Summitt, Pat Head

Summary: Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history and bestselling author, tells for the first time her story of victory and resilience, as well as facing down her greatest challenge: early-onset Alzheimer's disease.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SUMMITT, PAT HEAD SUM

Maraniss, David

Summary: Jim Thorpe rose to world fame as a mythic talent who excelled at every sport. He won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, was an All-American football player at the Carlisle Indian School, in the first class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and played major league baseball for the New York Giants. But despite his colossal skills, Thorpe's life was a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THORPE, JIM MAR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B THORPE MAR

Bryant, Howard

Summary: "Few names in the history of baseball evoke the excellence and dynamism that Rickey Henderson's does. He holds the record for the most stolen bases in a single game, and he's scored more runs than any player ever. "If you cut Rickey Henderson in half, you'd have two Hall of Famers," the baseball historian Bill James once said. But perhaps even more than his prowess on the field, Rickey...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HENDERSON, RICKEY BRY

McCallum, Jack

Summary: Documents the story of the Olympic squad that won the gold at the 1992 Barcelona Games, assessing the achievements and legacy of some of the NBA's greatest players, including Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, and Charles Barkley.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.323 MCC

Burke, Glenn.

Summary: "Before Jason Collins, before Michael Sam, there was Glenn Burke. By becoming the first--and only--openly gay player in Major League Baseball, Glenn would become a pioneer in his own way, nearly thirty years after another black Dodger rookie, Jackie Robinson, broke the league's color barrier. This is Glenn's story, in his own words . . . Touted by scouts and coaches alike as "the next Willie...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2015

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Marzorati, Gerald

Summary: 'Seeing Serena' is a riveting chronicle of trailblazing tennis champion and cultural icon Serena Williams' turbulent 2019 tour season and a revealing portrait of who she is, both on and off the court.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILLIAMS, SERENA MAR

Vonn, Lindsey

Summary: "The first ever memoir from the greatest female ski racer of all time, revealing never before told stories of her life in the fast lane, and the bold decisions that helped her break down barriers for athletes around the world"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2022

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Smith, Stephen A. (Stephen Anthony)

Summary: Stephen A. Smith has never been handed anything, nor was he an overnight success. Growing up poor in Queens, the son of Caribbean immigrants and the youngest of six children, he was a sports-obsessed kid who faced a number of struggles, from undiagnosed dyslexia to getting enough cereal to fill his bowl. As a basketball player at Winston-Salem State University, he got a glimmer of his true...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2023

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Nyad, Diana.

Summary: "On September 2, 2013, at the age of 64, Diana Nyad emerged onto the shores of Key West after completing a 110 mile, 53 hour, record-breaking swim through shark-infested waters from Cuba to Florida. Her memoir shows why, at 64 she was able to achieve whatshe couldn't at 30 and how her repeated failures contributed to her success"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NYAD, DIANA NYA

Albergotti, Reed.

Summary: "The first in-depth look at Lance Armstrong's doping scandal, the phenomenal business success built on the back of fraud, and the greatest conspiracy in the history of sports. Lance Armstrong won a record-smashing seven Tours de France after staring down cancer, and in the process became an international symbol of resilience and courage. In a sport constantly dogged by blood-doping scandals, he...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ARMSTRONG, LANCE ALB

Gaimon, Phil.

Summary: "Abandoning his former life as a couch potato and gamer, Phil Gaimon begin riding a bicycle in 2004 with the goal of shedding a few pounds. By sheer accident, he discovered he was a natural, advancing so rapidly through the amateur ranks that he entered the pro peloton utterly ignorant of a century of cycling etiquette. He recounts the difficulties of making ends meet on a salary of $166 a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Velo Press 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GAIMON, PHIL GAI

Leerhsen, Charles.

Summary: "Finally--a fascinating and authoritative biography of perhaps the most controversial player in baseball history, Ty Cobb. Ty Cobb is baseball royalty, maybe even the greatest player who ever lived. His lifetime batting average is still the highest of all time, and when he retired in 1928, after twenty-one years with the Detroit Tigers and two with the Philadelphia Athletics, he held more than...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015

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Pennington, Bill

Summary: "The definitive biography of one of baseball's most celebrated, mercurial, and misunderstood figures Billy Martin is a story of contrasts. He was the clutch second baseman for the dominant New York Yankees of the 1950s. He then spent sixteen seasons managing in the big leagues, and is considered by anyone who knows baseball to have been a true baseball genius, a field manager without peer....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARTIN, BILLY PEN

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