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Ross Bernstein
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Demonstrating that claiming the most sought-after moniker in baseball is truly an epic journey, this record explores what separates World Series victors from those who come up short. More than 50 current and former Major League Baseball players, managers, and coaches from the last 50 yearsall of whom have World Series championships under their beltsare interviewed, including Jack Morris, Lance Parrish, Kent Hrbek, Jim Kaat, and Dave Winfield. Packed...
3) Barry Bonds
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One of the most spectacular professional baseball players of all time, Barry Bonds has broken more records and achieved more sports goals than any other player in the history of the game, despite never having won a world series. Follow this amazing athlete's life from his childhood as a baseball prodigy to major-league record-breaker.
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To raise it means you've won it, and to win it means you've survived an epic journey fraught with peril and untold adversity. The highly anticipated sequel to Raising Stanley has arrived. Ross Bernstein, the best-selling author of nearly 50 sports books, including The Code, Football's Unwritten Rules and Its Ignore-at-Your-Own-Risk Code of Honor, interviewed more than 100 current and former NFL players and coaches who all had one thing in commonthey...
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Wearing the C insignia on the uniforma badge of honor reserved for team captainsis professional hockeys highest honor, and this study discusses how many of the NHLs all-time greatest players were captains. This exciting new bookan entertaining and enlightening blend of hockey stories and leadership lessonsreveals the secrets of hockeys greatest captains by asking questions such as What does it take to lead a team to championship? What are the keys...
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More than 30 years after its cinematic debut, Slap Shot remains one of the most popular sports movies of all time, and this book is actor Dave Hansons firsthand account of its making. Starring the legendary Paul Newman, the movie was based on the hilarious and outrageous antics of the fictitious Charlestown Chiefs, a tough-as-nails minor league hockey team in the early 1970s. In financial trouble and due to fold at the end of the season, they bring...
