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  • A Hero’s Journey
    Chris Dooley
    A Hero’s Journey Beyond Little Norway and Olympia Sports Camp is a compiled history of the Olympia Sports Camp in Huntsville, Ontario, through the lens of its founder and inspiration, Dave Grace, the hero of the book’s title. The hero’s journey of the title is Dave Grace’s adaptation of the writings and teaching of philosopher Joseph Campbell. The basic tenet of the Dave Grace’...
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    39,84 €

  • World Cup Soccer Drills
    Chest Dugger
    Sport is the greatest pastime in the world. Soccer is the greatest, and most popular, sport.Every fan knows that the epitome of soccer excitement builds through a four-year cycle, a process of preparation and qualification, culminating in the World Cup. What memories this tournament gives us. The brilliance of Pele, the craft of Cruyff. Zidane headbutting his Italian opponent i...
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    39,64 €

  • The History of Americas Most Watched Sports for Kids
    william lawson
    Get Excited About the Colorful History of America’s Most Popular Sports, Even if You Don’t Know The First Thing About Football, Basketball or Baseball... From The Super Bowl to The Thanksgiving Game, Millions of Families Gather Throughout The Week to Watch Their Favorite Teams Duke it Out. Kids and Grandparents Alike, Share The Thrill of Watching Their Team Get That Perfect Tac...
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    29,26 €

  • Generation Zero
    Hal Phillips
    The Modern Creation Story American Soccer Didn’t Know It Had By the late 1980s, U.S. soccer had solidified its reputation as a global laughingstock, a sporting oxymoron akin to Jamaican bobsledding:  Starting in 1950, the richest, most powerful nation on Earth had gone 0 for 9 trying to qualify for the World Cup. Once the North American Soccer League petered out, U.S. sporting ...
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    22,46 €

  • Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America
    Illuminates the ways games-from baseball cards to board games, charades to boxing, and croquet to strategies of war-were integral to nineteenth-century life and culture in the United States and Britain. ...
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    42,79 €

  • Changing the Game
    Abigail Perkiss / Kelly McFall
    Changing the Game is set at a fictional university in the mid-1990s. A debate over the role of athletics quickly expands to encompass demands that women’s sports and athletes receive more resources and opportunities. The result is a firestorm of controversy on and off campus. Drawing on congressional testimonies from the Title IX hearings, players advance their views in student...
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    39,26 €

  • Fencing or the Science of Arms
    A. F. Johnson / Michael Chidester / Salvator Fabris
    This book contains a representation of an early 20th century typescript by A. F. Johnson, currently owned by the Howard de Walden Library and housed in the Wallace Collection, containing his unpublished translation of the 1606 treatise of Salvator Fabris. Since it is not possible to scan the book, it was photographed by Guy Windsor and these photos were carefully transcribed by...
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    61,15 €

  • Fencing or the Science of Arms
    A. F. Johnson / Michael Chidester / Salvator Fabris
    This book contains a representation of an early 20th century typescript by A. F. Johnson, currently owned by the Howard de Walden Library and housed in the Wallace Collection, containing his unpublished translation of the 1606 treatise of Salvator Fabris. Since it is not possible to scan the book, it was photographed by Guy Windsor and these photos were carefully transcribed by...
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    61,15 €

  • Fit to be Canadian?
    Lisa Tink
    In recent years, recreation scholars and professionals began calling for a return to municipal recreation’s historical roots as a 'public good.' Blaming neoliberal ideology for the current pay-per-use model, these calls for a more inclusive recreation system have suggested the sector’s 'business-like' practices should be of concern because they are in direct opposition to the h...
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    38,81 €

  • Tribal
    Diane Roberts
    Part introspective soul searching, part cultural analysis, Tribal tackles the controversies plaguing college athletics, tracing the dubious historical underpinnings of Americans’ most popular sport, offering a visceral and often funny analysis of its tribal thrills and deep contradictions.Florida State’s football team is always in the headlines, producing Heisman Trophy candida...
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    14,67 €

