P Is For Peloton
1,671円 A perfect gift book for all cycling fans - the A-Z of cycling from Arrivée to Zoetemelk. Beautifully illustrated by renowned cycling artist Mark Fairhurst, P is for Peloton is packed with fun facts from the amazing to the bizarre, and stories about the greatest riders in the sport. Ever wanted to...
The Oval World
2,148円 The Oval World is the first full-length history of rugby on a world scale – from its origins in the village-based football games of medieval times up to the globalised sport of the twenty-first century, now played in well over 100 countries. Rugby has always been a sport with as much drama off th...
Walter Camp
3,522円 Americans are obsessed with football, yet they know little about the man who shaped the game to make it uniquely technical, physical, and 'man-making' at once. Walter Camp, the "Father of American Football," was the foremost authority on American athletics and arguably the greatest amateur Americ...
The Field Guide to Sports Metaphors
2,334円 A gift-worthy playbook of common and unexpected words and idioms that have their roots in sports and games. There are many metaphors we can quickly identify from the realm of sports: covering all the bases (baseball), game plan (football), and par for the course (golf). But the English language i...
The Self-Propelled Voyager
13,122円 Before the last quarter of the nineteenth century, people who wanted to travel independently either walked or rode horses. Then a newly invented machine changed forever the nature of personal transportation. The cycleーself-propelled bicycles, tricycles, and tandemsーallowed almost anyone to trav...
El reportero del Olimpo
703円 Esta es una historia real llena de sueños cumplidos, de protagonistas legendarios que hicieron posible lo imposible. Esta es la vida de un reportero que buscó el Olimpo, lo encontró y descubrió todas sus puertas. El relato de un viaje por tierra, mar y aire de un hombre que entrevistó la historia...
The Grand Old Man of Baseball
5,300円 In The Grand Old Man of Baseball, Norman L. Macht chronicles Connie Mack’s tumultuous final two decades in baseball. After Mack had built one of baseball’s greatest teams, the 1929–31 Philadelphia Athletics, the Depression that followed the stock market crash fundamentally reshaped Mack’s legacy ...
I Am The Secret Footballer
662円 "It is often said that 95% of what happens in football goes on behind closed doors. Many of these stories I shouldn't be telling you about. But I will."Who is The Secret Footballer? Only a few people know the true identity of the man inside the game. But whoever he is - and whoever he plays for -...
The Galveston Buccaneers: Shearn Moody an...
1,917円 Galveston survived the Great Depression with a healthy dose of baseball, boll weevils and bootleg business. Farmers like future Galveston Buccaneers star Buck Fausett fled the insect infestation of North Texas for the city's sunny shores along with throngs of visitors eager to visit Sam Maceo's c...
The Shared Origins of Football, Rugby, an...
6,018円 In today’s hypercompetitive world, contact sports bring about fierce rivalries between fans, between players, and even between countries. From the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Michigan Wolverines in grid iron football, to the Australian Wallabies and the New Zealand All Blacks in rugby, to Real Ma...
The Wilderness Hunter - An Account of the...
748円 This books pages contain the adventures and experiences of hunting among the mountains and on the plains for both pastime and to procure hides and meat for the ranch. Contains a wealth of information on hunting, finding and killing game of all kinds that are considered to belong to temperate Nort...
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