100 Best Surf Spots in the World will include top surfing destinations ranging from Sunset Beach and the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia to Malibu, California and Oahu, Hawaii. Lesser-known destin
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As the adult game has increased in popularity, youth soccer has also seen significant expansion in recent years. The popularity of the youth game is set to continue. Young boy and girl players wish to
Even today, 29 years after retiring from coaching basketball at UCLA, John Wooden remains America's Coach. John Wooden: An American Treasure is the definitive book on his extraordinary life, from his
Imagine crouching 15 feet from home plate during a Cincinnati Reds baseball game with a camera at eye level. A major league player like Ted Kluszewski comes barreling towards the plate as you flash th
Describes how the fateful selling of Babe Ruth to the hated New York Yankees in 1920 marked the beginning of a seventy-year streak of bad luck for the Red Sox
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As his legendary coach once said, Bart Starr stands for what the game of football stands for: Courage, stamina and coordinated efficiency. This book reveals all the details of Starr's improbable rise
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The Ultimate Guide to College Football compiles the complete records of all 117 Division 1-A collegiate football teams, along with the records of over 30 other teams that have played a significant ro
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Sea Struck brings alive the final decades of square-rigged sail through the accounts of voyages made on three ships by three young men from Massachusetts. There is plenty of adventure here— storms, me
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