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  • A River Never Sleeps

    Few books have captured the haunting world of music and rivers and of the sport they provide as well as A River Never Sleeps. Roderick L. Haig-Brown writes of fishing not just as a sport, but also as an art. He knows moving water and the life within it-its subtlest mysteries and perpetual delights. He is a man who knows fish lore as few people ever will, and the legends and history of a great ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Good Walk Spoiled

    Days and Nights on the PGA Tour

    From the author of Raise a First, Take a Knee: John Feinstein's bestselling classic is "the best-ever account of life on the PGA tour" (Golf Magazine) and a must-read for anyone who loves the game of golf.Traveling with the golfers on the PGA Tour, Feinstein gets inside the heads of the game's greatest players as well as its struggling wannabes. Meet superstars like Nick Price, who nailed a fifty ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Bud, Sweat, And Tees

    Hootie, Martha, and the Masters of the Universe

    by Alan Shipnuck ...
    The PGA Tour is the most interesting subculture in sports, though you wouldn't know it from most golf books. The Tour is home to rowdy, randy young men often drunk with money and fame; fueled by alcohol and adrenaline, they barnstorm from town to town like rock stars, with all the attendant excesses. And in each player's shadow is his faithful caddie -- performing a thankless six-figure job that ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Sports from Hell

    by Rick Reilly ...
    The most popular sports columnist in America puts his life (and dignity) on the line in search of the most absurd sporting event on the planet.What is the stupidest sport in the world? Not content to pontificate from the sidelines, Rick Reilly set out on a global journey—with stops in Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Denmark, England, and even a maximum security prison at Angola, Louisiana—to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD $7.99 USD

  • Simple Fly Fishing (Revised Second Edition)

    Modern-day fly fishing, like much in life, has become exceedingly complex, with high-tech gear, a confusing array of flies and terminal tackle, accompanied by high-priced fishing guides. This book reveals that the best way to catch trout is simply, with a rod and a fly and not much else. The wisdom in this book comes from a simpler time, when the premise was: the more you know, the less you need. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • On Boxing

    A reissue of bestselling, award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates' classic collection of essays on boxing. ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

  • Observations on Modern Falconry

    by R. Stevens ...
    Originally published in 1972 this important falconry book is probably one of the best of its kind. The author was a respected falconer of many years experience and his sheer pleasure in the sport shines through his writing. Contents Include: The Mews - Weathering Enclosure, Bath, Blocks - Bells, Jesses, Clip Swivels, Lures, Hoods, Whistle - Hack Hut and Hack Ground - Eyasses, Treatment before Hack ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rubber Legs and White Tail-Hairs

    America's favorite outdoor humorist is back with an outrageously fresh collection of stories. He introduces a variety of friends old and new, and takes readers to many exotic locales outdoors and indoors. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Bear in the Attic

    The beloved humorist and bestselling author returns with his most riotous collection of essays to date.Overflowing with his trademark outdoorsman's wit, Patrick F. McManus's newest collection ponders the strange allure of the RV, the existential implications of being lost, the baffling tendency of animals to outsmart those who wish to hunt them, and the singular pleasure of doubling the size of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Role of a Lifetime

    Reflections on Faith, Family, and Significant Living

    by James Brown ...
    We live in a world that all too often operates under the overriding template of self-promotion, embracing a "hooray for me" attitude, and which measures success in increasingly small timeframes dotted with markers of temporal value.Millions of viewers know James Brown as a sports commentator and former athlete. With Role of a Lifetime, James reveals a different side of his character. Brown rose ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Got Your Number

    The Greatest Sports Legends and the Numbers They Own

    ESPN personality (Get Up and #Greeny) and New York Times bestselling author Mike Greenberg partners with mega-producer Hembo to settle once and for all which legends flat-out own which numbers. In short essays certain to provoke debate between and amongst all generations, Greeny uses his lifetime of sports knowledge to spin yarns of the legends among the legends and tell you why some have claimed ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Better by Saturday (TM) - Short Game

    Featuring Tips by Golf Magazine's Top 100 Teachers

    by Greg Midland ...
    This installment of the Better by Saturday golf tips series focuses on essential advice to improve your short game.Featuring Tips by Golf Magazine's Top 100 Teachers. Simple to remember lesson that provides an opportunity for "no practice" improvement; so readers won't need to spend hours on the range re-grooving their swings to shave strokes off their handicaps. These are truly the tops that ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • ESPN: The Mighty Book of Sports Knowledge

