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Mercy by Bill Littlefield 9781684339945
Booksplease Price: £13.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684339945Author Bill LittlefieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint
Only a Game by Bill Littlefield 9780803260016
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.83It's only a game, Bill Littlefield's National Public Radio program tells us, trying to keep sports in perspective. And for all the deadly serious perspectives of sports commentators and fans,...
NFL Football: A History of America's New National Pastime by Richard C. Crepeau 9780252043581
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £80.82The new NFL Centennial Edition A multi-billion-dollar entertainment empire, the National Football League is a coast-to-coast obsession that borders on religion and dominates our sports-mad culture...
NFL Football: A History of America's New National Pastime by Richard C. Crepeau 9780252085505
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56The new NFL Centennial Edition A multi-billion-dollar entertainment empire, the National Football League is a coast-to-coast obsession that borders on religion and dominates our sports-mad culture...
Free Them All: A Feminist Call to Abolish the Prison System by Gwenola Ricordeau 9781839762734
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.51How does the criminal justice system affect women's lives? Do prisons keep women safe? Should feminists rely on policing and the law to achieve women's liberation?The mainstream feminist movement has...
Screen Adaptation: Beyond the Basics: Techniques for Adapting Books, Comics and Real-Life Stories into Screenplays Eric R. Williams (Ohio University, USA) 9781138948860
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Once you understand the basics of screenwriting, ideas for your next screenplay are everywhere. Whether it comes from a favorite children's book, a summer novel you discover accidentally, a news...
The National Forgotten League: Entertaining Stories and Observations from Pro Football's First Fifty Years by Dan Daly 9780803243439
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.01The first fifty years of America's most popular spectator sport have been strangely neglected by historians claiming to tell the "complete story" of pro football. Well, here are the early stories...
Mr. Wrigley's Ball Club: Chicago and the Cubs during the Jazz Age by Roberts Ehrgott 9780803253421
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.72Chicago in the Roaring Twenties was a city of immigrants, mobsters, and flappers with one shared passion: the Chicago Cubs. It all began when the chewing-gum tycoon William Wrigley decided to build...
Baseball's Last Great Scout: The Life of Hugh Alexander by Daniel L. Austin 9780803245013
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £19.95Late in 1937 Hugh Alexander, a kid fresh out of small-town Oklahoma, had just finished his second year playing outfield for the Cleveland Indians when an oil rig accident ripped off his left hand...
The Game of Our Lives: The English Premier League and the Making of Modern Britain by David Goldblatt 9781568585161
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.97Winner of the 2015 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award The Game of Our Lives is a masterly portrait of soccer and contemporary Britain. Soccer in the United Kingdom has evolved from a jaded,...
Intercepted: The Rise and Fall of NFL Cornerback Darryl Henley by Michael McKnight 9780803262928
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.85Hailing from suburban Los Angeles, raised by supportive parents, and educated at a boys-only parochial school, Darryl Henley had it all. He earned a history degree from UCLA, became a first-team All...
Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure by Alexander Wolff 9781478018803
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £17.99During the late 1990s, eminent basketball journalist Alexander Wolff traveled the globe to determine how a game invented by a Canadian clergyman became an international phenomenon. Big Game, Small...
The Jail is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration Jack Norton 9781804291313
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15Nearly every county and major city in the United States has a jail, the short-term detention center controlled by local sheriffs that funnels people into prisons and long-term incarceration. Jails...
The John Lardner Reader: A Press Box Legend's Classic Sportswriting by John Lardner 9780803230477
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37This collection marks the return to print of John Lardner, one of America's press box giants, a classic stylist whose wry humor and tireless reporting helped elevate sportswriting to art. The...
Benching Jim Crow: The Rise and Fall of the Color Line in Southern College Sports, 1890-1980 by Charles Martin
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.44Chronicling the uneven rise and slow decline of segregation in American college athletics, Charles H. Martin shows how southern colleges imposed their policies of racial exclusion on surprisingly...
Leo Durocher: Baseball's Prodigal Son by Paul Dickson 9781496235237
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Leo Durocher (1905-1991) was baseball's all-time leading cocky, flamboyant, and galvanizing character, casting a shadow across several eras, from the time of Babe Ruth to the Space Age Astrodome,...
Gil Hodges: A Hall of Fame Life by Mort Zachter 9781496206022
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47In descriptions of athletes, the word "hero" is bandied about and liberally attached to players with outstanding statistics and championship rings. Gil Hodges: A Hall of Fame Life is the story of a...
The Global Game: Writers on Soccer by John C. Turnbull 9780803210783
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Includes "The Empty Pleasure" by 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature Winner Mario Vargas Llosa The world's most popular sport, soccer, is also one of the planet's prevalent cultural expressions,...
Gil Hodges: A Hall of Fame Life by Mort Zachter 9780803211247
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.50In descriptions of athletes, the word "hero" is bandied about and liberally attached to players with outstanding statistics and championship rings. Gil Hodges: A Hall of Fame Life is the story of a...
The Summer of Beer and Whiskey: How Brewers, Barkeeps, Rowdies, Immigrants, and a Wild Pennant Fight Made Baseball America's Game by Edward Achorn 9781610393775
Booksplease Price: £12.52Chris von der Ahe knew next to nothing about baseball when he risked his life's savings to found the franchise that would become the St. Louis Cardinals. Yet the German-born beer garden proprietor...
Faraway the Southern Sky: A Novel by Joseph Andras 9781804291719
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24Fleeing persecution in Indochina, the young Ho Chi Minh arrived in Paris as World War I was sputtering to a close. A painfully shy twentysomething, he joined the shadowy figures of the demimonde, the...