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Eli Manning and the New York Giants
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Michael Sandler |
New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning ran out on the field and looked up at the scoreboard. His team was losing, 14-10, to the mighty New England Patriots. With less than three minutes left in Supe… |
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Joe Montana and the San Francisco 49ers
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Michael Sandler |
Could the San Francisco 49ers become Super Bowl champions for the fourth time? That was the question on everyone’s mind when the team’s star quarterback, Joe Montana, took the field for Super Bowl XX… |
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Back-to-back Super Bowl champions Peyton and Eli Manning
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Hugh Hudson |
Four pages of color photos inside. |
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Rough & tumble
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Mark Bavaro |
Follows the story of football player Dominic Fucillo, a deeply religious athlete who struggles with rage, a complicated love life, and devastating injuries that give way to scandal when he is nearly … |
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Jim Brown
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Michael Freeman |
The complex story of a living legend: Jim Brown was an astonishing physical specimen with tremendous skills and intelligence. An athlete who played a number of sports at Syracuse University, he disco… |
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Inside the helmet
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Michael Strahan,Jay Glazer,Michael Strahan |
Just in time for the 2007 season: One of the finest defensive players ever to wear an NFL uniform delivers the first truly authentic, hard-hitting, revelatory portrait of America's most popular sport… |
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Jim Brown
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Mike Freeman,Michael Freeman |
He intimidated people on and off the football field. He was brutal yet brilliant, narcissistic yet magnanimous, relentless yet unyielding. Most of all, he was the greatest football player of all time… |
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Giants Among Men
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Jack Cavanaugh |
From the mid-1950s to the early 1960s, when basketball's Boston Celtics were piecing together a run for the ages, when Montreal's Canadiens were in the midst of notching a record-setting five straigh… |
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Standing tall
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Sam Carchidi |
The story of Buffalo Bills football player Kevin Everett's comeback after being paralyzed while making a tackle against the Denver Broncos in the 2007 season opener. |
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Bogeymen Don't Play Football
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Marcia Thornton Jones,Debbie Dadey |
"There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the new mysterious student teacher who is on the Bailey City football team really be out to get the students of Bailey Elementa… |
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The dark side of the game
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Tim Green |
In this book, 8-year veteran of the NFL Tim Green reveals for the first time the scandals, the horrors, the abuses and also the wonders of playing football |
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The trouble with J.J.
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Tami Hoag |
It took only one look for Genna Hastings to make up her mind about her new next-door neighbor, J. J. Hennessy. She knew his type all too well: Jared Jay Hennessy was tall and handsome, a man who thou… |
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This Heart of Mine
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Susan Elizabeth Phillips |
Molly Somerville loves her career as the creator of the Daphne the Bunny children's book series, but the rest of her life could use some improvement. She has a reputation for trouble that started eve… |
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Football kids
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George Sullivan |
Profiles seven high school boys who play football, revealing their likes and dislikes, favorite plays, and individual views of the game. |
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Football's breakaway backs
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Nathan Aaseng |
Biographies of 10 professional football running backs: O. J. Simpson, Larry Csonka, John Riggins, Franco Harris, Greg Pruitt, Chuck Foreman, Walter Payton, Tony Dorsett, Wilbert Montgomery, and Earl … |
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Football's hard-hitting linebackers
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Nathan Aaseng |
Presents the careers of eight middle-line defenders who perform an important function in stopping both pass and running plays. Included are Ted Hendricks, Jack Ham, Randy Gradishar, Matt Blair, Jack … |
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Football's toughest tight ends
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Nathan Aaseng |
Brief biographies of eight tight ends of professional football including Ron Kramer, John Mackey, Charlie Sanders, Raymond Chester, Dave Casper, Russ Francis, Riley Odoms, and Ozzie Newsome. |
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If I don't six
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Elwood Reid |
The brutality of college football with its jock mentality and misogyny is described through the eyes of its hero, Elwood Riley. He is a philosophic type who obtained a football scholarship so he coul… |
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Alan Page
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Larry Batson |
A biography stressing the "distinctive style" of the Vikings' defensive tackle, Alan Page. |
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The sportsman
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Dhani Jones |
"Now in his 11th season in the NFL, Dhani Jones has had an unusually long career for a football player. Just a few years ago, however, Dhani thought his playing days were over. Cut by the Eagles and … |
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