    Edited by Steve Wulf ...
    In The ESPN Mighty Book of Sports Knowledge, Steve Wulf, acclaimed author and founding editor of ESPN The Magazine, delivers an arena’s worth of sporting wisdom, trivia, best-of lists, curiosities, legendary feats, and sacred objects–from the magic of Lou Gehrig’s farewell speech to the lore of hockey’s Stanley Cup to the art of the perfectly thrown Wiffle Ball pitch. Written to remind us all why ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Out of My League

    The Classic Hilarious Account of an Amateur's Ordeal in Professional Baseball

    This baseball classic that Ernest Hemingway called "beautifully observed and incredibly conceived" includes a foreword from Jane Leavy and never-before-seen content from the Plimpton archives.The first of Plimpton's remarkable forays into participatory journalism, Out of My League chronicles with wit, charm, and grace what happens when a self-professed amateur has the chance to answer every fan's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Lewis Hamilton: My Story

    Lewis Hamilton’s explosive arrival on the Formula 1 scene has made front-page headlines. In My Story, for the first time Lewis opens up about his stunning debut season, including the gripping climax to the 2007 F1 World Championship, as well as his dad Anthony, his home life and his early years. The only book with the real story, as told by Lewis.In his first season in F1, Lewis Hamilton has ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Basketball

    A Love Story

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Inspired by a major ESPN film series, this is an extraordinary oral history of basketball—its eye-opening untold history, its profound deeper meaning, its transformative influence on the world—as told through an unprecedented series of candid conversations with the game’s ultimate icons.This is the greatest love story never told. It has passion and heartbreak, triumph ... Read more

    $16.99 USD $14.99 USD

  • The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw

    America’s “most gifted outdoor humorist” (Detroit Free Press) regales readers with this collection of gut-busting, man vs. nature tales originally published in such magazines as Field & Stream and Outdoor Living.Patrick F. McManus’s hilarious and comic stories of camping and other nature-oriented activities reach ridiculous proportions in The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw. From teaching his ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Hand-Me-Down Dream (Essay)

    Father, Son, and the Burden of Basketball

    In this eBook exclusive essay, Pulitzer Prize–winning sports journalist George Dohrmann follows a father and son separated by prison bars—but bonded by their pursuit of basketball glory.The dream of playing big-time basketball never came true for Bruce Nelson, so he passed it on to his son Roberto. His every waking moment as a father was devoted to securing Roberto a Division I scholarship. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Straight Shooter

    A Memoir of Second Chances and First Takes

    AN NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEEAmerica’s most popular sports media figure tells it like it is in this “raw, deeply authentic, and immensely entertaining” (Bob Iger, #1 New York Times bestselling author and CEO of The Walt Disney Company) book, not only dishing out his signature, uninhibited opinions but also revealing the challenges he overcame in childhood as well as at ESPN.Stephen A. Smith has ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • His Ownself

    A Semi-Memoir

    by Dan Jenkins ...
    Series series Anchor Sports
    In His Ownself, Dan Jenkins takes us on a tour of his legendary career as a sportswriter and novelist. Here we see Dan's hone his craft, from his high school paper through to his first job at the Fort Worth Press and on to the glory days of Sports Illustrated. Whether in Texas, New York, or anywhere for that matter, Dan was always at the center of it all—hanging out at Elaine's while swapping ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Fan Mail

    Twenty Years of Writing About Soccer (an eBook original from Riverhead Books)

    by Nick Hornby ...
    A new collection of soccer writing by the bestselling author of Fever Pitch.After the phenomenal success of Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby tried to avoid writing about soccer, for fear that he'd be writing about it forever. But occasionally over the years he’s found it impossible to turn down a particularly enticing assignment or, in the case of the 2012-13 Premier League, just unable to resist writing ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Never Sniff A Gift Fish

    More humorous observations and insights into the agonies and ecstacies of hunting, fishing, and camping by the author of *They Shoot Canoes, Don't They?*and other celebrations of life in the wild. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Pocket Fishing Basics Guide

    Freshwater Basics: Hook, Line, and Sinker

    by Wade Bourne ...
    Series series Skyhorse Pocket Guides
    The Pocket Fishing Basics Guide is a handy reference for any aspiring angler, providing all kinds of questions and basic techniques on freshwater fishing across America. Inside, fishermen will find information about North American fish species, how to find prime fishing spots, safety tips while fishing, selecting appropriate bait, artificial lures and tackle, proper fishing techniques, handling ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • The Cost of These Dreams

    Sports Stories and Other Serious Business

    **The instant New York Times bestseller!From one of America's most beloved sportswriters and the bestselling author of Pappyland, a collection of true stories about the dream of greatness and its cost in the world of sports.**"Wright Thompson's stories are so full of rich characters, bad actors, heroes, drama, suffering, courage, conflict, and vivid detail that I sometimes thinks he's working my ... Read more

    $14.99 USD