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Posts tagged with ‘Sports’
HUGELY ENTERTAINING REVIEW of baseball’s least competent players. Clever fun, well researched. #beachread
Grade: SOLID B
WHO'S ON WORST? THE LOUSIEST PLAYERS, BIGGEST CHEATERS, SADDEST GOATS AND OTHER ANTIHEROES IN BASEBALL HISTORY
Knopf Doubleday
2013
Tags: History, Humor, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews, Sports
A PROFESSIONAL CLIMBER LEARNS skydiving, BASE jumping as her way of dealing with a life crisis. Engaging!
Grade: SOLID B
LEARNING TO FLY: AN UNCOMMON MEMOIR OF HUMAN FLIGHT, UNEXPECTED LOVE, AND ONE AMAZING DOG
Simon and Schuster/Touchstone
2013
Tags: Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews, Sports
GENTLY CYNICAL TALE of big college football sends a diffident grad student roadtripping with a legendary coach.
Grade: B PLUS
LOVE'S WINNING PLAYS
W. W. Norton & Company
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Humor, Novels, Sports
TOUCHING TRUE STORY of the pride and hope the beleaguered citizens of Ciudad Juárez have found in soccer.
Grade: SOLID B
THIS LOVE IS NOT FOR COWARDS: SALVATION AND SOCCER IN CIUDAD JUAREZ
Bloomsbury USA
2012
Tags: Mexico, Non-Fiction, Social and Cultural Commentary, Solid B Reviews, Sports
INTRIGUING LOOK INSIDE the close-knit world of endurance motorcycling, and at record-holding rider John Ryan.
Grade: SOLID B
THE MAN WHO WOULD STOP AT NOTHING: LONG DISTANCE MOTORCYCLING'S ENDLESS ROAD
W. W. Norton and Company
2011
Tags: Motorcycles, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews, Sports
PIONEERING AFRICAN-AMERICAN JOCKEY shares her inspiring story of facing mental illness, addiction, homelessness.
Grade: B PLUS
LONG SHOT: MY BIPOLAR LIFE AND THE HORSES WHO SAVED ME
HarperCollins
2011
Tags: African American Writers, B Plus Reviews, Black Writers, Horses and Riding, Memoirs, Mental Health and Illness, Sports, Writers of Color