‎Sports‎

‎GOLDMAN ROBERT MA‎

‎One Man Out: Curt Flood Versus Baseball‎

‎University Press of Kansas Lawrence: . Softcover. Brand new book. When Curt Flood all-star center fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals refused to be traded to the Philadelphia Phillies in 1969 he sent shock waves throughout professional baseball that ultimately reached the Supreme Court. Flood challenged the game's reserve clause system that bound players to teams as if they were property; and while others had previously spoken out against this arrangement protected by Congress and the courts for a century he was the first to pursue his grievance as doggedly or as far. Robert Goldman now offers a new look at Flood's efforts to shake the foundations of major league baseball. One Man Out takes readers back to the pre-steroid era when baseball was as much a passion as a pastime�and when race was often still a factor�to focus on decisions made in the courtrooms rather than the dugouts. Flood claimed that the prevailing system was illegal because it violated the Sherman antitrust laws by allowing teams to monopolize the sport in a way that impeded players' freedom and financial gain�and was even unconstitutional because it in effect imposed a form of slavery. Baseball owners countered that players owed their success to the reserve system because it maintained competitive balance among teams and heightened interest in the game which helped fund their high salaries. Although the Supreme Court ruled against Flood it left the door open to legislation that would remove baseball's special exemption from antitrust regulation and to future collective bargaining. With its credibility enhanced the players' union continued negotiations until it finally won a version of free agency very similar to Flood's with his final vindication coming in the form of the Curt Flood Act of 1998. In replaying the confrontation between Flood and baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn Goldman demonstrates that even a lost lawsuit with its game-like competition can be a landmark. And by telling the inside story of the case he highlights a key labor relations issue in America's most popular sport. Concise and balanced and written in a fast-paced narrative style One Man Out reminds students general readers and fans that Flood holds a unique and important place in both baseball and American law. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence: paperback‎

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‎Bernard Jeffrey; Osborne John‎

‎Low Life 1st Impression Duckworth Hardback‎

‎Duckworth 1986. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good Condition/Very Good. VG/VG 1986 1st edition 1986 Duckworth hardback price-clipped DJ with photos. Several gift notes to previous owner to upper half of fly-leaf a little edge-rub to DJ and spine ends else VG and unmarked internally. MARVELLOUS COLLECTION OF BERNARD'S FINEST SPECTATOR ARTICLES WITH MANY PHOTOS AND ILLUSTRATED DJ. immediate dispatch worldwide Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Sport/Games; ISBN: 0715620770. ISBN/EAN: 9780715620779. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 068280. 9780715620779 Duckworth hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 068280 ISBN : 0715620770 9780715620779

‎The Editors of Sports Illustrated‎

‎Sports Illustrated NFL Quarterback QB: The Greatest Position in Sports‎

‎Sports Illustrated. Hardcover. 1618931202 Remainder mark . Fine. Sports Illustrated hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : Z1618931202Z1 ISBN : 1618931202 9781618931207

‎MESSNER REINHOLD‎

‎The Challenge‎

‎Kaye & Ward London / Oxford University Press New York: 1977. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. In the summer of 1975 Reinhold Messner 31 and Peter Habeler 33 climbed the 26463-foot Hidden Peak via its most difficult face without oxygen fixed ropes high camps high-altitude porters and without any contact with the outside world. In The Challenge this great classical mountaineer accepted by many young ciimbers as a "Messiah" describes two expeditions: the first an attempt on the south face of Lhotse which ended in failure with the climber beaten back by storms and avalanches; and the second the smallest expedition in history of Himalayan mountaineering the ascent of two men of Hidden Peak. Translated into English from the German by Noel Bowman and Audrey Salkeld. ISBN: 019519974X. Kaye & Ward, London / Oxford University Press, New York: 1977 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 90484X1 ISBN : 019519974X 9780195199741

‎Sports JONES Paul; SHEIK The Iron; et all‎

‎The Ringsider: Georgia's Official Wrestling Program‎

‎Atlanta GA: Ringsider Magazine Georgia Championship Wrestling Inc. 1984. First Edition First Printing. Original wraps. Very Good . 8 1/4 X 10 3/4 Inches. 6 PP. Original circa 1984 Georgia wrestling program featuring the National Heavyweight Champion "Super Destroyer" AKA The Spoiler and The Iron Shiek among others. Rare program with Johnny "Wildfire" Rich on the cover. Original price of $1.00 on front. Slight wear to egdes and corners but a clean copy overall. Ringsider Magazine (Georgia Championship Wrestling, Inc.) paperback‎

