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Wishbone Wisdom: Emory Bellard - Texas Football Visionary

By: Bellard, Emory; Pickett, Al

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Buffalo Gap, TX, State House Press: 2010

Seller ID: 607348

ISBN: 1933337419

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 154 pages. Coach Emory Bellard spent a remarkable 43-year football coaching career at both the high school and college level, where he helped teams win 12 district championships, five regional titles, and three state championships in 21 seasons as a high school coach in Texas. He also won five Southwest Conference crowns and two national titles during his collegiate career as an assistant coach at the University of Texas and as a head coach at Texas A&M and Mississippi State. Bellard collaborated with veteran sports writer Al Pickett, to tell the remark...
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Favre: For the Record

By: Favre, Brett; Havel, Chris

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 1997

Seller ID: 605560

ISBN: 038549050X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 288 pages. Superstar Green Bay Packer quarterback Brett Favre has the arm of Dan Marino, the agility of Steve Young, the field presence of Joe Montana and the brashness of Jim McMahon. Born the son of an indomitable high school football coach in hardscrabble Kiln, Mississippi, Favre has gone on to become the NFL's most valuable player two years running (a feat equaled only by the legendary Joe Montana) and, after twenty-nine years, has brought the Lombardi Trophy back to Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Favre has also paid dearly for his devotion t...
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Koufax

By: Gruver, Edward

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Dallas, Taylor Publishing: 2000

Seller ID: 603978

ISBN: 0878331573

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket

288 pages. In Koufax, the first book in more than 30 years on the legendary baseball player, Edward Gruver tells the life story of the man many consider to be the greatest left-handed pitcher of all time. For five seasons, from 1962-1966, Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers wowed fans with his hard-throwing talent and dominated the game as no pitcher had before or since. In the 1963 season alone, he went 25-5 with a 1.88 ERA, struck out a major league record 15 Yankees in a game one win over New York in the World Series, and was named the Most Valuable Player of the series. Also an ...
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Turning the Thing Around: Pulling America's Team Out of the Dumps-And Myself Out of the Doghouse

By: Johnson, Jimmy; Hinton, Ed

Price: $7.25

Publisher: New York, Hyperion: 1993

Seller ID: 604161

ISBN: 1562827251

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Sticker residue on back of dust jacket. 285 pages. The candid autobiography of a remarkable coach tells of his workaholic lifestyle, his philosophy on coaching and winning, and how he brought the Dallas Cowboys back to the top for their 1993 Super Bowl victory.
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A Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Roaring '20s

By: Kahn, Roger

Price: $14.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace & Company: 1999

Seller ID: 604307

ISBN: 0151002967

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

Protected in a removable archival cover. . 416 pages. Jack Dempsey was perfectly suited to the time in which he fought, the time when the United States first felt the throb of its own overwhelming power. For eight years and two months after World War I, Dempsey, with his fierce good looks and matchless dedication to the kill, was heavyweight champion of the world. A Flame of Pure Fire is the extraordinary story of a man and a country growing to maturity in a blaze of strength and exuberance that nearly burned them to ash. Hobo, roughneck, fighter, lover, millionaire, movie star, and, finally, ...
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Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias

By: Van Natta Jr., Don

Price: $13.99

Publisher: New York, Little, Brown and Company: 2011

Seller ID: 608254

ISBN: 0316056995

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

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Category: Sports

Wishbone Wisdom: Emory Bellard - Texas Football Visionary

Favre: For the Record

Koufax

Turning the Thing Around: Pulling America's Team Out of the Dumps-And Myself Out of the Doghouse

A Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Roaring '20s

Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias