The Ball Game

Reducere. Screw up a piece of paper and play this ball game.

Get out the peanuts and Cracker Jacks and get ready for fun with America's national sport. The unofficial anthem of baseball has never looked bette...

Reducere. Anthropologist John Fox sets off on a worldwide adventure to thefarthest reaches of the globe and the deepest recesses of our ancientpast to answer...

Reducere. From the inimitable mind of award-winning author Jesse Ball, a novel about an unsettlingly familiar society that has renounced the concept of equal...

Reducere. A few years after its invention by James Naismith, basketball became the primary sport in the crowded streets of the Jewish neighborhood on New Yor...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Philip TheibertEVERYTHING I KNOW I LEARNED FROM BASEBALL is a collection of inspiring and amusing life lessons drawn from t...

Reducere. More than 6 years after his death David Halberstam remains one of this country's most respected journalists and revered authorities on American lif...

The story of modern football through the key events, characters and developments that have set its course is presented here, aiming to provide an o...

Reducere. The Summer Game, Roger Angell's first book on the sport, changed baseball writing forever. Thoughtful, funny, appreciative of the elegance of the g...

DescriptionFootball is the most popular sport on the planet partly because it's so simple to play - but as philosopher, novelist and avid fan Steph...

Reducere. Whoever claims winning isn't everything obviously has not spoken with an athletic coach.Coaching the Mental Game offers coaches of all sports a def...

Scyld Berry draws on his experiences as a cricket writer of forty years to produce new insights and unfamiliar historical angles on the game.

Reducere. DescriptionIn Golf: The Ultimate Mind Game Rick Sessinghaus maps out the mental and emotional skills needed to play your best golf. Throughout this...

Reducere. Casey Stengel is unquestionably one of the great characters and showmen in the history of baseball. What is less well known about him is he was als...

Reducere. Coaches: Win more games by teaching your players the fundamental skills, intangibles and finer points of the game that other coaches don't know. He...

Reducere. In 1956, a casual bet between two millionaires eventually pitted two of the greatest golfers of the era-Byron Nelson and Ben Hogan-against top amat...

Reducere. Iowa High School Book AwardJack O'Brien is a high school basketball coach extreme in both his demands and his devotion. With monastic discipline, h...

Reducere. Description"This book is an amazing compilation of the game's history as seen through the eyes of my friend Jerry Rice, aka The GOAT. If you are a ...

The outspoken anonymous author is back with the ultimate book to challenge conventional football wisdom. With his trademark wit, intelligence and c...

Includes "The Empty Pleasure" by 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature Winner Mario Vargas Llosa The world's most popular sport, soccer, is also one of th...

Reducere. DescriptionSeeking Redemption - The Real Story of the Beautiful Game of Skee-Ball is the first and only book about the history of Skee-Ball, and th...

Reducere. Absolute Tennis is thorough and comprehensive guide to improving your tennis. In this insightful and visually engaging book, Marty Smith, an NCAA D...

Reducere. DescriptionOn Thanksgiving Day 1971 a record fifty-five million homes tuned in to watch two powerhouse college football teams collide. The defendin...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the summer of 1950, a most unlikely group was assembled to represent its country in the first soccer World Cup since World War II. Th...

Reducere. Now available in paperback, the "fresh and fascinating" (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland), "splendid and brilliant" (Philadelphia Daily News) history o...

The rugby union has undergone immense change in the past two decadesintroducing a World Cup, accepting professionalism, and creating a global marke...

Reducere. Timeless lessons from the master of the game. This, the fourth book by Harvey Penick, was nearly finished when he died in April 1995. A return to t...

Reducere. Iowa High School Book AwardWhat changes? He takes up football, and school, after a rich, Evangelical, Republican family plucks him from the mean st...

DescriptionBold and inspiring profiles of the pioneers, champions and future heroines of women's soccer around the world. Women's soccer has come a...

Reducere. For most of the first half of the twentieth century, African-Americans were excluded from Organized Baseball. But their love of the game, and their...

Reducere. Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life general manger, Bill...

