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The Contender by Robert Lipsyte
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780064470391Author Robert LipsyteFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
Raiders Night by Robert Lipsyte 9780060599485
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060599485Author Robert LipsyteFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher... -
The Chief by Robert Lipsyte 9780064470971
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780064470971Author Robert LipsyteFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperteenPublisher... -
Twinning Project by Robert Lipsyte 9780544225220
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544225220Author Robert LipsyteFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Clarion BooksPublisher Clarion... -
The Twin Powers by Robert Lipsyte 9780544540682
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544540682Author Robert LipsyteFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Clarion BooksPublisher Clarion... -
Rhino's Run Robert Lipsyte 9780063343870
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.86"You can't play it safe when you're the captain."From celebrated author Robert Lipsyte, this powerful coming-of-age follows high school football player Ronnie "Rhino" Rhinehart after a violent... -
Yellow Flag by Robert Lipsyte 9780060557096
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060557096Author Robert LipsyteFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher... -
SportsWorld: An American Dreamland by Robert Lipsyte 9780813593203
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £96.45Tough and witty, SportsWorld is a well-known commentator's overview of the most significant form of mass culture in America-sports. It's a sweaty Oz that has grown in a century from a crucible for... -
An Accidental Sportswriter: A Memoir by Robert Lipsyte 9780061769146
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061769146Author Robert LipsyteFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco... -
One Fat Summer by Robert Lipsyte 9780064470735
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780064470735Author Robert LipsyteFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint HarperCollins Children's... -
A Study Guide for Robert Lipsyte's the Contender by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375390323
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.67Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Defining Moments in Journalism Nancy J. Woodhull 9781138522077
RRP: £96.99Booksplease Price: £84.74Most great transformations are not apparent as we live through them. Only in hindsight do individual moments acquire layers of meaning that give them great significance. Looking back is not... -
Defining Moments in Journalism by Nancy J. Woodhull 9780765804426
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £31.52Most great transformations are not apparent as we live through them. Only in hindsight do individual moments acquire layers of meaning that give them great significance. Looking back is not... -
Sport, Power, and Society: Institutions and Practices: A Reader by David Karen
RRP: £67.99Booksplease Price: £60.95This comprehensive collection examines the culture of sport and its relationship with various social institutions. The editors first provide a broad overview of the field and describe the ways in... -
Playing Like a Girl: Transforming Our Lives Through Team Sports by Marian Betancourt 9781504036931
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22More and more women and girls are discovering the joy and relishing the fierce competition of team sports. Their increasing participation in sports is influencing all aspects of women's-and... -
Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing Glenn Fuhrman 9781941366554
RRP: £42.50Booksplease Price: £28.87Over 90 artists' depictions of boxing, from Vito Acconci to Carrie Mae Weems This book documents an expansive, traveling group exhibition centered on the sport, psychology, ethos and spectacle of... -
Mr Rabbit And The Lovely Present by Charlotte Zolotow
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.17Little Girl really needs to find a birthday present for her mother in her favourite colour. But with so many things to choose from, she's going to need some help from Rabbit . . .And so they search,... -
Out of Left Field: A Sportswriter’s Last Word by Stan Isaacs 9780252087882
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91"My idol growing up, all I wanted to be, was Stan Isaacs." --Tony Kornheiser "Stan Isaacs is directly responsible for my television career--and much of how I approached what I've said and whom I've... -
Body Politic: The Great American Sports Machine by David Shields 9780803260320
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.68In Body Politic, David Shields looks at contemporary America and its mythology through the lens of professional and college sports. The result is an unusually insightful and provocative book about an... -
Black Planet: Facing Race during an NBA Season by David Shields 9780803293540
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.41The National Basketball Association is a place where white fans and black players enact virtually every racial issue and tension in U.S. culture. Following the Seattle SuperSonics for an entire... -
ESPN: The Making of a Sports Media Empire by Travis Vogan 9780252039768
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Once a shoestring operation built on plywood sets and Australian rules football, ESPN has evolved into a media colossus. A genius for cross-promotion and its near-mystical rapport with its viewers... -
ESPN: The Making of a Sports Media Empire by Travis Vogan
