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Arthur Beetson was the biggest and best player - and personality - of a football era that most rugby league fans over the age of 35 remember fondly, vividly and with great passion. Today, he is a father figure at Easts, and a larrikin raconteur with a million yarns.

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Barry Fry is currently at Peterborough. His journeyman career has taken him to Old Trafford, where as a player he was one of the original Busby Babes, through to football management at Barnet, Southend and Birmingham, among other clubs.

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As a student of life and basketball, as a basketball player and coach, as an African-American, a businessman, a lecturer, and a man, Bill Russell projects the same single image of a man committed to understanding, improvement, and teamwork in the constant pursuit of new and ever-greater heights.

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This volume, the fifth in the Biographical Dictionary of American Sports, provides biographical and bibliographical information on 620 distinguished American sports personalities.

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The sixth volume of the Biographical Dictionary of American Sports, this supplement provides biographies for 616 athletes, coaches, managers, officials, administrators, writers, and broadcasters who have played an active role in American sports or helped to promote them.

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In eleven appendices, the editor provides extensive cross-referencing and listings covering sports halls of fame, sports associations, organizations, and leagues, indoor sporting events, sites of Olympic games, indoor sports periodicals, and other topics.

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The second of four volumes devoted to American sports, this volume presents comprehensive information on college and professional football players, coaches, club executives, league administrators, rule developers, and promoters active in the sport since 1869.

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Each volume contains essays contributed by sports historians, sports writers, journalists, teachers, and publishers. Entries are listed alphabetically within each outdoor sport and cover major individuals from auto racing, golf, harness and thoroughbred racing, lacrosse, skiing, soccer, speed skating, tennis, and track and field.

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This insightful collection documents Latinos in baseball from an interdisciplinary perspective.

From the late, great Roberto Clemente, to Giants legend Juan Marichal to Pedro Martinez, Manny Ramirez, Sammy Sosa, Alex Rodriguez, the Alou brothers, and many, many more, Latinos continue to make their mark on baseball.

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Sandy Koufax, the Robinson Boys and the 1966 World Series that stunned America

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It is one of Australia's most iconic images. On 17 April 1993, the Indigenous AFL footballer Nicky Winmar stood up against racial abuse and made history. Facing the Collingwood crowd that had taunted him all day the St Kilda player pulled up his shirt, pointed to his chest and declared: 'I'm black and I'm proud to be black'.

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Tells about Shane Weaver who survived a terrifying childhood. He became an angry young man who channeled his rage into boxing, going on to become an Australian champion. Haunted by his past, he embraced alcohol and drugs with terrifying intensity, teetering on the edge of the criminal and violent world in which he grew up.

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Covers a range of techniques and skills needed when constructing a boat, from interpreting the plans to hints on working different timbers. The author answers many of those puzzling questions, which need to be solved in a clear manner. This book is a useful reference to the home builder or a newly trained apprentice in a fitting out yard.

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Bob Rose was a hard footballer, a great man, a battler who knew extraordinary personal hardship, but above all he was a man of inspiring courage and dignity. This is the story of his life.

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A completely revised and updated edition of the autobiography of cricketing legend Ian Botham, including his first-hand insight into the 1999/2000 winter tour to South Africa.

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One hundred portraits of the cricketing characters whom Ian Botham has come across in his eventful career and who have influenced the game for good in his time: from top players, umpires and coaches to pop stars, writers and philanthropists.

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This book presents a sweeping view of boxing in the United States and the influence of the sport on American culture.