‎Sports‎

‎Michael Corcoran‎

‎Duel in the Sun: Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus in the Battle of Turnberry‎

‎Simon & Schuster 2002. Hardcover. excellent condition/very good. excellent condition doubtful if read mostly wear to DJ. Simon & Schuster hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 160624008 ISBN : 0743203100 9780743203104

‎Dick Nelson; Sharon Nelson‎

‎Desert Survival‎

‎Tecolote Press 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. former library book with library/No DJ. Hardcover no DJ former library booktypical issues well read. Tecolote Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 160513004 ISBN : 0915030063 9780915030064

‎Hill Jim‎

‎Are You Ready to Hike the Pacific Crest Trail‎

‎CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2014-02-19. Paperback. Very Good. excellent condition CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 160528015 ISBN : 1495423239 9781495423239

‎RAPPOPORT KEN‎

‎Super Sports Star: Derek Jeter‎

‎Enslow Publishers Inc. Berkeley Heights / Hants: 2004. Hardcover no dustjacket. Brand new book. What makes Derek Jeter a Super Sports Star Dere Jeter is the shortstop for the New York Yankees in the American League of Major League Baseball. Derek Jeter hits for power is a great base runner a slick fielder and has a strong throwing arm. Jeter has won many personal awards and is one of baseball's top and most popular players. The Super Sports Star series featurees game acrtion fact features and a look at the life of the star. Includes an Index. ISBN: 0766021394. Enslow Publishers, Inc., Berkeley Heights / Hants: 2004 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 44881X2 ISBN : 0766021394 9780766021396

‎Jeffrey Issac; Peter Goth MD‎

‎The Outward Bound Wilderness First-Aid Handbook‎

‎Lyons & Burford Publishers 1991. Paperback. very good. very good condition use wear some light dirt on test block edge from handling. Lyons & Burford Publishers paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 160430003 ISBN : 1558211063 9781558211063

‎Frank Calkins‎

‎Rocky Mountain Warden‎

‎Alfred A. Knopf 1971-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. very good/very good light wear. very good condition light reader wear previous owners name and date 1974 inside front cover. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 151218003 ISBN : 0394443187 9780394443188

‎Frith David‎

‎England Versus Australia: Pictorial History of the Test Matches Since 1877‎

‎Queen Anne Press 1989-05-11. 6th Revised edition. Hardcover. Very Good/faded spine to dj. Queen Anne Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 151222006 ISBN : 0356175774 9780356175775

‎US Deprtment of Agriculture Forest Service‎

‎Recreation Sites in Southwestern National Forests‎

‎US Deprtment of Agriculture - Forest Service 1986-12-01. Paperback. very good. very good light reader wear US Deprtment of Agriculture - Forest Service paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 160112006

‎Mark David Merlin‎

‎Hawaiian Forrest Plants A Hikers Guide‎

‎The Oriental Publishing Company 1980. 3rd edition. Softcover-Pamphlet. very good. very good condition light reader wear. The Oriental Publishing Company paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 160126015

‎WIGGEN HENRY W.; HARRIS MARK CERTAIN OF HIS ENTHUSIASMS RESTRAINED BY‎

‎Bang The Drum Slowly‎

‎University of Nebraska Lincoln: . Softcover. Good condition. The story of a dying baseball player. Bruce a catcher in the major leagues has Hodgkin's disease. Not wanting his teammates to know he tries to carry on as before but word inevitably leaks out. Despite its subject matter the book is written with much comedy and a lightheartedness and provides a fine portrait of male camaraderie. "Bang the Drum Slowly makes wonderful reading -- whether one hates baseball or loves it . . . It is awfully fully in parts and laughter is rare enough on anybody's bookshelf." -- The New York Times ISBN: 0803272219. University of Nebraska, Lincoln: paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 85858X1 ISBN : 0803272219 9780803272217

‎ROTELLA DR. BOB WITH BOB CULLEN; CLARKE DARREN FOREWORD‎

‎Golf Is Not A Game Of Perfect‎

‎Pocket Books London: 1995. Softcover. Good condition. Dr. Bob Rotella is one of the hottest golfing performance cconsultants in the world today. What he does in this extraordinary book and with his clients is to create an attitude and a mindset about all aspects of the golfer's game from mental preparation to competition. "Bob Rotella's knowledge and practical approach to psychology have been an enormous help to me." -- Nick Price ISBN: 0743492471. Pocket Books, London: 1995 paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 85139X1 ISBN : 0743492471 9780743492478

