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Barry Bonds - A Biography (Hardcover, New): John Bloom Barry Bonds - A Biography (Hardcover, New)
John Bloom
R1,076 Discovery Miles 10 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Barry Bonds has emerged, statistically, as the most feared hitter since Babe Ruth. Bonds, winner of a record six MVP awards, holds the single-season record for home-runs, slugging percentage, on-base percentage, and walks, and is the only player ever to have hit 500 home-runs and stolen 500 bases. His statistical performance is beyond reproach, but his public image remains controversial, and recent allegations of steroid use have cast a shadow over his unprecedented accomplishments. This timely book strips away the hype and takes an objective look and Bonds' life and career.

It has been said that hitting a baseball is the hardest thing to do in professional sports. "Baseball's All-Time Greatest Hitters" presents biographies on Greenwood's selection for the 12 best hitters in Major League history, written by some of today's best baseball authors. These books present straightforward stories in accessible language for the high school researcher and the general reader alike. Each volume includes a timeline, bibliography, and index. In addition, each volume includes a Making of a Legend chapter that analyses the evolution of the player's fame and (in some cases) infamy.

Gridiron Gauntlet - The Story of the Men Who Integrated Pro Football, In Their Own Words (Paperback): Andy Piascik Gridiron Gauntlet - The Story of the Men Who Integrated Pro Football, In Their Own Words (Paperback)
Andy Piascik
R445 Discovery Miles 4 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

One year before Jackie Robinson broke the color line in major league baseball in 1947, four black players joined the Cleveland Browns and Los Angeles Rams to become the first professional football players of African-American descent in the modern era. While blacks had played on professional teams in the early days of pro football, none had joined a team since 1934. In this book twelve players who began their careers from 1946 to 1955 not only reminisce about the violence they faced on and off the field, the segregated hotels and restaurants, and general hostility that comes with being a trailblazer, but also of white players and coaches who assisted and supported them at various stages of their lives. Among the oral histories presented here are those of such Hall of Famers Bill Willis, Joe Perry, and George Taliaferro.

Baseball in Dallas (Hardcover): Mark Presswood, J. Chris Holaday, Chris Holaday Baseball in Dallas (Hardcover)
Mark Presswood, J. Chris Holaday, Chris Holaday
R719 R638 Discovery Miles 6 380 Save R81 (11%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2009-2010 (Paperback, 2009-2010 ed.): William M. Simons The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2009-2010 (Paperback, 2009-2010 ed.)
William M. Simons
R1,338 Discovery Miles 13 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2009-2010 is an anthology of scholarly essays that utilize the national game to examine topics whose import extends beyond the ballpark and constitute a significant academic contribution to baseball literature. The essays represent sixteen of the leading presentations from the two most recent proceedings of the annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, held, respectively, on June 3-5, 2009, and June 2-4, 2010. The anthology is divided into five parts: Baseball as Culture: Dance, Literature, National Character, and Myth; Constructing Baseball Heroes; Blacks in Baseball: From Segregation to Conflicted Integration; The Enterprise of Baseball: Economics and Entrepreneurs; and Genesis and Legacy of Baseball Scholarship, which features an essay written by the co-creator of baseball scholarship, Dorothy Jane Mills.

Football in France - A Cultural History (Hardcover): Geoff Hare Football in France - A Cultural History (Hardcover)
Geoff Hare
R4,310 Discovery Miles 43 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

