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'And Then Jack Said to Arnie...': A Collection of the Greatest True Golf Stories of All Time

By: Don Wade

Price: $9.98

Publisher: McGraw-Hill: September 1992

Seller ID: 253486

ISBN: 0809239361

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Gathers together over 250 stories about the colorful characters and legendary places in the world of golf.
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(Sick): A Cultural History of Snowboarding

By: Howe, Susanna

Price: $8.98

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin: January 1998

Seller ID: 293930

ISBN: 0312170262

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Susanna Howe traces the development of snowboarding from its roots beginning with those snow-revolutionaries that got the sport off the ground, right through the very best in the world today. It is the skill and expertise of those around the world who are the finest in the sport that got snowboarding its proper recognition and respect necessary for its inclusion as a full medal sport in Nagano. Ms. Howe also examines the fashion trends the sport has created, along with the various styles of snowboarding necessary, depending on the geographical location you're in throughout the U.S.
This is...
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138,336 Feet to Pure Bliss: What I Learned about Life, Women (and Running) in My 1st 100 Marathons

By: Dane Rauschenberg

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Bush Street Press: April 2012

Seller ID: 239597

ISBN: 1937445240

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Dane Rauschenberg is an extreme athlete who made his mark on the running world as the man who ran 52 marathons in 52 consecutive weekends. As an extreme athlete who has also run a 202-mile relay solo and completed a 350-mile run up the coast of Oregon, he doesn't just know running, he has explored it to the deepest reaches of its mental, physical and emotional boundaries. In 138,336 Feet to Pure bliss, Dane chronicles his first 100 marathons and details some of the premier races in marathon history, all while sharing knowledge he gained about life women and running. Along the way, he charts th...
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A Disorderly Compendium of Golf

By: Jeff Neuman, Lorne Rubenstein

Price: $13.95

Publisher: Workman Publishing Company: April 2006

Seller ID: 76875

ISBN: 0761140840

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

The obsessive book about the obsessive game, and more fun to read than a green at Ballybunion. Written by two authors who have misspent their lives in thrall to the sport, A DISORDERLY COMPENDIUM OF GOLF digs into the odd, the fascinating, the historical, the random, the unexpected, and the curmudgeonly, and serves up hundreds of pages of lists, anecdotes, humor, surprises, and the sheer compelling minutiae of a game whose pleasure lies in the details.

It's all here, including history: oldest courses, top 5 money-winners at 10-year intervals, the importance of James II of Scotland. Colorfu...
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A Disorderly Compendium of Golf

By: Jeff Neuman, Lorne Rubenstein

Price: $13.95

Publisher: Workman Publishing Company: April 2006

Seller ID: 80782

ISBN: 0761140840

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

It's all here, including history: oldest courses, top 5 money-winners at 10-year intervals, the importance of James II of Scotland. Colorfu...
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A Good Walk Spoiled : Days and Nights on the PGA Tour

By: John Feinstein

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Little, Brown: May 1996

Seller ID: 253487

ISBN: 0316277371

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A study of men's professional golf follows a year on the PGA tour, sharing portraits of superstars and rising players, the pressures of a high-profile sport, and dramatic tournament moments.
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After the Applause: Ten NHL Greats and Their Lives After Hockey

By: Gordie Howe,Charles Wilkins,Colleen Howe

Price: $5.95

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart: October 1990

Seller ID: 229300

ISBN: 0771042272

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: New - New

America's National Game

By: A. G. Spaulding, A. G. Spalding

Price: $44.98

Publisher: J. C. Fawcett & A. L., Incorporated: April 1991

Seller ID: 142264

ISBN: 0941567192

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

At The Fights: American Writers on Boxing

By: N/A

Price: $16.98

Publisher: Library of America: March 2011

Seller ID: 154847

ISBN: 1598530925

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

American writers have been fascinated by the ring, both the primal contest inside the ropes and the crazy carnival world outside them. From neighborhood gyms and smoke-filled arenas to star-studded casinos and exotic locales, they have chronicled unforgettable stories about determination and dissipation, about great champions and punch-drunk has-beens, about colorful entourages and outrageous promoters, and, inevitably along the way, about race, class, and violence in America. Like baseball, boxing has a vivid culture and language all its own, one that has proven irresistible to career journal...
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At The Fights: American Writers on Boxing