‎BISSINGER H. G‎

‎Friday Night Lights: A Town A Team And A Dream‎

‎Da Capo Press New York: 2004. Softcover. Good condition. Odessa Texas isn't known to be a place big on dreams but the Permian Panthers help keep the hopes and dreams of this dusty town going. Socially and racially divided its fragile economy follows the treacherous boom-bust path of the oil business. "An engrossing story of a high school football season . . . Exciting funny and above all horrifying." -- Tracy Kidder Da Capo Press, New York: 2004 paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 85383X1

‎Nagle Jack‎

‎Power Pattern Offenses for Winning Basketball‎

‎Parker 1986-03-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Not issued. minor shelfwear Parker hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 150929010 ISBN : 0136877087 9780136877080

‎Norman and Sil Strung‎

‎Camping in Comfort A Guide to Modern Outdoor Vacations‎

‎J.B. Lippincott 1971. Hardcover. Very Good/DJ has staining on spine and pie. Book is quite good. The DJ is stained on spine and torn is several places. J.B. Lippincott hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 151016020

‎The American Sports Publishing Company‎

‎The Classic Guide to Boxing‎

‎Amberley Publishing 2015. Book. New. Hardcover. New and in stock. Amberley Publishing Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 1445651009 ISBN : 1445651009 9781445651002

‎SULLIVAN RUSSELL‎

‎Rocky Marciano: The Rock Of His Times‎

‎University of Illinois Press Urbana and Chicago: 2005. Softcover. Brand new book. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the final fight of boxing's only undefeated heavyweight champion In this captivating and complex portrait of an American sports legend Russell Sullivan confirms Rocky Marciano's place as a symbol and cultural icon of his era. As much as he embodied the wholesome rags-to-riches patriotism of a true American hero he also reflected the racial and ethnic tensions festering behind the country's benevolent facade. Spirited fast-paced and rich in detail Rocky Marciano is the first book to place the boxer in the context of his times. Capturing his athletic accomplishments against the colorful backdrop of the 1950s fight scene Sullivan examines how Marciano's career reflected the glamour and scandal of boxing as well as tenor of his times. Russell Sullivan lives in the Boston area and is senior vice president and general counsel of Linkage Inc. a corporate education company headquartered in Burlington Massachusetts. He is the author coauthor or editor of several books and articles on business-related topics. "In the early '90s Marciano started slipping from our short long-term memory. Enter his poet Russell Sullivan . . . Sullivan's book is not just a perfect paean to a pugilistic hero but also to a history of mid-century America as glimpsed from the corner window of what was then America's second most popular sport professional boxing."--Los Angeles Times "Russell Sullivan's revealing new biography . . . will refresh those of a certain age about a boxing legend and initiate others into the full entertaining story."--Chicago Tribune "The definitive Marciano biography."--Booklist "When most boxing aficionados reminisce about the best heavyweight champions in history they usually argue the grandeur of Joe Louis Muhammad Ali Jack Dempsey or Jack Johnson. Strangely Rocky Marciano--the only heavyweight champion with a perfect record 49-0 with 43 knockouts--is often forgotten. In Rocky Marciano: The Rock of His Times the story of the undefeated heavyweight champion of a half-century ago has been resurrected. . . . More than anything else the book assesses Marciano in the context of his times the early 1950s when his career reflected America's serene years before the marches of the civil rights movement when boxing ranked second to baseball as America's favorite sport."--New York Times Book Review "Examines Marciano the fighter and Marciano the person a man who symbolized his era as much as Ali did his. Along the way Sullivan also offers excellent portraits of Marciano's nemeses--Ezzard Charles Jersey Joe Walcott Archie Moore and others--and gives a sense of big-time boxing in the late 1940s and early 1950s when the sport trailed only baseball in popularity. Essential for all boxing collections."--Library Journal "A fascinating glimpse of boxing at midcentury and boxing buffs will be glad to have this overdue biography."--Publishers Weekly "Reading Rocky Marciano: The Rock of His Times is like opening an old steamer trunk and being overwhelmed by the aroma of a long-ago era and its fragrant memories. In capturing Marciano and the 1950s as few could Russell Sullivan has given Rocky his fiftieth win."--Bert Randolph Sugar author of 100 Years of Boxing "The greatness of Marciano in the ring was defined by the way he prepared for a fight his ability to punch and take a punch. Russell Sullivan combines the same elements in this book. It is the best research job ever on Marciano is written in a straightforward manner and doesn't pull any punches. This is the story of an athlete who made himself a great fighter and never forgot who he was or where he came from. It is a book that is needed. Marciano is the most under- publicized great athlete of the last half century."--Will McDonough Boston Globe sports columnist "Rocky Marciano has never been awarded his due among the icons of Boston sports. Hopefully this book will help restore him to his proper place."--Roone Arledge chairman of ABC News and former president of ABC Sports "Marvelous. . . . Weaves real scholarship into an enthusiastic chronicling of Marciano's string of victories. Sullivan captures the fear of failure that drove Marciano to wade into bigger men relentlessly dealing punishment from awkward angles until he had won all forty-nine of his professional bouts. This definitive biography accurately places Marciano in the larger context of his times."--Chris Mead author of Champion: Joe Louis Black Hero in White America University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago: 2005 paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 84998X1

