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Sagal, Peter
The Incomplete Book of Running
A new, unread book in excellent condition. First Edition with the number "1" present in the number line.
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Knudsen, K.A.
A Textbook of Gymnastics
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 338 pages. Full red cloth boards. Many b&w photos and illustrations. Previous owner's name inside.
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Girl Scout Handbook
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full green cloth boards. Dust jacket is in tatters. 694 pages. 4 7/8"w x 7"h, Previous owner's name inside.
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Tacoma Dome: Built By and for the People of the City of Tacoma, Washington
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 126 pages. Black leatherette cover with silver dome image. 8 3/4"w x 11 1/8"h. No date shown; circa mid-1980's. Many illustrations.
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Harmata, John; Robert A Weil, Gina Pongetti
Anatomy of a Figure Skating Injury: Education, Prevention, and Performance Enhancement
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid with sharp corners on the covers, no blemishes to the exterior, text and interior are clean with no marking of any kind. 107 pages. "Never before has anyone dared to develop any sort of standardized precedures that would ease the pain of breaking in new boots and help to prevent injury. This book explains why figure skaters still experience the same injuries they did decades ago, addresses problems involving foot mechanics, and explains in detain the overall relationship between proper boot fit, blade mounting, sharpening,and much more."
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Meany, Tom
Artful Dodgers
Book shows light wear to covers with some chipping top and bottom spine; age toned pages, foxing at front endpapers. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 246 pages, "A factual up-to-the-minute series of profiles on the Dodgers of today" (Furillo, Robinson, Hodges & all the rest) & Mullin's "Bum", short b&w photo section with the likes of Cookie Lavagetto, Billy Herman, Dressen, Jake Pitler, Clem Labine, Giants, Carl Erskine, Billy Loes, Ralph Branca, Preaher Roe, Carl Furillo, Billy Cox, Ebbets Field, Pee Wee Reese, Roy Campanella, Red Barber, J. Lowell Pratt, stat pages at back.
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Durant, John
Dodgers, the; an Illustrated Story of Those Unpredictable Bums
Book is freyed at top of spine, small paint mark on back cover. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 154 pages, heavily illustrated with large b&w photos thoughout, sometimes two-page spreads; lots of aciton shots, all the famous figues. Contents include: the oldtimers, Uncle Robbie takes over, The daffiness boys, Three in a row, The lip, Why is a Dodger fan? Thumbnail sketch of Broklyn baseball history.
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Fridlund, Paul
Prosser, 1964 - 74: Changing Times
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket has shelf wear, edge wear, small tears at corners and top spine. 219 pages with a great many b&w photos, many large or full page, covering all aspects of life in Prosser, washington: agriculture, labor, ecology, political turmoil, city government, energy shortage, health, businesses, transportation, housing, education, sports, the young, leasure, drugs, religions, crime, Vietnam, etc.
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Satterfield, Archie
Seattle : An Asahel Curtis Portfolio
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 10"w x 9 1/2"h. 132 pages. Black and white photographs of Seattle's history.
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David-Neel, Alexandra
Magic & Mystery in Tibet
Book is in excellent condition with creaseless covers and spine; Very light shelf wear only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 320 pages, contents include: Tibet and the Lamas, Dealing with ghosts and demons, Psychic sports, Mystic theories and spiritual training, etc.
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Seltman, Charles
Women in Antiquity
Book shows light wear to covers only. Binding is square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. About 10 pages of b&w illustrations, many photos of Greek, Roman, Spartan sculpture and decorated pottery. 191 pages. The glue in this perfect bound book is over 50 years old and is likely fragile. "A witty pagent of pagan ladies in such diverse roles as wrestler, goddess, cortesan and candidate." -- From the cover
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Knudson, R.R.; May Swenson
American Sports Poems
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name label inside. Price-clipped dust jacket shows edge wear. Includes poems by Walt Whitman, Carl Sandburg, Elizabeth Bishop, Ogden Nash, Anne Sexton, John Updike, Gail Mazur, Gary Gildner, Thomas Merton, Lillian Morrison, Donald Hall, Maxine Kumin and more. 226 pages.
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Harlan, Hugh V.
History of Olympic Games Ancient and Modern
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name inside. 158 pages. Black and white photos and illustrations. Bibliography; index.
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Davies, Peter; Robert Light
Cricket and Community in England: 1800 to the Present Day
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name label inisde. 180 pages.
