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  The Magpies Quiz Book - 1000...

  Mart Matthews

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  How much do you really know about the club you love? You can find out by exploring the 1,000 questions set out in 100 categories that make up this Newcastle United Quiz Book.
  It's not often that books on football make reference to Catch-22, Bob Dylan, Queen Victoria, the Boat Race, Monty Python, EastEnders, LA Confidential, the Beatles and the Likely Lads, but this one does!
  Try these for size:
  1. When Newcastle United reached successive FA Cup finals in 1998 and 1999, which club did they knock out of the competition in both seasons?
  2. Although Newcastle United came out on the wrong end of those two magnificent 4-3 encounters with Liverpool at Anfield in the mid-90s, their contribution will always be remembered. Who scored for them in both games?
  3. Which three successive Newcastle United managers had all won the European Cup/Champions League as players?

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  Benchwarmer

  Josh Wilker

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  For most of his life, Josh Wilker has been on the sidelines. Spending his days in a cubicle in the far reaches of Chicago, and his nights in front of Red Sox games, he has been content to let others take center stage. From childhood onward, he sought comfort from anxiety and depression in the archival pages of sports almanacs and stat sheets: a place where forgotten players lingered, and time seemed to stop - a welcome relief from worldly problems. He found joy in the trivia of long-lost athletes, like the former NFL player Walter 'Sneeze' Achiu. But when his first child was born in 2011, Wilker found his anxieties put to the test: how do you remain on the sidelines when a tender, fragile baby needs everything from you?

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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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  Liverpool FC Quiz Book 2

  Dave Ball

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  How much do you know about English football's most successful club? This might well be answered when you test yourself in the second official Liverpool FC Quiz Book. Once again there are 1000 questions and 100 quizzes relating to the history of the club. Certainly the 2019-20 season is covered in depth, when a 19th topflight title, a Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup were added in an unprecedented treble-winning season.
  The book will keep the reader fascinated, as it incorporates the legends of the club, unusual statistics and a multitude amount of trivia. Once again Liverpool FC official statisticians Dave Ball and Ged Rea, who have collectively watched the Reds for over 100 years, have used their vast resources to test even the most knowledgeable of the club's many supporters. Dave has been a consultant researcher on BBC TV's A Question of Sport, whilst his interrogator in chief Ged has worked with him on the club's programme, magazine, TV Channel and website. Ged has for many years provided the national press, radio and television with statistics ahead of every game.

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  Memories from the Microphone - A...

  Curt Smith, Brooks Robinson

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  In this second in a series of Baseball Hall of Fame books, celebrate the larger-than-life role played by radio and TV announcers in enhancing the pleasure of our national pastime.Commemorate the 100th anniversary of baseball broadcasting. The first baseball game ever broadcast on radio was on August 5, 1921, by Harold Wampler Arlin, a part-time announcer on Pittsburgh's KDKA, America's first commercially licensed radio station. The Pirates defeated the Phillies 8–5.An insider's view of baseball. Now listen to Memories from the Microphone and experience baseball from author Curt Smith. He has spent much of his life covering baseball radio and TV, and previously authored baseball books, including the classic Voices of The Game.Relive baseball's storied past through the eyes of famed broadcasters. Organized chronologically, Memories from the Microphone charts the history of baseball broadcasting. Enjoy celebrated stories and personalities that have shaped the game—from Mel Allen to Harry Caray, Vin Scully to Joe Morgan, Ernie Harwell to Red Barber.

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  United - The Legendary Years...

  Denis Law

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  United legends Denis Law and Pat Crerand tell their exclusive story of the years that followed the tragedy at munich - an outstanding decade in which United swept all before them in their quest to become the first English club to win the European Cup. 50 years later Law and Crerand give their personal account of what it was like to be part of one of the world's most successful clubs, recalling their friendships, the rivalries, the debuts of stars such as George Best, the traumas and the triumphs throughout one of th emost successful and colourful periods in the club's history.

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