‎HINES JAMES R‎

‎Figure Skating In The Formative Years: Singles Pairs And The Expanding Role Of Women‎

‎University of Illinois Press Urbana and Chicago: 2015. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. Women and figure skating's rise to prominence Once a winter pastime for socializing and courtship skating evolved into the wildly popular competitive sport of figure skating one of the few athletic arenas where female athletes hold a public profile--and earning power--equal to that of men. Renowned sports historian James R. Hines chronicles figure skating's rise from its earliest days through its head-turning debut at the 1908 Olympics and its breakthrough as entertainment in the 1930s. Hines credits figure skating's explosive expansion to an ever-increasing number of women who had become proficient skaters and wanted to compete not just in singles but with partners as well. Matters reached a turning point when British skater Madge Syers entered the otherwise-male 1902 World Championship held in London and finished second. Called skating's first feminist Syers led a wave of women who made significant contributions to figure skating and helped turn it into today's star-making showcase at every Winter Olympics. Packed with stories and hard-to-find details Figure Skating in the Formative Years tells the early history of a sport loved and followed by fans around the world. James R. Hines is professor emeritus of musicology at Christopher Newport University. His books include Figure Skating: A History The English Style: Figure Skating's Oldest Tradition and Historical Dictionary of Figure Skating. "Professor Hines' new book covers the formative years of figure skating which end at the same time I became a competitor and an enthusiast of skating. The book provides fascinating new information about many things including forgotten moves and figures such as the 'Q' figure. It also reminds us that figure skating was originally a male sport. Read it and you will be amazed at the never ending changes figure skating has gone through especially the ever expanding role of women from the late nineteenth century till today."--Dick Button "As someone who has spent a lifetime on the ice it is very meaningful to know who came before me and to better understand their contributions to my experiences on the ice. I think that goes for all skaters and skating fans. It's great fun to know how the sport we love came to this place. Without an appreciation for the past the present loses value and the future means very little. Enjoy this book that chronicles skating's beloved history."--Scott Hamilton gold medalist 1984 Winter Olympics and winner of four U.S. championships and four World Championships "James Hines delves deeply into the fascinating roots of modern figure skating in a book that should be required reading for coaches skaters and fans of the sport. An engaging history from the first page his work places figure skating in the context of the centuries from the origins of blade design and fabrication which gave rise to the invention of turns technique and artistry. As one of the last skaters to perform school figures in competition I appreciate his attention to detail as he traces back to the individuals who laid the foundations for our beloved sport and art and importantly incorporates the ever-evolving landscape of societal change in its development."--Paul Wylie silver medalist 1992 Winter Olympics "Jim Hines adds to his authoritative history of figure skating with a detailed review of the evolution of figure skating from a national level to international competitions. A must-read for anyone who loves figure skating and history."--David Raith Executive Director U.S. Figure Skating "This work examines the vital role of women in singles skating and in pairs and is an invaluable addition to the historical literature of the sport."--Sonia Bianchetti Garbato former ISU Council member Technical Committee chair and Referee "Professor James Hines the distinguished historian of the sport of ice skating who is also a member of the International Society of Olympic Historians has written a vital new work that has done much to recognize and record the vital role of women in the success of the sport over the past century and is therefore a valuable addition to the literature of the sport."--Benjamin Wright Senior Past President of the USFSA and former chair of the ISU Figure Skating Committee University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago: 2015 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 84673X1

