Inside a Season of Triumph and Tumult at Maverick's
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
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
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
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
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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A picture-heavy instruction manual from PGA Hall of Famer Watson that pays particular attention to improving posture and swing.
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