  • Take Her Word for It
    Kathleen Ralls
    Women athletes of all ages have an incredible capacity to be dynamic leaders who can choose between taking a step back to see the big picture or leading with curiosity and creativity.In Take Her Word for It: Sports Cultivate World-Class Leaders, Kathleen Ralls, PhD, looks at how lessons learned in sports provide women the essentials necessary to be effective team leaders. After...
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    13,34 €

  • California Sports Astounding
    Dan Cisco
    This California sports trivia guide is the perfect gift for the sports die-hard fan in your life!California is more than just sunny beaches and sky-high redwoods. From the Los Angeles Lakers, and NFL teams like the San Francisco 49ers, to surfing and mini-golf, collegiate, professional, and Olympic athletics alike, California has a rich and fascinating history with sports. Now,...
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    15,58 €

  • Pro Teams KumiteSport
    Dexter V. Kennedy
    How many times have you asked the questions: Why isn’t there a Pro Teams KumiteSport Marti al Arts league that supports point fighting? A league with the standardization of rules, and points on a national or world level? A league with teams, franchise teams with owners? A national or world organization at which point martial artists can aspire to participate? Why hasn’t someone...
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    21,32 €

  • The Kings of Strength
    Edmond Desbonnet / David L. Chapman
    More than a century ago, the barrel-chested strongman clad in leopard skins, Roman sandals and carrying an oversized barbell was a common performer in fairs, circuses and vaudeville theaters. In 1911, before this phenomenon had disappeared, French gym owner, journalist and athlete Edmond Desbonnet published a colorful history of these mighty performers. Since he knew and interv...
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    73,98 €

  • Sport and physical culture in Occupied France
    Keith Rathbone
    Sport and physical culture in Occupied France is a scholarly and readable account of French sport during the Vichy regime. It explores two competing phenomena: the state’s promotion of physical culture to rehabilitate French people during the Occupation and athletes’ and sporting associations’ use of the state’s efforts to serve their own agendas. ...
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    144,57 €

  • A Look Back at Motorcycling in the Heart of the Appalachians
    Lewis Hale
    James P. Hayes Sr. begins his storied motorcycle career in the shade of a tree atop Roan Mountain, Tennessee, in 1936. Winston Johnson is a multitalented motocross racer offering other riders a track to practice, play, and worship. The facility opened in 2019 off Interstate 81 in Abingdon, Virginia. Johnson is not only a businessman but also the lead minister at Renewed Church ...
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    15,23 €

  • Gotch vs. Zbyszko
    Ken Zimmerman Jr.
    The One Opponent Gotch Feared Could Beat HimWrestling fans believed no living man could defeat World Champion Frank Gotch. To stimulate fan interest, Gotch’s manager lured Stanislaus Zbyszko, a European Greco-Roman wrestling champion, to America for a match with Gotch.The pairing produced one of the most controversial falls in Gotch’s lengthy career. The controversy dogged both...
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    15,04 €

  • Crystal Beach
    Gary Pooler
    'The memories within the millions of people who experienced Crystal Beach, even just once, will never be lost.'One of Canada’s greatest entertainment centres existed for one hundred years in an isolated little village in one of the southernmost corners of Ontario, just across the lake from Buffalo, New York. Nicknamed 'Buffalo’s Coney Island,' the Crystal Beach Amusement Park s...
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    41,02 €

  • History of NFL Football for Kids
    william lawson
    The History of NFL Football for KidsBasic Knowledge of NFL Football History With Some Fun Facts and RecordsBy William LawsonGet Excited about the Colorful History of America’s most Popular Sport, Even if you don’t know the first thing about Football...Football is one of the great American Pastimes.From the Super Bowl to the Thanksgiving game, Millions of Families Gather Through...
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    16,62 €

  • Sons of Cambria
    Gareth M Davies / Ian Garland
    Sons of Cambria is the first volume of a landmark three-part collection that will feature every footballer capped for Wales’ senior men’s team since 1876 and is the essential reference guide for all followers of Welsh international football. ...
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    64,42 €

