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  • 100 Things Braves Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

    by Jack Wilkinson ...
    Series series 100 Things...Fans Should Know
    Most Atlanta Braves fans have taken in games at both Turner Field and SunTrust Park, have fond memories of the team's pitching dominance in the '90s, and proudly watched Chipper Jones get inducted into the Hall of Fame. But only real fans have traveled to Florida to watch the Fire Frogs, can recall all 14 of the franchise s no-hitters, and can tell you the only man to play for the Boston, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Of Mikes and Men

    A Lifetime of Braves Baseball

    by Pete Van Wieren, Jack Wilkinson ...
    As a boy growing up in upstate New York, Pete Van Wieren dreamed of becoming the play-by-play voice of his hometown heroes, the Triple A Rochester Red Wings. Instead, he found big-league broadcast heaven in Atlanta. In 1976, Van Wieren and another young broadcaster named Skip Caray, son of the legendary Harry Caray, were hired to call Atlanta Braves games. Over the next three decades, they were ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Of Mikes and Men

    A Lifetime of Braves Baseball

    by Pete Van Wieren, Jack Wilkinson ...
    As a boy growing up in upstate New York, Pete Van Wieren dreamed of becoming the play-by-play voice of his hometown heroes, the Triple A Rochester Red Wings. Instead, he found big-league broadcast heaven in Atlanta. In 1976, Van Wieren and another young broadcaster named Skip Caray, son of the legendary Harry Caray, were hired to call Atlanta Braves games. Over the next three decades, they were ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tales from the Georgia Tech Sideline

    A Collection of the Greatest Yellow Jacket Stories Ever Told

    by Kim King ...
    Series series Tales from the Team
    In this reissue of Tales from the Georgia Tech Sideline, former quarterback Kim King shares stories from his unique half-century involvement with Yellow Jackets football. As a child growing up in Atlanta, King watched Coach Bobby Dodd’s great Tech teams of the 1950s play in historic Grant Field. A highly recruited high school quarterback, King went to Tech and became the star quarterback from ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Game of My Life Atlanta Braves

    Memorable Stories of Braves Baseball

    by Jack Wilkinson ...
    Series series Game of My Life
    Theirs was a prolonged run of excellence like none other in sports history. From 1991 through 2005, the Atlanta Braves won fourteen consecutive division championships, a streak no team in professional sports has ever come close to approaching. Beginning with the unexpected worst-to-first miracle of 1991, the Braves commenced an era of sustained dominance that Major League Baseball never saw coming ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • College Sports Traditions

    Picking Up Butch, Silent Night, and Hundreds of Others

    by Stan Beck, Jack Wilkinson ...
    Every year since 1961, football and basketball players at Middlebury College in Vermont pick up their wheelchair-bound fan, Butch, and bring him to the stadium sidelines to watch their games. At John Brown University, the volleyball team distributes candy to fans before each match. For years, fans attending a University of Maryland football game rubbed the bronze statue of their terrapin mascot, ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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    The Life and Troubled Times of Major League Baseball

    by John Feinstein ...
    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Season Inside presents a thoroughly entertaining and deeply reflective examination of America’s greatest sport: baseball.What makes baseball what it is—the good as well as the bad? Who are the game’s heroes, and who its villains? What roles do managers play, and umpires and announcers and mascots and the media? What is the game’s future?To answer these ... Read more

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  • The Grandest Stage

    A History of the World Series

    by Tyler Kepner ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches comes the ultimate history of the World Series—a vivid portrait of baseball at its finest and most intense, filled with humor, lore, analysis, and fascinating behind-the-scenes stories from 117 years of the Fall Classic.The World Series is the most enduring showcase in American team sports. It’s the place where ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Ten Innings at Wrigley

    The Wildest Ballgame Ever, with Baseball on the Brink

    by Kevin Cook ...
    The dramatic story of a legendary 1979 slugfest between the Chicago Cubs and the Philadelphia Phillies, full of runs, hits, and subplots, on the cusp of a new era in baseball historyIt was a Thursday at Chicago's Wrigley Field, mostly sunny with the wind blowing out. Nobody expected an afternoon game between the Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago Cubs on May 17, 1979, to be much more than a lazy ... Read more

    Was $19.99 CAD Now $2.99 CAD

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  • If These Walls Could Talk: Dallas Cowboys

    Stories from the Dallas Cowboys Sideline, Locker Room, and Press Box

    by Nick Eatman ...
    Series series If These Walls Could Talk
    Known simply as "America's Team," the Dallas Cowboys are one of football's most storied franchises and always begin each season with a legitimate chance to add another Super Bowl title to their existing five. Author and Cowboys employee Nick Eatman, through interviews with current and past players, provides fans with a one-of-a-kind, insider's look into the great moments and the lowlights ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Center Field on Fire

    An Umpire's Life with Pine tar Bats, Spitballs, and Corked Personalities

    by Dave Phillips, Rob Rains ...
    Former MLB umpire Dave Phillips was at the center of some of baseball's most unforgettable moments—Comiskey's infamous Disco Demolition Night, Gaylord Perry's spitball ejection, Albert Belle's confiscated corked bat and George Brett's pine tar bat debacle—and he shares with baseball fans the untold stories behind those incidents and many others, giving baseball fans a complete perspective on the ... Read more

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  • The Football 100

    by The Athletic ...
    Series Book 1 - Sports series
    A masterful ode to America’s game—and an unforgettable portrait of its greatest legends written by America’s best sportswriters.It is a question that has bedeviled football fans for generations: Who’s the best? Of the more than 25,000 men who have suited up during the NFL’s century of existence, which ones stood head and shoulders above all others?At The Athletic, home to the best newsroom in ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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