‎NATHANSON MITCHELL‎

‎A People's History Of Baseball‎

‎University of Illinois Press Urbana and Chicago: 2015. Softcover. Brand new book. Baseball is much more than the national pastime. It has become an emblem of America itself. From its initial popularity in the mid-nineteenth century the game has reflected national values and beliefs and promoted what it means to be an American. Stories abound that illustrate baseball's significance in eradicating racial barriers bringing neighborhoods together building civic pride and creating on the field of play an instructive civics lesson for immigrants on the national character. In A People's History of Baseball Mitchell Nathanson probes the less well-known but no less meaningful other side of baseball: episodes not involving equality patriotism heroism and virtuous capitalism but power--how it is obtained and how it perpetuates itself. Through the growth and development of baseball Nathanson shows that if only we choose to look for it we can see the petty power struggles as well as the large and consequential ones that have likewise defined our nation. By offering a fresh perspective on the firmly embedded tales of baseball as America a new and unexpected story emerges of both the game and what it represents. Exploring the founding of the National League Nathanson focuses on the newer Americans who sought club ownership to promote their own social status in the increasingly closed caste of nineteenth-century America. His perspective on the rise and public rebuke of the Players Association shows that these baseball events reflect both the collective spirit of working and middle-class America in the mid-twentieth century as well as the countervailing forces that sought to beat back this emerging movement that threatened the status quo. And his take on baseball's racial integration that began with Branch Rickey's "Great Experiment" reveals the debilitating effects of the harsh double standard that resulted requiring a black player to have unimpeachable character merely to take the field in a Major League game a standard no white player was required to meet. Told with passion and occasional outrage A People's History of Baseball challenges the perspective of the well-known deeply entrenched hyper-patriotic stories of baseball and offers an incisive alternative history of America's much-loved national pastime. Mitchell Nathanson is a professor of legal writing at Villanova University School of Law and the author of The Fall of the 1977 Phillies: How a Baseball Team's Collapse Sank a City's Spirit. "Chronicles the historic power struggles among those seeking to define and regulate pro baseball. . . . A fine book."--Library Journal "A People's History of Baseball provides vigorous and fascinating challenges to the ways in which fans have related to a game that Nathanson says has been 'virtually synonymous' with America for well over a century."--The Boston Globe "Nathanson's arguments are intriguing throughout."--The Journal of American History "Nathanson has researched thoroughly writes persuasively and does not shy away from challenging even the most revered narrative in baseball: Branch Rickey Jackie Robinson and the integration of Major League Baseball."--Journal of Sport History "A valuable and vibrant contribution to an expanding scholarly literature on American baseball."--The Historian "Mitchell Nathanson's A People's History of Baseball is a historical corrective. It examines Major League Baseball MLB through an "alternative lens" 219 one that provides a useful critical perspective. The book's six chapters cover a lot of ground. A thoughtful substantive exploration of some aspects of MLB's unsavory past and present A People's History of Baseball is a welcome alternative to the far more numerous baseball romances published every spring."--Nine "An excellent social critique that tells provocative and overlooked back stories about baseball in American history and culture. A People's History of Baseball goes beyond the game itself and examines larger issues of nationalism mass media legal history and race relations."--Robert Elias author of The Empire Strikes Out: How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign Policy and Promoted the American Way Abroad "Armed with convincing and creative arguments that challenge the many myths surrounding America's national pastime A People's History of Baseball provides ample fodder for debate among sport history scholars as well as general readers interested in exploring the game's meaningful role in shaping the American identity."--Samuel O. Regalado author of Viva Baseball! Latin Major Leaguers and Their Special Hunger University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago: 2015 paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 84663X1

