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Hogan by Curt Sampson |
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Rutledge Hill Press Hardcover (April 1996) |
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| Amazon.com The great Ben Hogan cast a long and complex shadow. A complicated and misunderstood man, he was so consumed with the solitary pursuit of excellence that the camaraderie of his game passed him by. Yet, he was utterly revered--for his consistency, his perseverance, his dedication, his mystery, and his... Read more
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Heat
: My Life on and Off the Diamond by Dwight Gooden, et al |
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William Morrow & Company Hardcover - 320 pages 1 Ed edition (March 1999) |
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| Amazon.com To look back at the dawning of Dwight Gooden's career is to see not just potential but also brilliance. Gooden roared onto the scene, a quiet teenage marvel with a loud adult arm, stringing together a pair of inaugural seasons with the Mets--Rookie of the Year in '84, Cy Young Award in '85--that... Read more
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Roberto
Clemente : The Great One by Bruce Markusen |
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Sports Publishing, Inc. Hardcover - 300 pages (October 1998) |
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| Amazon.com One of the nicer outgrowths of the ascendancy of slugger Sammy Sosa has been the renewed spotlight on the life and career of Roberto Clemente, the player he idolized and modeled himself after. One of the great stars of the midcentury, Clemente was the first Latin to be enshrined in Cooperstown after... Read more
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Sportsman's Life : How I Built Orvis by Mixing Business and Sport by Leigh Perkins, Geoffrey Norman |
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Atlantic Monthly Pr Hardcover - 192 pages (October 1999) |
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| Amazon.com In A Sportsman's Life, Leigh Perkins tells a vivid and passionate story about how he turned Orvis into one of the country's most noted fly-fishing and sporting companies. A pioneer in the mail-order business, Perkins boosted sales of the Manchester, Vermont, company from $500,000 annually to nearly... Read more
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False Spring (Hungry Mind Find) by Pat Jordan |
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Hungry Mind Press Paperback - 288 pages Reprint edition (April 1998) |
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| A reviewer,
April 4, 1999 A great read for fans and non-fans alike Every few years, when I find my interest in baseball waning, I go to the shelf and open this wonderful book. I've read it many times since it was first published, and I never fail to enjoy re-reading it. Jordan's story of a career that never was is the best sports book I've ever read and maybe the... Read more
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Golden
Boy : The Fame, Money, and Mystery of Oscar De LA Hoya by Tim Kawakami |
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Andrews McMeel Publishing Hardcover - 208 pages (February 1999) |
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| From Kirkus Reviews This solid piece of journalism goes the full 12 rounds in detailing the personal demons that fuel Oscar de la Hoyas fists of fury. Kawakami, former boxing reporter for the Los Angeles Times, begins in the rat- and roach-infested barrio of East Los Angeles, where this grandson of a Mexican immigrant... Read more
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Home
Run : My Life in Pictures by Hank Aaron, et al |
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Total Sports Hardcover - 224 pages (March 1999) |
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| Amazon.com Twenty-five seasons after shattering baseball's sacred standard for career home runs, the game's most overlooked superstar bangs out the kind of celebratory volume his brilliant career deserves. While Hank Aaron is a center-stage contributor throughout this rich testament of words and images, its... Read more
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One
River More : A Celebration of Rivers and Fly Fishing by W. D. Wetherell |
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The Lyons Press Hardcover - 240 pages (September 1998) |
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| From Booklist
, September 1, 1998 This essay collection completes Wetherell's trilogy of fishing books that includes Upland Stream (1991) and Vermont River (1993). The book's title comes from the last essay's litany of yearnings, recollections, and regrets, all of which an angler experiences on the last day of trout season.... Read more
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Mark
McGwire : Home Run Hero by Rob Rains |
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St Martins Pr (Trade) Hardcover - 227 pages 1 Ed edition (August 1998) |
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| Amazon.com It's only natural in 1998's season of the slugger, with the focus on the race to break 61, that baseball's most prolific contemporary power hitter would be reduced to size with a quickie bio. The thing about McGwire is that he's soooo big--and not just in physical stature--that he can't be reduced,... Read more
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Nanga
Parbat Pilgrimage : The Lonely Challenge by Hermann Buhl |
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Mountaineers Books Paperback - 384 pages (February 1999) |
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| Book Description To this day, Hermann Buhl's successful 1953 solo climb of 26,620-foot Nanga Parbat remains one of the single greatest achievements in mountaineering history. On this peak, which over the years had claimed 31 lives, Buhl achieved something far beyond the accepted limits of human possibility and... Read more
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EVEL*WAYS,
A Daring Approach to Life by Evel Knievel |
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GraF X Pub Paperback - 208 pages (May 1999) |
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| Publisher Comments From the dusty Montana Plains where Joey Chitwood and his Motorcycle Daredevils first inspired young Knievel, to his present struggle with Hepatitis C (his biggest obstacle ever), EVEL * WAYS captures the daredevil's roaring recounts, broken bones and octane-fueled dreams -- there are even a few... Read more
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Bad
As I Wanna Be by Dennis Rodman, Tim Keown (Contributor) |
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Dell Publishing Company Paperback - 336 pages Reprint edition (June 1997) |
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| From Booklist
, May 15, 1996 "Everything I do is about confidence. After years of struggling with my identity . . . I've become totally confident about being who I am. I can go out to a salon and have my nails painted pink, and then go out and play in the NBA, on national television, with pink nails." There is only one... Read more
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Northern
Dancer : The Legend and His Legacy by Muriel Anne Lennox |
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Associated Publishers Group Hardcover - 213 pages 1 edition (June 1998) |
