SPORTS/FITNESS/RECREATION
SPORTS/FITNESS/RECREATION
English-Yoruba Sports / Àwọn eré ìdárayá Children’s Bilingual Picture Dictionary
About the Book: Learn different types of sports with this children’s bilingual picture dictionary.
About the Author: Richard Carlson is an author of bilingual children’s books.
$12.90
Casting Forward
In Casting Forward, naturalist, educator, and writer Steve Ramirez takes the reader on a yearlong journey fly fishing all of the major rivers of the Texas Hill Country.This is a story of the resilience of nature and the best of...
$30.00
Negro League Baseball Playing Cards
Negro League Baseball Playing Cards ~ The Negro National League Illustrations on Every Card 54 Historical Portraits Poker sized playing cards Portraits by Jan Padover The Legacy of Negro League BaseballThe Negro National League was formed in 1920 by Rube Foster,...
$12.50
When Lions Roared: The Lions, the All Blacks and the Legendary Tour of 1971
By 1971 no Lions team had ever defeated the All Blacks in a Test series. Since 1904, six Lions sides had travelled to New Zealand and all had returned home bruised, battered and beaten. But the 1971 tour party was...
$14.95
Wales and the All Blacks: An off-field history
From the first match between Wales and New Zealand in 1905, a mutual bond of rivalry and respect has developed between these two rugby-loving countries. This book documents all the matches played, but unlike other histories it shifts the focus...
$22.99
Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports And Why We're Afraid To Talk About It
In virtually every sport in which they are given opportunity to compete, people of African descent dominate. East Africans own every distance running record. Professional sports in the Americas are dominated by men and women of West African descent. Why...
$31.00
Sport, Difference and Belonging: Conceptions of Human Variation in British Sport
This book combines historical and ethnographic components in examining the ideas about human variation subscribed to by coaches, commentators and sportspeople themselves. The book begins by interrogating the idea of the ‘impulsive’ black sportsman (and the ‘impulsive’ black male more...
$220.00
The Skin I`m In: Racism, Sports and Education
This book discusses the role that sport participation plays in the lives of black male high school students. As a former professional athlete himself, the author brings a first-hand personal quality to this study. As an educator he strives to...
$25.99
Legacy: What The All Blacks Can Teach Us About The Business Of Life
THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITIONChampions do extra.They sweep the sheds.They follow the spearhead.They keep a blue head.They are good ancestors.In Legacy, best-selling author James Kerr goes deep into the heart of the world's most successful sporting team, the legendary All Blacks of...
$21.99
Heroics and Heartbreak: Twelve Months With the All Blacks
The 2019 Rugby World Cup campaign is shaping up to be the most intriguing World Cup campaign ever for the All Blacks, because they're going for their third title in a row. It will cap a decade of dominance for...
$24.95
The TB12 Method
The #1 New York Times bestseller by the 7-time Super Bowl championThe first book by NFL legend Tom Brady, former quarterback with the New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who reached unimaginable heights of excellence into his forties—a gorgeously illustrated and...
$24.00
Facing the Haka
This brilliant selection of photographs and stories describes what it means to stare down the most famous ritual in sport, from the perspective of those who have been there. Facing the Haka examines the significance that the All Blacks' haka has in...
$39.95
From Gold Teeth to Gold Jacket: My Life in Football and Business
How a young man with a solid work ethic carried himself out of poverty to the pinnacle of professional sports and business.Before he turned sixteen, Edgerrin James had already developed the critical thinking and mental discipline required for him to...
$29.98
Dave Bing: Attacking the Rim: My Journey from NBA Legend to Business Leader to Big-City Mayor to Mentor
“In this fraught time of cutthroat business and financial dealings, racial animosity, and heartless political leaders, Dave’s remarkable story has lessons for us all.” —Jalen Rose, former professional basketball player, current analyst for ESPN A narrative of chance and purpose that touches...
$28.00
The Black Migrant Athlete: Media, Race, and the Diaspora in Sports
The popularity and globalization of sport have led to an ever-increasing migration of Black athletes from the global South to the United States and Western Europe. While the hegemonic ideology surrounding sport is that it brings diverse people together and...
