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Glory, The Struggle For Yards

Inspiration from Turn of the Century African-American Unsung Heroes

by Gary Burley, Ralph V. Brooks, Donna T. Francavilla ...

Former NFL Cincinnati Bengals’ Gary S. Burley, children’s author Ralph V. Brooks, and award-winning journalist Donna T. Francavilla combined efforts to reveal the challenges and achievements of 5 outstanding football players who broke the color barrier around the turn of the century.Enjoy rarely-seen photographs and read real-life stories about these brave athletes. Hall of Famer, Burl A. Toler, ... Read more

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Former NFL Cincinnati Bengals’ Gary S. Burley, children’s author Ralph V. Brooks, and award-winning journalist Donna T. Francavilla combined efforts to reveal the challenges and achievements of 5 outstanding football players who broke the color barrier around the turn of the century.Enjoy rarely-seen photographs and read real-life stories about these brave athletes. Hall of Famer, Burl A. Toler,
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by Ralph V. Brooks ...

This book focuses on poems that are easy to read to kids from ages six and up. This book will help your kid build up his or her reading skills. Reading is an important skill that needs to be developed in children. The more children read, the better they become at reading. This book is filled with different styles of easy-reading variety of children’s poems from sports icons, animal poetry, and ... Read more

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This book focuses on poems that are easy to read to kids from ages six and up. This book will help your kid build up his or her reading skills. Reading is an important skill that needs to be developed in children. The more children read, the better they become at reading. This book is filled with different styles of easy-reading variety of children’s poems from sports icons, animal poetry, and
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by Ralph V. Brooks ...

This book focuses on poems that are easy to read to kids from ages six and up. This book will help your kid build up his or her reading skills. Reading is an important skills that needs to be developed in children. The more children read, the better they become at reading. This book is filled with different styles of easy-reading variety of children’s poems from sports icons, animal poetry and ... Read more

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This book focuses on poems that are easy to read to kids from ages six and up. This book will help your kid build up his or her reading skills. Reading is an important skills that needs to be developed in children. The more children read, the better they become at reading. This book is filled with different styles of easy-reading variety of children’s poems from sports icons, animal poetry and
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#89 the Road to Number One

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Ralph Brooks narrates his life story about three cities where high school football is king.In Eufaula, Dadeville, and Jackson Gap where Brooks grew up and went to school football is a way of life.Each high school game is celebrated and gains the same respect as a college game.The playoffs bring recognition, emotions, and a chance to be remembered.The books attractive format includes a large number ... Read more

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Ralph Brooks narrates his life story about three cities where high school football is king.In Eufaula, Dadeville, and Jackson Gap where Brooks grew up and went to school football is a way of life.Each high school game is celebrated and gains the same respect as a college game.The playoffs bring recognition, emotions, and a chance to be remembered.The books attractive format includes a large number
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Wooden: A Coach's Life

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A provocative and revelatory new biography of the legendary UCLA coach John Wooden, by one of America's top college basketball writersNo college basketball coach has ever dominated the sport like John Wooden. His UCLA teams reached unprecedented heights in the 1960s and '70s capped by a run of ten NCAA championships in twelve seasons and an eighty-eight-game winning streak, records that stand to ... Read more

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A provocative and revelatory new biography of the legendary UCLA coach John Wooden, by one of America's top college basketball writersNo college basketball coach has ever dominated the sport like John Wooden. His UCLA teams reached unprecedented heights in the 1960s and '70s capped by a run of ten NCAA championships in twelve seasons and an eighty-eight-game winning streak, records that stand to
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Cosby

His Life and Times

by Mark Whitaker ...

The first major biography of an American icon, comedian Bill Cosby. Based on extensive research and in-depth interviews with Cosby and more than sixty of his closest friends and associates, it is a frank, fun and fascinating account of his life and historic legacy.Far from the gentle worlds of his routines or TV shows, Cosby grew up in a Philadelphia housing project, the son of an alcoholic, ... Read more

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The first major biography of an American icon, comedian Bill Cosby. Based on extensive research and in-depth interviews with Cosby and more than sixty of his closest friends and associates, it is a frank, fun and fascinating account of his life and historic legacy.Far from the gentle worlds of his routines or TV shows, Cosby grew up in a Philadelphia housing project, the son of an alcoholic,
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Swing Kings

The Inside Story of Baseball's Home Run Revolution

by Jared Diamond ...

