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  • Historical Dictionary of Tennis

    by John Grasso ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Sports
    The sport of tennis has been played in one form or another for more than 800 years. It can trace its roots to games played by monks in the 12th century. Through the years the game has evolved from one in which the ball was struck with the hands to the modern game in which rackets are used to propel the ball in excess of 150 miles per hour. From the sport of the elite to the sport played by elite ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Bowling

    by John Grasso, Eric R. Hartman ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Sports
    Loggats, kayles, quilles, skittles, half-bowl and ninepins were all early forms of games in which the goal was to knock down small standing objects from a distance by rolling or throwing another object at them. Archaeologists have found items from Egypt around 5200 B.C. that included small stone balls and narrow pins that were possibly used for a game. Additional research has disclosed that ... Read more

    $153.89 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Wrestling

    by John Grasso ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Sports
    Wrestling as a legitimate contest is one of the oldest, if not the oldest form of sport. There are cave drawings in France that depict memorable matches, which are over 15,000 years old. Egyptian and Babylonian reliefs depict wrestling bouts where wrestlers are using most of the holds known to the modern-day sport. Wrestling was also a big part of ancient Greek literature and legend and historical ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Boxing

    by John Grasso ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Sports
    Boxing is one of the oldest sports in the world, reaching back to the Ancient Greeks, although it has become popular only in the past century or so. But, in some ways, it is a rather complicated sport since – to avoid unnecessary harm – it has been endowed with rules to keep it clean, referees to see the rules are obeyed, and organizations to regulate the sport. Boxing was once largely amateur, ... Read more

    $178.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement

    by John Grasso, Bill Mallon, Jeroen Heijmans ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Sports
    The Olympic Movement began with the Ancient Olympic Games, which were held in Greece on the Peloponnesus peninsula at Olympia, Greece. It is not clear why the Greeks instituted this quadrennial celebration in the form of an athletic festival. The recorded history of the Ancient Olympic Games begins in 776 B.C., although it is suspected that the Games had been held for several centuries by that ... Read more

    $214.69 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Football

    by John Grasso ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Sports
    Gridiron football or American football or just plain football is the most popular sport in the United States in the 21st century. Although attempts have been made to develop the sport outside North America, it is still predominantly a North American sport with similar games (but significant rules differences) played in the United States and Canada.The Historical Dictionary of Football covers the ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Basketball

    by John Grasso ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Sports
    In less than 120 years an activity invented by one man to alleviate winter boredom for a college gym class has evolved into a worldwide multi-billion dollar enterprise. It is impossible for Dr. James Naismith, basketball's inventor, to have envisioned the extent to which his simple game would reach. Without major changes to his original 13 rules, basketball is now played in more than 200 countries ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Swimming

    Jump Right in with This Illustrated, Stroke-By-Stroke Guide

    by Mike Bottom, Nathan Jendrick ...
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    $8.99 USD

  • Baseball's Best 1,000

    Rankings of the Greatest Players of All Time

    by Derek Gentile ...
    Using various (and completely subjective) criteria including lifetime statistics, personal and professional contributions to the game at large, sportsmanship, character, popularity with the fans, and more, sports writer Derek Gentile ranks the best players of all time.Along with a ranking, information on each player is presented, including the teams on which he has played throughout his career, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Twelve Mighty Orphans

    The Inspiring True Story of the Mighty Mites Who Ruled Texas Football

    by Jim Dent ...
    The remarkable true story of an orphanage and the man who created one of the greatest football teams Texas has ever known, now a major motion picture.More than a century ago, a school was constructed in Fort Worth, Texas, for the purpose of housing and educating the orphans of Texas Freemasons. It was a humble project that for years existed quietly on a hillside east of town. Life at the Masonic ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Roger Federer

    The Definitive Biography

    by Chris Bowers ...
    Roger Federer is not only one of the greatest tennis players ever to pick up a racket - if not the greatest - but he is one of the global icons of our time. Characterised by a mixture of passion and calmness, a fierce competitor with a regal bearing, he is both an athlete and an ambassador, a street fighter and a statesman.But who is he really? And what are the experiences and influences that have ... Read more

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