The Last Best League: One Summer, One...
Jim CollinsEvery summer, in ten small towns across Cape Cod, the finest college baseball players in the country gather in hopes of making it to "The Show." The hopes are justifiably high: The Cape Cod Baseball League is the best amateu...
An entertaining how-to on outdoor safety, "How to Hike and NOT Die" provides the basic information all new hikers need to know to be safe in the woods. Through anecdotes and real-world experiences, you will learn how to iden...
Everything you Ever Wanted to Know ab...
Sam BerkeleyBooks on the World Cup fall into two types: some are weighty, detailed and reasonably accurate but inaccessible, for the most hardcore of fans only; others are funny, easy to read and a great introduction but pack little punch and lea...
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, ...
H. G. BissingerThe 25th anniversary edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller and Sports Illustrated's best football book of all time, with a new afterword by the authorReturn once again to the timeless account of the Permian Panthers of Odessa-th...
You Can Do This: Sports Officiating 1...
Cindy C-WilsonSports Officiating 101 Presented by Referee Lady An overview of sports officiating for any sport. What it takes and how to enjoy your sport from a different perspective. A great book for those interested in officiating and a good rev...
Great Moments in the Summer Olympics
Matt ChristopherThe Summer Olympics are chock full of epic athletic achievements across hundreds of disciplines, especially Track and Field, Gymnastics, and Swimming. These are the sports that gave us Jesse Owens and Carl Lewis, Wilma Rudolph and Jac...
Over one million young men and women play high school football in the United States each year. Many of these athletes will be diagnosed with a concussion. Others may suffer from a concussion but are not aware or do not report it. The ...
No Way! Spectacular Sports Stories (T...
Monika DaviesNo Way! Weird and Wild Sports Moments offers an exciting nonfiction reader that builds critical reading skills while students are immersed in engaging subject area content. This text is purposefully leveled to increase comprehension w...
The author of this book is a native Dutch, born and raised in the Netherlands. This popular book was first published in the Dutch language and over time it became an asset to many Dutch judo teachers. This book gives you a lot of idea...
The Sports Gene: Inside the Science o...
David EpsteinWhat explains the Manning brothers, the Williams sisters, and all those worldclass Jamaican sprinters? Do superstar athletes like Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps owe their success to genetic luck? Or are they basically normal pe...
100 Things Iowa State Fans Should Kno...
Alex HalstedMost Iowa State fans have taken in a game at Jack Trice Stadium or Hilton Coliseum and have seen highlights of Troy Davis and Fred Hoiberg. But only real fans know how the team name came to be, the location and story behind the "...
This issue features WATERFRONT FISTS by Robert E. Howard, SONS OF SOCK by Paul L. Anderson, SOCKER DOOLEY, FIGHTING GOLFER by Charles Francis Coe, SAY IT WITH HAYMAKERS by Joseph B. Fox, NO BELL TO SAVE HIM by Will H. Greenfield, FIGH...
Water Polo Team Notebook... a workbook for every player on your team. Based on the training logs, notebooks, and journals of Olympians and other world-class athletes, the Water Polo Team Notebook provides a wide var...
It's about the People, Not Just the G...
Paul KenyonThere's no one in Rhode Island who has covered as many sporting events in as many places as Paul Kenyon. Over his fifty-year career as a journalist (including thirty-seven years at The Providence Journal), he covered the Boston Red So...
College Baseball Recruitment: Beating...
Jacob KochCollege Baseball Recruitment: Beating the Odds is a guide to getting noticed by college coaches, earning your way on to a college baseball team, and succeeding at that college level. The author's first hand experience climbing the hig...
Fishing For Snook: Landing A Lineside...
Randy LaukshteinAll the different types of fishing have their extremists, but Snook fishermen are all extremists. Addiction, passion, obsession, whatever you want to call it, it is what makes a Snook angler different than the rest. We cannot really t...
Moon-Face (Excerpt) John Claverhouse was a moon-faced man. You know the kind, cheek-bones wide apart, chin and forehead melting into the cheeks to complete the perfect round, and the nose, broad and pudgy, equidistant from the circumf...
Coach God: The Mystery of the Game Pl...
Joseph LovettEvery sporting moment is a moment of grace. Our God is with us through it all, challenging us to be our best, supporting us through suffering and loss, and calling us to respond to the call of Jesus to live lives of integrity, sacrifi...
Faster, Higher, Stronger: The New Sci...
Mark McCluskyA New York Times bestseller"A smart and important book." —Gretchen Reynolds, author of The First 20 Minutes Publications as varied as Wired, Men's Fitness, and The New Yorker are abuzz over the New York Times bestseller F...
Playmakers: The Player's Guide to Dev...
Phd Brian McCormickThrough drills, situations, instruction and questioning, Playmakers: The Player's Guide to Developing Basketball Intelligence demonstrates how to teach game awareness and basketball intelligence. Playmakers: The Player's Guide to Deve...
The Complete Golfer: Reaching Your Ul...
Paul MeyerAre you a "complete golfer"? Do you want to reach your true golf potential? Whether you are an accomplished player or a weekend warrior, "The Complete Golfer" will improve your game. This book will get you thinking...
Military Hapkido Enemy Neutralization...
Gus MichalikMilitary Hapkido or Kuk Bang Hapkido as it is known in Korean was developed in Canada by Grand Master Gus Michalik of London, Ontario. The system has been recognized through the World Ki-do Federation and the Korean Government through...
Coaching like a Champion: Eight Essen...
Steve MillerCoaching like a Champion is about providing solutions to the daily pressures and stressors coaches face in their programs by focusing on the following: • Fulfilling your regular coaching responsibilities in a proactive, forward-thin...
100 Things Minnesota Fans Should Know...
Brian MurphyThis guide is the ultimate resource for true fans of the Golden Gophers. Whether you're a die-hard from the days of Herb Brooks or a more recent supporter, these are the 100 things every fan needs to know and do in their lifetime. Exp...
Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting...
Don Van NattaThis is the extraordinary story of a nearly forgotten American superstar athlete. Texas girl Babe Didrikson never tried a sport too tough and never met a hurdle too high. Despite attempts to keep women from competing, Babe achieved Al...
One Lucky Fan: From Bleachers to Box ...
Rich O'MalleyFeatured in the New York Daily News!Twenty-five years ago, Rich O'Malley combined his two great loves – sports and travel – into one "superhobby," launching a lifelong dream of seeing a home game for every franchise in ...
The Joy of Bocce, 5th Edition is the authority on Americas greatest and simplest recreational pastime. Bocce is a game that can be played by anyone almost anywhere, requires less space and equipment than its many assorted recreationa...
Discourse Academos: 5 activist essays...
Michael G. Plansky5 essays on efforts to promote and develop disc golf as a unique lifestyle sport. The Disc golf phenomenon has been evolving for nearly 40 yrs now, and it's time that the rag-tag legions of recognized disc golf enthusiasts take the re...
The Encyclopedia & Guide to Diving wi...
Matthew W. RobinsonDiving is an exciting sport as well as a requirement of some vocations such as commercial diving, military diving, public safety diving, and scientific diving. In sport diving, most learn to dive with a half mask to cover their eyes a...
The Teaching of Judo: An Instructor's...
Mark E. RoosaThe Teaching of Judo is a guide for instructors, coaches, judoka, and parents. Presented from an educator's perspective, this book contains the knowledge gleaned from forty years of experience in teaching judo, and includes the qualit...