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  • Race across America

    Eddie Gardner and the Great Bunion Derbies

    de Charles B. Kastner, Figure Foundation ...
    Series series Sports and Entertainment
    2020 Peace Corps Writers Paul Cowan Award for the Best Book of Non-FictionOn April 23, 1929, the second annual Transcontinental Foot Race across America, known as the Bunion Derby, was in its twenty-fifth day. Eddie "the Sheik" Gardner, an African American runner from Seattle, was leading the race across the Free Bridge over the Mississippi River. Along with the signature outfit that earned him ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The 1929 Bunion Derby

    Johnny Salo and the Great Footrace across America

    de Charles B. Kastner ...
    Series series Sports and Entertainment
    On March 31, 1929, seventy-seven men began an epic 3,554-mile footrace across America that pushed their bodies to the breaking point. Nicknamed the "Bunion Derby" by the press, this was the second and last of two trans-America footraces held in the late 1920s. The men averaged forty-six gut-busting miles a day during seventy-eight days of nonstop racing that took them from New York City to Los ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Bunion Derby

    The 1928 Footrace Across America

    de Charles B. Kastner ...
    On March 4, 1928, 199 men lined up in Los Angeles, California, to participate in a 3,400-mile transcontinental footrace to New York City. The Bunion Derby, as the press dubbed the event, was the brainchild of sports promoter Charles C. Pyle. He promised a $25,000 grand prize and claimed the competition would immortalize U.S. Highway Route 66, a 2,400-mile road, mostly unpaved, that subjected the ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

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  • Boston Marathon

    Year-by-Year Stories of the World's Premier Running Event

    de Tom Derderian ...
    From running legend Tom Derderian comes a comprehensive look at one of the most storied and celebrated athletic events in the nation, the Boston Marathon.For more than 110 years, the race has been regarded as one of the world’s great racing traditions. From the narrow starting line on Main Street, through the Screams Tunnel, past the coeds of Wellesley, and up the infamous Heartbreak Hill, ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Path Lit by Lightning

    The Life of Jim Thorpe

    de David Maraniss ...
    A biography of Jim Thorpe, the Native American sports icon and Olympic champion, that “goes beyond the myth and into the guts of Thorpe’s life, using extensive research, historical nuance, and bittersweet honesty” (Los Angeles Times), by the bestselling author of the classic biography When Pride Still Mattered.Jim Thorpe rose to world fame as a mythic talent who excelled at every sport. Most ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Native American Son

    The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe

    de Kate Buford ...
    The first comprehensive biography of the legendary figure who defined excellence in American sports: Jim Thorpe, arguably the greatest all-around athlete the United States has ever seen.With clarity and a fine eye for detail, Kate Buford traces the pivotal moments of Thorpe’s incomparable career: growing up in the tumultuous Indian Territory of Oklahoma; leading the Carlisle Indian Industrial ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Grads Are Playing Tonight! (The)

    The Story of the Edmonton Commercial Graduates Basketball Club

    de M. Ann Hall ...
    Between 1915 and 1940 the amazing Edmonton Grads dominated women’s basketball in Canada. Coached by J. Percy Page, they played over 400 official games, losing only 20; they travelled more than 125,000 miles in Canada, the United States, and Europe; and they crossed the Atlantic three times to defend their world title at exhibition games held in conjunction with the Summer Olympics in Paris, ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • North American Ultrarunning: A History

    de Andy Milroy ...
    North American Ultrarunning: A History explores the rich heritage of ultradistance running stretching back thousands of years; the Americas were originally peopled by nomads on foot. The book documents ultradistance feats by Native Americans, the earliest European explorers and settlers, before recording the growing development of the professional sport in North America in the nineteenth century. ... Leer más

    $12.07 USD

  • Boston Marathon

    History by the Mile

    de Paul C. Clerici ...
    "Clerici brings the race to life through . . . stories about every statue, landmark and portion of the course from its start in 1897 to its current incarnation" ( MetroWest Daily News).From Hopkinton to Boylston Street, the beloved 26.2 miles of the Boston Marathon mark historic moments and memories dating back to 1897. Town by town and step by step, follow author, journalist, and runner Paul C. ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • C.C. Pyle's Amazing Foot Race

    The True Story of the 1928 Coast-to-Coast Run Across America

    de Geoff Williams ...
    Among the runners of C. C. Pyle's First Annual International Transcontinental Foot Race were an assortment of underdogs, including twenty-year-old Oklahoman and part Cherokee Andy Payne, who wanted to win over the girl of his dreams and pay off the mortgage on his family's farm; Paul "Hardrock" Simpson, who was in over his head but couldn't let down his North Carolina hometown; Mike Kelly, a ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Reach for the Stars

    The Iowa High School State Wrestling Tournament

    de Dan McCool ...
    Wrestling is as much a part of winter in Iowa as is snow and cold. Dreams of state championships begin in elementary school and, since 1972, come to fruition - or heart-breakingly fall short - at an arena in Des Moines in February or March. In 2011, the tournament finals sold out for the 24th consecutive year. Individuals and teams carve their names on the sports history tree each year. Some ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Baseball's Creation Myth

    Adam Ford, Abner Graves and the Cooperstown Story

    de Brian Martin ...
    The story about baseball's being invented in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839 by Abner Doubleday served to prove that the U.S. national pastime was an American game, not derived from the English children's game of rounders as had been believed. The tale, embraced by Americans, has long been proven false but to this day, Cooperstown is celebrated as the birthplace of baseball. The story has captured ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD