Lars Anderson

#hardcover #football #sports #biography #college 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Georgia

The Life and Career of Coach Swinney and the Rise of Clemson Football

How Dabo Swinney used his energy, faith, and determination to turn the Clemson Tigers into a football powerhouse.

Dabo's World

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#paperback #Armstrong #NewMexico #contemporary #Christian #romance #football #small-town

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Missouri

A Novel

The inhabitants of Last Chance, New Mexico, could not be more pleased. Dr. Jessica McLeod has opened an office right on Main Street. Andy Ryan, the best athlete the little town ever produced, has ended his short career in the NFL and has come home to coach the mighty Pumas of Last Chance High. Unfortunately, Dr. Jess immediately gets off on the wrong foot when she admits that she's never seen a football game, isn't really interested in doing so, and, in fact, doesn't know a first down from a home run. Meanwhile, Coach Ryan is discovering that it's not easy to balance atop the pedestal the town has put him on. When this unlikely pair is drawn together over the future of a young player--whose gifts may lie in the laboratory rather than on the football field--they begin to wonder if they might have a future together as well.

With the flair that has made her Last Chance books a favorite among readers of contemporary fiction, Cathleen Armstrong draws on the passion Americans have for the traditions of small-town high school football.

Last Chance Hero #2 (A Place to Call Home)

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#Football #YA #Juvenile #baseball #contemporary #fathers #sports

A Home Team novel

The Extra Yard

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

One Knee Equals Two Feet

For a paperback that's over 50 years old, it's in excellent condition. 

Paper Lion

John Grisham

Michigan

Story of high school All - American Neely Crenshaw and relationships on the team and with the coach Eddie Rake. When Coach Rakes "boys" come home to bury him, sitting in the bleachers, Neely knows he must forgive his coach and himself to finally move on with his life.

Bleachers

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Timothy P. Brown

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Connecticut

150 Years of the Game's Evolution

How Football Became Football traces football's evolution from a version of rugby played before a handful of friends to a spectacle played in packed stadiums before television audiences of 100 million or more. Organized by era, How Football Became Football shows how football's rules, tactics, and equipment shifted over time, as did its coaching, officiating, and fan behavior. Richly illustrated and written in a fun, engaging manner, readers learn why maul-ins, puntouts and quarterback kicks disappeared from the game, as well as how helmets, end zones, hash marks, and penalty flags became part of football. Walter Camp, Paul Brown, and Sid Gillman receive their due, while revealing the roles played by Frank Birch, John Lockney, and other lesser-known men who impacted the game. How Football Became Football provides a thoroughly researched and humorous look at how football became the game we know and love today.

How Football Became Football

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Jason Latour

Connor Willumson

Jason Aaron

Illinois

Here Was a Man

Earl Tubb is an angry old man with a very big stick. Euless Boss is a high school football coach with no more room in his office for trophies and no more room underneath the bleachers for burying bodies. And they're just two of the folks you'll meet in Castor County, Alabama, home of Boss BBQ, the state champion Runnin' Rebs and more bastards than you've ever seen! "What does old Earl Tubb do when he returns home to Craw County, Ala., only to find the place a veritable criminal fiefdom run by Euless Boss, the local high school football coach? Why, pick up the stick helpfully cleaved by lightning from a tree growing out of his daddy's grave and start meting out justice just like his father, the old sheriff, did. In the cleaning-up-the-dirty-old-town Southern-fried pulper, writer Aaron (Scalped) and artist Jason Latour (Django Unchained) spread around no more story than is absolutely necessary, and most of it involves people being at the wrong end of a stick, baseball bat, or even (in an early fight scene) a deep-fryer basket. Both Jasons hail from the South, as they discuss in a particularly bighearted introduction, and so likely feel unencumbered by concerns about overdosing on clichés. Thus, the high-impact pages are strewn with bruising high school football, sweet tea, barbecue, trucker caps, and snarling rednecks. The story, in which Tubb clobbers his way through throngs of underlings to get at Boss, is no more complicated than a redo of Walking Tall. But there's a thread of something deeper, bloodier, and more resonant that often transcends the usual psychotic-redneck shtick, aided in no small part by Latour's spare, elegant art." - Publishers Weekly

Southern Bastards Volume 1: Here Was a Man

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Tony Dungy

Denzel Washington

Nathan Whitaker

Really in good condition but want to be fair. It has small signs of aging and use. Great book for nfl fans, coaches and sports fans in general. 

