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Cubs Journal, 2ed
John Snyder
Cubs Journal is the ultimate
Windy City baseball fan's resource. Dividing the team's history by
decades, years, and even days, the book features hitting and pitching
highlights, team and player bios and stats, unusual facts, and unique
"season in a sentence" recaps. Profiling the team from 1876 to today,
author John Snyder includes everything — starting line-ups, trade info,
annual attendance, and even all-time franchise numbers that go beyond
ERAs and batting averages to inlclude on-base percentages, shut-outs,
and complete games. Historical and contemporary photographs and
sidebars add punch. This book is a must-have for Cubs fans or any
baseball fan.
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DF: Idiots on Parade
DF Crew and Dalek
Collectively, DF is made up of 21 (plus a few slackers) artists (including Aero, Cycle, Dalek, East, Emit, Gaze, Jive, Just 195, Lead, Merz, Nace, Noble, Quisp, Rapes, REM, Scribe, Seak, Sub, T. Dee, Vogues, When) 21 of these artists are featured in DF: Idiots on Parade. Both collectively & individually, DF has left their mark on the graffiti landscape all over the world. Just in the last 5 years DF's membership has shown their work in over 50 group or solo gallery & museum shows all throughout the US as well as Canada, Japan and England.
Using graffiti as a artistic stepping off point, many have explored other areas of the arts including commercial design, still life & landscape painting, toy design, authoring & illustrating children's books, tattoo artist, and in one case, aspiring rodeo clown! Some members have had collections published, including Dalek's 2 previously published books. And here’s the best of it all, in one handy, sumptuous package.
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Dodgers Journal: Year by Year and Day by Day with the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers Since 1884 (Paperback)
John Snyder
They've been called the Atlantics, Grays, Bridegrooms, Superbas, the Trolley Dodgers, and, perhaps most fondly, Dem Bums.
They have won the loyalty of fans throughout the country but especially in Brooklyn and Los Angeles, where people bleed Dodger Blue.
We now know them as the Dodgers, and Dodgers Journal is the definitive history of the team, covering every season from 1884 to 2008.
Dodgers Journal is packed with photos and statistics and includes an all-time roster, yearly lineups, all-decade all-star teams, interesting and unusual facts, and unique “season in a sentence” recaps. You’ll find analysis of trades and accounts of myriad events triumphant and tragic, wild and weird.
Brooklyn’s debut in the National League in 1890 began on a positive note as the team won the championship with an 86–43 record.
It was the first of twenty-one National League pennants that the Dodgers would win during the next hundred years.
The only major league team whose location was a borough (rather than a city or state), the Brooklyn Dodgers ended their run in 1957 when Walter O'Malley moved the team to Los Angeles, only ten years after their proudest moment (Jackie Robinson's breaking of the color barrier) and two years after their greatest triumph, beating the hated Yankees in the World Series after five losses. Baseball fans from anywhere will savor the attention to detail that makes this book truly special.
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Football Uncyclopedia
Michael Kun and Adam Hoff
Football Uncyclopedia follows in the cleated footsteps of the recent Baseball Uncyclopedia to once again debunk some of the myths and widely held beliefs of one of America's most popular sports.
With a blend of writing comprised of statistical analysis, opinion
(lots of opinion), a love for the game, and a healthy dash of sarcastic
humor, authors Michael Kun and Adam Hoff argue against some of the
mythology and beliefs that characterize the game of football. No
subject or topic is off limits. The greatness of the 1972 Miami
Dolphins? Skewered. America's Team? Put in its place. Pittsburgh's
Berkowitz Fish Sandwich? Praised, obviously. Joe Namath? Well, he gets
a little bit of everything.
The Football Uncyclopedia sets
straight widely held believes about everything from stadiums, owners
(and not just a handful of them), revered champions, and entire cities.
It rushes to the defense of everyone from Shaun Alexander to Kurt
Warner and of everything from the Heisman Trophy to Randall
Cunningham's marble business.
It spends an inordinate amount of time discussing uniforms. It focuses
on player legacies and NFL history and hot-button issues, but it also
delves into topics like celebrity misbehavior, on-air kisses, and the
film Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.
In short, this book covers the huge names, the tiny nuances, and
everything in between that make the game of football an American
phenomenon.
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Frozen in Time: The Enduring Legacy of the 1961 U.S. Figure Skating Team
Nikki Nichols
Frozen in Time presents a deeply researched account of one of the most iconic stories in the history of American sport.
Most sports fans have heard the tragic story of the plane crash that killed all the members of the 1961 U.S. World Figure Skating Team, and sixteen of their friends, family and coaches, en route to the World Championships in Prague. This account takes readers inside the lives of the skaters, revealing the friendships and romances, the rivalries, sacrifices, and triumphs of the world-renowned competitors.