Reducere. God brought passion into Jon's life at an early age when he saw his very first golf club. This passion turned to love and gave birth to a dream. Fu...

Reducere. God brought passion into Jon's life at an early age when he saw his very first golf club. This passion turned to love and gave birth to a dream. Fu...

Reducere. Although largely ignored by historians of both baseball in general and the Negro leagues in particular, Latinos have been a significant presence in...

DescriptionAlthough soccer had long been the world's game when Michael J. Agovino first encountered it in 1982, here it was just a poor cousin to A...

Reducere. Winner of the 2015 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award The Game of Our Lives is a masterly portrait of soccer and contemporary Britain. Socc...

Reducere. EVERY WOMAN CAN PLAY GREAT GOLF Known in the world of golf as one of the game's greatest teachers, Harvey Penick worked with U.S. Open winners, gre...

Reducere. Short game shots in your golf game don't have to be complicated-unless you're getting all kinds of conflicting information about technique and stra...

Reducere. THE GREATEST GAME EVER PLAYED is the story of Francis Ouimet and Harry Vardon, who in pursuit of their passion for a game that captivated them as c...

Reducere. The Inner Game of Tennis will help you: use the mind/body connection and learn to trust yourself on the court; find the state of "relaxed concentra...

DescriptionUpton Bell grew up at the knee of the NFL's first great commissioner, his father, the legendary Bert Bell, who not only saved the game f...

Publisher: Rutgers University PressAuthor(s): Andrew M. GuestIllustration(s): 8 black & white imagesNumber of pages: 228Collection: Critical Issues...

Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible is the first book in a four-book series, The Dave Pelz Scoring Game Series. The next volume in the series will be Dave...

Reducere. In the 2015-16 NBA season, the Jewish presence in the league was largely confined to Adam Silver, the commissioner; David Blatt, the coach of the C...

Publisher: Rutgers University PressAuthor(s): Andrew M. GuestIllustration(s): 8 black & white imagesNumber of pages: 228Collection: Critical Issues...

Reducere. A "winning" (Parade) and "well-conceived" (The New York Times) account of one teenager's solo trek to play golf in each of the lower forty-eight st...

Reducere. Do you swing too fast, try too hard, lose concentration, lack confidence, get angry, putt poorly under pressure, finish exhausted, or suffer for ho...

DescriptionNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "One of the best golf books this century." --Golf Digest Tom Coyne's A Course Called Scotland is a heartfelt...

Reducere. DescriptionDo you want to make golf swing changes stick? Do you want to take your range game to the golf course? Are you ready to enjoy the process...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the fall of 1926, the world of baseball was rocked by the sudden retirements of Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker. The reasons given by the Ba...

DescriptionOne of two companion volumes of biographies of the players, coaches, announcers, and others involved with the 1986 World Series, one on ...

Reducere. Are you tired of your opponents running circles around you? Do you wish you could score more goals?Whether you want to (1) have better soccer skill...

Reducere. This handy reference provides techniques for mastering disc golf, the fast-growing sport in which competitors throw a Frisbee-like disc at a number...

DescriptionTimed perfectly for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the true story of how political prisoners under apartheid found hope and dignity...

Reducere. It doesn't matter how old you are, what challenges you are facing or what sports you play...if you are someone with a dream, this book will give yo...

Reducere. A must read for all baseball players, coaches, and fans... Mental skills coach Geoff Miller has spent years helping professional baseball players i...

Reducere. Among many legendary episodes from the life and career of men's basketball coach Dean Smith, few loom as large as his recruitment of Charlie Scott,...

Reducere. Are you tired of losing on the court? Does your blood boil each time you mis-hit the ball?Whether you want to (1) improve your playing technique, (...

Reducere. "Filled with sharp insights, keen observations, and great stories, his book is championship caliber." --The Philadelphia InquirerDoug Glanville, a ...

Reducere. Discover The Relationship Between Being Relaxed, Flexible And Playing A Great Game Of Golf Is it possible to improve your golf swing or perform a p...

Reducere. El f tbol es un juego emocionante que, sin embargo, no tiene coraz nNo existe ning n otro fen meno social que, como el f tbol, se haya adaptado con...