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  • A Test Debut
    Raymond Rhodes
    A test debut is a moment in a cricketer’s career that lives long in the memory. Players will approach the occasion with varying degrees of anxiety whilst trying to navigate their way through it as positively as possible.Throughout the book, all aspects of a player’s test debut are explored through the stories and experiences that make them what they are. From the moment a playe...
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    11,78 €

  • A Complete History of the World Figure Skating Championships
    Ryan Stevens
    A comprehensive encyclopedia of the World Figure Skating Championships.This book offers a complete statistical record of fascinating facts, figures and firsts from the World Figure Skating Championships. Beautiful black and white photographs of legendary champions are interspersed with detailed and accurate results from the World Championships, going back to the 19th Century.Ar...
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    23,40 €

  • A Complete History of the European Figure Skating Championships
    Ryan Stevens
    A comprehensive and painstakingly researched encyclopedia of the oldest international figure skating competition in the world.The book offers a complete statistical record of fascinating facts, figures and firsts from the oldest international figure skating competition in the world. Beautiful black and white photographs of legendary champions are interspered with complete and a...
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    23,82 €

  • The Comprehensive Guide to Team Sports
    Samuel J.J. Picano
    The Comprehensive Guide to Team Sports provides an all-encompassing look at the history of team sports.This unmatched guide provides information on all of the most popular team sports worldwide, and includes complete rulebooks for each sport, full colour diagrams, detailed historical information about the origin and creation of each sport, and complete results for all major com...
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    72,33 €

  • Sudden Death
    Richard Petre
    In pro football, the 1965 NFL season was an exclamation point in the sport’s golden age. It was the turning point in the war between the establishment NFL and the insurgent AFL and featured many of the greatest players ever like Johnny Unitas and Jim Brown, who were longtime stars, and Dick Butkus and Gale Sayers, who were first-year wonders. And that season offered an epic We...
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    22,52 €

  • The Myth of Michael Jordan in Popular Culture
    Tomasz Jacheć
    This book examines the life and career of Michael Jordan, one of the greatest athletes in the history of sports, asking how he transcended his sport to become a canonical myth in popular culture. ...
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    82,67 €

  • HBCU Sports 101
    Kenn Rashad
    A definitive introduction to the culture, history, and impact of Black college athletics.HBCU Sports 101: A Guide to Understanding Black College Athletics offers an accessible and informative overview of athletic programs at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Covering over a century of sports history, the book highlights influential athletes, legendary coache...
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    27,96 €

  • HBCU Sports 101
    Kenn Rashad
    A definitive introduction to the culture, history, and impact of Black college athletics.HBCU Sports 101: A Guide to Understanding Black College Athletics offers an accessible and informative overview of athletic programs at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Covering over a century of sports history, the book highlights influential athletes, legendary coache...
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    36,36 €

  • The Ultimate Book of 1980s Sports Trivia
    Nora Nugget
    Hey, sports fans, ready to relive the high-octane glory of the ’80s? ’80s Sports Trivia: Legends, Records, and Epic Moments takes you back to the decade of slam dunks, knockout punches, and Olympic miracles! Packed with fun facts, jaw-dropping stats, and stories of icons like Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky, and Steffi Graf, this trivia-packed ride dives into the moments that def...
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    14,52 €

  • The Indy 500
    Ray Hartjen
    The Indy 500: Where Speed Meets Tradition'. . . The Indy 500: A Year-Long Quest to Win the Greatest Spectacle in Racing tells the story well. A great work about a singular event, the largest single-day sporting event in the world-the Indianapolis 500 Mile Race.'— Paul Page, Award-winning journalist and broadcaster, long-time “Voice of the 500,” and member of both the Indianapol...
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    17,41 €

  • Sport and Polish Society in the Communist Era
    Marcin Stasiak / Marta Kurkowska-Budzan
    Using the history of sport in the small towns and local communities of Poland, this book shines new light on the everyday reality of life under a communist regime in Eastern Europe in the 20th Century. ...
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    82,75 €

  • The Steamer
    Andy Furillo
    For nearly sixty years, Bud Furillo wrote and talked about sports in Southern California. For fifteen of those years, he authored a popular column for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner called The Steam Room, which gave him the nickname that lasted him for the rest of his life: “the Steamer.'As a reporter, columnist, editor, and pioneer of sports talk radio, the Steamer dishe...
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    27,09 €

  • Hero Redefined
    Doug Levy
    What does it mean to be a hero-in sports and in life?Heroes aren’t just the ones who bring home medals. Hero Redefined delves into the lesser-known stories of Olympic athletes-and a couple of special Olympic venues-that challenge the conventional narrative of glory and gold. In riveting personal profiles exploring herculean feats of strength, perseverance, and sportsmanship, aw...
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    15,14 €

  • Routledge Handbook of Sport in China
    This is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of the history, and development of sport from the ancient to the contemporary era in China. It explores topics including the history of Chinese traditional sport, the rise of modern sport, physical education, and leisure and tourism. ...
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    92,36 €

