| Books on the topic of Baseball |
| The Philadelphia Athletics by the numbers by Ted Taylor Call Number: GV875 .P44 T39 2009 Almost a dynasty : the rise and fall of the 1980 Phillies by William C. Kashatus Call Number: GV875 .P45 K268 2008 Creating the national pastime : baseball transforms itself, 1903-1953 by G. Edward White Call Number: GV863 .A1 W447 1996 Roberto & me : a baseball card adventure by Dan Gutman Call Number: FIC GUT Baseball by Harold Seymour; Dorothy Seymour Mills Call Number: eBook Creating the national pastime : baseball transforms itself, 1903-1953 by G. Edward White Call Number: GV880 .D53 1992 Maybe I’ll pitch forever : a great baseball player tells the hilarious story behind the legend by LeRoy Paige; David Lipman (Afterword by, As told to); John B. Holway (Introduction by) Call Number: GV865 .P3 A3 1993 |
| Women in Sports |
| Outstanding women athletes : who they are and how they influenced sports in America by Janet Woolum Description Profiles major women athletes and discusses the contributions they have made to their individual sport. Call Number: GV697 .A1 W69 1998 Women’s sports : a history by Allen Guttmann Call Number: GV709 .G85 1991 Encyclopedia of Women and Sport in America by Carole A. Oglesby; Doreen L. Greenberg; Ruth L. Hall; Karen L. Hill; Frances Johnston; Sheila E. Esterby (Editor); Marilyn Oshman (Foreword by); Mariah B. Nelson (Foreword by); Sheila Ridley Call Number: GV709 .E53 1998 Yes she can! : women’s sports pioneers by Glenn Stout Call Number: 796.092 STO |
| Books on the topic of Football |
| Jim Thorpe : 20th-century jock by Robert Lipsyte Call Number: B THO Touchdown : the power and precision of football’s perfect play by Mark Stewart; Mike Kennedy Call Number: 796.33 STE Wild Card by Tiki Barber; Ronde Barber; Paul Mantell (As told to) Call Number: FIC BAR ISBN: 141696858X Football Double Threat by Matt Christopher; Stephanie Peters (Text by) Call Number: FIC PET Dino-Football by Lisa Wheeler; Barry Gott (Illustrator) Call Number: E WHE |
| Olympics |
| Outstanding women athletes : who they are and how they influenced sports in America by Janet Woolum Description Profiles major women athletes and discusses the contributions they have made to their individual sport. Call Number: GV697 .A1 W69 1998 Great Moments in the Summer Olympics by Matt Christopher; Stephanie Peters (Text by) Call Number: 796.48 CHR Jackie Joyner-Kersee by Margaret J. Goldstein; Jennifer Larson Call Number: B JOY The Nazi Olympics by Richard D. Mandell; Richard Mandell Call Number: GV722 1936 .M3 1987 Touch the sky : Alice Coachman, Olympic high jumper by Ann Malaspina; Eric Velasquez (Illustrator) Call Number: B COA Olympic Games in Ancient Greece by Shirley Glubok; Alfred Tamarin Call Number: 796.48 GLU |
| Sports History |
| The fastest game on two feet : and other poems about how sports began by Alice Low; John A. O’Brien (Illustrator) Call Number: 811.54 LOW Baseball : an illustrated history by Geoffrey C. Ward; Ken Burns Call Number: GV863 .A1 W37 1994 The Black Athlete; Emergence and Arrival by Edwin Bancroft Henderson Call Number: GV697.A1 H38 The Baseball Bibliography by Myron J. Smith (Compiled by) Call Number: eBook The baseball novel : a history and annotated bibliography of adult fiction by Noel Schraufnagel Call Number: eBook Idols of the game : a sporting history of the American century by Robert Lipsyte; Peter Levine Call Number: GV697 .A1 L567 1995 |
| Books on the topic of Soccer |
| How soccer explains the world : an unlikely theory of globalization by Franklin Foer Description How soccer explains the gangster’s paradise — How soccer explains the pornography of sects — How soccer explains the Jewish question — How soccer explains the sentimental hooligan — How soccer explains the survival of the top hats — How soccer explains the black Carpathians — How soccer explains the new oligarchs — How soccer explains the discreet charm of bourgeois nationalism — How soccer explains Islam’s hope — How soccer explains the American culture wars. Call Number: JZ1318 .F64 2004 Happy Like Soccer by Maribeth Boelts; Lauren Castillo (Illustrator) Call Number: FIC BOE Madlenka Soccer Star by Peter Sís (Illustrator) Call Number: E SIS Goal : the fire and fury of soccer’s greatest moment by Mark Stewart; Mike Kennedy Call Number: 796.3 STE |
| Books on Sports, Betting and Analytics |
| Mathematics and Sports by Joseph A. Gallian (Editor) Call Number: GV706.8 .M37 2010 Moneyball : the art of winning an unfair game by Michael Lewis Call Number: GV880 .L49 2011 Mathletics by Wayne L. Winston Call Number: GV706.8 .W56 2009 Basketball on paper : rules and tools for performance analysis by Dean Oliver Call Number: eBook Diamonds are forever : the business of baseball by Paul M. Sommers Call Number: GV880 .D53 1992 Counterfeit amateurs : an athlete’s journey through the sixties to the age of academic capitalism by Allen L. Sack; Ara Parseghian (Foreword by); Allen Sack Call Number: GV350 .S23 2008 |
| Tennis Players Autobiographies |
| Days of grace : a memoir by Arthur Ashe; Arnold Rampersad Description A remarkable and inspiring memoir by a remarkable and inspiring human being: Arthur Ashe, embodiment of courage and grace in every aspect of his life, from his triumphs as a great tennis champion and his determined social activism to his ordeal in the face of death, a casualty of AIDS. As he brings us into his childhood in Richmond, Virginia, where he was born in 1943, where his mother died when he was six, and where he was raised by a loving but demanding father who set before his son the… Call Number: GV994 .A7 A3 1993 Tennis to win by Billie Jean King, Kim Chapin Call Number: GV995 .K5 Martina Navratilova, tennis power by R. R. Knudson; George Angelini (Illustrator) Call Number: B NAV Open : an autobiography by Andre Agassi Call Number: GV994 .A43 A3 2009 |
| Golf |
| A good walk spoiled : days and nights on the PGA tour by John Feinstein Call Number: GV970 .F45 1995 Tiger Woods : an American master by Greg H. Quinn; Nicholas Edwards Call Number: B WOO Golf and the spirit : lessons for the journey by M. Scott Peck; Christopher Peck (Illustrator) Call Number: GV979 .P75 P433 1999 Waiting for Augusta by Jessica Lawson Call Number: FIC LAW |