By: N/A

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Library of America: March 2011

Seller ID: 235719

ISBN: 1598530925

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Athletic Development: The Art & Science of Functional Sports Conditioning

By: Vernon A Gambetta

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Human Kinetics: November 2006

Seller ID: 228061

ISBN: 0736051007

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Athletic Development offers a rare opportunity to learn and apply a career full of knowledge from the best. World-renowned strength and conditioning coach Vern Gambetta condenses the wisdom he's gained through more than 40 years of experience of working with athletes across sports, age groups, and levels of competition, including members of the Chicago White Sox, New York Mets, and U.S. men's 1998 World Cup soccer team.

The result is an information-packed, myth-busting explanation of the most effective methods and prescriptions in each facet of an athlete's physical prepar...
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Bait-Rod Casting: Techniques, Lures, Tackle

By: Leonard, J. Edson

Price: $5.98

Publisher: A. S. Barnes and Company: January 1953

Seller ID: 272939

ISBN: B0021OTM3O

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Basic EssentialsÂ® Archery (Basic Essentials Series)

By: Beth Habeishi,Stephanie Mallory

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Falcon Guides: December 2003

Seller ID: 238135

ISBN: 0762730455

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

For a generation, the Basic Essentials series has been as much a part of the outdoors experience as backpacks and hiking boots. Information-packed tools for the novice or handy references for the veteran, these volumes distill years of knowledge into affordable and portable books. Whether readers are planning a trip or thumbing for facts in the field, these books tell them what they need to know. In Basic Essentials Archery readers will learn the history of the sport, essentials of archery equipment and gear, safety, technique, equipment care and maintenance, target shooting, and competition. ...
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Bicycle Diaries

By: Byrne, David

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: September 2010

Seller ID: 290860

ISBN: 0143117963

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A round-the-world bicycle tour with one of the most original artists of our day.

Urban bicycling has become more popular than ever as recession-strapped, climate-conscious city dwellers reinvent basic transportation. In this wide-ranging memoir, artist/musician and co-founder of Talking Heads David Byrne--who has relied on a bike to get around New York City since the early 1980s--relates his adventures as he pedals through and engages with some of the world's major cities. From Buenos Aires to Berlin, he meets a range of people both famous and ordinary, shares his thoughts on ar...
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Catcher Was a Spy : The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

By: DAWIDOFF, NICHOLAS

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Random House Inc: June 1995

Seller ID: 288965

ISBN: 0679762892

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Now a major motion picture starring Paul Rudd

"A delightful book that recounts one of the strangest episodes in the history of espionage. . . . . Relentlessly entertaining."--The New York Times Book Review

Moe Berg is the only major-league baseball player whose baseball card is on display at the headquarters of the CIA. For Berg was much more than a third-string catcher who played on several major league teams between 1923 and 1939. Educated at Princeton and the Sorbonne, he as reputed to speak a dozen languages (although it was also said he ...
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Chalked Up: Inside Elite Gymnastics' Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams

By: Jennifer Sey

Price: $5.95

Publisher: William Morrow: April 2008

Seller ID: 204329

ISBN: 0061351466

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The true story of the 1986 U.S. National Gymnastics champion whose lifelong dream was to compete in the Olympics, until anorexia, injuries, and coaching abuses nearly destroyed her

Fanciful dreams of gold medals and Nadia Comaneci led Jennifer Sey to become a gymnast at the age of six. She was a natural at the sport, and her early success propelled her family to sacrifice everything to help her become, by age eleven, one of America's elite, competing at prestigious events worldwide alongside such future gymnastics' luminaries as Mary Lou Retton.