  • World of Sport
    Matthew Taylor
    World of Sport examines the development of modern sport from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1960s in the light of transnational approaches to history. ...
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    69,07 €

  • Maker of Champions
    Sylvia Low Tiffany
    During the golden age of boxing in Fiji one fighter captured the imagination of a country. His name was Sakaraia Ve.This is the story of how legendary trainer John Ramos took Ve from a promising young boxer to the world stage.From humble beginnings, Ramos chased a dream, guiding a stable of talented fighters who have left their mark on Fiji’s boxing landscape.On his journey Ram...
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    23,98 €

  • The End of College Football
    Derek Silva / Nathan Kalman-Lamb
    In this book, Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva offer an existential challenge to one of America’s favorite pastimes: college football. Drawing on twenty-five in-depth interviews with former players from some of the country’s most prominent college football teams, Kalman-Lamb and Silva explore how football is both predicated on a foundation of coercion and suffused with racial...
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    31,53 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • There is No Finish
    Stephen Parker
    There is No Finish tells the roller-coaster story of the Backyard Ultra. Birthed from the high school musings of Lazarus Lake, renowned for the Barkley Marathons, the running event has spread globally-to over eighty countries- with sky-rocketing numbers. Runners have up to one hour to complete a 4.1-mile lap. At the start of the next hour, again they attempt to complete the sam...
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    25,27 €

  • SEASONS IN THE SON
    Bill Bolde
    Maybe you have witnessed the practice of some athletes pointing to the heavens after hitting a home run or scoring a touchdown. Perhaps you have caught some of today’s biggest sports stars delivering declarations of faith during postgame interviews with tributes like, 'Glory to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.' Many will say, 'That’s awesome!' or 'Hallelujah!' However, do you ...
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    17,06 €

  • ...in search of THE HEALING PLACE
    D D Murray McGavin MD
    MARTIN FAIRA wonderfully easy read...something of a rollercoaster ride! It draws you in...evocative, detailed and engaging. Excitement comes rushing off the page...as you see ’God at work’ in Murray’s own life, and in so many places throughout the book.ALASTAIR PETRIEI strongly recommend ’in search of THE HEALING PLACE’ for all leaders and all readers...a blueprint for life! Mu...
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    23,54 €

  • The Boys in Blue
    Mason Clark
    Dublin High School ceased to exist as of June in 1974. When the school’s era as a high school came to an end many years ago, the history of a very proud and decorated football program also came to an end. Now half a century later, the Dukes’ history and their story have begun to fade away. From the late 1950’s to the early 1970’s, the Dukes were one of Virginia’s top football t...
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    39,88 €

  • JACK GOODWIN’S BOXING
    Jack Goodwin
    Forwarded by the RT HON. Early of Lonsdale, this 1922 guide by boxer and coach Jack Goodwin showcases an end-to-end explanation of the finer points of boxing. Goodwin’s credentials are immense, being the winner of 'the Ring', Lonsdale, English, British and European belts.This manual is predominantly aimed at boxing coaches and professionals and explore lesser-explained areas of...
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    17,66 €

  • THE COMPLETE BOXER
    Gunner James Moir
    Londoner Gunner Moir learned his trade in boxing under legendary trainers Dai Dollings and Sid Grumley. Whilst serving in the Royal Artillery in India, Moir began accumulating various Army boxing titles, becoming Heavyweight Champion of the British Indian Army. Moir’s career hit its pinnacle as he become British Heavyweight Champion in 1906, dethroning Jack Palmer.Moir’s 1909 b...
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    17,64 €

  • ’this rugby spellbound people’
    Prescott Gwyn
    Now in it’s third edition, The Birth of Rugby in Cardiff and Wales is the essential guide to the importance and significance of rugby in Cardiff to the development of Welsh rugby in the nineteenth century.In this new and updated edition, Gwyn Prescott provides a fascinating insight into the origins and early years of the game in Cardiff. He outlines how its citizens of all back...
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    51,82 €

  • Sport and Protest in the Black Atlantic
    This is the first book to focus on race, sport, protest, and the Black Atlantic. It brings together innovative scholarship on African, African-American, Afro-European, Afro-Brazilian, and Afro-Caribbean sports in a manner that speaks effectively to the diversity of the African Diaspora, its history, and culture. ...
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    77,29 €

  • The 2,003-Yard Odyssey
    Joe Zagorski
    'It was a season where the impossible became possible. It was a season where the hard to believe became believable.'--Marv Levy, Pro Football Hall of Fame Coach.The 1973 Buffalo Bills made pro football history. They had an offense that broke several important rushing records during that memorable year. And they had a superstar running back by the name of O.J. Simpson, who broke...
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    16,16 €

  • The History of Fantasy Sports
    Larry Schechter
    Fantasy sports have become as ingrained in American culture as baseball and apple pie. There are versions of these games for football, baseball, basketball, hockey, soccer, cricket, bull riding, bass fishing, Iditarod and many more. More than 50 million men and women in the USA play fantasy sports. 200 million play fantasy Cricket in India.The History of Fantasy Sports provides...
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    19,88 €


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