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9781522675426 | Mp3 una edition (Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, June 28, 2016), cover price $9.99

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9781522675433 | Mp3 una edition (Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, June 28, 2016), cover price $9.99

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The early days of baseball are chronicled in this story of the friendship between Christy Mathewson, one of baseball's first superstars, and New York Giants manager John McGraw, in a volume celebrating the centennial of the first World Series in which a New York team played. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780786276608 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, June 23, 2005), cover price $28.95
9780871138859 | Atlantic Monthly Pr, April 30, 2005, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The early days of baseball are chronicled in this story of the friendship between Christy Mathewson, one of baseball's first superstars, and New York Giants manager John McGraw, in a volume celebrating the centennial of the first World Series in which a New York team played.

Paperback:

9780802142474 | Grove Pr, March 28, 2006, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The early days of baseball are chronicled in this story of the friendship between Christy Mathewson, one of baseball's first superstars, and New York Giants manager John McGraw, in a volume celebrating the centennial of the first World Series in which a New York team played.

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Product Description: The classic biography of America’s first tennis star. When he stepped onto the Wimbledon grass in 1920, Bill Tilden was poised to become the world’s greatest tennis star. Throughout the 1920's he dominated the sport, winning championship after championship with his trademark grace, power, and intelligence...read more

Paperback:

9781894963244 | Reprint edition (Sportclassic Books, February 1, 2004), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: The American tragedy of Big Bill Tilden is illuminated in a fresh portrait of the tennis star who dominated the sport from the 1920s through the 1950s but died alone in abject poverty, a long-time social outcast who preferred the company of boys.
9781930844223 | Total Sports, July 1, 2001, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: The classic biography of America’s first tennis star.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781511398459 | Mp3 una edition (Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, May 3, 2016), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: The classic biography of America’s first tennis star.

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Product Description: Frank Deford is one of the most beloved sports journalists in America. A contributing writer to Sports Illustrated for more than fifty years, and a longtime correspondent on Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, these days, Deford is perhaps best known for his weekly commentaries on NPR’s “Morning Edition...read more

Hardcover:

9780802125248 | Atlantic Monthly Pr, May 3, 2016, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Frank Deford is one of the most beloved sports journalists in America.

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Product Description: At the 1936 Berlin Olympics the beautiful Sydney Stringfellow begins an intense love affair with a German but the affair abruptly ends when political forces tear them apart. At the 1936 Berlin Olympics the beautiful Sydney Stringfellow begins an intense love affair with a German but the affair abruptly ends when political forces tear them apart...read more

Paperback:

9781590206423 | Reprint edition (Overlook Pr, July 26, 2011), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: At the 1936 Berlin Olympics the beautiful Sydney Stringfellow begins an intense love affair with a German but the affair abruptly ends when political forces tear them apart.

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At the 1936 Berlin Olympics the beautiful Sydney Stringfellow begins an intense love affair with a German but the affair abruptly ends when political forces tear them apart.

Hardcover:

9781410431530 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, November 1, 2010), cover price $31.99 | About this edition: At the 1936 Berlin Olympics the beautiful Sydney Stringfellow begins an intense love affair with a German but the affair abruptly ends when political forces tear them apart.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781441779625 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 1, 2011), cover price $32.95

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Product Description: With Bliss, Remembered, the celebrated Frank Deford has produced a work of literature that ranks with the best of his many novels, including Everybody's All American, which Sports Illustrated ranked as one of the twenty-five best sports books of all time...read more

CD/Spoken Word:

9781441779618 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 1, 2011), cover price $105.00 | About this edition: With Bliss, Remembered, the celebrated Frank Deford has produced a work of literature that ranks with the best of his many novels, including Everybody's All American, which Sports Illustrated ranked as one of the twenty-five best sports books of all time.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781441779601 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 1, 2011), cover price $72.95 | About this edition: With Bliss, Remembered, the celebrated Frank Deford has produced a work of literature that ranks with the best of his many novels, including Everybody's All American, which Sports Illustrated ranked as one of the twenty-five best sports books of all time.

