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  The Rise of Sport

  Frederic L. Paxson

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  A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken Realms 
  THE RISE OF SPORT by FREDERIC L. PAXSON. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review 1917.  
  FREDERIC L. PAXSON Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin. PULITZER PRIZE WINNER IN HISTORY 1925. He had undergraduate and PhD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a master’s from Harvard University. He taught at Wisconsin (1910 to 1932) as successor to Frederick Jackson Turner and the University of California-Berkeley from 1932 to 1947. As a historian he was an authority on the American frontier. (Wikipedia) 
  Narrated by Joseph TablerAudio copyright 2024 
  Audio cover picture - Photos of America the first America’s Cup winner; John L. Sullivan in 1882; 1896 Baltimore Orioles baseball club. All from Wikipedia. 
  Dusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain books retrieved from history. If today’s technology had been available when first printed, they would be audio books already. I am grateful for the opportunity to record them now. Read online at archive.org 
  Narrator’s Note: I read only as written. These old books were once solid sellers for bookmen of their time. I believe they can shed light on their times and ours. Loving obscure and remote literature, they are a distinct pleasure for me to read to you. These turn out to be distant and unknown only so long as they remain unread or unheard. Aloha.

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  Gravel Rides South West England...

  Katherine Moore

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  Gravel Rides South West England features 24 cycling routes, ranging from 16 to 180 kilometres, showcasing the extensive gravel trails of the West Country.
  Gravel enthusiast and experienced route creator Katherine Moore has taken her love of the South West and extensive local knowledge to put these routes together – each one is a delight and shows off the highlights of this diverse region of England. Ride mining trails and coastal gravel in Cornwall, remote trails on Dartmoor, a tour of Exmoor tea rooms in North Devon and Somerset, flint and chalk tracks on the Old Chalk Way in Dorset, fast-rolling gravel roads on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, and trails past the remains of old tramways and collieries in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire. The featured routes include both classic routes in well-known areas as well as some lesser-known gravel riding gems – there is something to discover for both new and experienced gravel cyclists.
  Each route includes all the information you need to help you plan your ride, interesting background information about the local area, types of terrain covered and refreshment recommendations in addition to detailed route descriptions, stunning photography and overview mapping. Downloadable GPX files of the routes are also available.
  This book is full of practical tips and advice on all aspects of gravel riding, including the bike itself, essential kit to carry when out on a ride, and bikepacking if you want to extend your adventures.

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  Football Is a Numbers Game - Pro...

  Matthew Coller

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  In the 1980s, Neil Hornsby was one of very few National Football League fans in England. Never one to do anything casually, he began keeping hand-written score sheets of every game using his own tracking system. Soon he'd enlisted some fellow British super fans in his mission to take football information an extra layer deeper. This was the beginning of Pro Football Focus, an analytics company that now supplies data to all 32 NFL teams and every major broadcasting corporation. PFF player grades appear on the screen during Sunday Night Football broadcasts, and PFF's pioneering research and analysis informs discussions at the highest level, from coaching to drafting to game-planning and player evaluation. In Football Is a Numbers Game, Matthew Coller chronicles this improbable start-up tale with unprecedented access, exploring the company's origin as a band of obsessive outsiders, its pivotal acquisition by Cris Collinsworth, and its role in the proliferation of data in the NFL and professional sports. Featuring a cast of memorable characters, this is a portrait of an unlikely business success as well as a behind-the-scenes look at the forces guiding modern NFL teams as they search for a competitive edge.

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  5 SIMPLE STEPS: SHOOT ANY BOW...

  Mark Edward Vogt

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  What if barebow archery didn’t have to be complicated?  
  For decades, archers have been told that accuracy requires expensive equipment, mystical “instinct,” or endless trial‑and‑error. The result? Frustration, inconsistency, and a sport wrapped in dogma.  
  The Vogtland Shooting Method challenges that narrative.  
  This book presents a simple, portable, and brutally effective barebow shooting system that combines the proven strengths of Olympic Recurve Archery with the precision of Stringwalking—while keeping the archer fully in control of the shot.  
  No stabilizers.  
  No sights bolted to the bow.  
  No guesswork.  
  No religion.  
  Just five clear principles you can apply to almost any bow you pick up.  
  Written by competitive barebow archer and engineer Mark Vogt, this book explains why accuracy works the way it does, why many traditional methods struggle with consistency, and how barebow archery can achieve precision that rivals compound bows—without surrendering the shot to equipment.  
  Inside, you’ll discover:  
  • Why barebow archery is a method, not a kind of bow  
  • How elevation control—not instinct—is the key to consistency  
  • Why portable methods outperform fixed equipment  
  • How Olympic‑level principles apply to barebow shooting  
  • Why dogma persists in archery—and how to think past it  
  • A simple mental framework that works from short range to long distance  
  This book was originally created as an audiobook, designed to be listened to while driving or traveling, letting the ideas settle in long before you step onto the range.  
  It’s opinionated.  
  It’s practical.  
  It’s unapologetically skeptical of tradition for tradition’s sake.  
  Most of all, it’s written for archers who want results, not rituals.  
  If you’re ready to question what you’ve been told, simplify your shooting, and take full ownership of every arrow you release, this book was written for you.  
  Barebow archery doesn’t have to be mysterious.  
  It just has to make sense.  
  — Mark Vogt  
  Vogtland Outdoors 

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  Unraveled - A Climber's Journey...

  Kate Brown

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  As a teenager in the 1990s, Katie Brown was one of climbing's first "comp kids"—a young natural who, along with her peers, redefined the image of a strong and successful climber. After climbing for less than two years, Brown won her first junior national title. The next year she became the Junior World Champion at age fourteen in Laval, France. In 1996 she won both the Rock Master—a prestigious international contest in Arco, Italy—and the esteemed X-Games. From 1996 on, Brown won every US Adult National that she entered, as well as a World Cup Title in France in 1999. 
   
   
   
  Yet even as she reigned on the podium, Brown felt her life begin to unravel. A quiet child, she struggled with a home life that was very different behind closed doors than it seemed on television. A fundamentalist version of Christianity was at the center of the household, and Brown fought to live according to rules that were strict, ever-changing, and irrational. Isolated and feeling hopeless, Brown latched onto food as something she could control. She quit competitive climbing and bounced in and out of the industry, eventually disappearing in her late twenties. 
   
   
   
  Now, more than two decades later, Brown is ready to share her story. Unraveled answers the question thousands of fans worldwide have wondered: "What ever happened to Katie Brown?"

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  Operation Ironman - One Man's...

  George Mahood

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  Operation Ironman follows George Mahood’s hilarious and inspiring journey from a hospital bed to an Ironman triathlon. After major back surgery, George set himself the ultimate challenge – 
  a 2.4 mile swim, 
  a 112 mile bike ride, 
  and a 26.2 mile run, 
  all to be completed within 16 hours. 
  He couldn’t swim more than a length of front crawl, he had never ridden a proper road bike, he had not run further than 10k in 18 months... and he had never worn Lycra. 
  He had FOUR months to prepare. 
  Could he do it?

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