Accounts of the Most Incredible Sporting Events of the Past Fifty Years
by Stan Isaacs

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Want to know what really happened? Stan Isaacs knows. He was there! "The Shot Heard Round the World," in 1951. "The Fight of the Century," in 1971. The horror of the 1972 Munich Olympics. Secretariat's legendary win at the 1973 Belmont Stakes. Stan...
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The Official 365 Sports Facts-A-Year Page-A-Day Calendar
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The Official 365 Sports Facts-A-Year Page-A-Day Calendar
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Feel the adrenaline, every day. The essential calendar for true-blue fans, 365 Sports Facts-A-Year celebrates the amazing plays, hat tricks, victorious moments, and underdog miracles that fire the passions of sports junkies. Spurred by a hometown crowd...
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1941: The Greatest Year in Sports: Two Baseball Legends, Two Boxing Champs, and the Unstoppable Thoroughbred Who Made History in the Shadow of War
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1941: The Greatest Year in Sports: Two Baseball Legends, Two Boxing Champs, and the Unstoppable Thoroughbred Who Made History in the Shadow of War
by Mike Vaccaro

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Joe DiMaggio . . . Ted Williams . . . Joe Louis . . . Billy Conn . . . Whirlaway Against the backdrop of a war that threatened to consume the world, these athletes transformed 1941 into one of the most thrilling years in sports history. In the summer of...
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A Modern Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
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A Modern Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
by Michele Maggiore

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The importance and the beauty of modern quantum field theory resides in the power and variety of its methods and ideas, which find application in domains as different as particle physics, cosmology, condensed matter, statistical mechanics and critical...
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And the Crowd Goes Wild: Relive the Most Celebrated Sporting Events Ever Broadcast with CD (Audio)
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And the Crowd Goes Wild: Relive the Most Celebrated Sporting Events Ever Broadcast with CD (Audio)
by Joe Garner

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Fans Wept. The Crowd Cheered. The Announcers Went Wild. You Just Had To Be There. And You Can Be. In words and images--and on two audio CDs narrated by award-winning sports journalist Bob Costas--And The Crowd Goes Wild brings to life the spine-tingling...
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Ben Hogan's Five Lessons
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Ben Hogan's Five Lessons
by Ben Hogan

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"You can shoot in the 70's!" <P> Ben Hogan has long believed that any golfer with average coordination can learn to break 80 if he applies himself intelligently -- and here, with Herbert Warren Wind, and artist Anthony Ravielli, he tells you, step...
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Lookouts: Firewatchers of the Cascades and Olympics (Images of America)
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Lookouts: Firewatchers of the Cascades and Olympics (Images of America)
by Ira Spring

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Inspiring history of the fire-protection lookouts built and manned during the mid-1900s. With more than 200 photos from archival and personal collections....
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Design for Sports the Cult of Performanc
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Design for Sports the Cult of Performanc
by Akiko Busch

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If sports have become a new religion, then sporting equipment has become an object of devotion. Our cultural fascination with the icons of sports— from Michael Jordan to Rollerblades— and the technology of designs that push us to ever-higher...
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Guide to Free Campgrounds - East 12th Edition: Now Including Campsites That Cost $12 and Under East of the Mississippi River (Guide to Free Campgrounds East)
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Guide to Free Campgrounds - East 12th Edition: Now Including Campsites That Cost $12 and Under East of the Mississippi River (Guide to Free Campgrounds East)
by Don Wright

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Updated bi-annually, this book lists all campgrounds in the 17 western states that have camping fees of $12 or less. It includes all federal campgrounds as well as state parks and forests, fishing lakes with camping, county and city parks, wildlife areas,...
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Creative Coaching (01 Edition)
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Creative Coaching (01 Edition)
by Jerry Lynch

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With this guide, coaches learn to teach, guide, and motivate in a more reciprocal relationship with athletes. It provides coaches with innovative and effective approaches and solutions to tough challenges. Photos & illustrations....
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Encyclopedia of Outdoor and Wilderness Skills
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Encyclopedia of Outdoor and Wilderness Skills
by Chris Townsend

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-421) and index....
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Game on: The All-American Race to Make Champions of Our Children
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Game on: The All-American Race to Make Champions of Our Children
by Tom Farrey

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We all want our kids to shine. But here's what you need to know before you push them too far. Much as Fast Food Nation challenged America's eating habits, Game On by Tom Farrey will forever change the way we look at youth sports. In this fascinating...
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