Catálogo de libros: Acontecimientos deportivos y su gestión

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  • The Border War
    Robert Gagliardi / Ryan Thorburn
    The Border War football series between Colorado State and Wyoming is defined by its longevity, proximity and one of the more unique traveling trophies in sports. The universities, separated by only 65 miles, have battled on the gridiron in three centuries for the iconic Bronze Boot, which was an actual combat boot worn by a military member in Vietnam.     This book covers the h...
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    18,58 €

  • Jack McClelland
    Vincent T Ciaramella
    Jack McClelland: The Pride of Pittsburg is the first and only biography of Jack McClelland, the Smokey City’s first boxing star. From 1895 to 1905, McClelland was one of the nation’s most popular and talked-about boxers, appearing in the sports sections of newspapers across the country. He took on all-comers, and never drew the color line. At the 1904 Saint Louis World’s Fair, ...
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    34,86 €

  • Kick-off
    David Pendleton
    What took place in Bradford, England in the latter half of the nineteenth century was nothing less than a sporting revolution. Kick-Off charts and analyses Bradford’s story to illustrate the importance of sport’s role in the development of the modern city. Bradford shows us how, from the burgeoning of the first industrial communities, personal and civic identities have been pro...
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    9,10 €

  • The legendary cricket genius Sydney F. Barnes
    J L Nicholls
    This tells the story of England’s greatest bowler the world has ever seen. A man years ahead of his time and in many respects brought professionalism to sport. This is about the life and times of a man born into Victorian poverty and in the squalid slums of northern England who was determined that his own family was never going to suffer. A talented cricketer who challenged the...
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    22,54 €

  • The 1988 Dodgers
    K P Wee / K. P. Wee / KPWee
    This book tells the story of the 1988 World Series champions, the LA Dodgers. Including dozens of exclusive interviews with the players themselves, this book provides a new and intimate look at a season to remember, full of inside stories and never-before-told anecdotes. ...
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    47,17 €

  • The 100 Greatest Swimmers in History
    John Lohn
    This book looks at the 100 greatest swimmers in history and features such icons and rising stars as Michael Phelps, Katie Ledecky, and Mark Spitz. Each chapter includes biographical information, accomplishments, records, and finest performances. This edition has been updated to include two additional World Championships and the 2016 Olympics. ...
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    47,34 €

  • Born on the Links
    John Williamson
    Born on the Links encompasses the entire 600-year history of golf, from the links in Scotland in the fifteenth century up to the present. It not only covers golf’s origins and the development of the rules, equipment, and playing fields, but also features accounts of its greatest players and historic events. ...
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    47,31 €

  • 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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    50,07 €

  • A Look Back at the All-American Soap Box Derby 1946-1959
    Ronald Reed
    It’s billed as “The Greatest Amateur Racing Event in the World” and that is an accurate statement. Modern terminology has called it “The Gravity Grand Prix.” Whatever name you attach to it, Derby people just call it the “All-American.”     It started as a city race in Dayton, Ohio, in 1933 and in two short years it became a national competition. Originator Myron Scott, through ...
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    17,00 €

  • Babe Ruth and the Creation of the Celebrity Athlete
    Thomas Barthel
    From his first year in the majors, George Herman 'Babe' Ruth knew he could profit from celebrity. Babe Ruth Cigars in 1915 marked his first attempt to cash in. Traded to the Yankees in 1920, he soon signed with Christy Walsh, baseball’s first publicity agent. Walsh realized that stories of great deeds in sports were a commodity, and in 1921 sold Ruth’s ghostwritten byline ...
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    51,54 €

  • The Irish-American Athletic Club of New York
    Patrick R. Redmond
    At the turn of the 20th century, track and field in the U.S. was the domain of the wealthy. While baseball and prize-fighting attracted athletes from the lower orders of society, athletic clubs generally recruited the top sporting graduates from private colleges--except one. New York’s Irish-American Athletic Club was founded by and for immigrants. Membership was not exclu...
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    57,14 €

  • Hub Heroes
    Christopher Daly
    For anyone who writes biographically about these heroes, it’s vital to provide some little-known, surprising facts to give the reader a better idea of what they were really like and give a fuller picture of their lives. I hope I have succeeded in that regard.This book is a collection of no-holds-barred profiles and commentary drawn mostly from my interviews—many one-on-one—with...
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    16,06 €

  • WINS
    Andrew Tidman
    A - 'history' - of - Canadian hockey -- in the - 'original' - information format - of - the newspaper game summary!Hockey 'game summaries' have been a feature of North American newspaper sports pages almost since the beginning of organized hockey - and the basic newspaper format is still the format used most often by statisticians and historians of the game and by online media ...
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    35,66 €

  • WINS
    Andrew Tidman
    A - 'history' - of - Canadian hockey -- in the - 'original' - information format - of - the newspaper game summary!Hockey 'game summaries' have been a feature of North American newspaper sports pages almost since the beginning of organized hockey - and the basic newspaper format is still the format used most often by statisticians and historians of the game and by online media ...
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    24,26 €

  • Between a Rock and a Hard Race
    Robert Deaves
    Between a Rock and a Hard Race takes the reader on a four-year journey through the eyes of the Finn class athletes who campaigned for and took part in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. It begins on a hill in Weymouth and follows the highs and lows of most of the sailors as they journey towards Rio.It offers some fascinating analysis of managing an Olympic campaign, with extensive com...
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    46,54 €