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‎Trimble Marshall; Guardabascio Sports Editor Mike; Trevino Chris‎

‎Arizona Outlaws and Lawmen: Gunslingers Bandits Heroes and Peacekeepers‎

‎History Press Library Editions. Hardcover. 1540213528 BRAND NEW! NOT DIRTY OVERSTOCKS OR MARKED UP REMAINDERS!VCF . New. History Press Library Editions hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : OTF-S-9781540213525 ISBN : 1540213528 9781540213525

‎KASTNER CHARLES B‎

‎Bunion Derby: The 1928 Footrace Across America‎

‎University of New Mexico Press Albuquerque. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. On March 4 1928 199 men lined up in Los Angeles California to participate in a 3400-mile transcontinental footrace to New York City. The Bunion Derby as the press dubbed the event was the brainchild of sports promoter Charles C. Pyle. He promised a $25000 grand prize and claimed the competition would immortalize U.S. Highway Route 66 a 2400-mile road mostly unpaved that subjected the runners to mountains deserts mud and sandstorms from Los Angeles to Chicago. The runners represented all walks of American life from immigrants to millionaires with a peppering of star international athletes included by Pyle for publicity purposes. For eighty-four days the men participated in this part footrace and part Hollywood production that incorporated a road show featuring football legend Red Grange food concessions vaudeville acts sideshows a portable radio station and the world's largest coffeepot sponsored by Maxwell House serving ninety gallons of coffee a day. Drawn by hopes for a better future and dreams of fame fortune and glory the bunioneers embarked on an exhaustive and grueling journey that would challenge their physical and psychological endurance to the fullest while Pyle struggled to keep his cross-country road show afloat. "In a wild grab for glory a cast of nobodies saw hope in the dust: blacks who escaped the poverty and terror of the Old South; first-generation immigrants with their mother tongue thick on their lips; Midwest farm boys with leather-brown tans. These men were the 'shadow runners' men without fame wealth or sponsors who came to Los Angeles to face the world's greatest runners and race walkers. This was a formidable field of past Olympic champions and professional racers that should have discouraged sane men from thinking they could win a transcontinental race to New York. Yet they came flouting the odds. Charley Pyle's offer of free food and lodging to anyone who would take up the challenge opened the race to men of limited means. For some it was a cry from the psyche of no-longer-young men seeking a last grasp at greatness or a summons to do the impossible. This pulled men on the wrong side of thirty from blue-collar jobs and families."--from the Preface 6 x 9 in. 256 pages 27 halftones. Charles B. Kastner lives in Seattle Washington and has published numerous articles in Northwest Runner and Marathon and Beyond magazines. Bunion Derby is his first book. "No writer 'owns' a swath of history the way Chuck Kastner 'owns' the wildly crazy C. C. Pyle Bunion Derbies. The inaugural race was a truly American epic: from its massive scope to the fact that it was dominated by a handful of second-rate runners who decided there was no future in continuing in the underdog role. Chuck's book makes you want to schedule your next vacation for Route 66 there to relive the zaniness and heroics of 1928."--Rich Benyo editor Marathon & Beyond Magazine "Bunion Derby's narrative arc transcends the academic approach one would expect from a university press."--Philip Damon on the Peace Corps Writers website ".a brilliant compelling enthralling read about a piece of American history that for the most part faded into the dust its participants no doubt kicked up." --BiblioBuffet "Kastner's familiarity with sport running his affinity for the characters he is writing about and his enamor for competition infuse The Bunion Derby giving it an epic quality. --The Chronicles of Oklahoma "We think Bunion Derby would make a great holiday gift for any of your running or history-minded friends but get one for yourself too. It's a great read." --Northwest Runner "What made Bunion Derby an outstanding read for me is twofold: it is about a piece of American history that is today almost unknown. One web site has a fascinating history of it and there have been a few articles here and there but for the most part it has disappeared from written history. Why There is so much that it represents-the character and strength that was an American virtue; the opportunistic hucksterism that defined this country; individuals conquering extraordinary physical and emotional difficulties petty jealousies cheating political and financial agendas and creating for themselves a personal challenge that each--whether he dropped out or completed the race--in his own way won. This is one of those books that should be discovered by every reader who appreciates solid research writing worth reading and a fantastic story. How many ways can I say that it is one every reader of BiblioBuffet should pick up as soon as possible. Bunion Derby has my highest recommendation." --BiblioBuffet University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 90193X1

