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  • More Than Just a Game

    Sports in American Life Since 1945

    by Kathryn Jay ...
    Series series Columbia Histories of Modern American Life
    More Than Just a Game tracks the explosion of the sports industry in the United States since 1945 and how it has shaped class, racial, gender, and national identities. By examining both professional and intercollegiate sports such as baseball, football, basketball, golf, tennis, and stock car racing, Kathryn Jay looks at the impact of packaging, salary, hype, corporate sponsorship, drug use, and ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

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  • The Gigantic Book of Hunting Stories

    Edited by Graham Moore ...
    This volume has something for everyone who hunts, be they rabbit hunters in the deep South, Cape buffalo hunters in the African bush, or white-tailed deer hunters in the woods of North America. Its selections celebrate hunting for big game, small game, waterfowl, upland birds, turkeys, African and Asian game, and much more. Readers will find many of their favorite writers represented here, along ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • ESPN: The Mighty Book of Sports Knowledge

    Edited by Steve Wulf ...
    In The ESPN Mighty Book of Sports Knowledge, Steve Wulf, acclaimed author and founding editor of ESPN The Magazine, delivers an arena’s worth of sporting wisdom, trivia, best-of lists, curiosities, legendary feats, and sacred objects–from the magic of Lou Gehrig’s farewell speech to the lore of hockey’s Stanley Cup to the art of the perfectly thrown Wiffle Ball pitch. Written to remind us all why ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Loudmouth

    Tales (and Fantasies) of Sports, Sex, and Salvation from Behind the Microphone

    by Craig Carton ...
    From one of radio's former loudest, orneriest, most beloved, and highest-rated sports radio personalities, a bold and hilarious memoir of sports, manhood, and what it is to be a fan.In 1991, fresh from college, Craig Carton drove a crappy 1980 Buick to Buffalo, New York, to interview for a job at WGR radio. The station manager who hired him was the first to recognize his considerable on-air talent ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Mad Dog 100

    The Greatest Sports Arguments of All Time

    by Chris Russo, Allen St. John ...
    THE ESSENTIAL BOOK FOR ANY SPORTS FAN, FROM ONE OF THE REIGNING KINGS OF SPORTS TALK RADIO, CHRISTOPHER “MAD DOG” RUSSOWhich was the greater achievement, Ted Williams’s .406 season or Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak?Who’d be left standing in a battle between Joe Louis and Mohammed Ali?Which NBA team was the greatest of all time—the ’66–’67 Celtics? The ’71–’72 Lakers? What about the ’95–’96 ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • It's How You Play the Game

    The Powerful Sports Moments That Taught Lasting Values to America's Finest

    by Brian Kilmeade ...

    $12.99 USD

  • Circling the Bases

    Essays on the Challenges and Prospects of the Sports Industry

    by Andrew Zimbalist ...
    In Circling the Bases, leading sports economist Andrew Zimbalist continues his discussion and analysis of the major issues and challenges confronting the sports industry in the second decade of the 21st century. Presenting a general overview of the sports business at both the college and professional levels, this volume places concerns such as the antitrust status of sports leagues, the stalled ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Critical Readings in Bodybuilding

    Edited by Adam Locks, Niall Richardson ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    In recent years the ‘body’ has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Bodybuilding, in particular, continues to be of interest to scholars of gender, media, film, cultural studies and sociology. However, there is surprisingly little scholarship available on contemporary bodybuilding. Critical Readings in Bodybuilding is the first collection to ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • I'd Know That Voice Anywhere

    My Favorite NPR Commentaries

    by Frank Deford ...
    "A sparkling sampler of commentaries from celebrated sports journalist Frank Deford . . . offers a kaleidoscope of sports highs and lows." — Midwest Book ReviewFrank Deford (1938–2017) was one of the most beloved sports journalists in America. A contributing writer to Sports Illustrated for more than fifty years, and a longtime correspondent on Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, in his dotage Deford ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Leafs '65

    The Lost Toronto Maple Leafs Photographs

    by Stephen Brunt ...
    From celebrated author and sports journalist Stephen Brunt comes a beautifully illustrated, elegiac tribute to the Toronto Maple Leafs of yesteryear.In 2006, Lewis Parker, an artist and illustrator, was disposing of some of his belongings from years before in preparation of a move. He and his friend Dennis Patchett were going through boxes, and anything that was deemed not worth saving was ... Read more

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  • Running After Spaghetti

    by Dr. Evan S. Fiedler, Casey Sell ...
    Running After Spaghetti is a nonfiction exposure of the mental and physical strength to accomplish once-thought-impossible goals. Two different recreational athletes with very different challenges share their path. Casey Sell also brings recipes to the table while struggling to prepare for and run a race distance she has never been physically able to attempt. And I am continuing my quest to ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gender and Genre in Sports Documentaries

    Critical Essays

    Edited by Zachary Ingle, David M. Sutera ...
    Nonfiction films about sports have been around for decades, but the previously neglected subgenre of the documentary has become increasingly popular in the last several years. Despite such recent successes as Senna, Undefeated, and ESPN’s 30 for 30 series, however, few scholarly articles have been published on these works.In Gender and Genre in Sports Documentaries, editors Zachary Ingle and David ... Read more

    $89.99 USD