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Inside a Season of Triumph and Tumult at Maverick's
Pub Date: Sep 6, 2011
ESPN: The Magazine sportswriter Kreidler (Six Good Innings: How One Small Town Became a Little League Giant, 2008, etc.) goes inside the sport and business of big-wave surfing, covering the 2010 Maverick's Surf Contest on the coast of Northern California.
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A Middle-Handicapper's Year in America's Garden of Golf
Pub Date: Jun 1, 2011
A golfer's unabashed love letter to one of the world's most spectacular courses.
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A True Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and the Birth of the Indy 500
Pub Date: May 10, 2011
On the centennial of the Indy 500, controversy still reigns over who won the inaugural race, as this lively account of a tumultuous event makes plain.
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The High-Flying Life of Evel Knievel: An American Showman, Daredevil, and Legend
Pub Date: May 3, 2011
Inside the life and entertainment career of America's greatest daredevil, who lived "as if his pants were on fire."
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Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game
Pub Date: Apr 12, 2011
New York Times columnist Barry (City Lights: Stories About New York, 2007, etc.) delivers an all-angle take on the longest, and surely the strangest, game in baseball history.
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Pub Date: Mar 29, 2011
A picture-heavy instruction manual from PGA Hall of Famer Watson that pays particular attention to improving posture and swing.
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