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TRENDS PUBLISHING, January 1990. Stapled Soft Cover. Previous dealer's price inside first page. More
TRENDS PUBLISHING, January 1990. Stapled Soft Cover. Previous dealer's price inside first page. More
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, May 2006. Trade Paperback. "A moving elegy . . . [to] the best team the majors ever saw . . . the Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950s." -- New York Times The classic narrative of growing up within shouting distance of Ebbets Field, covering the Jackie..... More
Penn State University Press, July 2011. Trade Paperback. Charles Albert Bender was one of baseball's most talented pitchers. By the end of his major league career in 1925, he had accrued 212 wins and more than 1,700 strikeouts, and in 1953, he became the first American Indian elected to baseball's..... More
Overlook Books, February 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Tight binding; Black cloth boards mildly worn from age, gilt letting at spine remains clear and vibrant; Text free of markings, pictures clear and unmarked; Dust jacket shows moderate wear w/ some fraying at spine edges, circular flaw present at front of jacket..... More
Longstreet Press, November 1988. Hardcover. Second printing. More
Longstreet Press, November 1988. Hardcover. More
PublicAffairs, September 2023. Hardcover. In this poignant memoir, a legendary sports journalist writes about the team that changed his life: the Morton High School Lady Potters basketball team. Dave Kindred has covered dozens of Super Bowls and written about stars like Muhammad Ali, Tiger Woods, and Michael Jordan. But a...... More
Free Press, February 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Muhammad Ali and Howard Cosell were must-see TV long before that phrase became ubiquitous. Individually interesting, together they were mesmerizing. They were profoundly different -- young and old, black and white, a Muslim and a Jew, Ali barely literate and Cosell an editor..... More
Knopf, August 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - An inspiring and intimate self-portrait of the champion of equality that encompasses her brilliant tennis career, unwavering activism, and an ongoing commitment to fairness and social justice. "A story about the personal strength, immense growth, and undeniable greatness..... More
PublicAffairs, December 2023. Hardcover. "You're mad at me, but I am killing you."--NBA star Gary Payton "Find the hate."--NFL star Warren Sapp "Why can't you be more like Rafi Kohan?"--your mom, probably Whether in basketball, football, or MMA, athletes talk trash to each other--and sometimes to fans--like it's their job..... More
Arbor House Pub Co, February 1977. Hardcover. Seventh printing, 1977. Book has modest shelfwear with slightly cocked spine. Old price on masking tape adhered to front free endpaper. Jacket chipped along edges but unclipped. More
Anchor, June 1997. Trade Paperback. More
Princeton University Press, January 1991. Hardcover. Shibe Park was demolished in 1976, and today its site is surrounded by the devastation of North Philadelphia. Kuklick, however, vividly evokes the feelings people had about the home of the Philadelphia Athletics and later the Phillies. Previous owner's name inked on front free..... More
University of Pennsylvania Press, April 2004. Hardcover. The story of black professional baseball provides a remarkable perspective on several major themes in modern African American history: the initial black response to segregation, the subsequent struggle to establish successful separate enterprises, and the later movement toward integration. Baseball functioned as a...... More
Little Brown and Company, April 1997. Oversize Softcover. Karate, kung fu, t'ai chi, and thousands of other forms of martial arts have been practiced for centuries worldwide. Through movies, cartoons, television, and video games, these fighting techniques are gaining in popularity in the United States each year. But the martial..... More
W.W. Norton & Co., October 2009. Trade Paperback. When we first meet him, Michael Oher is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or how to read and write. He takes up football, and school, after..... More
W. W. Norton, September 2007. Trade Paperback. When we first meet him, Michael Oher is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or how to read or write. He takes up football, and school, after a...... More
Citadel Press, February 2007. Trade Paperback. More than 1,000 years ago, the people of Iga, the mountainous region of Japan, were forced to rise up against their merciless Samurai oppressors. Out of this struggle, nine traditions of the ninja arts grew. The ninjas' strength enabled the mind to believe it..... More
Villard Books, July 1988. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear on the jacket. Lightly bumped corners. More
Doubleday, May 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo in dustjacket with edgewear, foxing, small tears and sticke residue on spine. Black cloth covered spine with silver letterring. Red paper covered boards. Previous owner's name & a date inked upper right corner of ffep. Tanning end pages. Foxing/dust staining textblock top edge..... More
Gravity Guidance, Inc, January 1982. Trade Paperback. As is. Foxing on the edges of the print block. More
Kodansha Amer Inc, September 1979. Trade Paperback. Kata, the formal exercises of karate training, were the essence of practice in Okinawa and China, and are the core training method even today. Detailed here in 1500 sequential photos are the five Heian and three Tekki kata, mastery of which is necessary..... More
Kodansha USA, July 1978. Trade Paperback. As well as setting forth the basic rules that must be put into practice when performing kata or applying techniques in kumite, this volume pinpoints the underlying physical and physiological principles of karate: source and concentration of power; stance, form, stability and technique; movement..... More
Longmans, Green and Co, 1895. Reprint. Cloth. 2nd edition. Red cloth covered boards with black, red & white lettering and illustrations on front panel (with black tooled borderline.). Gold lettering on darkened spine. Worn top and bottom of spine. Slightly leaning spine. Darkened top textblock edge. Black end pages, though..... More