France's performance in the 2002 World Cup brought back painful memories of a time when France was a weak contender in world and European football -- a time when national or club teams rarely won, and the French were renowned for having little interest in the game. Today, football plays a unique role in French society. French players and coaches are highly sought after abroad and the national team has chalked up significant recent victories, including a World Cup and European Championship. This book is the first in English to examine the extraordinary cultural, economic, and political history behind French football's development throughout the twentieth century and up to the present day. It focuses on the past twenty years and concludes with a discussion of the fallout from the World Cup 2002.Imported from Britain by the middle classes in the late nineteenth century, football entered French national consciousness between the wars. As with everywhere else in Europe, the game helped to unite communities and forge new social identities. Although the State has generously supported youth coaching, the evolution of the professional sport has been slow due to tight community control, high taxes and lack of income from paying spectators. In a bid to compete successfully in Europe, the owners of France's big city clubs are seeking to commercialize the game, despite the resistance of central and local authorities.Hare traces the gradual evolution of traditional French football values and explores the impact of new and controversial business practices. Have French football's influential club chairmen sold out to business values and television? Why has the national team been so successful when clubteams have not? How are top clubs being re-branded to catch a national and international audience of consumers? What role does the modern supporter play, and what are the links between businessmen, politics and the commercialization of the sport? What is peculiarly French about French football, and what does football tell us about France? Hare also pays specific attention to issues relating to race and racism. He looks at racist attitudes among fans, and considers how the multi-cultural and multi-racial population of France is reflected in the national football team. This book not only provides a fascinating cultural history of French football, but also an engrossing account of how national identity and community values are being transformed and reshaped in the global marketplace.

Innings (Hardcover): Mike Robertson Innings (Hardcover)
Mike Robertson
R661 Discovery Miles 6 610 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Somerset Ball - From Wiffle Ball to Brooks Stadium: A Journey to the 1970 KHSAA Tournament (Hardcover): Mikel D Smith The Somerset Ball - From Wiffle Ball to Brooks Stadium: A Journey to the 1970 KHSAA Tournament (Hardcover)
Mikel D Smith
R751 R670 Discovery Miles 6 700 Save R81 (11%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
African American Pioneers of Baseball - A Biographical Encyclopedia (Hardcover): Lew Freedman African American Pioneers of Baseball - A Biographical Encyclopedia (Hardcover)
Lew Freedman
R2,395 Discovery Miles 23 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When Jackie Robinson became the first African American player in major league baseball in 1947, elbowing aside the league's policies of segregation that had been inviolate for 60 years, he became a symbol of opportunity and acceptance for African American players everywhere. Robinson withstood discrimination to establish himself as a Hall of Fame player, and to lead future generations of black players into the previously all-white world of Major League Baseball. Written for students and general readers alike, this biographical encyclopedia chronicles the history of African American baseball through the life stories of the game's greatest players, the legends who played a significant role in the integration of the major league. From Negro League stars Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson, to color line shatterer Jackie Robinson, and those who followed them in the limelight, such as Hank Aaron and Willie Mays, readers will learn how the inclusion of African American players in Major League Baseball improved the sport and race relations in the United States during this critical period in history. Comprehensive biographical entries also include: BLBuck O'Neil Judy Johnson BLBuck Leonard BLCool Papa Bell BLRoy Campanella BLLarry Doby BLMonte Irvin BLWillie McCovey BLErnie Banks BLElston Howard BLMinnie Minoso BLFrank Robinson BLBob Gibson BLCurt Flood Providing detailed accounts of each player's amazing professional achievements, this insightful reference describes how the spectacular talents of African American players elevated Major League Baseball forever. Features include a timeline of important events, numerous photographs, and a bibliography of print and electronic sources for further reading.

Golf Fitness - Play Better, Play Without Pain, Play Longer, and Enjoy the Game More (Paperback): Karen Palacios-Jansen Golf Fitness - Play Better, Play Without Pain, Play Longer, and Enjoy the Game More (Paperback)
Karen Palacios-Jansen; Edited by Golf Fitness Magazine; Foreword by Gary Player
R536 Discovery Miles 5 360 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Every golfer, at every level, can shoot lower scores and play injury-free with the golf-specific programs outlined in Golf Fitness. This book looks at the tips and techniques used by today's top golfers: Master's Champion Trevor Immelman's exercise routine, Stuart Appleby on how to develop the "power move," LPGA Tour pro Suzanne Petersen's routine for top performance, Phil Mickelson's trainer Sean Cochran on staying fit in the off-season, and more. Golf Fitness includes exercises to improve the golf swing, details on better warm-ups, whole-body workout routines, and notes on nutrition. The book also looks at the mental game, and how the mind and body can work together for lower scores. Any golfer looking for an edge will find it in Golf Fitness.