But as she set her sights higher ...
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ChiRunning: A Revolutionary Approach to Effortless, Injury-Free Running

By: Danny Dreyer, Katherine Dreyer

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Fireside: May 2009

Seller ID: 247703

ISBN: 1416549447

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The revised edition of the bestselling ChiRunning, a groundbreaking program from ultra-marathoner and nationally-known coach Danny Dreyer, that teaches you how to run faster and farther with less effort, and to prevent and heal injuries for runners of any age or fitness level.

In ChiRunning, Danny and Katherine Dreyer, well-known walking and running coaches, provide powerful insight that transforms running from a high-injury sport to a body-friendly, injury-free fitness phenomenon. ChiRunning employs the deep power reserves in the core muscles, an approach found in disciplin...
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Coaching Youth Softball

By: N/A

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Human Kinetics: February 2001

Seller ID: 257865

ISBN: 0736037179

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Light reading wear.
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Collecting Sports Legends: The Ultimate Hobby Guide

By: Joe Orlando

Price: $12.98

Publisher: Zyrus Press: December 2008

Seller ID: 268640

ISBN: 193399021X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

This comprehensive guide takes the reader on a historical journey, providing an in-depth look at the icons of sport, captured through their greatest collectibles. Never before has one book covered such a variety of hobby subjects. For those interested in building a fine collection of sports memorabilia, from baseball cards to autographs to game-used bats, each subject is covered in great detail. Hardcore collectors and avid sports fan alike will learn how to assemble a world-class collection; from Babe Ruth to Tiger Woods, from Wilt Chamberlain to Joe Namath, every major sport is covered.
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Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History

By: Murphy, Cait

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Smithsonian: March 2007

Seller ID: 292748

ISBN: 0060889373

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

From the perspective of 2007, the unintentional irony of Chance's boast is manifest--these days, the question is when will the Cubs ever win a game they have to have. In October 1908, though, no one would have laughed: The Cubs were, without doubt, baseball's greatest team--the first dynasty of the 20th century.

Crazy '08 recounts the 1908 season--the year when Peerless Leader Frank Chance's men went toe to toe to toe with John McGraw and Christy Mathewson's New York Giants and Honus Wagner's Pittsburgh Pirates in the greatest pennant race the National League has ever seen. T...
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Currituck Memories and Adventures: More Tales from a Native Gunner

By: Travis Morris

Price: $7.98

Publisher: The History Press: August 2007

Seller ID: 197756

ISBN: 1596293055

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Currituck County, North Carolina, is famed as a place where hunters count down every hour until the opening of duck season. Land of the hunter, farmer and fisherman?all terms that have defined author Travis Morris Currituck is the well-loved home and stage to this latest collection of hunting and fishing exploits. Currituck native Travis Morris returns with a follow-up to the best-selling Duck Hunting on Currituck Sound with more tales of hunting, fishing and adventure. Complete with humorous stories of boyhood on the sound and a whole new collection of fishing and hunting expeditions, this bo...
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Da Bears!: How the 1985 Monsters of the Midway Became the Greatest Team in NFL History

By: Steve Delsohn

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Three Rivers Press: September 2011

Seller ID: 269546

ISBN: 0307464687

Condition: New - New

An acclaimed sports journalist and native Chicagoan tackles what many call the greatest team in NFL history. Da Bears tells the full story of the '85 legends--with all the contro-versy and excitement--on the field and off.

