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Uncommon: Finding Your Path to Significance (HC) (2009)
$24.992009 Retailer's Choice Award winner!Super Bowl-winning coach and #1 New York Times best selling author Tony Dungy has had an unusual opportunity to reflect on what it takes to achieve significance. He is looked to by many as the epitome of the success...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$24.99Subtotal: -
Two Pioneers: How Hank Greenberg and Jackie Robinson Transformed Baseball--And America (HC) (2012)
$27.50As the first great Jewish player in the major leagues and the first African American to play major-league baseball during the twentieth century, respectively, Hank Greenberg and Jackie Robinson are forever linked because of the barriers they encountered,... -
They Cleared the Lane: The NBA's Black Pioneers (PB) (2004)
$19.95Today, black players compose more than eighty percent of the National Basketball Association's rosters, providing a strong and valued contribution to professional basketball. In the first half of the twentieth century, however, pro basketball was tainted... -
The Ticket Out: Darryl Strawberry and the Boys of Crenshaw (PB) (2006)
$18.99Micahel Sokolove presents an unforgettable tale of families grasping for opportunities, of athletes praying for one chance to make it big, of all of us hoping that the will to succeed can triumph over the demons haunting our city streets. The year was... -
The Spencer Haywood Rule: Battles, Basketball, and the Making of an American Iconoclast (HC) (2020)
$28.00"If you are a basketball fan, you should be aware of Spencer Haywood's immense historical importance. If you're not aware, you should be." --Bob Ryan, The Boston Globe Hall of Famer, Olympic gold medalist, MVP, and All-Star could all be used to describe...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$28.00Subtotal: -
The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America (PB) (2008)
$16.99From the author of Baseball 100"A fascinating account of a man who outlasted the ignorance of a nation and persevered to become a beloved figure...One of the best baseball books in years, filled with depth style and clarity. --Cleveland Plain DealerAn... -
The Sixteenth Round: From Number 1 Contender to Number 45472 (PB) (2011)
$16.95Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was riding a wave of success. The survivor of a difficult youth, he rose to become a top contender for the middleweight boxing crown. But his career crashed to a halt on May 26, 1967, when he and another man were found guilty of... -
The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball's Lost Triumph (PB) (2016)
$17.99Winner of the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing: The true story of the game that never should have happened -- and of a nation on the brink of monumental change.In the fall of 1943, at the little-known North Carolina College for Negroes,... -
The Rhythm Boys of Omaha Central: High School Basketball at the '68 Racial Divide (PB) (2011)
$19.95In the spring of 1968, the Omaha Central High School basketball team made history with its first all-black starting lineup. Their nickname, the Rhythm Boys, captured who they were and what they did on the court. Led by star center Dwaine Dillard, the... -
The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism (PB) (2019)
$17.00Following in the footsteps of Robeson, Ali, Robinson and others, today's Black athletes re-engage with social issues and the meaning of American patriotism Named a best book of 2018 by Library Journal It used to be that politics and sports were as...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$17.00Subtotal: -
The Forgotten First: Kenny Washington, Woody Strode, Marion Motley, Bill Willis, and the Breaking of the NFL Color Barrier (HC) (2021)
$28.00The unknown story of the Black pioneers who collectively changed the face of the NFL in 1946. THE FORGOTTEN FIRST chronicles the lives of four incredible men, the racism they experienced as Black players entering a segregated sport, the burden of...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$28.00Subtotal: -
The Forgotten First: Kenny Washington, Woody Strode, Marion Motley, Bill Willis, and the Breaking of the NFL Color Barrier (CD) (2021)
$40.00The unknown story of the Black pioneers who collectively changed the face of the NFL in 1946.The Forgotten First chronicles the lives of four incredible men, the racism they experienced as Black players entering a segregated sport, the burden of...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$40.00Subtotal: