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"A heartbreaking and inspiring true story of a New Orleans high school football team and their head coach's mission to protect his players' lives"--
Short on hope but big on dreams, the mostly poor and marginalized residents of the New Orleans neighborhood of Algiers find joy on Friday nights when the Cougars of Edna Karr High School take the field. For years, this football program has brought glory to Algiers, winning three consecutive state championships...
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Originally published in 1958, this is the autobiography of renowned U.S. boxing writer and collector, Nat Fleischer. It not only tells the fascinating story of the author himself, but crucially allows the reader a firsthand glimpse into the ring scene of the first half of the 20th century. "This is a story which nobody has produced in the past, and certainly is not going to duplicate in the future. "It is the life story of a man who lived through...
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50 YEARS OF SPORT AS SEEN BY THE CHAMPION OF ALL SPORTS WRITERS. This isn't, praise be, a formal book. It is no literary exercise in balanced sentences and the painfully selected word. This is Grant Rice talking, rambling happily along, tell again in his wonderful way the wonderful stories he loved to tell. They are great tales of men and deeds, told with affection and warmth and gentle humour. Yet it isn't the stories of the great which make this...
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"From the moment he was born, Tex Rickard seemed to be wherever the action was. He entered the world as a posse was riding by- the posse was after the James brothers. Rickard became a trail cowboy at eleven, and a town marshal in his early twenties. He was up in the Yukon Valley, working in gambling houses, two years before the Klondike gold rush started; there he prospected, made and lost several fortunes. As a sports promoter, he arranged title...
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The Tiger Wore Spikes, first published in 1956, is an insightful, down-to-earth look at the career of baseball great Tyrus "Ty" Cobb (1886-1961), who spent 22 seasons with the Detroit Tigers (the last 6 years as the team's player-manager), followed by several seasons with the Philadelphia Athletics. Written by sports writer John McCallum, the book is based on the author's interviews with Cobb as he reflected back on his long and sometimes controversial...
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Judge Landis and 25 Years of Baseball, first published in 1947, is a look at the career of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, a federal judge and professional baseball's first commissioner, who served in that position for 25 years until his death in 1944. The book, authored by J. G. Taylor Spink, editor of the influential The Sporting News, also serves as a history of major league baseball at that time - the team owners, the players, the legal battles,...
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An informal autobiography of the old-time professional baseball pitcher and entertainer, Al Schacht. The Bronx-born Schacht pitched for a decade in the minors with the New York Giants, then the old Washington Senators in 1919, 1920 and 1921. One of the first Jewish players in the professional game, he appeared on the same staff as Walter Johnson, but was best known for his comic performances which gained him the title "The Clown Prince of Baseball"....
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Veteran and expert boxing writer Nat Fleischer recounts the career of Terrible Terry McGovern, who dominated the Bantam and Featherweight classes at the turn of the 20th Century. Still regarded as one of the most destructive and effective Bantamweights of all time, a stocky, fast body puncher who won 45 of his fights via knock-out in an age of iron men.
Historian Barry Deskins wrote, "Short blows to the body followed by a viscous straight right is...
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Galento the Great is the gripping biography of Tony "Two-Ton" Galento, the boxer who once fought Joe Louis-considered one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time-for the heavyweight title. It was written by Joseph G. Donovan in 1939, the same year Galento challenged Louis for the title.
Domenico Antonio Galento (1910-1979) was an American heavyweight boxer, nicknamed "Two-Ton" for his reasoning to his manager for being nearly late to one of...
10) My Giants
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First published in 1963, the year Russ Hodges started his fifteenth season as the voice of the Giants, MY GIANTS is the story of the man who has lived and died with the team through years that have been triumphant, sometimes disappointing, but never, never dull."I don't believe it-I do not believe it" This was Hodges' cry over the air as Bobby Thomson hit the home run that gave the Giants the 1951 pennant. He was there, too, when Willie Mays made...