  • America’s Game
    Bryan Soderholm-Difatte
    This comprehensive survey of major league baseball covers the beginning of the twentieth century up to Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in 1947. It examines key figures in baseball—such as Babe Ruth, John McGraw, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, and Joe DiMaggio—and major developments in the game’s structure, rules, and strategies. ...
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    58,90 €

  • 100 Days of Technique
    Christopher Yang
    100 Days of Technique is a straightforward guide to improving Olympic weightlifting at any level. This book includes many ways to improve your set-up, first pull, second pull, third pull, squats and multiple variations of lifts. Through simple but critical steps, 100 Days of Technique provides lifters with cues, tips, and advice that has been used, tested and proven to work. It...
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    24,34 €

  • Fit for America
    Matthew Lindaman
    Fit for America is at once an intellectual biography of Major John L. Griffith, one of the preeminent intercollegiate athletics administrators of the twenti-eth century, and an in-depth look at how athletics shaped national military preparedness in a time of war and anticommunist sentiment.Lindaman traces Griffith's forty-year career, one that spanned both world wars and in...
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    85,10 €

  • First Taste of Freedom
    Robert J Turpin
    The bicycle has long been a part of American culture but few would describe it as an essential element of American identity in the same way that it is fundamental to European and Asian cultures. Instead, American culture has had a more turbulent relationship with the bicycle. First introduced in the United States in the 1830s, the bicycle reached its height of popularity in the...
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    85,06 €

  • Market Research Methods in the Sports Industry
    Jasenko Ljubica / Neven Šeric
    The book addresses issues relating to market research applied to the sports business. It aims to cover both theory and practice, targeting students, academics and sports clubs and organisations. ...
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    151,03 €

  • The Man Who Was Never Knocked Down
    Rónán Mac Con Iomaire
    Seán Mannion was once ranked the #1 US light middleweight boxer, but his world title challenge was crushed by future Hall of Famer Mike McCallum. This book tells Mannion’s story, including his journey from Ireland to Boston, development as a boxer, struggles with alcoholism, foray into coaching, and present search for purpose outside of the ring. ...
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    50,26 €

  • A New Plantation World
    Daniel J. Vivian / Daniel JVivian
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    70,97 €

  • How To Play Water Polo
    Tracy Rockwell
    'How To Play Water Polo' was developed as a resource for both players and coaches and presents an ample variety of skills, tips and tricks to improve and master performance. The book is organised progressively with water polo competence being presented by way of a structured sequence of skills ranging from easy to more difficult and challenging, with the attainment of e...
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    21,12 €

  • Be the Pine, Be the Ball
    Paul J. Zingg
    Focusing on the landscapes and memory of golf and examining the games nature and appeal, this collection of seventy-two haiku poems and essays aims to lead readers to a fuller appreciation of the culture and history of golf and a deeper awareness of a players place in the game.Be the Pine, Be the Ball also reveals the compelling beauty and power of haiku, the most popular poeti...
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    15,82 €

  • Be the Pine, Be the Ball
    Paul J. Zingg
    Focusing on the landscapes and memory of golf and examining the games nature and appeal, this collection of seventy-two haiku poems and essays aims to lead readers to a fuller appreciation of the culture and history of golf and a deeper awareness of a players place in the game.Be the Pine, Be the Ball also reveals the compelling beauty and power of haiku, the most popular poeti...
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    20,53 €

  • Sport Tourism Development
    James Higham / Tom Hinch
    This book explores sport-related tourism and presents multidisciplinary perspectives of sport tourism, as structured by the geographical concepts of space, place and environment. It offers a comprehensive update of the discussions presented in the two previous editions and aims to advance theoretical thinking on sport tourism development. ...
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    181,66 €

  • Sport Tourism Development
    James Higham / Tom Hinch
    This book explores sport-related tourism and presents multidisciplinary perspectives of sport tourism, as structured by the geographical concepts of space, place and environment. It offers a comprehensive update of the discussions presented in the two previous editions and aims to advance theoretical thinking on sport tourism development. ...
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    60,05 €

  • The Book of the Fly-Rod
    George Sheringham / Hugh Sheringham / John C. Moore / John CMoore
    'The Book of the Fly-Rod' is a classic guide to fly fishing by Hugh Sheringham. It contains a wealth of interesting and useful information, historical details, authentic anecdotes, and tidbits from the author’s extensive personal experience fly-fishing all over the world. Entertaining and informative, this timeless and profusely-illustrated volume is highly recommended for thos...
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    54,58 €

  • Wheelchairs, Perjury and the London Marathon
    Tim Marshall
    The top wheelchair athletes of today enjoy the same high-profile exposure and admiration as their able-bodied counterparts. This has come about partly through wheelchair participation in mass fun-running events such as the Great North Run. Wheelchairs, Perjury and the London Marathon charts disability sports pioneer Tim Marshall MBE’s journey from the rock-climbing accident whi...
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    9,50 €

  • Sport and modernism in the visual arts in Europe, c. 1909-39
    Bernard Vere
    Sport fascinated modernist artists. They painted it, made films about it, watched it and wrote about it, while leading architects designed new stadiums. Through close study of key works, this book examines the ways in which modernists across Europe engaged with arguably the most pervasive cultural form of the first half of the twentieth century. ...
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    137,45 €


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