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Once a shoestring operation built on plywood sets and Australian rules football, ESPN has evolved into a media colossus. A genius for cross-promotion and its near-mystical rapport with its viewers... -
Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season David Shields 9781496242211
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Critically acclaimed and highly controversial, Black Planet was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and PEN USA Award and was named a Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 1999 by Esquire,... -
American Indian Lacrosse: Little Brother of War by Thomas Vennum 9780801887642
Booksplease Price: £28.88To understand the aboriginal roots of lacrosse, one must enter a world of spiritual belief and magic where players sewed inchworms into the innards of lacrosse balls and medicine men gazed at... -
Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure by Alexander Wolff 9781478018803
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £17.95During 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... -
American Original: A Life of Will Rogers by Ray Robinson 9780195086935
Booksplease Price: £27.80Hailed by The New York Times as "America's Aristophanes," Will Rogers was one of this century's most astute and beloved humorists. If as he often remarked, he never met a man he didn't like, it is... -
Press Box Red: The Story Of Lester Rodney, by Irwin Silber 9781566399746
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02Long before Branch Rickey signed Jackie Robinson to a Brooklyn Dodger contract in 1945, Lester Rodney, the newly hired and first sports editor of the Communist Daily Worker, launched the campaign... -
Invisible Men: Life in Baseball's Negro Leagues by Donn Rogosin 9781496223395
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37This fascinating book is a milestone in baseball scholarship.-Ken BurnsJackie Robinson was a Negro Leaguer before he became a Major Leaguer. So too were Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Monte Irvin, Roy... -
Gridiron Gauntlet: The Story of the Men Who Integrated Pro Football, In Their Own Words by Andy Piascik 9781589796522
Booksplease Price: £13.92One year before Jackie Robinson broke the color line in major league baseball in 1947, four black players joined the Cleveland Browns and Los Angeles Rams to become the first professional football... -
7: The Mickey Mantle Novel by Peter Golenbock 9781493013951
Booksplease Price: £14.86Bestselling sportswriter Peter Golenbock knew Mickey Mantle, Billy Martin, Jim Bouton, Joe Pepitone, and many of Mantle's friends, family, and teammates. While Mickey was a good person at heart, he... -
Hooper by Geoff Herbach
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.49From Geoff Herbach, the critically acclaimed author of the Stupid Fast series, comes a compelling new YA novel about basketball, prejudice, privilege, and family, perfect for fans of Jordan... -
The Murder of Sonny Liston: A Story of Fame, Heroin, Boxing & Las Vegas by Shaun Assael
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Sonny Liston was a legend, described by Mike Tyson as "the baddest man boxing ever produced". From veteran sports reporter Shaun Assael, The Murder of Sonny Liston is a gripping, intense examination... -
Pigskin Nation: How the NFL Remade American Politics by Jesse Berrett
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Cast as the ultimate hardhats, football players of the 1960s seemed to personify a crewcut traditional manhood that channeled the Puritan work ethic. Yet, despite a social upheaval against such... -
Press Box Red: The Story of Lester Rodney, the Communist Who Helped Break the Color Line in American Sports by Irwin Silber 9781566399739
RRP: £61.00Booksplease Price: £58.89Long before Branch Rickey signed Jackie Robinson to a Brooklyn Dodger contract in 1945, Lester Rodney, the newly hired and first sports editor of the "Communist Daily Worker", launched the campaign... -
Long Shot: The Triumphs and Struggle of an NBA Freedom Fighter by Craig Hodges 9781642593778
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.25As a member of the 1992 world-champion Chicago Bulls, a dashiki-clad Hodges delivered a handwritten letter to President George H. W. Bush demanding that he do more to address racism and economic... -
Sound and Fury: Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship by Dave Kindred 9780743262125
Booksplease Price: £16.21Muhammad Ali and Howard Cosell were must-see TV long before that phrase became ubiquitous. Individually interesting, together they were mesmerizing. They were profoundly different -- young and old,... -
Things That Make White People Uncomfortable (Adapted for Young Adults) by Michael Bennett 9781642590227
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £15.50Michael Bennett is a Super Bowl Champion, a three-time Pro Bowl defensive end, a fearless activist, a feminist, an organizer, and a change maker. He's also one of the most humorous athletes on the... -
Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett 9781642590234
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50A version for Young Adults is also available. Michael Bennett is a Super Bowl Champion, a three-time Pro Bowl defensive end, a fearless activist, a feminist, a grassroots philanthropist, an... -
The Power of Sports: Media and Spectacle in American Culture by Michael Serazio
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.70A provocative, must-read investigation that both appreciates the importance of-and punctures the hype around-big-time contemporary American athletics In an increasingly secular, fragmented, and... -
Where Have You Gone Without Me? by Peter Bonventre
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26"Where Have You Gone Without Me? is a wildly entertaining romp across the gritty sidewalks of New York with a streetwise newspaperman. Bonventre is a compelling storyteller. Once I started reading, I...