The dramatic focus lingers on two families of powerful women: the Owens and the Westerfelds. Maribel Owen, without question the most famous woman in figure skating at the time, relentlessly drives her two young daughters, pairs champion Mara and the spectacular Laurence, who graced the cover of Sports Illustrated on the day she died; Myra Westerfeld, meanwhile, loses her marriage while guiding her daughters Sherri and Steffi to the pinnacle of the sport.
Author Nikki Nichols also explores the aftermath of the crash. In an unprecedented period in American athletics, the U.S. skating program had lost all of its stars and struggled to rebuild, pushing forward very young competitors, such as Peggy Fleming. But perhaps the most far-reaching effect was the creation of The United States Figure Skating Association’s Memorial Fund, which would provide training grants and scholarships to skaters who would not otherwise be able to afford the sport—among them Scott Hamilton and other of top skaters.
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Get Healthy, Get Happy
Julie Isphording
Small change adds up. Empty your small change into a jar every day, and
watch the dollars grow over time. Make small changes in your daily
habits—such as your meals and snacks, your relationships, your work,
your workouts, and your leisure—and watch those changes accumulate into
a much healthier, happier, and better you. Replace a soft drink with
water at just one meal—-say, lunch. With this small change, you will
drink thirty more gallons of water per year, while NOT drinking fifty
thousand calories of carbonated sugar and spending five hundred
dollars!
Olympic marathon runner, radio talk show host, and popular public
speaker Julie Isphording gives you the secrets to make it all happen.
No need to join an expensive gym or rearrange your entire life. Start
making little changes one day at a time, and before you know it you’ll
see big, big changes in your health and happiness. Get Fit Fast
provides an invaluable approach to making life changes for the person
who is on the go. Julie’s system is easy, it’s fast, and it works.
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Ghosthunting Florida
Dave Lapham
On this leg of the journey you’ll explore the scariest spots in the Sunshine State. Author David Lapham visits more than 30 legendary haunted places, all of which are open to the public—so you can test your own ghosthunting skills, if you dare.
Join David as he visits each site, snooping around eerie rooms and dark corners, talking to people who swear to their paranormal experiences, and giving you a first-hand account.
Enjoy Ghosthunting Florida from the safety of your armchair or hit the road, using the maps, “Haunted Places” travel guide with 50 more spooky sites and “Ghostly Resources.” Buckle up and get ready for the spookiest ride of your life.
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Ghosthunting Illinois
John Kachuba
Lock the doors, draw the curtains, and light a candle as you join John
Kachuba on a guided tour of Illinois's most terrifying haunted places.
Your hair-raising journey will take you to: • Old State Capital,
Springfield — Lincoln lay in state here before his burial in Oak Ridge
Cemetery. Could his ghost haunt the spot where his body lay? • Harpo
Studios, Chicago — When the Eastland steamer capsized in 1915, the
building served as a temporary morgue. Oprah’s employees have
encountered the ghosts of the victims, including the “Gray Lady” who
floats through the halls. • And many more scary sites.
Maps and travel
information are provided to every haunted location for those brave
enough to make the journey in person. Ghosthunting Illinois takes you behind the scenes with detailed information about each destination.
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Ghosthunting Kentucky
Patti Starr
On this leg of the journey you’ll explore the scariest spots in the Bluegrass State. Author Patti Starr visits more than 30 legendary haunted places, all of which are open to the public—so you can test your own ghosthunting skills, if you dare.
Join Patti as she visits each site, snooping around eerie rooms and dark corners, talking to people who swear to their paranormal experiences, and giving you a first-hand account.
Enjoy Ghosthunting Kentucky from the safety of your armchair or hit the road, using the maps, “Haunted Places” travel guide with 50 more spooky sites and “Ghostly Resources.” Buckle up and get ready for the spookiest ride of your life.
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Ghosthunting New Jersey
L'Aura Hladik
On this leg of the journey you’ll explore the scariest spots in the
Garden State. Author L'Aura Hladik visits thirty-four legendary haunted
places, all of which are open to the public—so you can test your own
ghosthunting skills, if you dare.
Join L'Aura as she personally visits each site, snooping around eerie
rooms and dark corners, talking to people who swear to their paranormal
experiences, and giving you a first-hand account.
You’ll go to:
The Spy House—one of the most haunted sites on the Eastern Seaboard,
which is home to several ghosts
The Proprietary House—haunted by the ghost of a little boy, a
Revolutionary War soldier, and others who occupy the ladies’ room
Centenary College—where a ghost known as Tillie Smith has been seen on
the campus grounds and in her old dormitory, as well as Union Cemetery
in Hackettstown.
Enjoy Ghosthunting New Jersey
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get ready for the spookiest ride of your life.
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