‎Sports LOUGANIS Greg; MARCUS Eric‎

‎Breaking the Surface SIGNED FIRST PRINTING‎

‎New York: Random House 1995. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6 1/4 X 9 1/2 Inches. 283 Pages. Signed by 80's Olympic champ Greg Louganis directly on the title-page. Newspaper flyer from signing event in Nashville TN laid-in. Louganis won gold medals in the 1984 and 1988 Olympics as well as becoming a highly respected spokesman for the LGBT community. Random House hardcover‎

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‎Sports MADEJ Bruce; FORD Gerald; DIERDORF Dan; MORRISON Brendan; BERENSON Red CANHAM Don SCHEMBECHLER Bo; CROSBY Elain‎

‎Michigan: Champions of the West SIGNED BY PRESIDENT GERALD R. FORD DAN DIERDORF FIVE MORE!‎

‎Champaign IL: Sports Publishing 1997. Signed Limited Edition. Full leather. Near Fine. 8 5/8 X 11 1/4 Inches. 274 PP. One of the more limited versions of the Signed/Limited Edition SIGNED BY SEVEN ALUMNI AND NOT JUST THE STANDARD FIVE THAT YOU SEE WITH MOST VERSIONS. Signed by Bruce Madej author President Gerald Ford Dan Dierdorf NFL Hall of Fame Brendan Morrison NHL Star Red Berenson NHL Star Don Canham All-American Track & Track as well as legendary Michigan Athletic Director Elaine Crosby LPGA Star and Bo Schembechler Legendary Michigan Wolverines Football Head Coach. Bound is bonded leather with Gold rule and title work to front cover. Original COA from "Sports Publishing" is laid-in loose. Slight bump to bottom front corner for us picky book collectors else fine. Sports Publishing hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 812

‎Sports CHICAGO ROLLER SKATE COMPANY‎

‎Secrets of Rink Skating RARE ADVERTISING BOOKLET‎

‎Chicago: Chicago Roller Skate Co 1950. First Edition First Printing. Original wraps. Near Fine. 5 1/4 X 8 1/2 Inches. 20 PP. Scarce original advertising brochure for the Chicago Roller Skate Company. Contents include the "secrets" of skating dance moves on the floor and a catalog of available products from the leader in roller skate equipment. The dance move diagrams are quite detailed and cover the Fascination Fox Trot The Fourteen Step the Spread Eagle Waltz the Barn Dance the Continental Waltz and the Straight Waltz. An early book on roller skating. OCLC locates "2" copies. Chicago Roller Skate Co paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 1004

‎Joseph Correa Certified Sports Nutritionist‎

‎The Ultimate Guide to Football Nutrition: Maximize Your Potential‎

‎2014-05-29. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be re-issue. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 1499722575 ISBN : 1499722575 9781499722574

‎Sports Publishing LLC‎

‎Tampa Bay Lightning: 2004 Stanley Cup Champions‎

‎2004-01-05. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be re-issue. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 158261914X ISBN : 158261914x 9781582619149

‎DENCH ROBERT & ROSEMARIE STEWART‎

‎Pair Skating And Dancing On Ice‎

‎Prentice-Hall Inc. New York: 1943. Hardcover no dustjacket. Very good condition. Discusses pair skating in general and describes the main pair-skating dance steps lifts and figures. Includes instructional d action diagrams action photographs of the authors. Prentice-Hall, Inc., New York: 1943 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 89223X1

‎HAMM MIA WITH AARON HEIFETZ‎

‎Go For The Goal: A Champion's Guide To Winning Soccer And Life‎

‎HarperCollins Publishers New York: 1999. Hardcover no dustjacket. Good condition. If you into soccer and you are a woman then this is the book for you. Highly illustrated. ISBN: 0060193425. HarperCollins Publishers, New York: 1999 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 89299X1 ISBN : 0060193425 9780060193423

‎QUINN DR. WILLIAM L‎

‎Scarsdale Golf Club: The First Hundred Years 1898-1998‎

‎The Donning Company Virginia Beach: 1998. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition except bottom right-hand front cover and corner of dustjacket are damaged. Tells the story of the Scarsdale Golf Club from its founding through the present era. In both words and pictures it captures the history of the club as well as the personality of its members. ISBN: 1578640288. The Donning Company, Virginia Beach: 1998 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 89110X1 ISBN : 1578640288 9781578640287