A Game That Forged Rivals - How Competition Between Two New England High Schools Created One of the Greatest Traditions in... A Game That Forged Rivals - How Competition Between Two New England High Schools Created One of the Greatest Traditions in Football (Hardcover)
Mark C. Bodanza
R480 Discovery Miles 4 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From their founding, the Massachusetts communities of Leominster and Fitchburg have shared the same river. More than that, they have long shared a special football competition that has sometimes spilled beyond the field. In A Game That Forged Rivals, author and historian Mark Bodanza captures the human drama of one of the nation's oldest football rivalries; the high schools of Leominster and Fitchburg have met on the gridiron for 114 years.

This long-standing competition has weathered many challenges, including major developments in the sport, wars, economic turmoil, an epidemic, and technological and social change not imagined when the teams first met in 1894. Through all the years and contests, thousands of athletes have competed for pride and a belief that this game was the pinnacle of their football days. A Game That Forged Rivals shares the stories, dramatic clashes, and challenges that tested these young men both on and off the field.

Compiled from newspaper articles, school yearbooks, game programs, eyewitness accounts, letters, photos, and archival records, A Game That Forged Rivals not only chronicles the development of football from its earliest days, but also tells the story of two communities that saw, in football, a way to grasp civic pride.

Clemson Tough - Guts and Glory Under Dabo Swinney (Paperback): Larry Williams, Zachary Hanby Clemson Tough - Guts and Glory Under Dabo Swinney (Paperback)
Larry Williams, Zachary Hanby
R501 R468 Discovery Miles 4 680 Save R33 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Behind the Dragon - Playing Rugby for Wales (Paperback, New in Paperback): Ross Harries Behind the Dragon - Playing Rugby for Wales (Paperback, New in Paperback)
Ross Harries
R476 Discovery Miles 4 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

SHORTLISTED FOR THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2020 - RUGBY BOOK OF THE YEAR This is a complete history of the Welsh rugby union team - told by the players themselves. Based on a combination of painstaking research into the early years of the Wales team to interviews with a vast array of Test match players and coaches from the Second World War to the present day, Ross Harries delves to the very heart of what it means to play for Wales, painting a unique and utterly compelling picture of the game in the only words that can truly do so: the players' own. Behind the Dragon lifts the lid on what it is to pull on the famous red shirt - the trials and tribulations behind the scenes, the glory, the drama and the honour on the field, and the heart-warming tales of friendship and humour off it. Absorbing and illuminating, this is the ultimate history of Welsh rugby - told, definitively, by the men who have been there and done it.

Fear and Loathing in World Football (Hardcover): Gary Armstrong, Richard Giulianotti Fear and Loathing in World Football (Hardcover)
Gary Armstrong, Richard Giulianotti
R4,318 Discovery Miles 43 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The quickest entry-point into most local cultures anywhere on earth is to be found in talking football. Historically, football is one of the great cultural institutions, and, like education and the mass media, has played a key role in shaping and cementing senses of national identity throughout the world. However, the nature of intra-nation hostility, which may be based in football or which may use the game as an arena for antagonisms, has yet to be analyzed. Football today is more global than ever before. Teams, clubs and regions increasingly establish cultural identities through rivalries and opposition. Such rivalries invariably have deep historical antecedents enforced by prejudice, myth or religious conflicts, economic inequalities, or, perhaps most profound, class and ethnic divisions.
Issues of disorder and violence are routine by-products of the game the world over, and aggression, or the threat of it, characterizes many matches both minor and major. In short, football at all levels can become a site for symbolizing and expressing a variety of tensions. This timely volume fills a gap in the current literature on sport as the most extensive and incisive collection yet published on issues relating to football around the world. It uncovers and investigates the conflicts apparent in football rivalry by gathering together a series of in-depth case studies that span the football world.