  • Circus Is in Town
    Lisa Doris Alexander
    Contributions by Lisa Doris Alexander, Matthew H. Barton, Andrew C. Billings, Carlton Brick, Ted M. Butryn, Brian Carroll, Arthur T. Challis, Roxane Coche, Curtis M. Harris, Jay Johnson, Melvin Lewis, Jack Lule, Rory Magrath, Matthew A. Masucci, Andrew McIntosh, Jorge E. Moraga, Leigh M. Moscowitz, David C. Ogden, Joel Nathan Rosen, Kevin A. Stein, and Henry Yu In this fifth bo...
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    141,89 €

  • Circus Is in Town
    Lisa Doris Alexander
    Contributions by Lisa Doris Alexander, Matthew H. Barton, Andrew C. Billings, Carlton Brick, Ted M. Butryn, Brian Carroll, Arthur T. Challis, Roxane Coche, Curtis M. Harris, Jay Johnson, Melvin Lewis, Jack Lule, Rory Magrath, Matthew A. Masucci, Andrew McIntosh, Jorge E. Moraga, Leigh M. Moscowitz, David C. Ogden, Joel Nathan Rosen, Kevin A. Stein, and Henry Yu In this fifth bo...
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    42,49 €

  • The Greatest Teams Never
    Tony Del Prete
    The Greatest Teams Never: Sports Memories of Near Misses, Total Messes, and Not-so-magical Moments chronicles the despair and disappointment of 40 remarkable teams that are remembered more for what they didn’t accomplish than their successes. The book revisits some of the most memorable and unbelievable events in the annals of sports, while at the same time recognizing those de...
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    17,25 €

  • Minto & Mann
    W.B. MacDonald / W.BMacDonald
    Even the most passionate lacrosse fans probably do not remember the Orillia Terriers, Montreal Shamrocks or even Vancouver Carlings, but in their times these teams were famous across Canada and even farther afield, always in the thick of the hunt for Minto or Mann Cup glory, winning national championships at least three times in ten-year periods. They were almost unbeatable and...
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    41,36 €

  • Minto & Mann
    W.B. MacDonald / W.BMacDonald
    Even the most passionate lacrosse fans probably do not remember the Orillia Terriers, Montreal Shamrocks or even Vancouver Carlings, but in their times these teams were famous across Canada and even farther afield, always in the thick of the hunt for Minto or Mann Cup glory, winning national championships at least three times in ten-year periods. They were almost unbeatable and...
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    59,75 €

  • The Viking Cup
    LeRoy Johnson
    How does a small college in a rural Alberta city of just over 12,000 people become host to the finest hockey players in the world? Now a part of the University of Alberta, Camrose Lutheran College was challenged to compete against larger city colleges. Through persistence in following a vision, the school and the community embraced the potential of the Viking Cup in 1980, openi...
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    68,82 €

  • The Viking Cup
    LeRoy Johnson
    How does a small college in a rural Alberta city of just over 12,000 people become host to the finest hockey players in the world? Now a part of the University of Alberta, Camrose Lutheran College was challenged to compete against larger city colleges. Through persistence in following a vision, the school and the community embraced the potential of the Viking Cup in 1980, openi...
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    87,20 €

  • Sports on Film
    Johnny Boggs
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    88,94 €

  • The Badge we all hold dear
    John E Turner
    Hurrah for the squares entwinedThe Badge we all hold dear, While hearts are thus inclined,No 'clique' not 'split' we’ll fear.ChorusThen here’s to those sportsmen, good and true,That made our Club; give them their due - Long may they still among us shine,Who laid the trail in ’69.ShoutedBlack-lack-lack-lack - Black-lack-lack-lack - Black - heath(Extract from the Song of the Blac...
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    24,26 €

  • History of the NFL First 100 Year’s You Sure Started Somethin’
    R.D. Griffith / R.DGriffith
    Are you searching for a book about American Football that has it all? R. D. Griffith will take you on a comprehensive drive through the history and highlights of American Football, its salient details, from its inception at the turn of the century to its centralized embodiment now in the modern era, the NFL. He will share with you the challenges the game faced through the Great...
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    27,84 €