Finding True Center: A Golf Story about Life
ISBN: 9780595312986 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lifelong friends Nick and Easy love both golf and a serious wager. Their shared passion moves beyond the extreme when a drunken bar bet results in a far-fetched scheme: playing head-to-head in every state across America as the ultimate measure to determine the better golfer. Only their self-styled, cross-country championship quickly takes a series of unexpected turns.
As their three-year journey to golf's grandest courses unfolds, an unexpected cancer diagnosis threatens not only their wager, but also the limits of their 20-year friendship. Against the backdrop of a startling request and... Lifelong friends Nick and Easy love both golf and a serious wager. Their shared passion moves beyond the extreme when a drunken bar bet results in a f...
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69,16 zł |
One Fall
ISBN: 9780595326754 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With one kick, Joey Hamilton has sent the world of professional wrestling into chaos. In his first World Title match, on national television, Joey botched a simple maneuver, turning a scripted wrestling match into a nightmarish reality.
Now the World Champion is injured and the locker room is in tatters. With the top spot open, veteran wrestlers are jockeying for position, hoping to become the next megastar, and Joey is their target. With a unique look behind the scenes at America's most violent dramatic art, "One Fall" shows the world of professional wrestling in its rawest form. It is... With one kick, Joey Hamilton has sent the world of professional wrestling into chaos. In his first World Title match, on national television, Joey bot...
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82,17 zł |
The Camel Blues
ISBN: 9780595363605 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "And so, I will tell you about Camel College and how one man nearly destroyed my love for the game. For all of the years until now, basketball was at times surreal when I was on the court." The basketball adventures of Dandyboy continue in "The Camel Blues," the sequel to "Dandyboy and the Impossible Dream." In his own words, Dandyboy tells of the challenges, disappointments, ordeals, and lessons he has learned from his college experience. Dandyboy had a stellar athletic year as a high school senior, leading his team in scoring, as well as being one of the top ten scorers in the conference....
"And so, I will tell you about Camel College and how one man nearly destroyed my love for the game. For all of the years until now, basketball was at ...
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51,82 zł |
Mister Coach
ISBN: 9780595364145 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the age of thirty-three, Paul marries Martha and embarks on a lifelong adventure with the girl of his dreams. The couple lives the good life until the Great Depression and the affects of Prohibition bring them financial ruin. Leaving the family ranch, Paul begins working as a counterman at a local farm supply store to make ends meet. Unable to have children, Paul and Martha start volunteering at various youth activities. But Paul's greatest love is coaching youth baseball teams.
A small, timid man and a natural-born leader, Paul brings out the best in his young players by reminding... At the age of thirty-three, Paul marries Martha and embarks on a lifelong adventure with the girl of his dreams. The couple lives the good life until ...
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69,16 zł |
Silent Pride
ISBN: 9780595655205 / Angielski / Twarda / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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90,85 zł |
On a Field of Legends
ISBN: 9780595657919 / Angielski / Twarda / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Sammy Balle is gravely injured on the final play of the big game his chances of going pro are as shattered as his body. While wallowing in self-pity and contemplating what could have been, he finds redemption when his niece is injured and becomes comatose. Death comes to take her away and Sammy challenges him to a football game for her life. Sammy must now research old time, passed on players for his team with the help of an elderly football "guru." Nitschke, Grange, Hutson, and a slew of other old-time greats return to the pigskin to help him along, for the game that ensues is not at...
When Sammy Balle is gravely injured on the final play of the big game his chances of going pro are as shattered as his body. While wallowing in self-p...
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103,86 zł |
Finding True Center: A Golf Story about Life
ISBN: 9780595662920 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lifelong friends Nick and Easy love both golf and a serious wager. Their shared passion moves beyond the extreme when a drunken bar bet results in a far-fetched scheme: playing head-to-head in every state across America as the ultimate measure to determine the better golfer. Only their self-styled, cross-country championship quickly takes a series of unexpected turns.
As their three-year journey to golf's grandest courses unfolds, an unexpected cancer diagnosis threatens not only their wager, but also the limits of their 20-year friendship. Against the backdrop of a startling request and... Lifelong friends Nick and Easy love both golf and a serious wager. Their shared passion moves beyond the extreme when a drunken bar bet results in a f...
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112,53 zł |
Dusty: Journey of a High School Coaching Icon
ISBN: 9780595665938 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An amazing and captivating story of how a kid on a farm in the depression years who never played the game rose to the pinnacle of the high school coaching profession in the basketball arena. Recognized as one of the best by his peers and former players, Dusty Carter wound his way from the hills of Clay County, Alabama into the Alabama High School Athletic Association Coaches Hall of Fame. During his journey, he endeared himself to those along the way--his family, his coaching colleagues, and his former players. This is his story of that pilgrimage, told through the mouths of those he touched...
An amazing and captivating story of how a kid on a farm in the depression years who never played the game rose to the pinnacle of the high school coac...
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121,20 zł |
Football Fever
ISBN: 9780595746484 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of a small town football team that proves they have what it takes to play with the "big boys." Exciting football action with a great story.
The story of a small town football team that proves they have what it takes to play with the "big boys." Exciting football action with a great story.
