wyszukanych pozycji: 37
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A Good Walk Spoiled: Days and Nights on the PGA Tour
ISBN: 9780751517248 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Winner of the 1995 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, this work tells the story of an unusually turbulent year on the PGA tour. It profiles stars, such as Nick Price, Tom Watson and Greg Norman, and captures the non-stop pressures of a high-profile sport with virtually no off-season.
Winner of the 1995 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, this work tells the story of an unusually turbulent year on the PGA tour. It profiles s...
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64,61 zł |
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Living on the Black: Two Pitchers, Two Teams, One Season to Remember
ISBN: 9780316113922 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Pitchers are at the heart of baseball. Each has the potential to make his team a winner or, very quickly, a loser. The pressure is huge. In the end, only those with both the arm and the heart and the ability to manage extraordinary stress will emerge as champions. John Feinstein looks into this complex side of the game through the events of one nerve-racking season and through the eyes of two great pitchers trying to perform at the highest possible level in the twilight of their careers in the biggest media fishbowl in America. Tom Glavine and Mike Mussina have seen it all in the Major...
Pitchers are at the heart of baseball. Each has the potential to make his team a winner or, very quickly, a loser. The pressure is huge. In the end, o...
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110,52 zł |
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The Punch: One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed Basketball Forever
ISBN: 9780316735636 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. With unerring insight into the deeper truths of professional sports, John Feinstein explores in riveting detail what happened one night in December 1977 when, as a fistfight broke out on the court between the Houston Rockets and the Los Angeles Lakers, Kermit Washington delivered a punch that nearly killed All-Star Rudy Tomjanovich. The punch-now legendary in the annals of American sports-radically changed the trajectory of both men's lives and reverberates throughout the National Basketball Association to this day. Feinstein's compelling investigation of this single cataclysmic incident and...
With unerring insight into the deeper truths of professional sports, John Feinstein explores in riveting detail what happened one night in December 19...
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133,90 zł |
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Raise a Fist, Take a Knee : Race and the Illusion of Progress in Modern Sports
ISBN: 9780316540933 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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149,19 zł |
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Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life in the Minor Leagues of Baseball
ISBN: 9780307949585 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Minor league baseball is quintessentially American: small towns, small stadiums, $5 tickets, $2 hot dogs, the never-ending possibility of making it big. But looming above it all is always the real deal: Major League Baseball. John Feinstein takes the reader behind the curtain into the guarded world of the minor leagues, like no other writer can. Where Nobody Knows Your Name explores the trials and travails of the inhabitants of Triple-A, focusing on nine men, including players, managers and umpires, among many colorful characters, living on the cusp of the dream. The book tells the... Minor league baseball is quintessentially American: small towns, small stadiums, $5 tickets, $2 hot dogs, the never-ending possibility of making it... |
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85,05 zł |
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Moment of Glory: The Year Underdogs Ruled Golf
ISBN: 9780316025324 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. After winning 6 of the 12 Majors from 2000 to 2002, Tiger Woods struggled in 2003. Four unknown golf players--Mike Weir, Jim Furyk, Ben Curtis, and Shaun Micheel--would seize the day, rising to become champions in his wake.
Mike Weir--considered a good golfer but not a great one--triumphed in The Masters, becoming the first Canadian to win a Major. Jim Furyk emerged victorious in the U.S. Open. In the British Open, Ben Curtis became the only player since Francis Ouimet in 1913 to prevail on his first time out, and Shaun Micheel came from nowhere to prevail at the PGA Championship.... After winning 6 of the 12 Majors from 2000 to 2002, Tiger Woods struggled in 2003. Four unknown golf players--Mike Weir, Jim Furyk, Ben Curtis, and...
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117,82 zł |
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Last Shot: Mystery at the Final Four (the Sports Beat, 1)
ISBN: 9780553494600 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. New York Times bestselling sportswriter John Feinstein exposes the real "March Madness"--behind the scenes at the Final Four basketball tournament. When Stevie wins a writing contest for aspiring sports journalists, his prize is a press pass to the Final Four in New Orleans. While exploring the Superdome, he overhears a plot to throw the championship game. With the help of fellow contest winner Susan Carol, Stevie has just 48 hours to figure out who is blackmailing one of the star players . . . and why. John Feinstein has been praised as "the best writer of...
New York Times bestselling sportswriter John Feinstein exposes the real "March Madness"--behind the scenes at the Final Four basketba...
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38,23 zł |
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The Majors: in Pursuit of Golf's Holy Grail
ISBN: 9780316277952 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. WHAT DOES IT TAKE to win a major championship and reach the absolute pinnacle of golf? Through a season of the four tournaments -- the Masters, the U.S. Open, the British Open, and the PGA Championship -- known collectively as the majors, John Feinstein takes us where the television cameras never go, both off the links and "inside the ropes," as he reveals the special challenges and rituals, the frustrations and exhilaration, that mark the lives and careers of the world's greatest golfers.
WHAT DOES IT TAKE to win a major championship and reach the absolute pinnacle of golf? Through a season of the four tournaments -- the Masters, the U....
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110,52 zł |
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Feherty: The Remarkably Funny and Tragic Journey of Golf's David Feherty
ISBN: 9780306830013 / Miękka / 2024 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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93,51 zł |
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Caddy for Life: The Bruce Edwards Story
ISBN: 9780316010863 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Beyond golf's polished surface there lies a world not often seen by the average fan. The caddy sees everything - the ambition, the strategy, the rivalries, the jealousies - that occurs behind the scenes. Award-winning John Feinstein, America's favourite sportswriter, got one of golf's legendary caddies to reveal the secrets behind the most popular sport of our time. Bruce Edwards was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease in January 2003, a progressive disease that attacks nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord, but he dominated coverage of the 2003 US Open. This is a position not...