It's been 25 years since the Chicago Bears won Super Bowl XX with what Bill Parcells called "the best de-fensive team I've ever seen" and an offense surprisingly good for a franchise where offense was often a dirty word. Now, for the first time, an incredibly candid book takes you through all the games and behind the scenes--into the huddles, the locker ro...
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Dispatches from the Sporting Life

By: Mordecai Richler

Price: $5.95

Publisher: The Lyons Press: May 2002

Seller ID: 166465

ISBN: 1585743232

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Between such novels as The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, St. Urbain's Horseman, and Barney's Version, Mordecai Richler pursued his obsession with sports -- and he wrote brilliantly about such sports as ice hockey, baseball, salmon fishing, bodybuilding, and wrestling. His essays and articles appeared in such prominent and diverse places as GQ, Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Inside Sports, Commentary, and The New York Review of Books.

Richler spent time with Pete Rose, Wayne Gretzky, and Gordie Howe (when a reporter asked Gordie's then eighty-year-old father if he was still interest...
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DK Complete Sailing Manual

By: Steve Sleight

Price: $5.95

Publisher: DK ADULT: September 1999

Seller ID: 268235

ISBN: 0789446065

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

This resourceful manual provides concise, step-by-step and safety-minded instructions that cover all facets of sailing.
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Dogleg Madness

By: Mike Bryan

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press: January 1994

Seller ID: 7402

ISBN: 087113330X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

In a series of essays celebrating golf, the author takes readers from the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills to the Ozona Country Club's Invitational in the West Texas flatlands and offers lively discussions of pro tour golfing.
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Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series (The Black Sox & the 1919 World Series)

By: Asinof, Eliot

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co (P): April 1988

Seller ID: 286076

ISBN: 0805003460

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Recounts the fixing of the 1919 World Series, covering events from the first meetings between White Sox players and gamblers to the 1921 trial and its aftermath.
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Every Day is Game Day

By: Fran Tarkenton,Jim Bruton

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Triumph Books: September 2009

Seller ID: 226605

ISBN: 1600782531

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

clean copy, dj included, some wear from use
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Everything They Had: Sports Writing from David Halberstam

By: David Halberstam

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Hyperion: May 2008

Seller ID: 253802

ISBN: 140132312X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

"Sometimes sports mirrors society, sometimes it allows us to understand the larger society a little better. But mostly, it is a world of entertainment of talented and driven young men and women who do certain things with both skill and passion."
--David Halberstam

David Halberstam was a distinguished journalist and historian of American politics. He was also a sports writer. Everything They Had brings together for the first time his articles from newspapers and magazines, a wide-ranging collection edited by Glenn Stout, selected over the full scope of Halberstam's five deca...
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Fair Ball: A Fan's Case for Baseball

By: Bob Costas

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Broadway: April 2000

Seller ID: 244901

ISBN: 0767904656

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Five O'Clock Lightning: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and the Greatest Baseball Team in History, The 1927 New York Yankees

By: Frommer, Harvey

Price: $17.98

Publisher: Wiley: October 2007

Seller ID: 287498

ISBN: 0471778125

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Advance Praise for Five O'Clock Lightning

"Come along with Harvey Frommer on a jaunty stroll through baseball eighty years ago. The 1927 Yankees may or may not have been the best team ever, but surely this is the best book about that wonderful concentration of talent."
--George F. Will

"Harvey Frommer brings the perceptive eye of a historian to what was arguably the most feared batting order of all time. Add to that his contagious enthusiasm for classic baseball and you have a most enjoyable book."
--Roger Kahn

"An engrossing and entertaining ...
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Five O'Clock Lightning: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and the Greatest Baseball Team in History, The 1927 New York Yankees

By: Frommer, Harvey

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Wiley: October 2007

Seller ID: 290852

ISBN: 0471778125

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Floyd Patterson: The Fighting Life of Boxingâ€™s Invisible Champion

By: W. K. Stratton

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: July 2012

Seller ID: 252285

ISBN: 0151014302

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

"A well-researched and overdue tribute. Like one of Patterson's reliable left hooks, Stratton sharply recounts the life of an important, but often forgotten, two-time world heavyweight champion." -- Gary Andrew Poole, author of PacMan: Behind the Scenes with Manny Pacquiao

In 1956, Floyd Patterson became, at age twenty-one, the youngest boxer to claim the title of world heavyweight champion. Later, he was the first ever to lose and regain that honor.

