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The Art of Sportscasting: How to Build a Successful Career: How to Build a Successful Career
by Tom Hedrick  Publisher Comments 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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Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
by Laurence Gonzales Publisher Comments In Deep Survival, Laurence Gonzales combines hard science and powerful storytelling to illuminate the mysteries of survival, whether in the wilderness or in meeting any of life's great challenges. This gripping narrative, the first book to describe the...
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Everything They Had: Sports Writing from David Halberstam
by David Halberstam Synopsis This work delivers the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's unique vision of sports, with an intimate and personal collection that reveals the ideals of a culture steeped in integrity, loyalty, and character....
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Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports
by Dave Zirin and Chuck D Publisher Comments Dave Zirin is the best young sportswriter in America.-Robert Lipsyte This much-anticipated sequel to What's My Name, Fool? by acclaimed commentator Dave Zirin breaks new ground in sports writing, looking at the controversies and trends now shaping sports...
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The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal
by David Halberstam Publisher Comments "Astonishing . . . Moving . . . One of the best books ever written about a sport."<BR> *Walter Clemons<BR> Newsweek <BR>"A PENETRATING, FASCINATING AND REMARKABLY SUSPENSEFUL NARRATIVE."<BR> *David Guy<BR> Chicago Tribune<...
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A Few Seconds of Panic: A 5-Foot-8, 170-Pound, 43-Year-Old Sportswriter Plays in the NFL
by Stefan Fatsis Publisher Comments Drawing on rare access to an NFL team's players, coaches and facilities, the author of The New York Times bestseller Word Freak trains to become a professional-caliber placekicker. As he sharpens his skills, he gains surprising insight into the daunting...
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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 Publisher Comments 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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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 Publisher Comments 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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An Incomplete and Inaccurate History of Sport: And Other Random Thoughts from Childhood to Fatherhood
by Kenny Mayne Publisher Comments 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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Sports Heroes, Fallen Idols
by Stanley Teitelbaum Publisher Comments 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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October 1964
by David Halberstam Publisher Comments In 1989 David Halberstam published Summer of '49, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller. It was a compelling portrait of baseball in an America as yet unchanged by affluence, technology, and social progress. The players, almost all white, had been...
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On Bullfighting
by Kennedy 
Publisher Comments An Anchor Books Original <BR>One day, on the brink of despair and contemplating her own mortality, novelist A. L. Kennedy is offered an assignment she can't refuse-an opportunity to travel to Spain and cover a sport that represents the ultimate...
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The Unlevel Playing Field: A Documentary History of the African American Experience in Sport (Sport and Society)
by David Wiggins Publisher Comments The documents include discussions of the color line in organized baseball during the Jim Crow era and athletics in the American army, as well as portraits of turn-of-the-century figures, like the champion sprint cyclist Marshall "Major" Taylor and boxers...
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Fathers Playing Catch with Sons PR #0001: Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)
by Donald Hall Publisher Comments In the pantheon of great sports literature, not a few poets have tried their hand at paying tribute to their love affair with the game -- Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, and William Carlos Williams among them. This elegant volume collects Donald Hall's...
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The $40 Million Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete
by William Rhoden Publisher Comments Renowned "New York Times" columnist Rhoden deconstructs the black athlete in this explosive and absorbing discussion of race, politics, and the history of American sports. He argues that for all their money and fame, black athletes are no better off than...
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What's My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United States
by Dave Zirin Publisher Comments "Zirin is America's best sportswriter."-Lee Ballinger, "Rock and Rap Confidential" <P>"Zirin is one of the brightest, most audacious voices I can remember on the sportswriting scene, and my memory goes back to the 1920s."-Lester Rodney, "N.Y. Daily...
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The Best American Sports Writing of the Century
by David Halberstam
Publisher Comments Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Halberstam selects the fifty best pieces of sports writing of this century. The Best American Sports Writing of the Century showcases the best sports journalists of the twentieth century, from Jimmy Cannon, Red...
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The Crowd Sounds Happy: A Story of Love, Madness, and Baseball
by Nicholas Dawidoff Publisher Comments From the author of the best-selling The Catcher Was a Spy, his most original work yet: a memoir of two cities (New Haven and New York), a family (troubled), a time (the 1970s), a boy who never quite fits in anywhere--and how baseball helps him find his...
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People Who Sweat: My Middle-Aged Adventures Among Tree Climbers, Mall Walkers, Surfing Housewives, and Other Unlikely Athletes
by Robin Chotzinoff Publisher Comments Robin Chotzinoff has always been a rank amateur athlete. From yoga to snowboarding, she's tried it all, yet never found her sporting niche. Resigned to her own lack of calling, she hit the road in search of other not-necessarily-talented-but-incredibly...
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Great American Sportswriters #01: Classic Wiley: A Lifetime of Punchers, Players, Punks & Prophets
by Ralph Wiley Publisher Comments < BR> When< B> < /B> Ralph Wiley, a columnist for ESPN.com and a former writer for < I> Sports Illustrated< /I> , passed away on June 13, 2004, he left behind a rich legacy of written work. This volume brings together Wiley??...
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