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What if Babe Ruth had not been sold to the Yankees in 1920 and instead played his entire career in Boston? What if Muhammad Ali had lost or quit in his first fight against Sonny Liston? What if the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants had never moved to the West Coast? What if Vince Lombardi had become head coach of his hometown Giants instead of heading to Green Bay? How would sports history, and our perception of it, be different today? These are...
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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 Isaacs saw them all live. Isaacs covered thousands of sports stories in his more than fifty years as a journalist. But ten moments stand out in his memory. Ten Moments That Shook the Sports World offers...
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In every sport, in every country around the world, there are fans on the losing side who know that something other than skill and luck beat their favorite team or player. Sometimes they're actually right. That's why sports lovers will devour this inside look at the 25 biggest myths and scandals in professional and collegiate athletics.
Elliott Kalb examines each potential outrage in detail, supporting and debunking popular beliefs along the way....
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Sports fans in New York will always remember the incredible events of 1969. It was the year that two of the city's underdog teams would rise above all expectations to be crowned world champions.
On January 12, 1969, the underdog New York Jets faced the heavily-favored Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III. Up to this point, no former AFL team had ever won a Super Bowl. Leading the Colts were future Hall of Fame coach Don Shula and quarterback Johnny...
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Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1976, Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith is considered one of the greatest sportswriters ever to live. Put alongside Ring Lardner, Red Smith was beloved by those who read him because of his crisp writing and critical views.
Originally released in 1982, The Red Smith Reader is a wonderful collection of 131 columns with subjects ranging from baseball and fishing to golf, basketball, tennis, and boxing. As John Leonard of the...
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Separating fact from myth, Kalb attempts to determine which of these long-held conspiracy theories hold water, and which ones fall flat under scrutiny. Ranking the conspiracies from 1 to 30 and the likelihood of each conspiracy from 1 to 5, Kalb boldly asks:
Did baseball avoid integration in the 1930s and 1940s with an unwritten agreement? Was Super Bowl III a fixed game? Did Sonny Liston throw both of his fights vs. Muhammad Ali? Was the NBA's first-ever...
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Sports Illustrated, the most respected voice in sports journalism, has covered the National Football League for over seven decades, documenting its heroes, villains, great characters, and iconic moments. A wide-ranging portrait of America's game, this anthology features the best pro football writing from the SI archives by nationally renowned journalists including George Plimpton, Frank Deford, Rick Reilly, and Paul Zimmerman.
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What do players across such different sports such as Buster Posey, Tom Brady, and Tiger Woods have in common? Their injuries have shaped the world of sports and how sports medicine is approached. When you hear stories of Kobe traveling abroad to receive blood platelet injections, or Olympians using low-oxygen training masks, or how an NFL player bounced back from an ACL or MCL tear, these techniques were all developed by surgeons who had to fix the...
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La meritoria historia del Deportivo de La Coruña.
El libro cuenta la meritoria historia del Deportivo de La Coruña, el equipo de fútbol que en los años noventa se ganó el cariño de los aficionados españoles por sus heroicas gestas en la Liga y en la Copa del Rey. El equipo, gracias a la ambiciosa gestión de su presidente, incluso llegó a codearse con la realeza del fútbol europeo. Sin embargo, aquellos años gloriosos escondían una gestión...
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Crónicas publicadas en el diario Levante.
Las columnas de Barraca y Tangana (publicadas en el diario Levante) se han convertido en una contraseña de culto entre los ojeadores más exigentes. Ballester escribe, aparentemente, de fútbol. Pero no te fíes: utiliza el regate de la ironía para despistar al lector. En verdad, escribe sobre lo que de verdad importa.
Descubre un libro que habla de fútbol. O cualquie otra cosa...
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Treinta y seis años después, milagro: la selección peruana regresa a un mundial de fútbol.