Here, the acclaimed author W. K. Stratton chronicles the life of "the Gentle Gladiator" -- an athlete overshadowed by Ali's the...
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Fly Fishing California's Great Waters

By: Dan Blanton

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Frank Amato Publications: July 2003

Seller ID: 12865

ISBN: 1571882898

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Dan Blanton, one of the pioneers of saltwater fly-fishing, shares his top destinations in California, and how best to fish them. All Color.
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Fly Fishing: Simple to Sophisticated

By: Kyte, Al

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Leisure Pr: July 1987

Seller ID: 272867

ISBN: 0880112859

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Packed with time-tested techniques and photographs, this handy guide is sure to help beginners and seasoned veterans alike hook the big one
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Football Delirium

By: Chris Oakley

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Karnac Books: December 2007

Seller ID: 33566

ISBN: 1855754789

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

It would appear that soccer (football) has claws, for the world as we know it is possessed. For many what is in play is seizure, rapture, demonic possession, frenzy, delirium, in more or less manageable doses. Although of course, just as the effects of the psychoanalytic tie are hardly containable to the classical fifty minute "hour," nor are these football passions bounded by the standard ninety minutes of any particular game.

This book argues that soccer offers us the possibility of manageable doses of self-elected madness--a madness that is essential for a sane life. For the para...
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Funny (but true) Golf Anecdotes: about Tiger, Phil, Bubba, Rory, Rickie, Jack, Arnie, and all the rest.

By: Dick Crouser

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Running Press Adult: April 2012

Seller ID: 249479

ISBN: 1451670761

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

An Entertaining Gift of Golf Humor-- In this collection of over 175 golf anecdotes, you'll find entertaining stories about Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Ernie Els, Jim Furyk, Bubba Watson, Rory McIlroy, Rickie Fowler, David Feherty, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Ben Hogan, Sam Snead, Bobby Jones, and their friends. You'll enjoy sharing them with your golfing partners on the putting green or at the 19th hole

Galloway's Book on Running

By: Jeff Galloway

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Shelter Pubns: October 1984

Seller ID: 253333

ISBN: 093607003x

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Olympic runner Jeff Galloway explains his secrets for running well, discusses his revolutionary ideas on stress and rest, and shows how the training principles of elite runners apply to runners of all levels.
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Galloway's Book on Running (New and Revised)

By: Galloway, Jeff

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Shelter: January 1984

Seller ID: 293826

ISBN: 0394727096

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A world-class athlete and coach offers his own training techniques, plus tips preventing sports injuries, eating properly, choosing equipment, and advice female runners.
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Game Face: What Does a Female Athlete Look Like?

By: Jane Gottesman,Penny Marshall

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Random House: June 2001

Seller ID: 263332

ISBN: 0375506020

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Combines more than 175 photographs with personal stories, chronicling the dynamic growth of female sports and the impact of athletics on a woman's sense of self and her role in society.
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Gator: My Life in Pinstripes

By: Ron Guidry,Andrew Beaton

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Crown Archetype: March 2018

Seller ID: 263023

ISBN: 0451499301

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Legendary New York Yankees pitcher Ron Guidry recounts his years playing for one of the most storied and celebrated teams in sports history--the world champion New York Yankees during their heyday in the Bronx Zoo years, with manic manager Billy Martin, headline loving owner George Steinbrenner, and an ego-driven all-star cast that included everyone from slugger Reggie Jackson and All star catcher Thurman Munson to Cy Young Award winners Sparky Lyle and Catfish Hunter.

Ron Guidry, known as Gator and Louisiana Lightning to his teammates, quickly rose in 1977 to become the ace ...
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