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Football's premier pass-catcher, Tommy McDonald, says of himself, "I'm just a little guy in a big guy's game." This five-foot-ten-inch, 175-pound fireball has proved that speed, balance, and savvy are more than a match for the league of giants in which he plays!
Here's McDonald's story.
Thomas Franklin McDonald (July 26, 1934 — September 24, 2018) was an American football flanker in the National Football League (NFL) for the Philadelphia Eagles,...
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First published in 1927, Jack Johnson's autobiography, Jack Johnson: In the Ring and Out, remains the key source for information about his life. As he himself states in it: "I am astounded when I realize that there are few men in any period of the world's history, who have led a more varied or intense existence than I {have}." Jack Johnson, who became the first black heavyweight boxing champion in the world in 1908, was the preeminent American sports...
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THE TRUE STORY OF THE MANASSA MAULER
He started out as a mine mucker and digger in construction camps. He fought anybody, anywhere. He got $2.50 for his first "regular" match. He was a hungry, penniless kid. Then almost overnight he was champion of the world and a millionaire and the idol of the nation.
IT'S ALL HERE-THE WHOLE THRILLING TRUTH!
...the amazing story of the massacre of Giant Jess Willard, who was supposed to beat Dempsey to a pulp...
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Before Serena Williams, Mia Hamm, Billie Jean King, and Jackie Joyner-Kersee, there was Babe Didrikson Zaharias. This autobiography tells the story of one of the greatest female athletes of all time who inspired a generation of women and girls. Born in Port Arthur, Texas in 1914 to Norwegian immigrant parents, Mildred Ella Didrikson was a natural at many sports, including basketball, track, and golf. She said that she got her nickname "Babe" (after...
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Baseball is a game rooted deep in the heart of America. I've loved it ever since I was a kid old enough to yell: "Take Me Out to the Ball Game!" As long as I can remember, I've been hearing stories of baseball...fascinating tales of fabulous heroes from a land where the sun always shines and men never grow old...curious legends that grew stranger with age...yarns that have been handed down with the years as treasured lore. As I grew older, and fate...
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Carol Heiss is a two-time Olympic medalist and five-time world champion in figure skating. She won the 1960 Olympics in women's figure skating and she also won the silver medal at the 1956 Olympics. When she won the 1960 Olympic Gold Medal, all nine judges awarded her first place. Carol Heiss won the world championship every year from 1956 through 1960.
This biography on the famous American former figure skater and actress, written by the well-known...
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William T. Tilden II was an American tennis player and is often considered one of the greatest tennis players of all time. Tilden was the World No. 1 player for six years from 1920 through 1925. He won 15 Major singles titles including ten Grand Slam events, one World Hard Court Championships and four Pro Slam tournaments. He was the first American to win Wimbledon in 1920.
18) Behind the Plate
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Life had not been kind to young Tommy Riggs-and even though he had all the natural playing ability to become a Major Leaguer, his anger at the world kept him from becoming the great player he could be. How Tommy Riggs learned not only to be a star catcher, but also to live with himself and his teammates, makes a suspenseful story filled with the true-to-life color of baseball from the Minor Leagues through the bitter competition of spring training...
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What makes a champion? Ambition, determination, ability and a generous portion of some personal, often indefinable, quality that enables the individual to become outstanding in his field. Richard (Pancho) Gonzales has all the attributes of a champion, but it is his own special mixture of drive, single-minded concentration and sheer boyish delight in his sport which makes him victorious on the court just about every time.
As a public figure, Pancho...
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Vintage major league baseball book tells the story of the 1950 Philadelphia Phillies National League Champion baseball club, as reported by a Philadelphia sportswriter who covered the team.
The team had a number of young players: the average age of a member of the Whiz Kids was 26.4 The team won the 1950 National League pennant but failed to win the World Series.
After owner R. R. M. Carpenter, Jr. built a team of bonus babies, the 1950 team won...
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