Virginia

The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life

A biography of the coach of the Indianapolis Colts and the first African American football coach to lead his team to a Superbowl victory concentrates on his religious life as well as his career in football.

Quiet Strength

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New York

How an Underdog Becomes a Champion

Fearless

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Mike Lupica

Ohio

Eighth-grade star quarterback Nate Brodie is frantic to win a million dollars by completing a pass during the halftime of a New England Patriot's game to help his family and his best friend Abby who is going blind.

Million-Dollar Throw

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Michael Oher

Really Great Condition! Smoke free environment. 

From Homelessness, to the Blind Side, and Beyond

The football star made famous in the hit film (and book) The Blind Side reflects on how far he has come from the circumstances of his youth. Michael Oher shares his personal account of his story, in this inspirational New York Times bestseller.

 

Looking back on how he went from being a homeless child in Memphis to playing in the NFL, Michael talks about the goals he had to break out of the cycle of poverty, addiction, and hopelessness that trapped his family. Eventually he grasped onto football as his ticket out and worked hard to make his dream into a reality. With his adoptive family, the Touhys, and other influential people in mind, he describes the absolute necessity of seeking out positive role models and good friends who share the same values to achieve one's dreams. Sharing untold stories of heartache, determination, courage, and love, I Beat the Odds is an incredibly rousing tale of one young man's quest to achieve the American dream.

I Beat the Odds

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Kendall Ryan

Massachusetts

He's bossy, moody, and overprotective. He's also a pro athlete who needs to focus on winning games and staying out of the headlines.I'm fiercely independent and need a man like I need a second period each month. So when our worlds collide, I never expected him to be the one to jump in and save me. Especially not when my roommate disappears, leaving me with her baby.I'm clueless about babies-and it shows. Good thing Alexei isn't. With six nieces and nephews and an apparent hero complex, the dude is both sexy and more than capable. It's a combination that makes it easy to forget we're just playing house.

Finding Alexei

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Tom Landry

Gregg Lewis

Still in great readable condition. Bits of discoloration and wear on the cover but you can see most of it in pictures. Only writing is the gifted note inside the front cover, no writing or highlighting inside the pages. 

An Autobiography

The former coach of the Dallas Cowboys offers a personal look at his philosophy and faith, his management strategies, and his leadership standards, as well as a glimpse of the sports personalities he knows

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#hardcover #youngadultfiction #romance #football #sportsromance #fiction #yafiction 

Iowa

The fifth book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Field Party series—a southern soap opera with football, cute boys, and pick-up trucks—from USA TODAY bestselling author Abbi Glines. Ryker Lee is finally enjoying his senior year—he has great friends, hangs out with hot girls, and is on track to get a football scholarship that will set him up for college. Despite this, a small part of him wonders if there’s more to life than parties and meaningless hookups—and if football even means as much to him as it does to his fellow teammates. And when he meets the new girl at school, his world totally changes… Aurora McClay is new to Lawton. She’s grateful that her twin brother, Hunter, is star of the football team and can help her adjust to her new school, but she’s not grateful at how overprotective he is over every person she meets. Just because she is deaf does not mean people have to treat her differently. When she meets Ryker Lee, the two of them spark an instant and intense chemistry, one that proves to be controversial not only because of Ryker’s reputation as a player, but also because of Aurora and Hunter’s father’s bigoted views about who Aurora can and can’t date. Aurora and Ryker know in their hearts that they are meant for each other. But can their relationship endure the turmoil of rumors and prejudice?

Making a Play

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Herbert Resnicow

Fran Tarkenton

Oklahoma

Murder at the Super Bowl Ex Lib Large Print 3499

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North Carolina

If You're Reading This

Rudy Ruettiger

Mark Dagostino

Arizona

My Story

An autobiography of Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger, an undiagnosed dyslexic who struggles against tremendous odds to become a Notre Dame football player.

Rudy

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#hardcover #biography #packers #farve #football

The Making of an NFL Superstar

Who better to tell the story of Brett Favre's heroic rise to fame and Super Bowl glory than the people who know him best? With chapters penned by such personalities as Brett's father Irv, mother Bonita, Hall of Famer and legendary Packers quarterback Bart Starr and teammate Mark Chmura, this book details Brett's family life, his impressive leadership abilities and competitiveness. Packed with photos of Brett on and off the field.