$62.50
Behind the Silver Fern: The All Blacks in their Own Words
Behind the Silver Fern is a comprehensive history of rugby’s most famous yet enigmatic team, the New Zealand All Blacks, told by the men who have had the honour of wearing the iconic black jersey. From the legendary 1905 ‘Originals’...
$28.99
The Master: The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer
This New York Times bestselling biography tells the life story of the most iconic men's tennis player of the modern era. There have been other biographies of Roger Federer, but never one with this kind of access to the man himself, his...
$21.99
The Story of Golf in Fifty Holes
"The latest golf book from Dear (Every Golf Question You Ever Wanted Answered) meets the formidable challenge of trying to tell the 600-year history of golf.... a Masters-level celebration of the game."-- Publishers Weekly (starred review) The people and events...
$19.95
Wimbledon 2023: The Official Story of The Championships
Wimbledon 2023 - The Official Story of The Championships is the comprehensive, entertaining and beautifully illustrated re-telling of a spell-binding fortnight of tennis at the All England Club.Since 1984 the official 'annual' has reviewed in detail each Championships held at...
$30.00
Sparring with Smokin' Joe: Joe Frazier's Epic Battles and Rivalry with Ali
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (February 10, 2021)
Language : English
Hardcover : 256 pages
ISBN-10 : 1538136791
ISBN-13 : 978-1538136799
$24.95
Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball
Publisher : Flatiron Books (March 30, 2021)
Language : English
Hardcover : 400 pages
ISBN-10 : 1250313791
ISBN-13 : 978-1250313799
$29.99
The NBA in Black and White: The Memoir of a Trailblazing NBA Player and Coach
Publisher : Seven Stories Press (June 14, 2022)
Language : English
Hardcover : 256 pages
ISBN-10 : 164421198X
ISBN-13 : 978-1644211984
$25.95
My Brother, Muhammad Ali: The Definitive Biography
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; Illustrated edition (October 9, 2020)
Language : English
Hardcover : 400 pages
ISBN-10 : 1538142449
ISBN-13 : 978-1538142448
$26.95
The Forgotten First: Kenny Washington, Woody Strode, Marion Motley, Bill Willis, and the Breaking of the NFL Color Barrier
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing (September 21, 2021)
Language : English
Hardcover : 336 pages
ISBN-10 : 1538705486
ISBN-13 : 978-1538705483
$28.00
Comeback Season: My Unlikely Story of Friendship with the Greatest Living Negro League Baseball Players
Publisher : Gallery Books (March 30, 2021)
Language : English
Hardcover : 272 pages
ISBN-10 : 1982153601
ISBN-13 : 978-1982153601
$27.00
Black Mercuries: African American Athletes, Race, and the Modern Olympic Games
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (February 8, 2023)
Language : English
Hardcover : 324 pages
ISBN-10 : 1538152835
ISBN-13 : 978-1538152836
$38.00
Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA
$29.00
Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA
Publisher : Bold Type Books (March 7, 2023)
Language : English
Hardcover : 368 pages
ISBN-10 : 1645036952
ISBN-13 : 978-1645036951
$29.00
The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World
Riveting and inspiring first-person stories of how "taking a knee" triggered an awakening in sports, from the celebrated sportswriter"The Kaepernick Effect reveals that Colin Kaepernick's story is bigger than one athlete. With profiles of courage that leap off the page, Zirin...
$25.99
$21.00
Boxing Icons
*Includes pictures of Ali, Tyson, and important people, places, and events in their lives.*Comprehensively covers their most famous fights*Includes a Table of Contents.“To prove I am great, he will fall in eight.” – Muhammad Ali“Everybody in boxing probably makes out...
$7.99
The Black Sox Scandal: The History and Legacy of America's Most Notorious Sports Controversy
*Includes pictures*Includes accounts of the scandal written by Sox players, newspapers, and more*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“As Jackson departed from the Grand Jury room, a small boy clutched at his sleeve and...
$9.99