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  Voices of Old-Time Boxing Greats

  Joe Louis, Max Schmeling, Gene...

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  Hear the voices of old-time boxing greats, including Joe Louis, Max Schmeling, Jess Willard, Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, James J. Corbett, Tommy Farr, Tony Galento, Tami Mauriello.

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  The Magical Game - The Spirit...

  Addy Baird

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  This is the story of baseball’s rich magical history and the centuries-old culture of superstition in the sport. It is a love letter to the jinxes, curses, rituals and myths of baseball’s past and present ― and to the innate mysticism of the game. 
   
  For more than 150 years, a magical culture has been central to the game of baseball: At the turn of the 20th century, a battle between two lucky mascots defined early World Series matchups. Soon after, two generational curses spawned decades of heartbreaking losses for the Chicago Cubs and the Boston Red Sox. Today, players like Bryce Harper perform at-bat rituals, fans refuse to wash the jerseys of their favorite players, and baseball people everywhere refuse to utter the words “no-hitter” before there’s been a hit. 
   
  In The Magical Game, journalist and converted baseball fan Addy Baird turns her reporter’s eye to her favorite sport, investigating the roots of these magical practices and telling the story of baseball’s long history of superstition, rituals, curses, jinxes, hoodoos, and hexes. Spanning three centuries of baseball history and three dozen more of magical history, Baird takes readers through fascinating, forgotten tidbits in the sport, untangles the game’s legends, and considers baseball’s uncertain future. In the face of recent MLB rule changes and the rise of advanced statistics, Baird looks at the many decades of concern about baseball’s declining popularity and the evolution of the sport, as well as why and how a culture of magic has remained strong at the core of the game for so many years. 
   
  Funny, poetic, and deeply researched, The Magical Game will make readers fall in love with baseball all over again.

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  Real Footy Fans Quiz Book - 1000...

  Mart Matthews

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  Mart Matthews is the author of an acclaimed series of football quiz books that have featured Arsenal, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Everton, Liverpool, Manchester United, Newcastle United, Spurs, West Ham United and Wolves.
  This book concerns itself with football in general and, like all Mart's previous books, comprises 1,000 questions in 100 categories, with a bonus section on the 2022 World Cup.
  Try these for size:
  Political football
  1. A British Prime Minister shares a surname with the man who opened the scoring in the 1986 World Cup final between Argentina and West Germany. What was that surname?
  2. A member of Manchester United's FA Cup-winning sides of 1996 and 1999 shared his surname with a future British Prime Minister. Who was that player?
  3. The first name of a player who scored a winning goal for Chelsea in an FA Cup final is also the surname of an earlier British Prime Minister. Who are the two men?
  4. Chelsea won the FA Cup in 1970, Arsenal followed suit the following year and Sunderland took the trophy in 1973. Each of these sides contained the surname of a British Prime Minister. Which three surnames were involved?
  Ties in with the release of Mart Matthew's quiz books on Manchester City, Newcastle, Southampton, Portsmouth, Blackburn and West Brom.

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  The Gift and the Curse "the Jeff...

  Jeff Jackson

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  (Author) Jeff Jackson former high school "GATORADE" Player Of The Year and Philadelphia Phillies former #1 Draft Pick takes you on a journey deep into his life... He reveals his truth about his professional baseball career as well as his experience with the Philadelphia Phillies and shares what really happened... For the first time, he divulges his most interpersonal thoughts and feelings about his life and career in this new book titled, "THE GIFT AND THE CURSE"... This book is packed with never seen before pictures and news articles from little league, high school, and the pros...Reader's interested in sports or have an affinity, and appreciation of athletes, preferentially for baseball in general, will swoon over "THE GIFT AND THE CURSE", and Jackson's willingness to open up and share his truth, In hopes that others can learn from the mistakes he made as a young professional athlete, dealing with the struggle of balancing popularity, pressure, and depression that he experienced during his playing days, with the Phils.

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  Unladylike - A History of Ladies...

  Hayley Kilgallon

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  After first emerging in the 1920s, ladies Gaelic football was soon sidelined; breathless women chasing after a football was just too unladylike for the powers that be.
  Despite this resistance, the sport became a popular novelty act at local carnivals. And when the Ladies Gaelic
  
  Football Association (LGFA) was founded in Tipperary in July 1974, fifty years of extraordinary growth were set in motion. From writing the rule book to a membership of nearly 200,000, the earliest All-Stars to game-changing partnerships, this definitive history captures that unstoppable journey to becoming a national sport and so much more.
  Lavishly illustrated and drawing from national, club and personal archives, UNLADYLIKE is for the players, the fans, the kit-washers, the sandwich-makers and the supporters alike, and confirms the best is yet to come.
   

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  From Darkness to Dynasty - The...

  Jerry Thornton, Michael Holley

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  Love them or hate them, what the New England Patriots have been able to do over the past fifteen years is nothing short of remarkable. In addition to their four Super Bowl championships, the Patriots have the best coach in the league, a smart and savvy front office, and a future Hall of Fame quarterback who is internationally recognized as the face of the NFL. The longer the Patriots continue to dominate on the field as well as in the media and the American pop culture landscape, the harder it becomes for anyone to remember them as something other than a model franchise and the ultimate paradigm of success and accomplishment. 
  Anyone, that is, except for Jerry Thornton. It wasn’t always sunshine and roses for the Patriots; in fact, for the bulk of their existence, it was exactly the opposite. Though difficult to fathom now, the New England Patriots of old weren’t just bad—they were laughably bad. Not so long ago, the Pats were the laughingstock of not only the NFL but also the entire sporting world. 
  From Darkness to Dynasty tells the unlikely history of the New England Patriots as it has never been told before. From their humble beginnings as a team bought with rainy-day money by a man who had no idea what he was doing to the fateful season that saw them win their first Super Bowl, Jerry Thornton shares the wild, humiliating, unbelievable, and wonderful stories that comprised the first forty years of what would ultimately become the most dominant franchise in NFL history. 
  Witty, hilarious, and brutally honest, From Darkness to Dynasty returns to the thrilling, perilous days of yesteryear—a welcome corrective for those who hate the Patriots and a useful reminder for those who love them that all glory is fleeting.

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