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What's New in Sports? April 2019
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Tee it up - Everything Golf
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The match : the day the game of golf changed forever
by Mark Frost
A chronicle of a lesser-known 1956 golf match documents how car salesmen Harvie Ward and Ken Venturi competed against the period's leading players as a result of a bet between sponsors Eddie Lowery and George Coleman, in a competition that helped promote golf into a professional sport.
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The downhill lie : a hacker's return to a ruinous sport
by Carl Hiaasen
Recounts the author's return to golf after quitting the game in college, describing how he purchased a set of clubs, practiced for eighteen long months, and agreed to compete in a tournament against much more talented players
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K : a history of baseball in ten pitches
by Tyler Kepner
A history of the national pastime as told through the craft of pitching draws on years of archival research and interviews with more than 300 star athletes to reveal the colorful stories and folklore behind 10 major pitches.
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All the way : football, fame, and redemption
by Joe Willie Namath
The NFL icon who first brought show business to sports is finally ready to tell the story of his spectacular rise and reign as "Broadway Joe," to his struggles with alcoholism, to the redemption he found in God later in life.
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