Sports and Leisure

Recent movers and shakers in sports and leisure.

Updated April 21, 2024
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Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments
Joe Posnanski
NEW YORK TIMES bestseller Winner of the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year #1 New York Times bestselling author Joe Posnanski is back with a masterful ode to the game: a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball's history, to make you...
RACE TO BE MYSELF
SEMENYA, CASTER
Olympian and World Champion Caster Semenya is finally ready to share the vivid and heartbreaking story of how the world came to know her name. Thrust into the spotlight at just eighteen years old after winning the Berlin World Championships in 2009, Semenya's win was quickly overshadowed by...
LEXINGTON
WICKENS, KIM
NATIONAL BESTSELLER . "A vivid portrait of America's greatest stallion,the larger-than-life men who raced and bred him, and the dramatic times in which they lived."-Geraldine Brooks,author of Horse The powerful true story of the champion Thoroughbred racehorse who gained...
NO CRYING IN BASEBALL
CARLSON, ERIN
National Bestseller The inside story of how A League of Their Own--one of the most beloved baseball movies of all time--developed from an unheralded piece of American history into a perennial cinematic favorite. Featuring exclusive interviews and behind the...
Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
Andrea Lankford
** THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ** ** AN AMAZON "BEST BOOKS OF THE MONTH" FOR AUGUST 2023 (Biographies & Memoirs) ** From an award-winning former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure follows...
POWER PLAYERS
CILLIZZA, CHRIS
A colorful look at how modern presidents play sports, have used sports to play politics, and what our fan-in-chief can often tell us about our national pastimes. POWER PLAYERS tells all the great stories of presidents and the sports they played, loved and spectated...

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