Brett Favre

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Jeff Pearlman

Wisconsin

The Remarkable, Improbable, Iconic Life of Brett Favre

 "Over two decades, Brett Favre was as compelling a figure as any in the National Football League. He alone was 'Must-See TV.' In Gunslinger, Jeff Pearlman provides an extraordinary look at every facet of the life of a man who performed on sport's grandest stage and who had one helluva time along the way."--Al Michaels

 

In Gunslinger, Jeff Pearlman tells Brett Favre's story for the first time, charting his unparalleled journey from a rough rural childhood and lackluster high school football career to landing the last scholarship at Southern Mississippi, to a car accident that nearly took his life, and eventually to the NFL and Green Bay, where he restored the Packers to greatness and inspired a fan base as passionate as any in the game. Yet he struggled with demons: addiction, infidelity, the loss of his father, and a fraught, painfully prolonged exit from the game he loved, a game he couldn't bear to leave.

 

Gritty and revelatory, Gunslinger is a big sports biography of the highest order, a fascinating portrait of the man with the rocket arm whose life has been one of triumph, fame, tragedy, embarrassment, and--ultimately--redemption.

 

"The compelling, complete story of his legend, and his faults."--Chicago Tribune

Gunslinger

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Miranda Kenneally

Florida

Catching Jordan

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Nevada

The Remarkable Lives of UCLA's Jackie Robinson, Woody Strode, Tom Bradley, Kenny Washington, and Ray Bartlett

The Black Bruins chronicles the inspirational lives of five African American athletes who faced racial discrimination as teammates at UCLA in the late 1930s. Best known among them was Jackie Robinson, a four‐star athlete for the Bruins who went on to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball and become a leader in the civil rights movement after his retirement. Joining him were Kenny Washington, Woody Strode, Ray Bartlett, and Tom Bradley—the four played starring roles in an era when fewer than a dozen major colleges had black players on their rosters. This rejection of the “gentleman’s agreement,” which kept teams from fielding black players against all-white teams, inspired black Angelinos and the African American press to adopt the teammates as their own. Kenny Washington became the first African American player to sign with an NFL team in the post–World War II era and later became a Los Angeles police officer and actor. Woody Strode, a Bruins football and track star, broke into the NFL with Washington in 1946 as a Los Angeles Ram and went on to act in at least fifty‐seven full-length feature films. Ray Bartlett, a football, basketball, baseball, and track athlete, became the second African American to join the Pasadena Police Department, later donating his time to civic affairs and charity. Tom Bradley, a runner for the Bruins’ track team, spent twenty years fighting racial discrimination in the Los Angeles Police Department before being elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles.

The Black Bruins

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Mark Beech

The Last Golden Season of Army Football

Traces the uplifting parallel stories of the 1958 Army football team and the controversial coach who inspired such stars as Vince Lombardi, placing their achievements against a backdrop of the dawn of professional football while citing the achievements of such figures as Heisman Trophy winner Pete Dawkins and decorated Vietnam hero Bill Carpenter.

When Saturday Mattered Most

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Michael Lewis

California

Follows one young man from his impoverished childhood with a crack-addicted mother, through his discovery of the sport of football, to his rise to become one of the most successful, highly-paid players in the NFL.

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Dabo's World

Cathleen Armstrong

Last Chance Hero #2 (A Place to Call Home)

Mike Lupica

The Extra Yard

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One Knee Equals Two Feet

George Plimpton

Paper Lion

John Grisham

Bleachers

Timothy P. Brown

How Football Became Football

Jason Latour; Connor Willumson; Jason Aaron

Southern Bastards Volume 1: Here Was a Man

Tony Dungy; Denzel Washington; Nathan Whitaker

Quiet Strength

Doug Pederson; Dan Pompei (As told to)

Fearless

Mike Lupica

Million-Dollar Throw

Michael Oher

I Beat the Odds

Kendall Ryan

Finding Alexei

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Tom Landry

Abbi Glines

Making a Play

Herbert Resnicow; Fran Tarkenton

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If You're Reading This

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Rudy

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Gunslinger

Miranda Kenneally

Catching Jordan

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The Black Bruins

Mark Beech

When Saturday Mattered Most

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