Catálogo de libros: Acontecimientos deportivos y su gestión

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  • The Boxing Kings
    Paul Beston
    For much of the twentieth century, boxing was one of America’s most popular sports. This book details the illustrious history of the heavyweight title in the days when Americans reigned supreme and tells the stories of legendary champions such as John L. Sullivan, Jack Johnson, Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, and Muhammad Ali. ...
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    34,50 €

  • The Digital World of Sport
    Sam Duncan
    The book analyses how new media, and in particular, digital and social media, has changed the world of sports forever, from its pivotal role in the evolution of the sports industry and its trailblazing impact on the broader media industry. ...
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    180,50 €

  • The Damned City
    Chris Murray
    MARCHING ON TOGETHER…But it’s a battle for Leeds City to survive.1912 – the legendary Herbert Chapman joins Leeds City as manager.His mission: to turn Leeds City into a footballing force.One of his first signings is youngster Jimmy Jack, recruited from the local leagues.All looks good. Until 1914, and the outbreak of World War 1.The war has a massive effect on the destiny of Le...
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    23,06 €

  • Masked Marvel to the Rescue
    Ken Zimmerman Jr.
    The Gimmick That Saved the 1915 International Wrestling TournamentWhen Frank Gotch retired as World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion in 1913, it left a void that many promoters tried to fill with their hand-picked successors. One of the more interesting attempts was Samuel Rachmann staging the 1915 New York International Wrestling Tournament.Rachmann’s Spring Tournament was a big...
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    15,45 €

  • The Man Who Created Merseyside Football
    David Kennedy
    A fascinating and insightful look into the formative years of professional football in England. This biography of John Holding, founding father of both Everton and Liverpool football clubs, examines his legacy in the game and breaks new ground by addressing the important role of club ownership in the early days of professional football. ...
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    17,72 €

  • Hurrah for the Squares Entwinéd
    John E Turner
    Blackheath Harriers (now Blackheath & Bromley Harriers AC) was founded in 1869, making it one of the oldest running clubs in the world. It’s Club magazine,the Gazette, was first produced in 1898. John E Turner has pieced together extracts from the first 50 years, 1898-1948, and served up a fascinating and entertaining slice of not just Club history but also social history. ...
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    21,11 €

  • The Coach Who Strangled the Bulldog
    Dick Friedman
    This is the biography of Percy Haughton, college football’s first modern coach. A true innovator, Haughton systematized the game in the early 1900s when it changed from a plodding push-and-pull affair to a wide-open game utilizing passing and speed. In nine seasons at Harvard, Haughton’s squads went 71-7-5 and were national champions three times. ...
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    17,24 €

  • Keane
    Eoin O’Callaghan
    In the late 1980s a pint-sized teenager was making his mark at Rockmount AFC, but no one predicted that he would go on to become one of the most famous players in the world. This is the story of Roy Keane’s rise to greatness, from those early days in Cork, and with Cobh Ramblers, to his time at Nottingham Forest under the charismatic, but eccentric Brian Clough, who recognised ...
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    23,57 €

  • Martinsville Sports Highlights
    Curtis H. Tomak / Curtis HTomak
    This book focuses on selected Martinsville High School (Indiana) basketball teams, former Martinsville high schools, former high school gymnasiums, and Martinsville-associated people who have been inducted into an Indiana sports hall of fame at least at the state level. A great effort was made to provide accurate information based upon interviews and a multitude of official and...
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    15,04 €

  • The Adventures of Millsport
    Jim Millman
    'The Adventures of Millsport' charts the growth and development of one of the most highly respected sports marketing agencies in business history. Launched as a 2-person agency in 1975, Millsport grew to service and represent many of the premier US and global brand marketing leaders, including Visa, Pepsi, GTE, the NFL and NBC Sports. Its success was exemplified by the establis...
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    27,22 €

  • The Adventures of Millsport
    Jim Millman
    'The Adventures of Millsport' charts the growth and development of one of the most highly respected sports marketing agencies in business history. Launched as a 2-person agency in 1975, Millsport grew to service and represent many of the premier US and global brand marketing leaders, including Visa, Pepsi, GTE, the NFL and NBC Sports. Its success was exemplified by the establis...
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    16,19 €

  • 'They say I’m not a girl'
    Max Dohle
    In July 1950, a young Dutch intersex woman was expelled from elite competition by the International Amateur Athletic Federation. It turned out to be the beginning of a dark era in the history of women in sport. Young women were subjected to humiliating examinations and dozens of intersex athletes were suspended, although no fraud was ever uncovered. This book presents a co...
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    57,66 €

  • Throw Like a Girl, Cheer Like a Boy
    Robyn Ryle
    This book uses the world of sports in order to reveal the complicated history of gender, sexuality, race, and social justice while connecting those stories to today’s athletes. It highlights the ways sports often contribute to inequalities, but also how they can help make the world more accepting. ...
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    36,68 €

  • The Night the Referee Hit Back
    Mike Silver
    This book is a collection of twenty-eight of the best articles on boxing by renowned boxing historian Mike Silver, looking back at some of the sport’s most iconic moments. The essays are a colorful mix of hard-hitting exposes and light-hearted stories featuring legendary boxers Sugar Ray Robinson, Rocky Marciano, Muhammad Ali, and more. ...
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    44,63 €

  • Soccer under the Swastika
    Kevin E. Simpson / Kevin ESimpson
    This book reveals the surprising role soccer played during World War II. It uncovers many survivor testimonies and old accounts of wartime players, revealing hidden stories of soccer in almost every Nazi concentration camp. To these prisoners, soccer was a glimmer of joy amid hunger and torture, and a show of resistance against the Nazi regime. ...
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    34,84 €