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Kardasis, Vassilis
The Olympic Games in Athens 1896-1906
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name label inside. 10 3/4"w x 11 1/4"h. 292 pages. Color illustrations.
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Mandell, Richard D.
Sport: A Cultural History
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name or label inside. Full maroon cloth boards. 340 pages.
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Culin, Stewart
Games of the North American Indians, Volume 1: Games of Chance
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name or label inside. 382 pages. Many b&w illustrations. "Originally published in 1907, Stewart Culin's comprehensive work reveals a side of American Indian culture that is still rarely shown."
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Riess, Steven A.
City Games: The Evolution of American Urban Society and the Rise of Sports
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name or label inside. 332 pages.
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Seib, Philip
The Player: Christy Mathewson, Baseball, and the American Century
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 198 pages. Previous owner's name label inside.
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Hart, M. Marie
Sport in the Socio-Cultural Process
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name or label inside. Wear and creases to cover. 506 pages.
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McKean, James
Home Stand: Growing Up In Sports
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 196 pages.
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Klein, Alan M.
Baseball on the Border. A Tale of Two Laredos
Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. Previous owners name or label inside. Full dark blue cloth boards. 292 pages.
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Peterson, Robert
Only the Ball Was White
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full maroon cloth boards. Edge wear and small tears to dust jacket. 406 pages. Many b&w photos.
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Lewin, Josh
Getting in the Game: Inside Baseball's Winter Meetings
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 278 pages.
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Aron, Cindy S.
Working At Play: A History of Vacations in the United States
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 324 pages.
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Laffaye, Horace A. ; Dennis J. Amato
Polo in the United States: a History
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. 395 pages with a great many b&w, some color photos.
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Wilbert, Warren N. ; Robin Roberts
What Makes an Elite Pitcher?: Young, Mathewson, Johnson, Alexander, Grove, Spahn, Seaver, Clemens, and Maddux
Book is in excellent condition with creaseless covers and spine, as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book.
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Pettavino Paula J. ; Geralyn Pry
Sport in Cuba; the Diamond in the Rough
Book shows very light wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. 301 pages, contents include: Politics of sport in cuba: foundations, Cuban sport before 1959, Structure and administration under Fidel, Popular participation under fidel, cuba's success: top performance sports, etc.
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Martin, Brian
Baseball's Creation Myth: Adam Ford, Abner Graves and the Cooperstown Story
Book is in excellent condition, as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. 215 pages with occasional b&w illustrations/photos. Contents include:
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Ribowsky, Mark
A Complete History of the Negro Leagues 1884 to 1955
Book is in excellent condition with a small coffee stain at page ends as only flaw. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 344 pages with b&w photo sections. Inscription from previous owner on half title page.
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Guttmann, Allen
Sports: The First Five Millennia
Book is in excellent condition with slight signs of wear or use only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket is as new, now wrapped in clear protective cover. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book.448 pages, contents include: Preliterate peoples, Before the Greeks, Greek athletic festivals, Roman sports, Traditional Asian sports, European sports from the middle ages to the renaissance, etc. wtih many b&w illustrations and photos.
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Kondoleon, Christine; Herrmann Jr., John J. ; Bill Littlefield
Games for the Gods : The Greek Athlete and the Olympic Spirit
Book is in excellent condition with black cloth covers, as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind save previous owner's sticker in front section of the book. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears, wrapped in clear protective cover. Oblong format, 201 pages, heavily illustrated with full color photos moslty of ancient ceramic ware: plates, vases, oil containers, bronze and stone sculpture, intersperced with modern photos of similar events. Map at front, lots of photos of depictions of nude athletes, men, in contests: wrestling, discus, javlin, etc. Section on relations between young and older athletes, pederasty, training, homosexual relations, bathing, oiling, other fun stuff. 207 color and 10 b&w illustrations, often large or full page.
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Dombrowski, Daniel A.
Comtemporary Athletics and Ancient Greek Ideals
Book is in excellent condition, as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket is as new also, wrapped in protective clear cover. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. Contents include: Weiss and the pursuit of bodily excellence; Huizinga and the Homo ludens hypothesis, Feezell, moderation and irony, The process of becoming virtuous
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Scannell, Vernon (ed.) Thomas Dekker; William Somerville; John Gay; Robert Burns, Ebenezer Elliot; Lord Byron; R.S. Surtees; John Masefield, Joseph Addison; Thomas Tod Stoddart; Robert Bridges
Sporting Literature: An Anthology
Book is in excellent condition, as new, back cover appears to have a printer's error with small glue marks. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket as new also, now wrapped in clear protective cover. 354 pages.