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108,19 zł |
Batting Third: (A Tim Allison Baseball Story)
ISBN: 9780595751037 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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103,86 zł |
Big Man
ISBN: 9780618079223 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1951, sport and greed combined to rock college basketball with scandal and shatter the lives of those involved. Big Mantells the fictional story of one player sent tumbling in the shakedown. For Mack Davis, a black All-American basketball star, the point-fixing scandals represent the end of a dream. Fallen from the big time, Mack must return to the lost schoolyards of his childhood Brooklyn neighborhood, where he is now stopped cold by the sport that once saved him. Gradually, however, Mack's real love for the game, combined with a series of unexpected pressures, goads him into an ironic...
In 1951, sport and greed combined to rock college basketball with scandal and shatter the lives of those involved. Big Mantells the fictional story of...
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69,34 zł |
Columbus Slaughters Braves
ISBN: 9780618219049 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Friedman's first novel is the heartbreaking tale of two brothers whose lives lead to vastly different fates. A richly imagined story that explores both the grand and enduring allure of a national pastime and the complications of readers lives--their longings, losses, and regrets.
Friedman's first novel is the heartbreaking tale of two brothers whose lives lead to vastly different fates. A richly imagined story that explores bot...
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64,83 zł |
The Iowa Baseball Confederacy
ISBN: 9780618340804 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the author of the bestselling "Shoeless Joe" comes another vintage baseball tale that "like magic . . . holds together and entices you from one page to the next, until at the end you ache for more" ("Milwaukee Journal").
From the author of the bestselling "Shoeless Joe" comes another vintage baseball tale that "like magic . . . holds together and entices you from one p...
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86,69 zł |
Waiting for Teddy Williams
ISBN: 9780618619030 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "one of the funniest and most heartfelt baseball stories in recent memory" (Publishers Weekly), Howard Frank Mosher returns to Kingdom Common, Vermont, to spin a touching coming-of-age tale in an America that has almost disappeared. From this remote village, noted for its fervent devotion to the Red Sox, comes Ethan E.A. Allen, a young man with a chance to change baseball history. Homeschooled, fatherless, and living on the wrong side of the tracks, E.A. is haunted by a dark mystery in his family s past until a drifter named Teddy arrives in his life, determined to teach E.A. everything he...
In "one of the funniest and most heartfelt baseball stories in recent memory" (Publishers Weekly), Howard Frank Mosher returns to Kingdom Common, Verm...
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77,84 zł |
Cooperstown
ISBN: 9780743266949 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An exceptional debut novel lovingly probes the values of faith, family, community, and America's favorite pastime, baseball -- from a captivating new voice in contemporary fiction.
Cooperstown, New York, in 1979 (the year Willie Mays was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame), is a close-knit community where gossip is sovereign and baseball is the great American religion. Seen through the eyes of Dr. Kerwin Chylak, a psychiatrist who has recently moved to town with his family, the citizens of Cooperstown are a wildly eclectic team of players that includes an alcohol-befuddled mayor... An exceptional debut novel lovingly probes the values of faith, family, community, and America's favorite pastime, baseball -- from a captivating new ...
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99,52 zł |
Living the Gimmick
ISBN: 9780759550049 / Angielski / Miękka / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the time he was able to body slam a pillow, Michael dreamed of becoming a professional wrestler, vanquishing imaginary enemies and nagging self-doubt with every drop kick he landed. As his buddies hit the books, Michael got hit. When they left for college, he enrolled in Shane Stratford's Wrestling Academy, where cash -- and a particularly punishing "audition" -- afforded him a first look into a world part circus, part sport, and all spectacle.
From penny-ante matches to national notoriety, Michael rises through the ranks of professional wrestling. Hopped up on speed, pumped up on... From the time he was able to body slam a pillow, Michael dreamed of becoming a professional wrestler, vanquishing imaginary enemies and nagging self-d...
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136,54 zł |
The Summerville Bombers: A Baseball Mystery
ISBN: 9780759613478 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An elusive and mysterious young slugging star for the New York Mets top minor league team becomes the major suspect in a murder, and a huge challenge for the two young reporters who try to solve the case.
An elusive and mysterious young slugging star for the New York Mets top minor league team becomes the major suspect in a murder, and a huge challenge ...
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72,15 zł |
Yellow on Green
ISBN: 9780759631557 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,09 zł |
Hoops
ISBN: 9780759653870 / Angielski / Miękka / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. HOOPS is a fast-paced Love and Basketball story for thirtysomethings featuring a $3 million embezzlement, big law firm politics, die-hard Boston Celtics fans, searches for love, rock and roll, and a hoops explosion when the men's and women's games collide.
HOOPS is a fast-paced Love and Basketball story for thirtysomethings featuring a $3 million embezzlement, big law firm politics, die-hard Boston Celti...
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118,43 zł |
Hoops
ISBN: 9780759653887 / Angielski / Twarda / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Hoops" is a fast-paced love and basketball story for thirtysomethings featuring a $3 million embezzlement, big law firm politics, die-hard Boston Celtics fans, searches for love, rock and roll and a hoops explosion when the men's and women's games collide.
"Hoops" is a fast-paced love and basketball story for thirtysomethings featuring a $3 million embezzlement, big law firm politics, die-hard Boston Cel...
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154,56 zł |