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Shoot to Thrill
The History of Hockey?s Shootout
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
In 2005, the National Hockey League adopted the shootout to settle ties in regular season games. The shootout is used if the game remains tied after five minutes of overtime.
Ten years later, the shootout is one of the most significant and controversial rule changes in all of sports. Some maintain...
The Divine Nature of Basketball
My Season Inside the Ivy League
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
The Divine Nature of Basketball: My Season Inside the Ivy League describes a season spent as a virtual coach in the Ivy League. Shadowing head coach of Yale men’s basketball James Jones and bird-dogging his team from first practice to final game, Ed Breslin fulfills every college basketball fan’s...
Saving Face
The Art and History of the Goalie Mask
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Who was the first goaltender to wear a mask in a game? Who was the last to go without one? When did goalies start painting their masks?
These are just a few of the questions that are answered in this definitive book on goalie masks. Saving Face looks at the development of the mask from its...
by My Ebook Publishing House
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Lean About Sports Box Set
Now, for the first time ever, and only for a limited time, you can get this value-priced, limited edition boxed set.
Lean About Sports Box Set ncludes three bestselling books from My Ebook Publishing House:
Book #1
Ice Hockey Guide – Basic Rules
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by Fritz Knapp
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
The Book of Sports Virtues: High Impact Athletes and Coaches is a masterful collection of stories about the struggles and triumphs of many celebrated athletes. Each chapter is assigned a trait or virtue and uses an athlete's story as a lens through which the reader can gain the insight needed to achieve...
Losing Isn't Everything
The Untold Stories and Hidden Lessons Behind the Toughest Losses in Sports History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
A refreshing and thought-provoking look at athletes whose legacies have been reduced to one defining moment of defeat—those on the flip side of an epic triumph—and what their experiences can teach us about competition, life, and the human spirit.
Every sports fan recalls with amazing accuracy...
Playing With the Boys
Why Separate is Not Equal in Sports
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2007
Athletic contests help define what we mean in America by "success." By keeping women from "playing with the boys" on the false assumption that they are inherently inferior, society relegates them to second-class citizens. In this forcefully argued book, Eileen McDonagh and Laura...
Facing America's Team
Players Recall the Glory Years of the Dallas Cowboys
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The Dallas Cowboys were dubbed America’s Team nearly forty years ago, and the label has stuck in the minds and hearts of football fans to this day.
Facing America’s Team takes you onto the field to see what it was like to take on Bob Lilly, Roger Staubach, Tony Dorsett, Emmitt Smith, Troy...
by Floyd "Pete" Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Jameer is an inspiring biography of Jameer Nelson, who excelled in sports from an early age and decided to focus on basketball in high school and later completed his college career playing the sport. He is respected and admired throughout the nation for completing college before starting in the NBA,...
by Bill Grigsby
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
It has, most definitely, been A Beauuutiful Life for Bill Grigsby, a Kansas City icon and Grand Master of Ceremony. No one can paint a more illustrious image of Midwestern sports and its famous and not-so-famous participants than the man affectionately known as Grigs. From humble beginnings during...
Revolution in the Bleachers
How Parents Can Take Back Family Life in a World Gone CrazyOver Youth Sports
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
A journalist and mother of two athletic kids exposes the physical and emotional dangers of our over-the-top youth sports culture—and offers practical solutions for positive change.
A decade ago, Joan Ryan’s exposé, Little Girls in Pretty Boxes, changed the way we look at elite sports,...
The United States Tennis Association
Raising the Game
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The United States Tennis Association is an in-depth look at the history of the United States Tennis Association (USTA) and how this sports organization has helped cultivate and organize tennis in the United States over the past 135 years. Starting as a group of elite white men from country clubs in...
Game Boys
Triumph, Heartbreak, and the Quest for Cash in the Battleground of Competitive V ideogaming
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2008
A year inside the fierce rivalries and big business of competitive videogaming
A technology-fueled spin on a classic sports tale, Game Boys profiles "cyber-athletes" who compete for dominance in the professional gaming circuit, a world populated with rivalries, big egos, corporate...
Ultimate Book of Sports
The Essential Collection of Rules, Stats, and Trivia for Over 250 Sports
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
This ultimate book for the ultimate sports fan extends far beyond classics like tennis and basketball. With the rules of engagement for an outrageous assortment of sports—from jousting and Mongolian wrestling to baseball, cricket, ultimate Frisbee, and caber tossing—this book is a resource and...