‎CAHN SUSAN K‎

‎Coming On Strong: Gender And Sexuality In Women's Sport‎

‎University of Illinois Press Urbana and Chicago: 2015. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. An updated edition of the pioneering study with a new chapter on the Title IX era's accomplishments and failures Acclaimed since its original publication Coming on Strong has become a much-cited touchstone in scholarship on women and sports. In this new edition Susan K. Cahn updates her detailed history of women's sport and the struggles over gender sexuality race class and policy that have often defined it. A new chapter explores the impact of Title IX and how the opportunities and interest in sports it helped create reshaped women's lives even as the legislation itself came under sustained attack. Susan K. Cahn is a professor of history at the University at Buffalo. She is author of Sexual Reckonings: Southern Girls in a Troubling Age and co-editor of Women and Sports in the United States: A Documentary Reader. "Coming on Strong has long been the go-to book for the history of women in sport. Now it moves boldly into the twenty-first century. Assessing the enormous changes that have reshaped the sports landscape since the 1970s it reminds us that the playing field is still far from level and challenges us to make the ongoing quest for gender equity in sport part of the larger struggle for social change."--Susan Ware author of Game Set Match: Billie Jean King and the Revolution in Women's Sports "In this classic study of gender and sports historian Susan Cahn provides a thorough readable and insightful account of the challenges facing female athletes. . . . Throughout she asks pointed questions about the racial and sexual meanings of women's sports including popular preoccupations with the threat of the 'mannish Amazon.' A carefully researched history Coming on Strong also provides critical evaluations of the effects of Title IX the emergence of women's sports stars and the continuing role of gender in producing an even playing field for contemporary female athletes."--Estelle Freedman co-author of Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America "A must-read both for scholars of sport and for anyone who cares about sport as a still-unrealized site of social justice."--Michael A. Messner author of It's All For the Kids: Gender Families and Youth Sports "The single best history of American women's sports ever written."--Contemporary Sociology University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago: 2015 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 84668X1

‎HINES JAMES R‎

‎Figure Skating: A History‎

‎University of Illinois Press Urbana and Chicago: 2006. Hardcover no dustjacket. Brand new book. The only comprehensive history of figure skating in over forty years Figure skating unique in its sublimely beautiful combination of technical precision musicality and interpretive elements has undergone many dramatic developments since the only previous history of the sport was published in 1959. This exciting and information-packed new history explains skating's many technical and artistic advances its important personages its intrigues and scandals and its historical high points. Abundant full-color and black-and-white photographs illustrate the text. James R. Hines divides his history into three periods separated by the World Wars. In the first section he follows functional and recreational ice skating through its evolution into national schools culminating in the establishment of the International Skating Union and the ascendancy of an international style of skating. The second section explains the changes that occurred as the sport expanded into the form we recognize and enjoy today and the final section shows how skating became increasingly athletic imaginative and intense following World War II as the main focus turned to skaters themselves. The profiles include some 148 World and Olympic Champions as well as others who in Dick Button's words "left the sport better because they were in it." Beginning with mythological tales from twelfth- and thirteenth-century Scandinavians Hines describes hundreds who have contributed to the sport. They include figure skating's patron saint Lydwina of Schiedam whose late-fourteenth-century skating tumble has been documented in a woodcut; Ulrich Salchow and Axel Paulsen who gave their names to distinctive jumps; Madge Syers who entered and medaled at the previously all-male World Championships in 1902; and Sonja Henie who took skating to the silver screen. The history ends with the 2002 skating season when Irina Slutskaya and Michelle Kwan commanded the most attention and an unfortunate judging decision rocked the pairs' competition resulting in the adoption of a new judging system. Beyond the contributions of individual skaters Figure Skating also traces the growth of competitions and show skating professional and amateur and discussions of relevant social political and ethical concerns that have affected the sport. Along with over seventy magnificent historical pictures spread throughout the book a very special gallery features the picture of every World and Olympic champion. Figure Skating is an informative and inspiring resource sure to be enjoyed by anyone who has ever skated recreationally or in competition as well as by the many fans who have followed this beautiful sport as spectators. James R. Hines is a professor of musicology at Christopher Newport University Newport News Virginia and has been skating since the 1950s. "James R. Hines has done a masterful job of explaining the origins of skating traditions throughout the world and successfully integrates the history of the sport into a broader cultural context. He has woven together all of the sport's major developments and highlights individuals from around the world who have contributed significantly to the artistry and athleticism of figure skating. This highly readable volume is supplemented by over 200 extraordinary photographs that capture the very essence of figure skating."--Brian Alexander Executive Director World Figure Skating Museum and Hall of Fame University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago: 2006 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 84672X1

