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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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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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In his inimitable anecdotal style, bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Breslin provides a lively portrait of Branch Rickey, the man who in 1947 integrated major league baseball.

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This book charts the progress of integration in basketball, from the first black professional basketball player in 1902 to the modern game. These crucial steps in the history of basketball are placed within the larger context of American history, making this book an essential addition to the literature on sports and race in America.

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Football veteran Les Murray is the face and voice of soccer broadcasting in Australia and is one of our nation's most influential people in sport. Here Les tells of his humble origins as a migrant, through his struggles with life in a country that did not embrace the beautiful game.

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The sportswriter and author of 'A Good Walk Spoiled' provides an inspirational portrait of legendary golf caddy Bruce Edwards, who has been a caddy for Tom Watson since 1973, as he continued the job he loved despite the growing physical limitations of Lou Gehrig's disease.

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For a period of time in the 1970s, the Los Angeles Dodgers versus the Cincinnati Reds was one of the best rivalries in Major League Baseball. This book takes a fresh look at these two powerhouses and the players that made them so pivotal, including Johnny Bench, Steve Garvey, Pete Rose, Joe Morgan, Don Sutton, and Ron Cey.

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This is the first book to look at the closer position from the perspective of 80 accomplished major league players.

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Clough's War is the story of his epic ascent and decline at Derby County, a club he took in a few short years from nowhere to the top English football and teetering on greatness in Europe, before the whole dream came tumbling down in the national spotlight with his acrimonious resignation in 1973.

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Attempts to present John W. Heisman as both man and football coach, and to examine how an indigenous American public ritual, the Big Game, came about. Heisman made many innovative contributions to intercollegiate football, in a time of significant political, economic and social developments.

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Shows how seemingly irrational business decisions, inspired in part by the self-interest of the owners but also by their nostalgia for the game, transformed baseball into the national pastime.