"The best baseball book I've read in years." — Sam Walker • "An exhilarating story of innovation." — Ben Reiter • " Swing Kings feels like a spiritual successor to Moneyball." — Baseball ProspectusFrom the Wall Street Journal's national baseball writer, the captivating story of the home run boom, following a group of players who rose from obscurity to stardom and the rogue swing coaches who helped ... Read more

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"The best baseball book I've read in years." — Sam Walker • "An exhilarating story of innovation." — Ben Reiter • " Swing Kings feels like a spiritual successor to Moneyball." — Baseball ProspectusFrom the Wall Street Journal's national baseball writer, the captivating story of the home run boom, following a group of players who rose from obscurity to stardom and the rogue swing coaches who helped
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Upon Further Review

The Greatest What-Ifs in Sports History

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From Mike Pesca, host of the popular Slate podcast The Gist, comes the greatest sports minds imagining how the world would change if a play, trade, injury, or referee's call had just gone the other way."Intriguing...thought provoking...delightful." --The Washington PostNo announcer ever proclaimed: "Up Rises Frazier!" "Havlicek commits the foul, trying to steal the ball!" or "The Giants Lose the ... Read more

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From Mike Pesca, host of the popular Slate podcast The Gist, comes the greatest sports minds imagining how the world would change if a play, trade, injury, or referee's call had just gone the other way."Intriguing...thought provoking...delightful." --The Washington PostNo announcer ever proclaimed: "Up Rises Frazier!" "Havlicek commits the foul, trying to steal the ball!" or "The Giants Lose the
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The First Tip-Off: The Incredible Story of the Birth of the NBA

by Charley Rosen ...

"Charley Rosen has undertaken the challenge of documenting the latest and greatest history of the game professionally--and has done so to great success. . . . . When I finished the book it seemed as if I had gone through another season, injuries and all. . . . Rosen skillfully leads readers through the NBA's first steps along its journey toward what it has become today.”--Phil Jackson, from the ... Read more

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"Charley Rosen has undertaken the challenge of documenting the latest and greatest history of the game professionally--and has done so to great success. . . . . When I finished the book it seemed as if I had gone through another season, injuries and all. . . . Rosen skillfully leads readers through the NBA's first steps along its journey toward what it has become today.”--Phil Jackson, from the
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Ramblers

Loyola Chicago 1963 The Team that Changed the Color of College Basketball

by Michael Lenehan ...

Today basketball is played above the rim” by athletes of all backgrounds and colors. But 50 years ago it was a floor-bound game, and the opportunities it offered for African-Americans were severely limited.A key turning point was 1963, when the Loyola Ramblers of Chicago took the NCAA men’s basketball title from Cincinnati, the two-time defending champions. It was one of Chicago’s most memorable ... Read more

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Today basketball is played above the rim” by athletes of all backgrounds and colors. But 50 years ago it was a floor-bound game, and the opportunities it offered for African-Americans were severely limited.A key turning point was 1963, when the Loyola Ramblers of Chicago took the NCAA men’s basketball title from Cincinnati, the two-time defending champions. It was one of Chicago’s most memorable
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Being Sugar Ray

The Life of Sugar Ray Robinson, America's Greatest Boxer and the First Celebrity Athlete

by Kenneth Shropshire ...

And in this corner, hailing from Black Bottom, Detroit by way of Harlem, with more victories than Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali combined, the greatest fighter-pound for pound-of all time: Sugar Ray Robinson. If imitation is truly the sincerest form of flattery then there should be little doubt Sugar Ray Robinson is the greatest and most influential American boxer of all time. Fighters (and the ... Read more

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And in this corner, hailing from Black Bottom, Detroit by way of Harlem, with more victories than Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali combined, the greatest fighter-pound for pound-of all time: Sugar Ray Robinson. If imitation is truly the sincerest form of flattery then there should be little doubt Sugar Ray Robinson is the greatest and most influential American boxer of all time. Fighters (and the
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Unbeatable

How Crispus Attucks Basketball Broke Racial Barriers and Jolted the World

by Phillip Hoose ...

Attucks! is true story of the all-black high school basketball team that broke the color barrier in segregated 1950s Indiana, masterfully told by National Book Award winner Phil Hoose.By winning the state high school basketball championship in 1955, ten teens from an Indianapolis school meant to be the centerpiece of racially segregated education in the state shattered the myth of their ... Read more

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Attucks! is true story of the all-black high school basketball team that broke the color barrier in segregated 1950s Indiana, masterfully told by National Book Award winner Phil Hoose.By winning the state high school basketball championship in 1955, ten teens from an Indianapolis school meant to be the centerpiece of racially segregated education in the state shattered the myth of their
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