‎ZANG DAVID W‎

‎I Wore Babe Ruth's Hat: Field Notes From A Life In Sports‎

‎University of Illinois Press Urbana and Chicago: 2015. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. Sports' impact on the life of an ordinary athlete by one of sports history's most celebrated stylists David W. Zang played junior high school basketball in a drained swimming pool. He wore a rubber suit to bed to make weight for a wrestling meet. He kept a log as an obsessive runner not a jogger. In short he soldiered through the life of an ordinary athlete. Whether pondering his long-unbuilt replica of Connie Mack Stadium or his eye-opening moment as the Baltimore Ravens' mascot Zang offers tales by turns poignant and hilarious as he engages with the passions that shaped his life. Yet his meditations also probe the tragedy of a modern athletic culture that substitutes hyped spectatorship for participation. As he laments American society's increasing scorn for taking part in play robs adults of the life-affirming virtues of games that challenge us to accomplish the impossible for the most transcendent of reasons: to see if it can be done. From teammates named Lop to tracing Joe Paterno's long shadow over Happy Valley I Wore Babe Ruth's Hat reports from the everyman's Elysium where games and life intersect. David W. Zang is a professor in the Department of Kinesiology at Towson University. He is the author of Fleet Walker's Divided Heart: The Life of Baseball's First Black Major Leaguer and Sports Wars: Athletes in the Age of Aquarius. "These essays deliver intelligent analysis brilliant insights wit laugh-out-loud hilarity and a disarmingly serious look at David Zang's passion for sport and its place in his life and ours."--Richard Crepeau author of NFL Football: A History of America's New National Pastime "Funny poignant smart and crisply written I Wore Babe Ruth's Hat reminds us why we care so much about sports--and why we keep telling its stories."--Aram Goudsouzian author of King of the Court: Bill Russell and the Basketball Revolution University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago: 2015 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 84664X1

‎SMITH JOHN MATTHEW‎

‎The Sons Of Westwood: John Wooden Ucla And The Dynasty That Changed College Basketball‎

‎University of Illinois Press Urbana and Chicago: 2013. Softcover. Brand new book. College basketball's most dynamic dynasty on and off the hardwood For more than a decade the UCLA dynasty defined college basketball. In twelve seasons from 1964 to 1975 John Wooden's teams won ten national titles including seven consecutive championships. The Bruins made history by breaking numerous records but they also rose to prominence during a turbulent age of political unrest and youthful liberation. When Lew Alcindor and Bill Walton--the most famous college basketball players of their generation--spoke out against racism poverty and the Vietnam War they carved out a new role for athletes casting their actions on and off the court in a political light. The Sons of Westwood tells the story of the most significant college basketball program at a pivotal period in American cultural history. It weaves together a story of sports and politics in an era of social and cultural upheaval a time when college students and college athletes joined the civil rights movement demonstrated against the Vietnam War and rejected the dominant Cold War culture. This is the story of America's culture wars played out on the basketball court by some of college basketball's most famous players and its most memorable coach. John Matthew Smith is an assistant professor of history at Georgia Tech. "A highly readable cultural study of one of the greatest teams in sports history."--Kirkus Reviews "This volume uncovers the indelible link between sports and society in the US. While he focuses on Wooden and UCLA men's basketball Smith remains mindful of the larger forces molding the young men who played for the 'Wizard of Westwood.' Highly recommended."--Choice "John Matthew Smith may be the first author to fully and fairly assess the University of California at Los Angeles UCLA basketball program during its miraculous run of ten championships from 1964 to 1975. . . . revealing and insightful."--Journal of Sport History "This is the John Wooden book I've been waiting to read--a well-written meticulously researched and astute portrait of one of the sporting world's most interesting and influential characters. John Matthew Smith's book is at once a pleasure to read and a solid work of history."--Jonathan Eig New York Times bestselling author of Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season "The Sons of Westwood is an excellent wide-ranging history not only of UCLA basketball and the Wizard of Westwood but of the great social movements which characterized the era of the Wooden Dynasty. I recommend it to any who love basketball or are interested in one of the more interesting periods of recent American life. John Matthew Smith is a historian on which we should all keep our eye."--Charles E. Young Chancellor Emeritus UCLA "In this carefully-researched study John Matthew Smith has provided an entertaining and insightful look at college basketball's most successful coach and team dynasty. Mixing sport history with social history Smith reveals the complex reality behind iconic coach John Wooden and his UCLA Bruin teams as well as the not-so-innocent days of college athletics. Fans and scholars of college sports should not miss this important book."--Charles H. Martin author of Benching Jim Crow: The Rise and Fall of the Color Line in Southern College Sports 1890-1980 "A fascinating account of the greatest dynasty in the history of college athletics and its legendary architect John Wooden. Giving full attention to UCLA basketball's unprecedented success and the careers of its star players John Matthew Smith provides a thoughtful analysis of societal concerns and issues surrounding the program in the 1960s and early '70s. A first-rate work."--J. Samuel Walker author of ACC Basketball: The Story of the Rivalries Traditions and Scandals of the First Two Decades of the Atlantic Coast Conference "The Sons of Westwood is the history of an institution UCLA the chronicle of a sport basketball and the biography of its greatest coach John Wooden in a time of cultural and political upheaval the 1960s and 1970s. It succeeds richly on all four fronts."--Susan Ware author of Game Set Match: Billie Jean King and the Revolution in Women's Sports "John Matthew Smith tells in a very balanced and forthright manner the inside story of John Wooden's famed UCLA basketball program and how it fit into the larger narratives of the civil rights movement the anti-Vietnam War movement and the athletic revolution. He shows how Wooden and his extraordinarily talented and gifted integrated teams helped transform college basketball from a regional pastime to a national phenomenon."--David K. Wiggins coauthor of The Unlevel Playing Field: A Documentary History of the African American Experience in Sport University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago: 2013 paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 84833X1