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| Synopsis "The first time I rode Northern Dancer I knew he was something special. . . . I think the way Muriel Lennox tells the story--going behind the scenes and focusing on the horses--will give everyone a clear picture, not only of how special Northern Dancer actually was, but of all the obstacles he had... Read more
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Collision
at Home Plate : The Lives of Pete Rose and Bart Giamatti by James, Jr. Reston |
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Univ of Nebraska Pr Paperback - 400 pages Reprint edition (February 1997) |
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| Amazon.com Had there been just a little less chaos abroad in the universe, the lives of Pete Rose and A. Bartlett Giamatti might have kept on parallel tracks to infinity, blissfully out of the way of each other's extremes. Rose, baseball's most primitive outlaw since Cobb, and Giamatti, the Renaissance scholar... Read more
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The
Kurt Diemberger Omnibus : Summits and Secrets : The Endless Knot :
Spirits of the Air by Kurt Diemberger |
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Mountaineers Books Hardcover - 858 pages (March 1999) |
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| Book Description One of the world's most influential climbers, Kurt Diemberger is the only living person to have the distinction of two first ascents on the world's 8000-meter peaks, both climbed without supplemental oxygen. In each of these classic works, his infectious mixture of joy, awe, and a voracious appetite... Read more
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Pretty
Good for a Girl by Leslie Heywood, Leslie Haywood |
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Free Press Hardcover - 224 pages (September 1998) |
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| Amazon.com Leslie Heywood wants to be seen for who she is--by her family, by her coach, and by the boys in her new high school. Of the latter she writes, "They don't see me. They see some blank girl instead, some chick." A talented runner, Heywood quickly finds in the high-school cross-country team a sense of... Read more
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Chasing
the Dream : My Lifelong Journey to the World Series by Joe Torre, Tom Verducci (Contributor) |
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Bantam Books Paperback - 368 pages Reprint edition (April 1998) |
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| Amazon.com One of baseball's more popular personalities, Joe Torre had to wait more than three decades as manager and player to finally reach his sport's Promised Land. His autobiography is an insider's account of how he led the New York Yankees to a championship, but it's more than that; it is also a... Read more
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Hand
of God : The Life of Diego Maradona by Jimmy Burns |
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The Lyons Press Hardcover - 256 pages (September 1997) |
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| Amazon.com The playing fields of the '80s and '90s are sadly littered with the unfulfilled promises of athletic greatness deterred by self-destruction. Soccer star Diego Maradona rose from the slums of Buenos Aires to teenage fame and a career that blazed its way across Europe before reaching apotheosis in the... Read more
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A
Man Called Lion by Peter Hathaway Capstick |
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Safari Press Hardcover - 260 pages (February 1996) |
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| Book Description Nothing is held back in this complete biography of John Howard "Pondoro" Taylor. This is Capstick at his best on one of Africa's most intriguing characters. Read more
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Growing
Old Is Not for Sissies II : Portraits of Senior Athletes by Etta Clark |
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Pomegranate Paperback - 120 pages (October 1995) |
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| miss_es@hotmail.com,
October 8, 1999 Every single one of these athletes is an inspiration. I've bought the first book for so many friends as they've reached landmark birthdays, (50's) I decided to get book II for our friend's 75th! Both books are great reminder of just how much ability we have at all stages of life. It's about how much you can do, no matter what your age, instead of... Read more
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Letters
of the Dragon : An Anthology of Bruce Lee's Correspondence With Family,
Friends, and Fans 1958-1973 (Bruce Lee Library, Vol 5) by Bruce Lee, John R. Little (Editor) |
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Charles E Tuttle Co Paperback - 190 pages (November 1998) |
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| Synopsis Beginning with Bruce Lee's high school years in Hong Kong, this collection of correspondence offers readers an intimate glimpse into the life of Lee as artist, husband, father, and friend. 60 illustrations. Read more
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| 97. | Mick
Doohan : Thunder from Down Under by Mat Oxley |
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Motorbooks International Hardcover - 160 pages (June 25, 1999) |
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| Book Description Mick Doohan is the greatest motorcycle racer of modern times--some would say ever. The teak-tough Aussie has wrestled his 200mph Honda to more than 50 grand prix wins and five consecutive 500cc World Championships after fighting back from a near-crippling accident in 1992. His fearsome broadside... Read more
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| 98. | Ayrton
Senna : As Time Goes by by Christopher Hilton |
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Haynes Pubns Hardcover - 224 pages (June 1999) |
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Louis Quesnel ,
October 15, 1999  Interesting but not more This books allows us to discover Ayrton Senna through the eyes of people who knew him closely. The thing that disappointed me is that some of the key people in his life weren't a part of this book (Adrienne, his family members) and that some of the anecdotes were too superficial and we would have... Read more
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Playing
for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made [ABRIDGED] by David Halberstam, Edward Herrmann (Reader) |
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Random House Audio Cassette Cassette edition (February 1999) |
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| Amazon.com One of the finest nonfiction writers in any lineup, Halberstam likes to alternate what he's deemed his serious work--books like The Best and the Brightest, The Fifties, and The Children--with his sporting interludes, though in his hands, sports are much, much more than fun and games. Books like The... Read more
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| 100. | Reinhold
Messner, Free Spirit : A Climber's Life by Reinhold Messner |
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Mountaineers Books Paperback - 256 pages Reprint edition (July 1998) |
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| From Book News,
Inc. , August 1, 1992 Originally published in German in 1989 (R. Piper GmbH & Co. KG, Munich). This translation makes available in English the autobiography of the esteemed mountain climber. Nicely produced, with many stunning photos. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. --This text refers to an out of... Read more
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