Pittsburgh Pirates (Hardcover): David Finoli Pittsburgh Pirates (Hardcover)
David Finoli
R719 R638 Discovery Miles 6 380 Save R81 (11%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Life from the Press Box - Life From The Press Box: Forty years with the Mustache Gang, O.J., John Madden, The Big Unit, Sweet... Life from the Press Box - Life From The Press Box: Forty years with the Mustache Gang, O.J., John Madden, The Big Unit, Sweet Lou, Junior Griffey and Ichiro... (Hardcover)
Jim Street
R527 Discovery Miles 5 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Glory Game - How the 1958 NFL Championship Changed Football Forever (Paperback): Frank Gifford, Peter Richmond The Glory Game - How the 1958 NFL Championship Changed Football Forever (Paperback)
Frank Gifford, Peter Richmond
R345 R323 Discovery Miles 3 230 Save R22 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In 1958 Frank Gifford was the golden boy on the glamour team in the most celebrated city in the NFL. When his New York Giants played the Baltimore Colts for the league championship that year, it became the single most memorable contest in the history of professional football. Its drama, excitement, and controversy riveted the nation and helped propel football to the forefront of the American sports landscape. Now Hall of Famer and longtime television analyst Frank Gifford provides an inside-the-helmet account that will take its place in the annals of sports literature.

The Economics of the National Football League - The State of the Art (Hardcover, 2012): Kevin G. Quinn The Economics of the National Football League - The State of the Art (Hardcover, 2012)
Kevin G. Quinn
R4,968 Discovery Miles 49 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book lays down a marker as to the state of economists' understanding of the National Football League (NFL) by assembling sophisticated, critical surveys of by leading sports economists on major topics associated with the league. The book is divided into four parts. The first three chapters in Part I provide an overview of the business of the NFL from an economist's perspective. Part II is a collection of surveys of the economics of the NFL's most important revenue streams, including media, attendance, and merchandising. The NFL's labor economics is the focus of Part III, with chapters on player and coach labor markets, the draft, and contract structure. Part IV includes essays on competitive balance, gambling, economic impacts of the Super Bowl, behavioral economic issues associated with the league, and antitrust issues. This book will appeal to sports economists, sports management professionals, and policy-makers, and would be useful as a supplementary text for sports economics and management courses as well as a reference text."

Wilber ""Bullet"" Rogan and the Kansas City Monarchs (Paperback): Phil Dixon Wilber ""Bullet"" Rogan and the Kansas City Monarchs (Paperback)
Phil Dixon
R764 Discovery Miles 7 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Both a biography of Wilber "Bullet" Rogan and a history of his great Kansas City Monarchs teams, 1920-1938, this detailed work pays tribute to a man considered by some to be baseball's greatest all-around player. During his career, the Monarchs won two negro league World Series and five pennants, in addition to launching the careers of several outstanding players and conducting many barnstorming tours. The author, who interviewed many former players, covers Rogan's Hall of Fame career in-depth and brings to light one of baseball's greatest but often forgotten talents.

Practical Groundsmanship (Hardcover): L.W. White Practical Groundsmanship (Hardcover)
L.W. White
R879 Discovery Miles 8 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An excellent book on a topic rarely explained, Practical Groundsmanship will be the greatest possible assistance to all who have a respponsibilit of turf upkeep from the park-keeper to the groundsman of the smallest local sports club. Contents Include: The Presentation of Groundsmanship - Cricket - Tennis - Bowls - Hockey - Football - Outfields and General Areas - Running Tracks - Garden Lawns and Paths - Maintenance - Composts - War on Weeds - The Worm Problem - Machinery and Equipment - The Groundsman's Calendar - Dimensions of Playing Areas - Practical Points

Desi Hoop Dreams - Pickup Basketball and the Making of Asian American Masculinity (Hardcover): Stanley I Thangaraj Desi Hoop Dreams - Pickup Basketball and the Making of Asian American Masculinity (Hardcover)
Stanley I Thangaraj
R2,875 Discovery Miles 28 750 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

