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  • Business Is About to Pick Up!

    50 Years of Wrestling in 50 Unforgettable Calls

    by Jim Ross ...
    Experience 50 years of wrestling history through the iconic voice of Jim Ross.For wrestling fans, Jim Ross’ voice is the soundtrack of an era. This book is your ringside ticket to wrestling’s most unforgettable moments—from the announcer who made them iconic.In the last 50 years, professional wrestling has risen up from a collection of regional territories to become a global phenomenon—and Jim ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • King Power: Leicester City’s Remarkable Season

    by Richard III ...
    I had a hunch we’d be champions!The most unlikely story in the history of sport, told by our greatest football writerOn 25th March 2015, when King Richard III, recently rescued from a municipal car park, was reburied in Leicester Cathedral, his beloved football team had just lost 4-3 to Tottenham Hotspur and were bottom of the Premier League, relegation certainties. With King Richard finally at ... Read more

    $1.99 USD $0.99 USD

  • Showtime

    Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s

    by Jeff Pearlman ...
    The New York Times bestselling author of Sweetness delivers the first all-encompassing account of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers, one of professional sports’ most-revered—and dominant—dynasties.The Los Angeles Lakers of the 1980s personified the flamboyance and excess of the decade over which they reigned. Beginning with the arrival of Earvin “Magic” Johnson as the number-one overall pick of the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Anatomy of Liverpool

    A History in Ten Matches

    Jonathan Wilson and Scott Murray provide a forensic analysis of ten key Liverpool games that have shaped the club's fortunes over the last century: from the long-lost triumphs of Tom Watson (a 19th-century Bill Shankly) to 1970s European triumphs over the likes of Borussia Monchengladbach and the mind-blowing 2005 comeback against AC Milan.Aston Villa v. LiverpoolApril 1899Wolves v. LiverpoolMay ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Formula

    How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWall Street Journal reporters and authors of The Club, Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg tell the riveting saga of how Formula 1 broke through in America, detailing the eclectic culture of racing obsessives, glamorous settings, gearheads, engineering geniuses, dashing racers, and bitter rivalries that have made F1 the world’s fastest growing sport.For decades in America, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Ballyhoo!

    The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional Wrestling

    by Jon Langmead ...
    Series series Sports and American Culture
    Ballyhoo! The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional Wrestling is a history of professional wrestling’s formative period in the U.S., from roughly 1874 to 1941, and the contested interplay of wrestlers and promoters who built the “sport” as we know it. During this period, the major conventions that would define wrestling to the present day were perfected and codified, as ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • One for the Ages

    Jack Nicklaus and the 1986 Masters

    by Tom Clavin ...
    Chronicling the unforgettable and improbable triumph of Jack Nicklaus in the 1986 Masters, this celebration recounts how the tarnished Golden Bear,” with his eldest son Jackie as his caddy, won the most prestigious golf tournament for the sixth time at the astonishing age of 46. Though he was not a favorite to win-ranked 160th on the PGA Tour money list and six years without a win at a major ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Giant Win

    Inside the New York Giants' Historic Upset over the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII

    by Tom Coughlin ...
    Legendary Giants coach Tom Coughlin takes readers inside his coaching masterpiece: Super Bowl XLII when Eli Manning and the underdog Giants beat the undefeated, 18-0 Patriots of Tom Brady and Bill Belichick.Super Bowl XLII was the greatest upset in NFL history. In A GIANT WIN, Coach Tom Coughlin recounts the strategies and people that made it possible.Coach Coughlin reveals the intricacies of the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Terry & Me

    The Inside Story of Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope

    by Bill Vigars ...
    There has never been a Canadian quite like Terry Fox and there’s never been a story quite like The Marathon of Hope.A twenty-two-year-old cancer survivor and amputee, Terry set out from St. John’s Newfoundland in April 1980, aiming to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research. His first months on the road in Atlantic Canada and Quebec were not only physically taxing—he ran the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Brady vs Manning

    The Untold Story of the Rivalry That Transformed the NFL

    by Gary Myers ...
    **New York Times BestsellerFrom Acclaimed sports journalist Gary Myers comes the definitive inside account of the greatest rivalry in NFL history**Tom Brady and Peyton Manning are perhaps the two greatest quarterbacks of all time. They are living legends who have come to embody the quarterback position and shape an entire generation of the NFL. They have also been fierce rivals every step of the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Dust Bowl Girls

    The Inspiring Story of the Team That Barnstormed Its Way to Basketball Glory

    by Lydia Reeder ...
    **“A thrilling, cinematic story. I loved every minute I spent with these bold, daring women whose remarkable journey is the stuff of American legend.” —Karen Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of *Liar, Temptress, Soldier, SpyThe Boys in the Boat* meets A League of Their Own in this true story of a Depression-era championship women’s team.**In the early 1930s, during the worst drought and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Paul Brown's Ghost

    How the Cleveland Browns and Cincinnati Bengals Are Haunted by the Man Who Created Them

    Paul Brown was a football genius and the father of two NFL franchises?the Cleveland Browns, who carry his name, and the Cincinnati Bengals. Arguably the most important figure in the history of the sport, he was a renowned coach and owner, and when he passed away on August 5, 1991, the game lost a giant. But for the Browns and Bengals, his death would herald a new era of bad luck, poor judgment, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Dreamers and Schemers

