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“The Secret Game is a compelling and truly American story.”

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“Bruce Feldman has written a masterpiece of a sports book, and any true fan will find fascination and delight on every page.”

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“What’s so special about The Magnificent Masters is the way in which Capps captures the way these top golfers actually approach the game of golf.

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"Where does all this leave us? With sports figures morphing from entertainers, to reality TV whores, and then into candidates for Dr. Phil’s couch, that’s where.”

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“Kostya Kennedy writes so majestically that the reader spends half the time trying to decide if a guy like Rose deserves such high-minded prose. . . .

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The Rules is entertaining. It is informative.

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“. . . the book is long on research and short on story.”

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“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee; the hand can’t hit what the eye can’t see.”
—Muhammad Ali

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“In Wild Cards, both the premise and the hero are irresistible.”

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“. . . an interesting and fun little book.”

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“. . . a must read for all pro wrestling fans.”

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“. . . two boys who grew up loving baseball, learned to play it in the country, and perfected in the bright lights of Manhattan and San Francisco.”

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Perhaps you never thought about major-league baseball as a monopoly, but it is.

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Larry Ruttman has a mission. With his book on American Jews and baseball, he wants to prove that successful Jewish Americans connected to baseball owe their success to Jewish values.

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“Readers will find themselves cheering the protagonist, eager to find that light at the end of the tunnel . . .”

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It’s no surprise this celebration of Ted Williams is released on the Opening Day for Major League Baseball. Now fans have two reasons to celebrate on April 1.

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“I knew what I needed to do to stay in hockey. And I was willing to do it. I would have done anything to stay in hockey.”
—Barry Melrose

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“What Robinson did on the baseball diamond was merely part of his effort to show black people how to be their very best and to show white people how to remove the barriers keeping blacks fr

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In the 1960s through the 1980s, Americans won gold medals in all Olympic distance races: 5,000 meters, 10,000 meters and the marathon.

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“In Hamilton’s telling doping did not make for an uneven playing field but rather was what any competitive racer must do to compete at the highest level.”

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