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African Americans in Sports
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Ernie Banks: Mr. Cub and the Summer of '69
by Phil Rogers
Biography, BANKS. Discusses the life of the legendary Chicago Cubs shortstop and looks at the 1969 season, which saw Banks chasing a career 500 home runs, a feat he would achieve in May 1970, as well as uttering his famous, upbeat quote "Let's play two," during a particularly hot summer game.
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42
Feature Films, 42. Depicts the early career of Jackie Robinson as he became the first African American Major League Baseball player when he was signed to the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers.
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42 is Not Just a Number: The Odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American Hero
by Doreen Rappaport
Axis 360 eBook. A revelatory portrait of the life and legacy of the heroic baseball legend explores how, despite his amazing athletic abilities, he was challenged to break the color barrier and overcome significant discrimination in order to play in Major League Baseball.
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Ken Griffey Jr.
by A. R. Schaefer
Juvenile Biography, GRIFFEY. A biography of the All-Star outfielder who, at the age of thirty, became the youngest player in baseball history to hit 400 career home runs, shortly after the Seattle Mariners traded him to the Cincinnati Reds.
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Jackie Robinson: American Hero
by Sharon Robinson
Juvenile Biography, ROBINSON. A portrait of the baseball legend, written by his daughter, traces the events that led up to Robinson's historic signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers and his role in promoting the desegregation of baseball.
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Shooting Stars
by LeBron James
Non-Fiction, 796.323. A leading NBA star presents the story of his inner-city Ohio youth basketball team on which players overcame challenging hardships to qualify for a national championship while learning key lessons about teamwork.
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Hoop Dreams
by Ben Joravsky
Non-Fiction, 796.323. For nearly five years Arthur Agee's and William Gates' remarkable lives were chronicled by a team of filmmakers. Roughly 250 hours of film were devoted to their journeys from the playgrounds to high school competition to college recruitment and -- whittled down to three hours -- it became the award-winning film Hoop Dreams. This companion book vividly brings to life the struggles of Arthur Agee and William Gates to win college scholarships and positions on professional teams and examines the impact their aspirations had on themselves, their families and their relationships.
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From the Outside: My Journey through Life and the Game I Love
by Ray Allen
New Biography, ALLEN. The record-holding, two-time NBA champion reflects on his work ethic, on-the-court friendships and rivalries and what he has learned about what is needed for a long and successful career in a memoir that includes coverage of his military upbringing and his unforgettable 2013 Game Six three-pointer.
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Elgin Baylor: The Man Who Changed Basketball
by Bijan C. Bayne
Biography, BAYLOR. NBA Hall of Fame player Elgin Baylor was an innovator in his sport, a civil rights trailblazer, and a true superstar. He influenced future NBA All Stars such as Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant, and is considered by many to be one of the most important players in NBA history. Bijan C. Bayne tells the story of how a kid from the streets of segregated Washington, DC, who didn’t attend college until he was over twenty, revolutionized basketball and stood up for his rights. In a time when few nationally prominent black athletes spoke out about racial inequality in the United States, Baylor refused to tolerate discrimination. On the court, with his balletic moves and urban style of play, Elgin Baylor lifted the game of basketball off the floor and into the air.
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Dave Bing: A Life of Challenge
by Drew Sharp
Biography, BING. When Dave Bing lost sight in one eye, he didn't let it stop him. Through dedicated practice and honed skills, he became one of the top 50 NBA players of all time. With limited business experience, he built a start-up company into a thriving corporation, while at the same time reaching out to black youths lacking father figures. In Dave Bing, Detroit Free Press sports columnist Drew Sharp chronicles the compelling story of a figure whose sheer will to succeed, refusal to make excuses for setbacks, and efforts to contribute to society set him apart. His path from Washington D.C. to Syracuse to Detroit is sometimes tumultuous, blazed by hard work, perseverance, and savvy. Much more than the stereotypical tale of celebrity ex-jock who does good, this is a story about a black male who, even as a youngster, determined to conquer whatever challenges came his way.
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Golden: The Miraculous Rise of Steph Curry
by Marcus Thompson
Biography, CURRY. A longtime Warriors insider traces the inspirational story of the NBA star shooter to offer insight into his personal life and achievements as both an athletic leader and role model for kids.