South Asian American men are not usually depicted as ideal American men. They struggle against popular representations as either threatening terrorists or geeky, effeminate computer geniuses. To combat such stereotypes, some use sports as a means of performing a distinctly American masculinity. Desi Hoop Dreams focuses on South Asian-only basketball leagues common in most major U.S. and Canadian cities, to show that basketball, for these South Asian American players is not simply a whimsical hobby, but a means to navigate and express their identities in 21st century America. The participation of young men in basketball is one platform among many for performing South Asian American identity. South Asian-only leagues and tournaments become spaces in which to negotiate the relationships between masculinity, race, and nation. When faced with stereotypes that portray them as effeminate, players perform sporting feats on the court to represent themselves as athletic. And though they draw on black cultural styles, they carefully set themselves off from African American players, who are deemed “too aggressive.” Accordingly, the same categories of their own marginalization—masculinity, race, class, and sexuality—are those through which South Asian American men exclude women, queer masculinities, and working-class masculinities, along with other racialized masculinities, in their effort to lay claim to cultural citizenship. One of the first works on masculinity formation and sport participation in South Asian American communities, Desi Hoop Dreams focuses on an American popular sport to analyze the dilemma of belonging within South Asian America in particular and in the U.S. in general.

Yankees Baseball - The Golden Age (Hardcover): Richard G. Bak Yankees Baseball - The Golden Age (Hardcover)
Richard G. Bak
R685 Discovery Miles 6 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
On Football (Paperback): James Lawton, Johnny Giles On Football (Paperback)
James Lawton, Johnny Giles; Read by Ivan Ponting
R299 Discovery Miles 2 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Devil and Danny O'Malley (Hardcover): James Fraser Devil and Danny O'Malley (Hardcover)
James Fraser
R765 Discovery Miles 7 650 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Danny O'Malley, a fairly decent amateur golfer, is tricked into selling his soul to the devil in exchange for a promise of winning the richest prize ever offered in a professional tournament: Five million dollars A history of the game and many of its greatest players is interspersed throughout the story. Why do people from every culture attempt to master this cruel game when there is so little chance of success? For example, can you name a great Italian golfer? Trust me, my friends. There are no great Italian golfers. In the spring, when the first bold blossoms of bougainvillea splash down the hillsides of Sicily in a glorious crimson tide and gondoliers ply their trade along the romantic canals of Venice, a young man is more intrigued by the upward slash of a signorina's skirt than the downward slope of a green, and more beguiled by the lie that rests on her lips than the lie of a dimpled white ball in the fairway.The English, self-deprecating and stoical, are as emotionally suited for golf as they are for espionage. They know the fairways and greens are as duplicitous as any double agent and will ultimately betray them. It is not a question of if, but a matter of when. For years, Nick Faldo was the personification of a golfing machine, an assassin of par whose deadly game struck fear in the hearts of opponents. His sponsors tried to humanize him to enhance the sale of their products. On rare occasions, an involuntary twitch in the shadowy recesses of his stiff upper lip created the fleeting illusion of a smile. But their feeble attempt to cast the dour Brit as Prince Charming fooled no one and was as futile an exercise as painting a happy face on the Sphinx in order to alter its enigmatic essence. Still, in fairness to "Sir" Nick-recently knighted by Queen Elizabeth-it should be noted that as tournament prize money has escalated to astronomical levels, the Americans and Europeans have also developed a decent impersonation of Faldo's English sc

The 1945 Detroit Tigers - Nine Old Men and One Young Left Arm Win it All (Paperback): Burge Carmon Smith The 1945 Detroit Tigers - Nine Old Men and One Young Left Arm Win it All (Paperback)
Burge Carmon Smith
R688 Discovery Miles 6 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Having finished the previous season a mere game behind pennant-winning St. Louis, the Detroit Tigers entered spring training in 1945 determined to complete their drive to the top. Led by the pitching duo of Hal Newhouser and Paul Trout, benefitting from the signature career year of Roy Cullenbine and Eddie Mayo, and buoyed by the July return of Hank Greenberg, the team battled past the Browns and Senators for the American League title. In the World Series that followed, the Tigers and the last of the great Chicago Cubs teams of the century squared off in a memorable, seven-game World Series.

Baseball in Baltimore (Hardcover): Tom Flynn Baseball in Baltimore (Hardcover)
Tom Flynn; Foreword by Sean Welsh
R719 R638 Discovery Miles 6 380 Save R81 (11%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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