    How an Improbable Bid for the 1932 Olympics Transformed Los Angeles from Dusty Outpost to Global Metropolis

    by Barry Siegel ...
    How one man brought the Olympics to Los Angeles, fueling the city's urban transformation.Dreamers and Schemers chronicles how Los Angeles’s pursuit and staging of the 1932 Olympic Games during the depths of the Great Depression helped fuel the city’s transformation from a seedy frontier village to a world-famous metropolis. Leading that pursuit was the “Prince of Realtors,” William May (Billy) ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Ancient Greek Athletics

    Primary Sources in Translation

    The Sourcebook of Ancient Greek Athletics offers the most comprehensive collection to date of primary sources in translation for the study of ancient Greek athletics. Because Greek athletics was such an essential feature of both Greek and Roman culture, there is an especially strong need for proper treatment and understanding of the texts and other media used to reconstruct practices and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Doping

    A Sporting History

    A gripping, provocative history of doping in sports—packed with examples—that proposes a new emphasis for modern anti-doping efforts.Why is doping a perennial problem for sports? Is this solely a contemporary phenomenon? And should doping always be regarded as cheating, or do today’s anti-doping measures go too far?Drawing on case studies from the early twentieth century to the present day, Doping ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Redemption

    A Rebellious Spirit, a Praying Mother, and the Unlikely Path to Olympic Gold

    by Bryan Clay ...
    This is the story of the most unlikely Olympic decathlete in history. Despite size and stature, Bryan Clay is the defending champion of the 2008 Olympic gold medal and winner of the 2004 Olympic silver medal in the decathlon. His journey is as inspiring as it is gritty, as troubled as it is triumphant.Far more than just a sports memoir, Redemption details the drudgery, devastation, and ultimate ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Down Goes Brown History of the NHL

    The World's Most Beautiful Sport, the World's Most Ridiculous League

    by Sean McIndoe ...
    Sean McIndoe of Down Goes Brown, one of hockey's favourite and funniest writers, takes aim at the game's most memorable moments--especially if they're memorable for the wrong reasons--in this warts-and-all history of the NHL.The NHL is, indisputably, weird. One moment, you're in awe of the speed, skill and intensity that define the sport, shaking your head as a player makes an impossible play, or ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • World in Their Hands

    The Story of the First Women's Rugby World Cup

    by Martyn Thomas ...
    Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Rugby Book of the Year 2023 World in their Hands recounts the remarkable events that led to a group of friends from south-west London staging the inaugural Women’s Rugby World Cup in 1991. The tournament was held just 13 years after teams from University College London and King’s contested a match that catalysed the growth of the women’s game in the UK, and the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Remembering the Stars of the NFL Glory Years

    An Inside Look at the Golden Age of Football

    by Wayne Stewart ...
    The 1950s and 60s was a golden age for professional football. It was perhaps the toughest and roughest era for the sport, before rules were created to better protect the players, but it was also a time when legends were born. To many football fans this era remains the Glory Years of the NFL, when the stars that roamed the gridiron included the likes of Johnny Unitas, Bart Starr, Jim Brown, and ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Nine Waves

    The Extraordinary Story of How India Took Over the Cricket World

    by Mihir Bose ...
    The Nine Waves is a tour de force. The most entertaining and up-to-date history of Indian cricket ever published, it tells the story of the nine great waves of the game from 1932 to the present day. Each wave in Indian cricket was chock-full of mesmerising stars, thrilling moments, great victories, heartbreaking losses and significant turning points. The first wave of Indian cricket rolled in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cellar Dwellers

    The Worst Teams in Baseball History

    In 1890, baseball’s Pittsburgh Alleghenys won a measly 23 games, losing 113. The Cleveland Spiders topped this record when they lost an astonishing 134 games in 1899. Over 100 years later, the 2003 Detroit Tigers stood apart as the only team in baseball history to lose 60 games before July in a season. These stories and more are told in Cellar Dwellers: The Worst Teams in Baseball History, a ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Best Game Ever

    Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL

    by Mark Bowden ...
    The NFL championship game that changed the history of football: a New York Times bestseller by the author of Black Hawk Down.Yankee Stadium, December 28, 1958. What was about to go down on this Sunday evening in front of sixty-four thousand fans and forty-five million home viewers—the largest viewership ever assembled for a live televised event—was the first sudden death overtime in NFL history. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Walking Alone

    The Untold Journey of Football Pioneer Kenny Washington

    by Dan Taylor ...
    The inspirational story of African American trailblazer Kenny Washington, the first player to reintegrate the NFL.On September 29, 1946, football star Kenny Washington made history. When he trotted onto the field for the Los Angeles Rams, Washington broke the color barrier in the NFL.In Walking Alone: The Untold Journey of Football Pioneer Kenny Washington, Dan Taylor reveals Washington’s ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Sky Girls

    The True Story of the First Women's Cross-Country Air Race

    by Gene Jessen ...
    "A beautiful and inspiring book...fascinatingly told." — Donna Shirley, former head of the U.S. Mars program, NASAThe exhilarating story of the first women who boldly conquered the skies in the first female cross-country air raceThe year is 1929, and on the eve of America's Great Depression, nineteen gutsy and passionate pilots soared above the glass ceiling in the very first female cross-country ... Read more

    $12.99 USD