‎WALLACE BILL‎

‎Sailing: A Guide To Handling Equipping Maintaining And Buying The Small Boat‎

‎Golden Press New York: 1961. Softcover. Reading copy. Here is the ideal guide to sailing and sailboats of every kind: How to become an able skipper - maintaining your boat - pictures and descriptions of today's fleet - racing rules. Illustrated with hundreds of photos charts and diagrams - many in full color. Golden Press, New York: 1961 paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 10055X2

‎O'REILLY JEAN & CAHN SUSAN K. EDITORS‎

‎Women And Sports In The United States: A Documentary Reader‎

‎University Press of New England Lebanon: 2007. Softcover. Brand new book. This is the only anthology available documenting 100 years of women in American sports. A spectacular transformation in women's sports has occurred over the past century in colleges high schools and recreational leagues across the nation. Gradual changes during the late 1950s and 1960s within the fields of women's physical education and amateur sport provided the initial energy for this transformation. But it took the rebirth of a grassroots feminist movement in the late 1960s and 1970s to catalyze the radical changes in women's athletic opportunities and attitudes toward female athletes. The assimilation of feminist principles into the broader popular culture solidified the belief that sport plays a positive role in the lives of girls and women. Political activists for women's rights codified this attitude with the passage of Title IX of the 1972 Federal Education Amendments a law banning gender discrimination in educational settings thus guaranteeing women's legal right to an equitable share of athletic opportunities and resources. Though the sea change in American women's sports is evident in schools the media and local playing fields scholars are still in the early stages of fully examining the causes and impacts of this historic change. Women and Sports in the United States brings together scholarly articles journalism political and legal documents and first-person accounts that collectively explore women's sports in America with emphasis on the post-Title IX era. The contents of this book is as follows: Acknowledgments �Timeline: 125 Years of U.S. Women in Sports - Compiled by Susan K. Cahn and Jean O'Reilly �Pioneering Women in Sport �Olympic Women: A Struggle for Recognition - Jennifer Hargreaves �How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle �Frances E. Willard �The World-Beating Viking Girl of Texas -No Author Attribution �Playing Nice: Politics and Apologies in Women's Sports �Mary Jo Festle �Pioneers - J. E. Vader � Riggs Butchered by Ms. King as Promoters Score a Million - Charles Maher �"Mia" Culpa: The All-Too Quiet Retirement of Mia Hamm - David Zirin �Negotiating Masculinity and Femininity: The Female Athlete as Oxymoron �The Significance of Basket Ball for Women - Senda Berenson � Are Athletics Making Girls Masculine: A Practical Answer to a Question Every Girl Asks - Dudley A. Sargent M.D. �All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Rules of Conduct 1943-1954 - The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League �Psychosocial Impacts of Athletic Participation on American Women: Facts and Fables - Don Sabo �Throwing Like a Girl - James Fallows � Living the Paradox: Female Athletes Negotiate Femininity and Muscularity - Vikki Krane Precilla Y. L. Choi Shannon M. Baird Christine M. Aimar and Kerrie J. Kauer �Competing Bodies: Physiological Biological and Psychological Issues �Chromosome Count - Alison