 | The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
By: W. W. Norton & Company Price: $ 24.95 $ 13.09 Reviews: 211 Average Rating: 4.5
By the author of the bestselling Moneyball: in football, as in life, the value we place on people changes with the rules of the games they play. The young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story will one day be among the most highly paid athletes in the National Football League. When we first meet him, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or any of the things a child might learn in school such as, say, how to read... |
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 | Outcasts United
By: Random House Audio Price: $ 29.95 $ 12.00 Reviews: 81 Average Rating: 4.5
The extraordinary tale of a refugee youth soccer team and the transformation of a small American townClarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s, becoming the first American home for scores of families in flight from the world’s war zones—from Liberia and Sudan to Iraq and Afghanistan. Suddenly Clarkston’s streets were filled with women wearing the hijab, the smells of cumin and curry, and kids of all colors playing soccer in any open space they could find. The... |
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 | Coming of Age in Mississippi
By: Dell Price: $ 7.99 $ 3.96 Reviews: 105 Average Rating: 4.5
Moodys famous autobiography is a classic work on growing up poor and Black in the rural South. Her searing account of life before the Civil Rights Movement is as moving as The Color Purple and as important as And Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. "A history of our time . . . (and) a reminder that we cannot now relax".--Senator Edward Kennedy. |
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 | Fever Pitch
By: Penguin Books Ltd Price: $ 12.04 $ 7.51 Reviews: 135 Average Rating: 4.5
A famous account of growing up to be a fanatical football supporter. Told through a series of match reports, "Fever Pitch" has enjoyed enormous critical and commercial success since it was first published in 1992. It has helped to create a new kind of sports writing, and established Hornby as one of the finest writers of his generation. |
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 | Among the Thugs
By: Vintage Price: $ 15.95 $ 9.33 Reviews: 75 Average Rating: 4.0
With an Orwellian social imagination, Granta editor Buford offers a terrifying record of his passage through an alternate society--that of Englands soccer thugs--in this malevolently funny, supremely chilling document of the allure of crowd violence. Author reading tour. |
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 | Go For the Goal: A Champions Guide To Winning In Soccer And Life
By: It Books Price: $ 12.99 $ 0.01 Reviews: 48 Average Rating: 4.5
"When I was playing, they said soccer was a mans world and that women should remain on the sidelines. All I can say is Im glad I never had to go up against Mia Hamm."-- PeléFor the more than seven million girls -- from knobby-kneed tykes to high school and college stars -- who are tearing across the of country chasing a soccer ball and dreams of glory, there is one name that eclipses all others, male or female: Mia Hamm. With her cheetahlike acceleration and lightning-bolt shot, Hamm has broken nearly every record in her sport, while... |
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 | Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the Worlds Fastest Woman
By: Sandpiper Price: $ 7.00 $ 2.45 Reviews: 15 Average Rating: 4.5
Before Wilma was five years old, polio had paralyzed her left leg. Everyone said she would never walk again. But Wilma refused to believe it. Not only would she walk again, she vowed, shed run. And she did run--all the way to the Olympics, where she became the first American woman to earn three gold medals in a single olympiad. |
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 | Mia Hamm: On the Field with... (Athlete Biographies)
By: Little, Brown Books For Young Readers Price: $ 15.99 $ 1.91 Reviews: 5 Average Rating: 4.5
Mia Hamm helped the 1996 Olympic team win the gold medal in soccer. Now for her fans and those who would like to know more about this fantastic athlete, this insightful story presents her complete story. |
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 | Seeing Red
By: Harpercollins Uk Price: $ 14.95 $ 8.80 Reviews: 4 Average Rating: 4.0
A Premier League and international referee with 26 years of combined experience, Graham Poll handled some of the toughest games in soccer history—in total more than 1,500 matches—before his retirement in 2007. In this brilliant, no-holds-barred autobiography, Poll reveals what really goes on between the players in the tunnel before a match and in the dressing room after, and unveils the true nature behind the nicest and the nastiest figures in the game. Poll also shares private conversations... |
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 | Giggs: The Autobiography
By: Penguin Global Price: $ 15.00 $ 8.82 Reviews: 2 Average Rating: 4.0
Ryan Giggs first played for Manchester United in the season before the Premiership began; back when Bryan Robson was still captain. He took possession of Uniteds left wing and never loosened his grip. Over a fourteen year career so far, hes seen them all come and go: Cantona, Schmeichel, Beckham and the rest. Sir Alex Ferguson said of Giggs, "I knew we had an outstanding talent when we gave him his debut." That was back in 1991, but it remains as true in 2005 as it ever was. Giggs has been a pivotal figure in Uniteds dominance of the... |
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