"Me levanté de la cama y corrí por toda la casa como un pollo desquiciado. No paré hasta la cocina, donde aproveché para servirme una copita de pisco. La última de la noche, me dije, y regresé improvisando una especie de vals abrazado a mi vaso. La nueva selección peruana que competía para ir a Rusia era, por fin, un equipo que respondía. Un Perú...
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In this reissue of Tales from the Maryland Terrapins, fans can relive the most profound memories from more than 100 years of athletics at the University of Maryland in College Park. Authored by David Ungrady, a former two-sport athlete at the school, the book includes a series of first-person anecdotes that reflect the joys and challenges of his athletic career as well as the rich history of collegiate athletics at the school.
While it was still...
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El Rayo, representante del espíritu revolucionario de Vallecas.
El Rayo Vallecano, de unos años a esta parte, representa (de manera muy simbólica, no querría yo exagerar) el espíritu revolucionario en algo tan poco revolucionario como el fútbol. En concreto, desde que los Bukaneros se han hecho fuertes en el fondo y han contagiado a las otras gradas. Es un hecho, y rebatirlo sería mentir. El estadio (casi) entero aplaude muchas de las pancartas...
14) Tales from the Indianapolis Colts sideline: a collection of the greatest Colts stories ever told
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"With roots that go back to 1953, the Indianapolis Colts are one of the most storied franchises in the NFL. But the modern legacy of achievement began in 1984 when the Colts arrived in Indianapolis after a midnight escape from Baltimore. More than thirty years later, the Colts have forged an identity as one of the most dynamic, power-driven teams in football today.Now diehard Colts fans can relive all the struggles, all the passion, and all the glory...
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Les informations et conseils nécessaires, afin d'éviter les erreurs et pièges du parcours sportif
Des millions de filles et de garçons rêvent d'une carrière dans le football, mais la plupart n'ont pas le minimum d'informations nécessaires. Des centaines de milliers changent de club, de pays, de continent, sans y être préparés. Afin de protéger et guider les jeunes joueurs dans leur mobilité nationale ou internationale, Foot Solidaire...
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Ohio coaching legend Paul Brown said he wanted to create "the New York Yankees of pro football" when he assembled the Cleveland Browns from scratch in 1946. Despite his ambition, not even the future Hall of Fame coach could have foreseen ten league championship appearances and seven titles in the team's first ten years. Since their first game, the Cleveland Browns have come to symbolize power, excellence, and gridiron dominance. Now fans of one of...
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Countdown to Super Bowl tells the whole story of the game of the century, written by the man who followed every movement of the Jets from the first kick-off of the season, who lived, breathed, and agonized with them for the ten nerve-tingling days before the Colts went down to defeat in the Super Bowl. Here, by Dave Anderson of the New York Times, is the play-by-play, moment-by-moment saga of how Super Joe Namath and the Jets made good Namath's boast...
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En Copenhague, en Basilea o en Soria. En tu pueblo o en el mío. A cuántos niños les habrán dicho, cuando se ponían tristes porque perdía su equipo, que no sintieran pena, que eso realmente no importa, que el fútbol no les da de comer ni les compra ropa.
Ese mensaje de no estar triste por el fútbol porque el fútbol no te da de comer es un mensaje ultramaterialista. ¿Qué pasa? ¿Que solo podemos estar tristes por aquello que nos dé dinero?...
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« Pendant des années, je me suis senti défié par le sujet, la mémoire et la réalité du football, et j'ai eu l'intention d'écrire quelque chose qui fût digne de cette grande messe païenne, qui est capable de parler tant de langages différents et qui peut déchaîner tant de passions universelles. C'est de ce défi et de ce besoin d'expiation qu'est né ce livre. Hommage au football, célébration de ses lumières, dénonciation de ses ombres....
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In 1979, San Francisco was in turmoil attempting to recover from the assassination of two of its leaders: Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. The troubled city was in need of an emotional boost to restore their pride. But as the year drew to a sad close, the city's professional football team, the 49ers, endured its second straight 2–14 season and it, too, was in deep despair. Critics jumped on Eddie DeBartolo Jr., the new owner, along...
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