Carlson �Closing the Muscle Gap - Ann Crittenden �Understanding the Female Athlete Triad - Irene McCormick �Women and ACL Injuries: Taking the Bad News with the Good - Maureen Madden PT CSCS �Catastrophic Injuries in Female Athletes: Cheerleading Leads the List - Robert C. Cantu M.D. and Frederick O. Mueller Ph.D. �Women Disability and Sport and Physical Fitness Activity: The Intersection of Gender and Disability Dynamics - Elaine M. Blinde and Sarah G. McCallister �Anabolic Steroids: The Gremlins of Sport - Terry Todd �Eating Disorders and Gymnastics - Ana Cintado �The Silence of Great Distance: Women Running Long - Frank Murphy �Coming Home - Joli Sandoz �Stronger Women - Mariah Burton Nelson �Building Inequality into Sport: Institutionalized Bias �Structural Constraints Facing Women in Sport - Nancy Theberge and Susan Birrell �Half-Court Basketball: Power and Sex - Heather Ross Miller �"I Can See the Finish Line" - Mark Starr �Courting Destiny - Raquel Cepeda �The Cold Wars: Inside the Secret World of Figure Skating - Joan Ryan �Rooting for Michelle: Finding Contradictions at the Winter Olympics - Bill Wong �Breaking Cultural Traditions: Culture Family Play Role in Sports for Latina Girls - Maryjo Sylwester � On the Rez - Ian Frazier �Sexuality and Sport �Changing the Game: Homophobia Sexism and Lesbians in Sport - Pat Griffin �Homophobia Alleged in University of Florida Softball - Jim Buzinski �Less Ugly - Lesla Newman �Sex Lies and Volleyball - Cynthia Hanson �In the Buff: Female Athletes Take It All Off - Penny Hastings �A New Image Exposed - Tom Maloney �The Feminine Image in Sports and Sports Media �Separating the Men from the Girls: The Gendered Language of Televised Sports - Michael Messner Margaret Carlisle Duncan and Kerry Jensen �Sport and Society Broadcast for Friday August 16 1996 - Richard C. Crepeau �The Women's Sports Film as the New Melodrama - Jean O'Reilly �It's Time to Tell the Bloody Truth - Lorie Conway �Bloodsport: Woman's First Pro Fight Is Her Last - Joe Posnanski �Offensive Interference - Sherry Ricchiardi � Law and Equity: Title IX and Its Aftermath �Title IX Education Amendments of 1972: Title 20 U.S.C. Sections 1681-1688 - U.S. Department of Labor �Title IX Media Helper - Women's Sports Foundation �Brown University Agrees to Guarantee Participation Rates for Women Athletes and Funding for Contested Women's Teams - Trial Lawyers for Public Justice �Title IX at 30: Report Card on Gender Equity�Athletics C - The National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education �A Train Wreck Called Title IX - George F. Will �In the Spirit of Title IX - Emily Badger �Title IX�The Good News the Bad News - California Women's Law Center �Index. "O'Reilly and Cahn have compiled an extrordinary historical anthology of women's sports in the U.S. Their inclusion of original documents from each era and careful selection of knowledgeable writers make this book an absorbing and authoritative read for anyone interested in women's journey toward sports equality."�Pat Griffin Professor Emerita University of Massachusetts Amherst ISBN: 1555536719. University Press of New England, Lebanon: 2007 paperback‎

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‎The Fabulous Waterloo Wonders‎

‎Published Privately and Printed by the Lawhead Press Athens: 1961. Softcover. Good condition considering its age. The true story of a champion high school basketball team in rural Ohio. Published Privately and Printed by the Lawhead Press, Athens: 1961 paperback‎

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