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Dr. J: The Autobiography
by Julius Erving
Adult Biography, ERVING. With his flights of improvisation around the basket and his towering afro, Julius Erving became one of the most charismatic (and revolutionary) players basketball has ever known. But while the public has long revered this cultural icon, few have ever known of the double life of Julius Erving. Dr. J traces the inner lives of the nearly perfect player and the imperfect man—and how he has come to terms with both.
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Michael Jordan: The Life
by Roland Lazenby
Adult Biography, JORDAN. Describes the life of one of the most legendary basketball players in the history of the sport, drawing upon interviews with Michael Jordan's friends, family and teammates and following his career from college to the pros.
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Kevin Durant
by Jon M Fishman
Axis 360 eBook. Presents the life and accomplishments of the professional basketball player.
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Lebron James
by Jon M Fishman
Axis 360 eBook. Presents the life and accomplishments of the professional basketball player, including his incredible successes both on and off the field, his training regimen, and his charity work.
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Black Hoops: The History of African-Americans in Basketball
by Fredrick McKissack
J Non-Fiction, 796.323. Surveys the history of African Americans in basketball, from the beginning of the sport to the present, discussing individual teams and players and the integration of the NBA. By the co-author of Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues.
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Carmelo Anthony
by Jon M. Fishman
Juvenile Biography, ANTHONY. Follows the life of basketball player Carmelo Anthony from his childhood struggles with asthma to his NBA success.
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LeBron James
by Shaina Carmel Indovino
Juvenile Biography, JAMES. Chronicles the life and career of the Cleveland Cavaliers star, from his childhood in Akron, Ohio to his NBA championships.
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Strong Inside: The True Story of How Perry Wallace Broke College Basketball's Color Line
by Andrew Maraniss
J Biography, WALLACE. Perry Wallace was born at an historic crossroads in U.S. history. He entered kindergarten the year that the Brown v. Board of Education decision led to integrated schools, allowing blacks and whites to learn side by side. A week after Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, Wallace enrolled in high school and his sensational jumping, dunking, and rebounding abilities quickly earned him the attention of college basketball recruiters from top schools across the nation. In his senior year his Pearl High School basketball team won Tennessee's first racially-integrated state tournament. The world seemed to be opening up at just the right time, and when Vanderbilt University recruited Wallace to play basketball, he courageously accepted the assignment to desegregate the Southeastern Conference.
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The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
by Muhammad Ali
Biography, ALI. The legendary boxer offers an inspirational study of the spiritual values that have shaped him and continue to transform his life, from childhood to the present day, reflecting on the deepest meanings of life, the principles and practices of Islam, moral courage, belief in God, the responsibilities of fame and family, love, and accepting challenges.
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Ali: A Life
by Jonathan Eig
Biography, ALI. The best-selling author of Opening Day draws on insider access to present an unauthorized portrait of the iconic champion fighter, arguing that race was a central theme in Muhammad Ali's career, faith and advocacy work and that his political beliefs and neurological health shaped his complex character.
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Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts
by Davis Miller
Biography, ALI. In an intimate look at Muhammad Ali's life after boxing, the author, who formed an unexpected friendship with Ali, draws on the remarkable moments he spent with the boxing legend to introduce the human side of a great man physically devastated but spiritually young. By the international best-selling author of The Tao of Muhammad Ali.
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Facing Ali
Feature Films, FACING. Ten of boxing's best fighters tell what it was like to fight Muhammad Ali.
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I Am Ali
Non-Fiction DVDs, B ALI. An intimate look at the man behind the legend told through exclusive, unprecedented access to Ali's personal archive of voice recordings combined with touching interviews and testimonials from his inner circle of family and friends, including his daughters, son, ex-wife and brother, plus legends of the boxing community including Mike Tyson, George Foreman and Gene Kilroy. Experience Ali's extraordinary story, as a fighter, lover, brother, father.
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Things That Make White People Uncomfortable
by Michael Bennett
New Non-Fiction, 305.800973. A Super Bowl Champion and two-time Pro Bowler uses his uncensored humor to discuss racism and violence and the responsibilities of Black athletes in the NCAA and NFL to speak out against injustice both on and off the field.
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Jim Brown: Last Man Standing
by Dave Zirin
New Biography, BROWN. The sports journalist author of What's My Name, Fool? presents a portrait of the football legend, Hollywood star and controversial activist that includes coverage of Brown's work with Black Power and the allegations of sexual violence that overshadowed his career
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Never Die Easy: The Autobiography of Walter Payton
by Walter Payton
Biography, PAYTON. In an inspirational memoir, the late football great describes his love affair with his sport, his achievements on and off the field, his private life, his personal beliefs, and goals, and his battle with the liver cancer that would claim in life in 1999.
