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Irish travellers live in a closed community. What we think we know about them is based on hearsay, rumour and stereotype. But not any more.

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The first full biography of the rugby legend and World War II hero.

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This readable biography of Lance Armstrong surveys his legendary cycling career as well as the details of his life outside of cycling.

The son of a single mother and born in a run-down housing project, American athlete Lance Armstrong emerged from decidedly modest beginnings.

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African Americans and Latino Americans have played an increasingly significant role in the ongoing saga of American sportsand not just in popular sports like basketball and baseball.

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This book details the lives and careers of four sports-writing greatsGrantland Rice, Red Smith, Shirley Povich, and W. C. Heinzand the legendary athletes and events they covered for decades. These men all wrote during what is often considered sports Golden Age, lifting sports reporting to heights that it is unlikely to reach again.

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America's favourite sportswriter teams up with Red Auerbach, the most successful and admired coach in basketball history, to tell the best stories of a legendary life.

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Ernie Banks was the first African American to play for the Cubs, and he quickly became one of the best players in baseball. His brilliance on the field made him a Hall of Famer, but it was his boundless optimism that made him an icon. This book presents for the first time a complete portrait of the ballplayer, the public persona, and the man.

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A searching and at times harrowing re-appraisal of the life of Evel Knievel, the seventies American icon and the greatest daredevil motorcyclist that ever lived. Now fully updated in paperback with the story of the last few years of his life and his death in 2007.

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It offers the best psychological insight so far from his earliest roots to his greatest triumphs into the man given the task of returning the glory days to Manchester United.

**New chapter on Louis van Gaal's first season with Manchester United**

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Lyman Bostock was a professional baseball player for the Minnesota Twins and the California Angels in the 1970s. Many believed he was good enough to win multiple batting titles, yet his murder meant it would never come to be. This book tells the story of Bostocks humble beginnings, his too-brief baseball career, and his tragic death.

An intimate, inspirational biography about Australian Football's greatest coach of the modern era, written by his daughter.

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SHORTLISTED FOR RUGBY BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS

'When I came into the Ulster team,' Stephen Ferris says with typical candour, 'we were crap'. It was, however, preferable to his day job of paving driveways, and that day in 2005 saw the start of an incredible journey for Ferris, Ulster and Ireland rugby.

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Martin O'Neill is one of the most brilliant, successful and intriguing of the new manager/coaches to emerge from British football. This biography provides an account of his first few months in charge at Aston Villa and deals with various aspects of his life and remarkable career from the early days as a player in Northern Ireland onwards.

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A autobiography sports book about my soccer career and life at Luton town Football club in England, United Kingdom.

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Michael Owen reveals the highlights and pitfalls of being a professional footballer in his first official autobiography, which contains his personal reflections on eight years in the game, including two World Cups, two European Championships and goalscoring records for club and country. Updated to include his first full season with Real Madrid.

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How Larry Linkogle became the daredevil star he is, and how he almost crashed and burned.