Beyond golf's polished surface there lies a world not often seen by the average fan. The caddy sees everything - the ambition, the strategy, t...
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93,51 zł |
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The Prodigy
ISBN: 9781250211545 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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80,76 zł |
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A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers
ISBN: 9781451650259 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Twenty-five years after it spent sixteen weeks at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, John Feinstein's A Season on the Brink remains the classic of the genre and an unforgettable chronicle of his year spent following the Indiana Hoosiers and their fiery coach Bob Knight. This anniversary edition features an updated package and a new Introduction by Feinstein. Twenty-five years after it spent sixteen weeks atop the New York Times bestseller list, A Season on the Brink remains the most celebrated basketball book ever written. Granted unprecedented access to...
Twenty-five years after it spent sixteen weeks at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, John Feinstein's A Season on the Brink remai...
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85,01 zł |
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Living on the Black: Two Pitchers, Two Teams, One Season to Remember
ISBN: 9780316027625 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 800 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Pitchers are the heart of baseball, and John Feinstein tells the story of the game today through one season and two great pitchers working in the crucible of the New York media market. Tom Glavine and Mike Mussina have seen it all in the Major Leagues and both entered 2007 in search of individual milestones and one more shot at The World Series-Glavine with the Mets, Mussina five miles away with the Yankees. The two veterans experience very different seasons--one on a team dealing with the pressure to get to a World Series for the first time in seven years, the other with a team expected to...
Pitchers are the heart of baseball, and John Feinstein tells the story of the game today through one season and two great pitchers working in the cruc...
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182,12 zł |
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The Last Amateurs: Playing for Glory and Honor in Division I College Basketball
ISBN: 9780316278423 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Like millions who love college basketball, John Feinstein was first drawn to the game because of its intensity, speed and intelligence. Like many others, he felt that the vast sums of money involved in NCAA basketball had turned the sport into a division of the NBA, rather than the beloved amateur sport it once was. He went in search of college basketball played with the passion and integrity it once inspired, and found the Patriot League. As one of the NCAA's smallest leagues, none of these teams leaves college early to join the NBA and none of these coaches gets national recognition or...
Like millions who love college basketball, John Feinstein was first drawn to the game because of its intensity, speed and intelligence. Like many othe...
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cena:
155,07 zł |
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The Ancient Eight: College Football's Ivy League and the Game They Play Today
ISBN: 9780306833908 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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127,58 zł |
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Last Dance: Behind the Scenes at the Final Four
ISBN: 9780316014250 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Exploring what it means to be a school, a coach, and a player in college basketball's Final Four, Feinstein exposes the driving forces behind one of the most revered events in American sports. Readers will also find dramatic stories from the officials and referees to the scouts and ticket-scalpers.
Exploring what it means to be a school, a coach, and a player in college basketball's Final Four, Feinstein exposes the driving forces behind one of t...
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68,00 zł |
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Game Changers: A Benchwarmers Novel
ISBN: 9781250820440 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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89,26 zł |
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The Dh (the Triple Threat, 3)
ISBN: 9780553535853 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Perfect for baseball lovers and fans of Mike Lupica, book three in the Triple Threat series by New York Times bestselling sports writer John Feinstein explores what happens when athletes break the rules. Alex Myers's football and basketball seasons were mired in controversy, and his dad's been MIA since his parents split up. All Alex wants this spring is to work on his fastball and hang out with his maybe-girlfriend, Christine. But he runs into unexpected competition on both fronts. Matt Gordon was suspended from sports after he admitted taking PEDs...
Perfect for baseball lovers and fans of Mike Lupica, book three in the Triple Threat series by New York Times bestselling spo...
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38,23 zł |
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Foul Trouble
ISBN: 9780375871696 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Bestselling sportswriter John Feinstein exposes the big money and back-room deals that pervade college-basketball recruiting in this fast-break young adult novel.
Terrell Jamerson is the #1 high school basketball player in the country. His team is poised to win State, top colleges are lining up to give him scholarships, and everyone says he could play in the NBA tomorrow. But it only takes one false step to lose everything. Danny Wilcox is Terrell's best friend and teammate, and a top prospect himself, but these days it seems like everyone wants to get close to... Bestselling sportswriter John Feinstein exposes the big money and back-room deals that pervade college-basketball recruiting in this fast-break you...
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cena:
63,75 zł |
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Moment of Glory: The Year Underdogs Ruled Golf
ISBN: 9780316085090 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. After winning 6 of the 12 Majors from 2000 to 2002, Tiger Woods struggled in 2003. Four unknown golf players--Mike Weir, Jim Furyk, Ben Curtis, and Shaun Micheel--would seize the day, rising to become champions in his wake.
Mike Weir--considered a good golfer but not a great one--triumphed in The Masters, becoming the first Canadian to win a Major. Jim Furyk emerged victorious in the U.S. Open. In the British Open, Ben Curtis became the only player since Francis Ouimet in 1913 to prevail on his first time out, and Shaun Micheel came from nowhere to prevail at the PGA Championship.... After winning 6 of the 12 Majors from 2000 to 2002, Tiger Woods struggled in 2003. Four unknown golf players--Mike Weir, Jim Furyk, Ben Curtis, and...
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cena:
246,48 zł |