  • Association Football
    John Cameron
    This book contains a detailed guide to the history, tactics, positions, and the contemporary state of football written by one of its earliest celebrities, John Cameron. Contents include: “Full-Back Play”, “The Middle Lineard Play”, “Training”, “Hints to Juniors”, “Captaincy”, “Refereeing”, “Football as a Profession”, “Continental Football”, “Football Reform”, “Present Day Footb...
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    17,61 €

  • Scottish Football
    David Drummond Bone
    “Scottish Football - Reminiscences and Sketches” is a 1890 work by David William Bone. It contains an account of significant Scottish football teams, matches, managers, and more from the late nineteenth century, as well as general information about the contemporary state of the game and its history. Highly recommended for those with an interest in Scottish football and its humb...
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    21,27 €

  • The Idea of Sport in Western Culture from Antiquity to the Contemporary Era
    Saverio Battente
    In “The Idea of Sport in Western Culture from Antiquity to the Contemporary Era,” Dr Saverio Battente examines the concept of sport as an element of Western culture. Sport has aided in structuring the collective identities that underpin individual civilisations in the West, and, far from being a merely marginal phenomenon, it has in fact been an essential feature of Western civ...
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    59,72 €

  • Kooks and Degenerates on Ice
    Thomas J. Whalen / Thomas JWhalen
    This book celebrates the 1969-70 Boston Bruins. While the country seethed from racial violence, war, and mass shootings, the “Big, Bad Bruins,” led by the legendary Bobby Orr, brushed off their perennial losing ways to advance to the playoffs and defeat the St. Louis Blues in the Stanley Cup Finals for their first championship in 29 years. ...
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    47,54 €

  • Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?
    Ben Hunt-Davis / Harriet Beveridge
     With its winning mix of gripping narrative and easy-to-implement performance-raising tips, this book has become a best-selling classic. It’s garnered 5-star reviews and wide-ranging endorsements – from Sebastian Coe and Dame Kelly Holmes to Lord Digby Jones. The book tells the inspiring story of how Ben Hunt-Davis - an ordinary guy in an ordinary team – achieved something pret...
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    32,55 €

  • How To Fence
    Christine Tanner / HowExpert
    This guide, “Engaging in the sport of fencing” will allow anyone the knowledge they need to know to begin a new hobby in fencing. Including pictures of samples such as footwork, weapons and strategies this guide could help the beginning fencer with techniques and more. This guide can also give the person who would love to try a new hobby a glimpse into the benefits of a sport t...
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    37,11 €

  • The 1960s in Sports
    Miles Coverdale Jr.
    This book includes the most significant sporting events of the 1960s, covering all the moments that generated tremendous growth in professional and college sports in America during this decade. It features stories such as Roger Maris breaking the home run record, Muhammad Ali’s victory over Sonny Liston, the first Super Bowl, and the Miracle Mets. ...
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    105,02 €

  • Cricket’s Global Warming
    Glenn Turner / Lynn McConnell
    Is international cricket facing its own ‘global warming’ moment, a crisis that’s attacking its very core?That’s the question posed by Glenn Turner and co-author Lynn McConnell in this insightful insider’s account.In the rush to commercialise and expand the game, the authors suggest, it’s been turned into a ‘product’, and burdened by a class of amateur administrators pulling it ...
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    16,30 €

  • Fifty-nine in ’84
    Edward Achorn
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    13,17 €

  • They Made Good Great
    Jim Barber / Skeeter Parker
    When the high school basketball season began in 1969, you could buy a gallon of gas for 35 cents and a U.S. postage stamp for 6 cents. Neil Armstrong had just set foot on the moon, Richard Nixon was president and Hurricane Camille had clobbered the Mississippi Coast.The thirteen girls who made up the Berrien High School basketball team were well aware of the historic happenings...
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    29,56 €

  • The 100 Greatest Days in New York Sports
    Stuart Miller
    This book illuminates how important sports are to the life of New York but also of the city's preeminent place in American sports. It covers the most dramatic sporting events ever to take place in New York and features both the greatest stars—including Babe Ruth and Muhammad Ali—and the unlikeliest of heroes—such as Jeremy Lin and Roberta Vinci. ...
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    16,90 €

  • For the Good of The Game
    Scott Kingdon
    When declared ineligible for interschool athletics by the Indiana High School Athletic Association (IIHSAA), some athletes fight back. They file lawsuits to regain their athletic eligibility. In response to lawsuits, the IHSAA counterattacks. It resorts to numerous legal and regulatory tactics to dissuade athlete lawsuits. Athlete lawsuits helped to liberalize IHSAA rules for a...
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    16,78 €

  • Skates Made of Bone
    B.A. Thurber
    Ice skates made from animal bones were used in Europe for millennia before metal-bladed skates were invented. Archaeological sites have yielded thousands of examples, some of them dating to the Bronze Age. They are often mentioned in popular books on the Vikings and sometimes appear in children’s literature. Even after metal skates became the norm, people in rural areas co...
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    65,82 €

  • The Cup of Coffee Club
    Jacob Kornhauser
    "This is one of the very best baseball books in years." Booklist, Starred Review • Most baseball players will never reach the major leagues—and for those that do, there are a select few that play in just one major league game. This book features the stories of 11 of those players and their struggles to reach the major leagues. ...
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    39,27 €

  • The Athlete as National Symbol
    Nicholas Villanueva
     Examining the phenomenon of nationalism in the world of sport, this collection of new essays identifies moments when athletes became national symbols through their actions on and off the field. Since the break-up of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, and related global events of the 1980s and 1990s, scholars have explored how race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality shape and ar...
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    57,45 €


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