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Letter for Daria by Ekaterina Gordeeva, et al |
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Little Brown & Co (Juv Trd) Hardcover 1 Ed edition (May 1998) |
$9.07 $3.88 Click here for more info |
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| Synopsis In this wise and loving book, Olympic gold medal-winning skater Ekaterina Gordeeva talks to her young daughter, Daria, about the strength of family life and tradition as well as about a mother's hopes for her daughter. Illustrated with wonderful photos and Daria's drawings, this is a special book... Read more
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Away
Games : The Life and Times of a Latin Baseball Player by Marcos Breton, Jose Luis Villegas |
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Simon & Schuster Hardcover - 288 pages (April 1999) |
$16.10 $6.90 Click here for more info |
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| Amazon.com Miguel Tejada is a talented shortstop in the Oakland Athletics organization. Tejada grew up very poor in the Dominican Republic and started playing baseball as a means of entertainment and escape. At age 17, he signed a contract (which he couldn't really read) with the A's for a mere $2,000,... Read more
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The
Gospel According to Phil : The Words and Wisdom of Chicago Bulls Coach
Phil Jackson : An Unauthorized Collection by Phil Jackson, et al |
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Bonus Books Paperback - 80 pages (June 1997) |
$5.56 $1.39 Click here for more info |
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| Midwest Book Review The Gospel According To Phil is a small, brilliant collections of the words and wisdom of Chicago Bulls coach Phil Jackson. After seven seasons as head coach of the Bulls, this unconventional leader has enlightened Chicago's players and fans with his spiritual approach to coaching (and winning).... Read more
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King
of the World : Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero by David Remnick |
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Vintage Books Paperback - 352 pages 1 Vintage edition (October 1999) |
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| Amazon.com You'd think there wouldn't be much left to say about a living icon like Muhammad Ali, yet David Remnick imbues King of the World with all the freshness and vitality this legendary fighter displayed in his prime. Beginning with the pre-Ali days of boxing and its two archetypes, Floyd Patterson (the ... Read more
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The
Definitive Word on Michael Jordan by Charles Barkley(Editor), et al |
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Beckett Pubns Hardcover - 128 pages 1 Ed edition (May 1998) |
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October 4, 1999  JEALOUS AFTER READING THIS BOOK I CONCLUDED THAT SIR CHARLES IS JEALOUS OF MICHAEL JORDAN! Read more
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Eleven
Seconds : A Story of Tragedy, Courage, & Triumph by Travis Roy, E. M. Swift (Contributor) |
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Warner Books Hardcover - 226 pages (January 1998) |
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| Amazon.com Within the 11 seconds that inspired this memoir, Travis Roy realized his dream, then smashed into his nightmare. On an October night in 1995, Roy, a talented young hockey player, skated onto the ice for his varsity debut with Boston University. Eleven fateful seconds later, he was paralyzed from the... Read more
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Body
Slam: The Jesse Ventura Story by Jake Tapper |
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SMP Paperbacks Mass Market Paperback - 256 pages (April 1999) |
$4.79 $1.20 Click here for more info |
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| Book Description In every arena, Jesse Ventura puts a headlock on the competition--now he's turning the country on its ear How did an outrageous, outspoken, boa-wearing pro wrestler nab the title of Minnesota's governor in an overwhelming upset? This is the question the nation is asking--and Washington journalist... Read more
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Shannon
Miller : My Child, My Hero by Gayle White, et al |
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Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd) Hardcover - 320 pages (March 1999) |
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| From Kirkus
Reviews , January 15, 1999 A proud and devoted mother's overdone portrait of her celebrated gymnast daughter's trials and triumphs. Claudia Miller relates her daughter's progress from jungle-gym-climbing toddler to leader of the first US women's gymnastic team to bring home the Olympic gold. For those who don't know a double... Read more
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Ain't Got Time to Bleed : Reworking the Body Politic : From the Bottom
Up [ABRIDGED] by Jesse Ventura(Reader) |
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Random House (Audio) Audio Cassette Abridged edition (June 1999) |
$14.40 $3.60 Click here for more info |