‎Medicine American College of Sports‎

‎ACSM's Introduction to Exercise Science‎

‎LWW. PAPERBACK. 1451176724 New US Edition Textbook Ships with Emailed Tracking from USA . New. LWW paperback‎

Bookseller reference : Z1451176724ZN ISBN : 1451176724 9781451176728

‎CROWTHER NIGEL B‎

‎Sport In Ancient Times‎

‎University of Oklahoma Press Norman:2010. Softcover. Brand new book. From the Olympic Games of Greece to the gladiatorial contests of Rome sport in the ancient world was fiercely competitive and included a wider range of physical contests than we moderns might suspect. The early Chinese played forms of polo and golf while half a world away Hohokam and Maya Indians enjoyed team ball games. Nigel Crowther a leading authority on classical Greek sport here casts his net over the entire ancient world to reveal the variety and often the intensity of sport in earlier times from 3000 b.c.e. to the Middle Ages. Taking in twenty premodern societies on five continents�with particular emphasis on ancient Greece and Rome and the Byzantine Empire�he traces connections to modern sporting attitudes practices and institutions as he describes how athletics figured in cultural arenas that extended beyond physical prowess to ritual social status military associations and politics. Crowther takes us back to the birth of sumo wrestling in Japan and describes the sports of the Sumerians and Hittites. He documents bull leaping and boxing as recorded on pottery in Crete as well as running and archery as practiced by the pharaohs in Egypt. He shows the significance of the early Olympic Games describes the Romans' use of gladiatorial contests for political ends and analyzes the influence of Byzantine chariot racing on society. He also notes the changing role of women in ancient sports�from their prominence in Egyptian contests to the mythological Atalanta to female Roman gladiators. As informative as it is entertaining Sport in Ancient Times opens new vistas for general readers students and sport historians. It offers a broad look at ancient sport and will enrich readers' appreciation of games they enjoy today. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman:2010 paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 69482X2

‎LEADBETTER DAVID WITH JOHN HUGGAN; FOREWORD BY NICK FALD0‎

‎The Golf Swing‎

‎The Stephen Green Press Lexington: 1990. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper. Discloses the swing secrets that transformed the game of Open and Masters champion Nick Faldo -- and which can bring solid ball-striking within the reach of any dedicated golfer. Lear from the pros who teach the pros. The Stephen Green Press, Lexington: 1990 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 88600X1

‎Peugeot Golf Guide: Europe's Top 1000 Golf Courses 2006-2007 Edition‎

‎Editions Mourgue d'Algue Saint-Nom-La-Breteche: 2006. Hardcover no dustjacket. Like New. If you are planning a golf vacation or simply seeking one great course this is the Perfect Guide. Based on an independent team of true golf players this guide rates and reviews courses to select the top 1000. Contains comprehensive maps provided by Michelin ISBN: 2952484902. Editions Mourgue d'Algue, Saint-Nom-La-Breteche: 2006 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 88088X1 ISBN : 2952484902 9782952484909

‎Jane Katz‎

‎The All-American Aquatic Handbook: Your Passport to Lifetime Fitness‎

‎Allyn & Bacon 1996. Paperback. very good overall. very good condition cover wear typical reader wear. Allyn & Bacon paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 161030010 ISBN : 0205199909 9780205199907

