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Biography: sport
ISBN: 9781910237076Publisher: Hayloft Publishing LtdImprint: Hayloft PublishingPublished date: 30 Oct 2015DEWEY: 796.5223092DEWEY edition: 23Number of pages: xv, 212Weight: 322gHeight: 220mmWidth: 135mmSpine width: 20mm..
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Brand: Pitch Publishing Ltd
Say hello to the world's only undefeated heavyweight champion, a guy called Rocky Marciano, who defied physical limitations - `He's too small, too short, too light, too old.' With just a 67-inch reach, two left feet and under six feet tall, tough, h..
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Chris Jackson has written a thoughtful and brilliant study of Federer as a man, player, and aesthetic and moral figure of our times. It outplays even Foster Wallace's magisterial writing on this greatest of all tennis champions. Here is the one of t..
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Brand: Icon Books
Strength, speed and dedication: Cristiano Ronaldo is known throughout the world as a colossus of the modern game.But did you know that he underwent laser heart surgery aged just fifteen to enable him to continue playing the game he loved?Or that Nac..
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A country boy who grew up watching his old man play local footy in Leongatha, Jarryd Roughead's talent and dedication turned him into an AFL star. Lining up alongside some of the greatest to ever play the game, he was a key player in a Hawthorn team..
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A young man from Compton rises to the highest levels of baseball greatness.Roy White played on the New York Yankees from 1965 through the 1979 season. Roy grew up on the tough streets of Compton and created a successful all-star baseball career play..
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Brand: Pitch Publishing Ltd
Running has been many things to Jenny Baker-a space to achieve new things, a way to keep fit and healthy, and a source of friendship and community. She had planned a year of running to celebrate her birthday; instead Jenny was hit with a bombshell w..
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Brand: Vertebrate Publishing
'Every time I speak to someone and hear about their experiences, it leaves me with a sense of running's incredible power to help people overcome pretty much anything.'Each day, millions of people around the world put on their trainers and try to dea..
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Brand: Charles Scribner's Sons
Charlie Engle's "fascinating account of the high and low points of his life as an ultramarathon runner...is uplifting and inspirational" (Publishers Weekly) as he describes his globe-spanning races, his record-breaking run across the Sahara Desert, ..
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Here is the inspiring story of Pauline Davis, a Bahamian sprinter who fought through poverty, inequality, and racism to compete in five Olympic Games and become the first woman from the Caribbean to win Olympic gold. She would inspire an entire nati..
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Brand: Pegasus Books
The bestselling author of 80/20 Running and How Bad Do You Want It? reveals his inspiring and surprising journey to see just how fast he can go. Matt Fitzgerald has been running (and writing about running) for most of his adult life. But, like many ..
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Brand: Birlinn Ltd
It is the world's most iconic road race. It is twenty-six-point-two miles of iconic landmarks, cheers, tears, sweat, pain, courage, determination and inspiration. It is triumph over adversity on a colossal scale. It is the London Marathon - and it's..
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Brand: Biteback Publishing Ltd.
From France's first World Cup victory in 1998 to their second in 2018, Les Bleus have experienced a journey that has been anything but easy. Two decades of extreme turbulence for both the national team and the country, however, have seen the birth, ..
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Brand: Fernhurst Books Limited
Kim Sturgess was a weekend sailor: he enjoyed club racing and several brief sailing holidays, but had never attempted a substantial expedition. Reaching the age of fifty focused the mind and he decided to sail around Britain. While many cruising sai..
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Sam Posey raced a huge variety of sports cars, saloons and open-wheel machines in numerous racing arenas -- Can-Am, USRRC, Trans-Am, IMSA, Indy, NASCAR, Formula 5000 and Formula 1 -- against rivals and friends such as George Follmer, Parnelli Jones,..
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Brand: Charles Scribner's Sons
A riveting, revealing portrait of tennis champion and global icon Serena Williams that combines biography, cultural criticism, and sports writing to offer "a deep, satisfying meditation" (The New York Times) on the most consequential athlete of her ..
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Brand: Random House
In the late eighties and early nineties, Formula One was at its most explosive, with thrilling races, charismatic drivers, nail-biting climaxes - and the most deadly rivalry ever witnessed in sport. Two of Formula One's most honoured champions and i..
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Brand: White Lion Publishing
Serena Williams is the most successful tennis player - male or female - of the modern, professional era, with more Grand Slams than either Steffi Graf or Roger Federer. Always a fierce competitor, her story - which began on the cracked public cour..
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Brand: AcornScholastic Inc.
Serena Williams: tennis player, sports icon, champion. Get your head in the game with one of the greatest athletes of all time, Serena Williams. A Life Story: This gripping series throws the reader directly into the lives of modern society's most ..
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Brand: Orion
WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019'Brutally honest . . . A moving, candid tale of a coach taking the plunge with a rugby ball as his only buoyancy aid' DAILY EXPRESS'An engrossing account of a remarkable story' EVENING STANDARD'An ..
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Brand: UNP - Nebraska Paperback
Shake and Bake is the story of Archie Clark, one of the top playmaking guards in the 1970s pre-merger NBA. While not one of the game's most recognized superstars, Clark was a seminal player in NBA history who staggered defenders with the game's grea..
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"This book provides information on Shirley Shahan, the first female drag racer to win a major NHRA event"--. ISBN: 9781613255810Publisher: CarTech, IncImprint: CarTech, IncPublished date: 26 Apr 2022DEWEY: 796.72092DEWEY edition: 23/eng/20211122Lang..
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The story behind Shohei Ohtani's legendary MVP season as baseball's greatest two-way player-dominant pitcher and outfielder/DH with otherworldly power at the plate-and his path from his early days in Japan to the most fascinating figure in Major Lea..
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Brand: Orion
Shortlisted for the 2017 Cross Sports Book Awards Best Biography of the YearBryant is one of basketball's greatest-ever players, a fascinating and complicated character who says he knew when he was a boy that he would be better than Michael Jordan.A..
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