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| From AudioFile Jesse "The Body" Ventura's repetitious, self-aggrandizing, platitude-ridden paean to himself is such unconscious self-parody that it renders Garrison Keillor's satire redundant. The former pro wrestler turned Minnesota governor is dull. He writes in clunky phrases that mimic demagogic speechifying... Read more
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| 60. | Dale
Earnhardt : The Intimidator |
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Beckett Pubns Hardcover - 128 pages (October 1998) |
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13, 1999  DIDN'T REQUIRE THE SKILL OF READING Compared to ERnie's book, I have it two stars. ERnie's book was very informative and had just the right amount of pictures. Earnhardt's book was nothing but pictures. Too bad it had no words in it. I didn't have to buy it; looked at the pictures in the store and put it back on the shelf. I became an... Read more
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Little
Girls in Pretty Boxes : The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and
Figure Skaters by Jean Ryan, Joan Ryan |
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Warner Books Paperback Revised edition (July 1996) |
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| From Booklist
, June 1, 1995 Ryan, an award-winning columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, offers disturbing anecdotal evidence indicating that women's gymnastics and figure skating are physically and psychologically damaging to a majority of participants with realistic Olympic aspirations. Ryan's emphasis is on gymnastics;... Read more
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Elway by John Elway, Marc Serota (Photographer) |
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Triumph Books Hardcover - 120 pages (March 1998) |
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| Amazon.com An intriguing hybrid, Elway, a coffee-table tribute to one of football's most exciting quarterbacks, is part autobiography, part photographic celebration, and all MTV packaging; like an Elway comeback drive, it moves quickly and is filled with exuberance. The pictures, especially of the Bronco's... Read more
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Maybe
It Should Have Been a Three-Iron : My Year As a Caddy for the World's
438th Best Golfer by Lawrence Donegan |
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St Martins Pr (Trade) Hardcover - 256 pages 1 Us Ed edition (June 1998) |
$15.37 $6.58 Click here for more info |
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| Amazon.com The opening sentences of Donegan's delightful romp through the European golf world sets its tone: "The first thing to understand about caddying is it's not brain surgery. It's more complicated than that," and the next couple of hundred pages prove the point. Put a hapless golf fanatic like... Read more
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When
Pride Still Mattered : A Life of Vince Lombardi [ABRIDGED] by David Maraniss |
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Simon & Schuster (Audio) Audio Cassette Abridged edition (October 1999) |
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| Amazon.com As coach of the Green Bay Packers from 1959 to 1967, Vince Lombardi turned perennial losers into a juggernaut, winning back-to-back NFL titles in 1961 and 1962, and Superbowls I and II in 1966 and 1967. Stern, severe, sentimental, and paternal, he stood revered, reviled, respected, and mocked--a... Read more
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How
You Play the Game: Lessons for Life from the Billion-Dollar Business of
Sports by Jerry Colangelo, et al |
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AMACOM Hardcover - 255 pages 1 edition (April 1, 1999) |
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| Book Description Horatio Alger has nothing on Jerry Colangelo. Born and raised on Hungry Hill, a working class Italian section of Chicago, Colangelo started his career in the tuxedo rental business--a business that failed. From this modest beginning, he went on to help start the Chicago Bulls, and then later in... Read more
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Joe
and Me : An Education in Fishing and Friendship by James Prosek |
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William Morrow & Company Hardcover - 208 pages (June 1997) |
$16.10 $6.90 Click here for more info |
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| Amazon.com James Prosek is angling's wunderkind. A recent Yale graduate, he debuted in 1996 at age 20 with the well-received Trout: An Illustrated History, in which his precocity with both words and watercolors were charmingly displayed. Joe and Me is a more personal and complex volume, a memoir of a... Read more
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Ultimate
Bad Boys by Stan Fischler |
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Warwick Pub Paperback - 256 pages 1894 edition (November 1998) |
$12.76 $3.19 Click here for more info |
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Firefly Books , July 28, 1998 "There's a Fight on the Ice!" In this book hockey legend Stan Fischler captures the excitement surrounding hockey's best warriors - both from the past and today's toughest players. Using his patented mix of interviews, analysis and blow-by-blow recreations, Fischler delves into the loud immediacy of the hockey fighter's world. ... Read more
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Days
