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What's New in Sports? December 2018
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Winning table tennis : Skills, Drills, and Strategies
by Dan Seemiller
Five-time U.S. singles and 11-time doubles champion Dan Seemiller, possibly the best American table tennis player ever, shares his secrets for top-level play. Readers will learn the best table tennis techniques, strategies, and conditioning methods for success. The authors provide beginning through advanced players with practical tips that make a difference.
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Table tennis : steps to success
by Larry Hodges
Introduces the basic skills and strategy of table tennis, and demonstrates grip, spin, stance, serves, footwork, loops, flips, chops, and lobs
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Ping-pong diplomacy : the secret history behind the game that changed the world
by Nicholas Griffin
Traces the story of how an aristocratic British spy circumvented more than 20 years of antagonistic foreign policy between China and the United States to further a fateful Communist agenda during the World Table Tennis Championships, revealing how players were tortured and murdered throughout the Cultural Revolution.
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Ping pong summer
In 1985 a teenage boy hopes to improve his social status by mastering the game of ping pong while on a family vacation in Ocean City, Maryland. A mix between The Karate Kid and National Lampoon's Vacation.
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Ping pong
A documentary about eight competitors in the World Over-80 Table Tennis Championships in Inner Mongolia. They are all in their 80s and 90s; one Australian woman is a centenarian. Most of the players have been athletes all their lives, but one woman took the sport up as an octogenarian after suffering a stroke. The advanced masters scene is like those in other sports, with rivalries, egomania and even dirty tricks. Losing doesn't get any less painful with age.
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The Mamba Mentality : How I Play
by Kobe Bryant
In the wake of his retirement from professional basketball, an NBA great nicknamed "The Black Mamba” has decided to share his vast knowledge and understanding of the game to take readers on an unprecedented journey to the core of his legendary “Mamba mentality.”
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The Last Pass : Cousy, Russell, the Celtics, and What Matters in the End
by Gary M. Pomerantz
The Last Pass situates the Celtics dynasty against the full dramatic canvas of American life in the 50s and 60s. It is an enthralling portrait of the heart of this legendary team that throws open a window onto the wider world at a time of wrenching social change. Ultimately it is a book about the legacy of a life: what matters to us in the end, long after the arena lights have been turned off and we are alone with our memories.
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Quarterback : Inside the Most Important Position in the National Football League
by John Feinstein
In the NFL--America's most popular sports league--quarterbacks are kings. The right QB becomes the face of a franchise and marches his team--and millions of fans--on a glorious winning odyssey that can last for a decade or longer. The wrong QB leads his team to losses, infighting, second-guessing, and fan misery. John Feinstein takes us inside that rarified world with five men who have achieved the highest levels in the NFL.
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The Truth About Aaron : My Journey to Understand My Brother
by Jonathan Hernandez
A personal account of the life and suicide of Aaron Hernandez, written by his brother, includes coverage of their childhoods, Aaron's struggles with his illness and sexuality and the darkness that drove him to take his own life.
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