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  Voices of Olympic Track Greats

  Rick Sheridan, Multiple Authors

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  Hear the voices of Olympic Track Greats, including Jesse Owens, winner of 4 Gold Medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin; Josy Barthel, a Luxembourgish runner who won the men's 1500 meters at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Olympics; and Roger Bannister, an English athlete best known for breaking the 4-minute mile. 
  Public Domain (P)2014 Rick Sheridan

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  Sleeping Bags To S'mores -...

  Heather Balogh Rochfort, William...

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  Grinders - Baseball's Intrepid...

  Mike Capps, Chuck Hartenstein

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  Baseball is a game of stars, but this is not their story. These are the stories of players who battled their way to a chance in the big leagues and hung on as long as they could — Deacon Jones, Brian Mazone, and Lorenzo Bundy. They are tales of a love of the game, passed from father to son. Without the Grinders, without their grit, determination, and persistence, there would be no stars. The Grinders fill every roster at every level, plugging away year after year. 
  In Grinders: Baseball’s Intrepid Infantry, Capps and Chuck Hartenstein chronicle the game’s foot soldiers. These are the unheralded players who took the hard knocks road, spending their careers bouncing between the Show and obscurity, never quite achieving their dreams, all for a chance to play the game they love. 
  The rank-and-file players we call Grinders, make up the biggest percentage of major-league team rosters. Yet unless you're an addicted fan, you might not know much about your team's No. 5 starter, backup catcher, fourth or fifth outfielder or backup infielders—the Grinders on the team. You might not appreciate the struggles they've had simply making it to the big leagues. Now you will. Grinders: Baseball’s Intrepid Infantry chronicles their stories. 
   

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  Passion Plays - How Religion...

  Randall Balmer

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  Randall Balmer was a late convert to sports talk radio, but he quickly became addicted, just like millions of other devoted American sports fans. As a historian of religion, the more he listened, Balmer couldn’t help but wonder how the fervor he heard related to religious practice. Houses of worship once railed against Sabbath-busting sports events, but today most willingly accommodate Super Bowl Sunday. On the other hand, basketball’s inventor, James Naismith, was an ardent follower of Muscular Christianity and believed the game would help develop religious character. But today those religious roots are largely forgotten. 
   
  Here one of our most insightful writers on American religion trains his focus on that other great passion—team sports—to reveal their surprising connections. From baseball to basketball and football to ice hockey, Balmer explores the origins and histories of big-time sports from the late nineteenth century to the present, with entertaining anecdotes and fresh insights into their ties to religious life. Referring to Notre Dame football, the Catholic Sun called its fandom “a kind of sacramental.” Legions of sports fans reading Passion Plays will recognize exactly what that means.

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  A People's History of Tennis

  David Berry

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  Pristine lawns, tennis whites, strawberries and cream, tennis is synonymous with the upper echelons of society, but scratch beneath the surface and you'll quickly discover a different history, one of untold struggles on and off the courts. 
   
   
   
  From the birth of modern tennis in Victorian Britain to the present day, we bear witness to struggles around sexuality, gender, race, and class that have transformed the nature of tennis and sport itself. A People's History of Tennis is populated by diverse voices, recounting the sport's gay origins, "Workers' Wimbledon," battles for gender equality, and more. 
   
   
   
  Going beyond center court, this book reveals the hidden history of the game, providing a rich account of the challenges faced and victories won.

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  How to Run a Marathon for...

  HowExpert, Helen Nazarenko

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  If you want to know how to run a marathon, then get this step-by-step How to Run a Marathon guide which depicts all sorts of different aspects and details of marathon running. 
  How to Run a Marathon is a beautiful instructional guide. The guide provides useful tips and strategies for someone who wishes to run a marathon, as well as various ideas and proven solutions to problems a runner may be forced to face. The introduction of the book focuses on the many benefits and parts to running a marathon, and takes a look at what running a marathon can provide the average person with. It also gives suggestions for causes to run for and other meaningful advice regarding self-motivation and personal fitness goals in general.   
  The major sections that follow this brief but thorough introduction provide both diet and training plans that were tested personally by the author and are proven to work. These sections also depict the various nutrients that must be present in anyone's healthy diet every day, as well as giving general guidelines regarding daily calorie consumption and composition for runners.  
  Other content included in the book would be helpful insight on the day of the marathon as well as suggestions about what to do once a runner has completed his or her first marathon and achieved his or her much desired goals. 
  HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on all topics from A to Z by everyday experts.

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