of Grace : A Memoir by Arthur Ashe, Arnold Rampersad (Contributor) |
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Ballantine Books (Mm) Paperback (June 1994) |
$5.59 $1.40 Click here for more info |
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| From AudioFile Joe Morton gets beneath Ashe's cool, controlled facade in this memoir of the late tennis star. At the start of the program, Morton angrily recounts Ashe's blasting of the press for forcing him to go public concerning his illness. After venting Ashe's frustration, the narrator slips into a calm... Read more
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I
Am Jackie Chan : My Life in Action by Lung Cheng, et al |
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Ballantine Books (Mm) Paperback (August 1999) |
$5.59 $1.40 Click here for more info |
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| Amazon.com Since his first role in 1962 at the age of 8, Jackie Chan has appeared in more than 70 movies. For more than 20 years, he has been the biggest star in Asia, but in the West he remained a secret, his movies passed around on tape and his fame growing by word of mouth alone. In the '90s, with the... Read more
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My
Sergei : A Love Story by Ekaterina Gordeeva, E. M. Swift (Contributor) |
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Warner Books Paperback - 352 pages Reprint edition (October 1997) |
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| From AudioFile Can a woman in her early twenties write memoirs worth listening to? She can if she's "Katia" Gordeeva, Olympic Gold Medal winner, wife and figure skating partner of the late Sergei Grinkov. In dark, measured tones narrator Irina Lechova expresses the full measure of Katia's shock and grief at the... Read more
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The
Feeling of Greatness : The Moe Norman Story by Tim O'Connor, Jim O'Connor |
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Masters Pr Paperback (November 1995) |
$13.56 $3.39 Click here for more info |
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| A reviewer,
October 3, 1999 The best ball striker ever didn't made it to the top. This is a great story of a relatively unknown personality who could not be a part of the "system". His whole life is unconventional; however, his golf is exceptional. An upolished man, Moe Norman never achieved PGA greatness in the US, but is a legend in the amateur ranks in Canada, owning... Read more
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Junior
Johnson : Brave in Life by Tom Higgins, Steve Waid |
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David Bull Pub Inc Paperback (October 1999) |
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David Bull Publishing, dbull@bullpublishing.com , September 20, 1999 "I was brave in life. I took more chances." - Junior Johnson Courage, determination, and willingness to take risks have made Junior Johnson a legend on and off the race track for over four decades. Celebrated as "The Last American Hero" by novelist Tom Wolfe, portrayed on the big screen by actor Jeff Bridges, Junior was named the greatest NASCAR... Read more
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Wayne
Rainey: His Own Story by Michael Scott |
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Haynes Pubns Hardcover - 244 pages (July 1997) |
$24.47 $10.48 Click here for more info |
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| Les Hart (les@twaxx.twaxx.com)
, March 18, 1999 Wayne is an Animal Wayne Rainey is far and away the best motorcycle racer to hail from the States. His story is told truthfully and matter-of-factly. I really felt for him, his wife and son after reading this book in about 3 days while on bed-rest while pregnant. He tells how his drive and determination got him to the... Read more
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Sea Vagabond's World : Boats and Sails Distant Shores Islands and
Lagoons by Bernard Moitessier, William Rodarmor (Translator) |
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Sheridan House Inc Paperback - 224 pages (October 1998) |
$15.96 Click here for more info |
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| Blue Water Sailing,
November/December 1998 ...a priceless work as straightforward and unpretentious as the man who composed it....No essential topic is left untreated, and the result is a unique window into the way Moitessier the master solved problems that voyagers in the tropics confront all the time....The read is personable and... Read more
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Michael
Schumacher : Formula for Success : The Gripping Inside Story of One of
Motor Racing's Greatest Champions by Michael Schumacher, et al |
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Motorbooks International Hardcover - 144 pages (January 1997) |
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| SUKHDEV SINGH ,
August 26, 1999 A MUST FOR TRUE MOTOR RACING FANS TELLS THE STORY OF A TRULY GREAT CHAMPION WHO LOVES HIS SPORT, AND REMAINS MODEST EVEN HAVING REACHED THE PINNACLE OF MOTOR RACING. THIS BOOK BRINGS YOU THE EMOTION AND DRAMA FROM HUMBLE BEGINNINGS RIGHT UP TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP YEARS AND BEYOND. A MUST FOR SCHUMACHER FANS, WHO IS WITHOUT DOUBT NOT... Read more
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