‎SHULMAN JAMES L. & WILLIAM G. BOWEN IN COLLABORATION WITH LAUREN A. MESERVE & ROGER C. SCHONFELD‎

‎The Game Of Life: College Sports And Educational Values‎

‎Princeton University Press Princeton: 2002. Softcover. Good condition. With a new preface by the authors. The President of Williams College faces a firestorm for not allowing the women's lacrosse team to postpone exams to attend the playoffs. The University of Michigan loses $2.8 million on athletics despite averaging 110000 fans at each home football game. Schools across the country struggle with the tradeoffs involved with recruiting athletes and updating facilities for dozens of varsity sports. Does increasing intensification of college sports support or detract from higher education's core mission James Shulman and William Bowen introduce facts into a terrain overrun by emotions and enduring myths. Using the same database that informed The Shape of the River the authors analyze data on 90000 students who attended thirty selective colleges and universities in the 1950s 1970s and 1990s. Drawing also on historical research and new information on giving and spending the authors demonstrate how athletics influence the class composition and campus ethos of selective schools as well as the messages that these institutions send to prospective students their parents and society at large. Shulman and Bowen show that athletic programs raise even more difficult questions of educational policy for small private colleges and highly selective universities than they do for big-time scholarship-granting schools. They discover that today's athletes more so than their predecessors enter college less academically well-prepared and with different goals and values than their classmates--differences that lead to different lives. They reveal that gender equity efforts have wrought large sometimes unanticipated changes. And they show that the alumni appetite for winning teams is not--as schools often assume--insatiable. If a culprit emerges it is the unquestioned spread of a changed athletic culture through the emulation of highly publicized teams by low-profile sports of men's programs by women's and of athletic powerhouses by small colleges. Shulman and Bowen celebrate the benefits of collegiate sports while identifying the subtle ways in which athletic intensification can pull even prestigious institutions from their missions. By examining how athletes and other graduates view The Game of Life--and how colleges shape society's view of what its rules should be--Bowen and Shulman go far beyond sports. They tell us about higher education today: the ways in which colleges set policies reinforce or neglect their core mission and send signals about what matters. 6 x 9 16 tables 82 figures. "It may be one of the most important books on higher education published in the last twenty years. It is certainly one of the most interesting."--Louis Menand The New Yorker "A provocative and important new book."--Robert Lipsyte New York Times "The conclusions are truly depressing and significant. . . . The Game of Life is the most important sports book written in years."--Frank Deford Sports Illustrated "A landmark study that should be welcomed by college presidents. . . These findings breathe new and potentially subversive life into old doubts about the role of highly competitive collegiate athletics. . ."--John Hoberman The Wall Street Journal "Makes a compelling case that athletics has utterly warped not only big colleges but most of education and in ways that go far beyond the usual allegations of diverting resources and spreading cynicism."--Marc Fisher The Washington Post "The Game of Life does not assign a catalog of sins to sports-minded colleges and universities as does Professor Sperber's book. But it argues compellingly that the influence of intercollegiate sports has greatly intensified in recent years."--William H. Honan The New York Times "The Shulman-Bowen data show that recruited athletes not only enter selective colleges with weaker academic records than their classmates as a whole but that once in college they consistently underperform academically. . . .Moreover they say the academic standing of athletes relative to their classmates has deteriorated markedly in recent years."--Edward B. Fiske New York Times "A fascinating and important new book about the divergence of college sports and educational values."--Jane Eisner Philadelphia Enquirer "The Game of Life will have a profound effect on the national debate about professionalized college sports."--William C. Dowling Newark Star Ledger Princeton University Press, Princeton: 2002 paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 87962X2

‎LEDESMA JOHN‎

‎Golf School‎

‎Thunder Bay Press San Diego: 1999. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. Golf School will teach you a lot about your golf game. Throughout the book there are tips and pointers from professional golfers together with almost 2000 full color photographs resulting in a stunning visual commemoration of this captivating game. Thunder Bay Press, San Diego: 1999 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 88001X1

‎Robert E. Kerper‎

‎Splash!: Aquatic Shows From A to Z : Their Art Planning & Production plus Aquatic History & Trivia‎

‎Robert E. Kerper 2002. First Edition. Paperback. excellent condition. excellent condition minor shelfwear. Robert E. Kerper paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 161019015 ISBN : 0972127208 9780972127202

‎MURPHY MICHAEL‎

‎Golf In The Kingdom‎

‎Viking Arkana New York: 1992. Softcover. Good condition. Tells the story of a young man en route to India who stops in Scotland to play at the legendary Burningbush golf club and in a single day and night has his life transformed. "A masterpiece on the mysticism of golf." - San Francisco Chronicle. Viking Arkana, New York: 1992 paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 87551X1

‎STAFF OF SPORTS ILLUSTRATED‎

‎The Wonderful World Of Sports: An Anthology From The Pages Of Sports Illustrated‎

‎Sports Illustrated Magazine New York: 1967. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition but dustjaket has a number opf tears. A phenomenon of the Second Half of the Twentieth Century as discovered explored and interpreted by the Editors Writers Reporters Photographers and Artists of Sports Illustrated. 191 pages in Full Color with 141 pages of Fine Writing. Sports Illustrated Magazine, New York: 1967 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 87580X1