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Sweetness: The Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton
by Jeff Pearlman
Biography, PAYTON. Draws on interviews from hundreds of sources to trace the life and career of the late Chicago Bears star, from his early athletic triumphs that helped bridge racial gaps in his segregated Mississippi childhood community through the tragic illness that ended his life.
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Cam Newton
by Jon M Fishman
Axis 360 eBook. A biography of the quarterback for the Carolina Panthers
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Arthur Ashe: Tennis and Justice in the Civil Rights Era
by Eric Allen Hall
Biography, ASHE. Arthur Ashe explains how this iconic African American tennis player overcame racial and class barriers to reach the top of the tennis world in the 1960s and 1970s. It follows Ashe’s evolution as an activist who had to contend with the shift from civil rights to Black Power. Off the court and in the arena of international politics, Ashe positioned himself at the center of the black freedom movement, negotiating the poles of black nationalism and assimilation into white society. Fiercely independent and protective of his public image, he navigated the thin line between conservatives and liberals, reactionaries and radicals, the sports establishment and the black cause.
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Arthur Ashe: A Life
by Raymond Arsenault
New Biography, ASHE. Recounts the life of the iconic tennis player, who became the first African American to play for the US Davis Cup team in 1963, detailing his success on the court, his career as a human rights activist, and his death of AIDS in 1993.
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Walter's War
Feature Films, WALTER'S. Meet Walter Tull, the Jackie Robinson of professional English football before World War I, and survivor of the worst racial slurs his opponents can hurl at him. When the game turns to war in 1914 and the playing field to the Battle of Somme, Tull makes history again as the first mixed-race officer in the British Army.
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Day by Day with Gabby Douglas
by Joanne Mattern
Juvenile Biography, DOUGLAS. Profiles the Olympic gymnast, describing her accomplishments at the 2012 Olympic Games, dedication to gymnastics, and activities since the Olympics.
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Jesse Owens: Fastest Man Alive
by Carole Boston Weatherford
Juvenile Biography, OWENS. This inspirational biography of an African-American track star, who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin--where Hitler was determined to prove that Aryans were the superior race, details the challenges he overcame to realize his dreams--and prove a Nazi dictator wrong.
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Sisters & Champions: The True Story of Venus and Serena Williams
by Howard Bryant
New Picture Books, BRYANT. An inspiring picture book sports biography about two of the greatest female tennis players of all-time, outsiders who just happen to be sisters. Everyone knows the names Venus & Serena Williams. They've become synonymous with championships, hard work, and with shaking up the tennis world. This picture book, by an award-winning sports journalist who knows the Williams family personally, details the sisters' journey from a barely-there tennis court in Compton, CA, to becoming the #1 ranked women in the sport of tennis"
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Charlie Takes His Shot: How Charlie Sifford Broke the Color Barrier in Golf
by Nancy Churnin
Picture Books. CHURNIN. Charlie Sifford loved golf, but in the 1930’s only white people were allowed to play in the Professional Golf Association. Sifford had won plenty of black tournaments, but he was determined to break the color barrier in the PGA. In 1960 he did, only to face discrimination from hotels that wouldn’t rent him rooms and clubs that wouldn’t let him use the same locker as the white players. But Sifford kept playing, becoming the first black golfer to win a PGA tournament and eventually ranking among the greats in golf.
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The Quickest Kid in Clarksville
by Pat Zietlow Miller
Picture Books, MILLER. Growing up in the segregated town of Clarksville, Tennessee, in the 1960s, Alta's family cannot afford to buy her new sneakers--but she still plans to attend the parade celebrating her hero Wilma Rudolph's three Olympic gold medals.
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Simone Biles
by Jon M Fishman
Axis 360 eBook. Simone Biles joined the US women's gymnastics team to compete at the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2016. Along with her teammates, she sailed through her events to claim the gold medal in the team competition for the United States. She also took home three golds and a bronze in the individual events in which she competed. Though Biles follows an intense training routine, her schedule doesn't stop her from having fun. Learn all about her rise to the top in gymnastics, how she stays fit, what she does to relax, and much more.
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Gabby Douglas
by Jon M. Fishman
Axis 360 eBook. Discusses the life of the Olympian, including her family, how she started in gymnastics, and her Olympic success.
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