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All Fishermen Are Liars : True Tales from the Dry Dock Bar
Linda Greenlaw
Hardcover - $58.95
Veteran deep-sea fisherman Greenlaw relays true fishing stories--swapped with other seafarers at the Dry Dock Bar--on such topics as the most eccentric crew member, the funniest episode, the biggest fish, the wildest night at sea and more.
In Praise of Athletic Beauty
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Hardcover - $38.95
By the hundreds of millions we show up, stand in line, turn on, and tune in to watch, mesmerized, as athletes perform. And yet this experience, so widely craved and intensely felt, we commonly dismiss as "only a game." A book that looks beyond the us ...
The Best American Sports Writing of the Century
David Halberstam
Paperback - $30.95
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian selects the 50 best pieces of sports writing of the century, capturing the great moments in baseball, boxing, horse racing, golf, and tennis.
Fathers Playing Catch with Sons : Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)
Donald Hall
Paperback - $21.95
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' ...
Notre Dame Fighting Irish : Colorful Tales of the Blue and Gold
Eric C. Hansen
Paperback - $18.95
Relive Classic Moments in Fighting Irish History!
Thrilling victories, crushing defeats, comical mishaps, and colorful coaches, players, and fans--these are the legendary moments and larger-than-life personalities that have made the Fighting Iris ...
Fifty Years of Thunderbolt Tradition : An Athletic History of Pius X High School
Jim Hansen
Paperback - $47.95
Fifty Years of Thunderbolt Tradition : An Athletic History of Pius X High School
Jim Hansen
Hardcover - $66.95
What a Time It Was : The Best W.C. Heinz on Sports
W. C. Heinz
Paperback - $27.95
This luminous, wide-ranging collection of sports writing covers a man who "dazzled his peers" (David Halberstam) and set the stage for the New Journalism of Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe, and Jimmy Breslin. Whether describing mobbed-up boxers, crippled jocke ...
Death in the Afternoon
Ernest Hemingway
Hardcover - $54.95
Still considered one of the best books ever written about bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon is an impassioned look at the sport by one of its true aficionados. It reflects Hemingway's conviction that bullfighting was more than mere sport and revea ...