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 Golf - A Good Walk & Then Some: A Quintessential History of the GameBest Price: $8.06 The quiet game from Scotland has gained quite the international following. "Golf: A Good... |  Honolulu Stadium: Where Hawaii PlayedBest Price: $18.95 A great book with oustanding pictures that will bring back many memories for anyone that... |  Loyal Sons: The Story of the Four Horsemen and Notre Dame Football's 1924 ChampionsBest Price: $13.34 Lefebvre's "Loyal Sons" is a fluid yet detailed account of Notre Dame's famed... |  Fast Women: The Legendary Ladies of RacingBest Price: $0.72 Nearly everyone within sound range of a TV set these days should recognize the name Danica... |  A Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Roaring '20sThrough most of the Roaring ?20s, Jack Dempsey was the heavyweight champion of the world. With... |
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 SEC Basketball History & TraditionBest Price: $11.95 I received this book as one of the set of books by Chris Warner. I really liked the Tribute to... |  Red Sox Legends (MA) (Images of Baseball)Best Price: $6.06 The book was smaller than I thought it would be, but it has some great photos for the Red Sox... |  Milwaukee's Historic Bowling Alleys (Images of America) (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing))Best Price: $14.60 From the U.S. Olympic team, to "Bowling With the Champs," to countless corner bars... |  The Real All Americans: The Team that Changed a Game, a People, a Nation (Random House Large Print)Jenkins' Real All Americans is reminiscent of a James Michener novel. No, it doesn't... |  Making Waves 50 Greatest Women In Radio And TeleviBest Price: $1.10 Women have come a long way in many fields, in part, because of the efforts of many of these 50... |
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 Hoop Tales: Iowa Hawkeyes Men's Basketball (Hoop Tales Series)Best Price: $2.74 I've been a fan of Hawkeye Basketball since before the days of Sam Williams (whose autograph... |  The Real All AmericansBest Price: $7.22 As a guy rule of thumb, when your wife says "I think you should read this book about... |  The Use of Sports to Promote the American Way of Life During the Cold War: Cultural Propaganda, 1945-1963Best Price: $166.66 Investigates the use of sport in the first two decades of the Cold War to resist Communism by... |  Stanley Cup FeverBest Price: $2.96 |  Great Sports UpsetsBest Price: $10.55 |
 Full Throttle: The Life and Fast Times of NASCAR Legend Curtis TurnerBest Price: $12.57 Curtis Turner, the first NASCAR celebrity, wrote the book on living fast and dying young.... |  When the Boys Came Back: Baseball and 1946Best Price: $44.10 In the aftermath of World War II, baseball was as unsettled as the rest of the country.... |  American Decathletes: A 20th Century Who's WhoBest Price: $51.31 American male decathletes have enjoyed tremendous success over the course of the past century,... |  John L. Sullivan: The Career of the First Gloved Heavyweight ChampionBest Price: $35.00 Unlike most boxing biographies, Adam Pollack's John L. Sullivan: The Career of the First... |  Hoop Lore: A History of the National Basketball AssociationBest Price: $35.00 From Naismith and the creation of basketball to multimillion dollar deals and Lebron James. ... |
 Duke University Men's Basketball Games: A Complete Record, Fall 1953 Through Spring 2006Best Price: $8.10 The ACC, since December 1, 1953, has played over 12,000 basketball games. This reference work... |  Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Exploiting College AthletesBest Price: $26.43 Walter Byers, who served as NCAA executive director from 1951 to 1987, was charged with the dual... |  Pro Football's Great Moments, 1985 Updated Edition |  Arete: Greek Sports from Ancient Sources, Expanded editionBest Price: $50.00 From the informal games of Homer's time to the highly organized contests of the Roman world,... |  When the Game Was OursBest Price: $3.74 This is a great read. If you're a die hard...you've heard many of the stories... |
 Kentucky's Domain of Power, Greed and CorruptionBest Price: $19.74 It is nice that we have a difference of opinion on the book in question or it wouldn't be... |  Race of the Century: The Heroic True Story of the 1908 New York to Paris Auto RaceBest Price: $6.29 Perhaps you've seen the 60s movie The Great Race, which was based on this real-life... |  Cinderella Man: James J. Braddock, Max Baer, and the Greatest Upset in Boxing HistoryBest Price: $0.46 Cinderella Man is less a biography of James J. Braddock, than a skillfully crafted portrait of... |  Young Woman and the Sea: How Trudy Ederle Conquered the English Channel and Inspired the WorldBest Price: $1.13 Glenn Stout took a story I had never heard about, and a subject matter in which I had very... |  The Washington Redskins: An Illustrated HistoryBest Price: $11.98 The Washington Redskins Picture Book |
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 NFL's Greatest: Pro Football's Best Players, Teams, and GamesBest Price: $16.99 This may sound weird because I'm a girl, but this book really rocks!! I'm really into... |  The Games Presidents Play: Sports and the PresidencyBest Price: $0.02 In his latest work, "Games Presidents Play", author John Watterson has brought us an... |  American Indian Sports HeritageBest Price: $35.00 Joseph Oxendine provides important history that had previously gone undocumented and... |  Washington-Baltimore Sports Quiz (Even the Colts and the Senators) |  The Fighting Tigers, 1993-2008: Into a New Century of LSU FootballBest Price: $23.49 I read the entire book over a few hours. Granted, there are a number of pictures! I relived... |
 Bayou Classic: The Grambling-Southern Football RivalryBest Price: $15.98 The annual clash in New Orleans between the Grambling State University Tigers and the Southern... | ||||
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