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Hirsch, Sheldon
Hot Hands, Draft Hype, and DiMaggio's Streak: Debunking America's Favorite Sports Myths
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind.
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Baker, William J.
Sports in the Western World
Book shows light shelf wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. 359 pages, contents include: From ritual to recreation: the beginnings of sport, Sports in an expanding world: from the renaissance to the industrial revolution, Teams take the field: the emergence of team sports in the nineteenth century, In sunshine and shadow: sports in the age of conflict, etc.
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Birrell, Susan, Mary G. McDonald, Nick Trujillo, Leola Johnson, David Roediger, Lisa Disch, Mary Jo Kane, David L. Andrews, Katherine M. Jamieson, Agigail M. Feder-Kane, Sam Stoloff, Cheryl L. Cole
Reading Sport: Critical Essays on Power and Representation
Book is in excellent condition, as new save previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 326 pages.
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Hines, James R.
Figure Skating: a History
Book is in excellent condition with one lower corner bumped, light scuffing to back cover as only flaws. Binding is solid and square, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Packed with color photos, large photo section at back, 456 pages, five appendices.
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Umphlett, Wiley Lee
The Achievement of American Sport Literature: A Critical Appraisal
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name inside. Slight edge wear and small tears to dust jacket. 216 pages.
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MacAloon, John J.
This Great Symbol: Pierre de Coubertin and the Origins of the Modern Olympic Games
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind save one page with prev. owner's initials in the text. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears, now wrapped in clear protective cover. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. Eight pages of b&w photos. 359 pages. Contents include: the U.S.F.S.A. , The Sorbonne congress, The Conquest of Greece, Egine Loues, etc.
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Powers-back, Jeffery; Joseph B. Oxendine
American Indian Integration of Baseball, The
Book is in excellent condition, as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket is as new also, now wrapped in clear protective cover. 269 pages.
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Edelman, Robert
Serious Fun: A History of Spectator Sports in the U.S.S.R.
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket is as new, now wrapped in clear protective cover. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. 286 pages with some b&w photos and illus. Contents include: Socailism and spectator sports, Watching games before the revolution, Early rituals of stalinist sport, Soviet soccer's golden age, Birth of Soviet hockey, Impact of television, Soviet sports fans, Ways of watching: old and new, etc.
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Witherspoon, Kevin B.
Before the Eyes of the World: Mexico and the 1968 Olympic Games
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 212 pages wtih b&w photos.
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Gurock, Jeffrey S.
Judaism's Encounter with American Sports
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. Dust jacket is as new also, now wrapped in a clear protective cover. 233 pages.
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Marcano Guevara, Arturo J.; Fidler, David P.
Stealing Lives: The Globalization of Baseball and the Tragic Story of Alexis Quiroz
Book is in excellent condition, as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket is as new also. 252 pages. Contents include: The structure and dynamics of major league baseball's recruitment of foreign baseball talent, Globalization of baseball, etc.
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Fine, Gary Alan
With The Boys : Little League Baseball And Preadolescent Culture
Book is in excellent condition, the only flaw being tape on front cover over a crease. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 289 pages. Contents include: Little league and the adult organization of child's play, Moral socialization: adult concerns, peer concerns, Sexual and aggressive themes of preadolescent boys, Small groups and preadolescent culture, Sport, culture and preadolescence, with three appendices: Effects of Little league baseball, Participant observation with children, etc.
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Ephross, Peter; Martin Abramowitz
Jewish Major Leaguers in Their Own Words: Oral Histories of 23 Players
Book is in excellent condition, as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. 217 pages.
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Liebling, A. J.
A Neutral Corner: Boxing Essays
Book is in excellent condition. in plum cloth HB covers, lightly bumped at front lower corner, very small mark on front and back covers. Binding is solid and square, covers otherwide have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear, price sticker residue, no tears, now wrapped in protective clear cover. 245 pages.
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Curl, James
Jersey Joe Walcott: a Boxing Biography
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book.231 pages with b&w photos throughout.
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Blaisdell, Lowell L.
Carl Hubbell A Biography of the Screwball King
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 212 with b&w phtoos.
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