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Michael J Travis
Kansas Baseball

Baseball has long been synonymous with Kansas. Go back to the late 1800s and the birth of Walter Johnson and George Sweatt, Humboldt kids who played baseball at the highest level but in different leagues …

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Kevin Tallec Marston, Mike Cronin
Inventing the Boston Game

"On Boston Common stands a monument dedicated to the Oneida Football Club. It honors the site where, in the 1860s, sixteen boys played what was then called the "Boston game"--an early versi…

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Kevin Tallec Marston, Mike Cronin
Inventing the Boston Game

"On Boston Common stands a monument dedicated to the Oneida Football Club. It honors the site where, in the 1860s, sixteen boys played what was then called the "Boston game"--an early versi…

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Rick Gosselin
The Team That History Forgot

While the Kansas City Chiefs are the NFL's newest dynasty, winning three Super Bowls since 2020, most fans don't recall the team's earliest successful years before decades of futility. What about the unde…

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David Faflik
Segregation Games

A cultural history of race, resistance, and representation in a city divided by politics and playWhen outfielder Bernie Carbo joined the Red Sox in 1974, he brought with him a toy gorilla named Mighty Joe…

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David Faflik
Segregation Games

A cultural history of race, resistance, and representation in a city divided by politics and playWhen outfielder Bernie Carbo joined the Red Sox in 1974, he brought with him a toy gorilla named Mighty Joe…

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Eddy Starr Ancinas
Olympic Valley & Alpine Meadows

Since the 1930s, two valleys nestled amid California's High Sierra peaks have enraptured explorers, skiers and winter sport enthusiasts worldwide.Olympic Valley made a name for itself as the host of the 1…

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Ray Didinger
Look What the Kid Wrote Today

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Nate Bukaty, Rustin Dodd
Soccer City, USA

When the World Cup comes to the United States in the summer of 2026, it will be the first time the tournament has been played in America in 32 years. It will also be the first time the tournament is held …

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Will Bardenwerper
Homestand

"A poignant memoir exploring small town baseball as a lens into what's right and wrong with modern America - written by an acclaimed journalist who went from Princeton to Army Ranger School to Iraq i…

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William C Meadows
The Handgame of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache

"The North American handgame has a long lineage, attested in the myth, oral traditions, and archaeological records of Native American people. In The Handgame of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache: Spiri…

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Christopher Sweet
A History of Bicycling in Illinois

Rediscovering an overlooked linchpin of Illinois manufacturing and social life In the 1890s, the bicycle became a sensation that impacted the whole of society. People flocked to races while Progressive Er…

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Shaun Scott
Heartbreak City

How the city's marginalized communities have historically used sports as a tool for resilience and resistance To cities, sports have never been just entertainment. Progressive urbanites across the United …

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Frank Bures
Pushing the River

Tales of ambition, terror, rivalry, adventure, endurance, friendship, and love on the waters of the Mississippi River and beyond.In this collection, award-winning writer Frank Bures tells true stories as …

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Dylan Taylor-Lehman
Going Rackless

"Chicagoans venture to area pool halls to perfect their games and navigate league play for a shot at the APA World Pool Championships in Las Vegas. Dylan Taylor-Lehman joins a lively cast of characte…

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Don Zminda
Justice Batted Last

"On May 1, 1951, Orestes "Minnie" Minoso took the field for the Chicago White Sox and broke the color line for Chicago major league baseball. Ernie Banks integrated the Chicago Cubs two yea…

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Liza J Nicholas
Bloodlines

Bloodlines: A Story of Horses, Family, and Obsession is a love story--of a mother's love for her husband and a father's love for horses. Combining memoir and social history with a journey into the world o…

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Tom Fucoloro
Biking Uphill in the Rain

Finalist for the 2024 Washington State Book Award in General Nonfiction The rise of an improbable bike culture in the Emerald City Seattle was recently named the best bike city in the United States by Bic…

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Catharine Melin-Moser
When Montana Outraced the East

"The untold history of when Montana horses dominated the eastern thoroughbred racing establishment"--

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Will Sofrin
USCG Cutter Eagle

The story of how the Coast Guard transformed a captured WWII ship into a national symbol and a platform for diplomacyUSCG Cutter Eagle has been an integral part of the United States Coast Guard since her …

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