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9781441779632 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 1, 2011), cover price $29.95

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Product Description: "In men like Traveler and Alcazar we find the beating heart and struggling soul of baseball..." -Jeff MacGregor, Sports Illustrated; author of Sunday MoneyHowie Traveler never made it as a player-his one major league hit and .091 batting average attest to that...read more

Hardcover:

9781402208966, titled "The Entitled: A Tale of Modern Baseball" | 1 edition (Sourcebooks Landmark, May 16, 2007), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Howie Traveler, manager of the Cleveland Indians, and his Cuban-American star player, Jay Alcazar, have little interaction off the field until Traveler witnesses an encounter between Alcazar and a woman that ends in a rape charge.

Paperback:

9781402212550, titled "The Entitled: A Tale of Modern Baseball" | Reprint edition (Sourcebooks Landmark, March 1, 2008), cover price $20.99 | About this edition: "In men like Traveler and Alcazar we find the beating heart and struggling soul of baseball.

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Thirty-two events covered over the course of a year are featured in this photographic celebration of the world's greatest sports competitions, from January's Rose Bowl and the Kentucky Derby, to the World Series and Super Bowl, to the Daytona 500 and Wimbledon.
By Frank Deford (introduced by) and Neil Leifer

Hardcover:

9780789209030 | 1 edition (Abbeville Pr, November 30, 2006), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Thirty-two events covered over the course of a year are featured in this photographic celebration of the world's greatest sports competitions, from January's Rose Bowl and the Kentucky Derby, to the World Series and Super Bowl, to the Daytona 500 and Wimbledon.

A fiftieth anniversary compilation of the best from the Sports Illustrated archives features memorable photographs and articles from the pages of the popular sports magazine since its launch in 1954, offering an entertaining and informative look at great moments in American sports history. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.
By Frank Deford (introduced by)

Paperback:

9781933405377 | 50 anv edition (Sports Illustrated, May 2, 2006), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A fiftieth anniversary compilation of the best from the Sports Illustrated archives features photographs and articles from the popular sports magazine since its launch in 1954, offering a look at great moments in American sports history.

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A fiftieth anniversary compilation of the best from the Sports Illustrated archives features memorable photographs and articles from the pages of the popular sports magazine since its launch in 1954, offering an entertaining and informative look at great moments in American sports history. 100,000 first printing.
By Frank Deford (introduced by) and Sports Illustrated (editor)

Hardcover:

9781932273496 | 50 anv edition (Sports Illustrated, October 26, 2004), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A fiftieth anniversary compilation of the best from the Sports Illustrated archives features photographs and articles from the popular sports magazine since its launch in 1954, offering a look at great moments in American sports history.

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Product Description: Set in the nostalgic year of 1955, this touching novel reveals a unique kind of love between kindred spiritSet in the nostalgic year of 1955, this touching novel reveals a unique kind of love between kindred spirits. It is told through the voice of 14-year-old Christy Banister, a sweet, slightly naïve young boy in need of guidance as he makes his way through adolescence...read more

Paperback:

9781402200595 | Reprint edition (Sourcebooks Inc, May 1, 2003), cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Set in the nostalgic year of 1955, this touching novel reveals a unique kind of love between kindred spiritSet in the nostalgic year of 1955, this touching novel reveals a unique kind of love between kindred spirits.

Christy Bannister looks back on the summer of 1954, a time made special by his relationship with twenty-three-year-old Kathryn Slade, a polio victim confined to a respirator.

Hardcover:

9781574904741 | Largeprint edition (Thomas t Beeler, March 1, 2003), cover price $29.95
9781570719929 | Sourcebooks Inc, September 1, 2002, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Christy Bannister looks back on the summer of 1954, a time made special by his relationship with twenty-three-year-old Kathryn Slade, a polio victim confined to a respirator.

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Presents the inspirational stories of great athletes and sports champions from the past seventy-five years who have been featured on Wheaties boxes.

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9781559718370, titled "The Heart of a Champion: Celebrating the Spirit and Character of Great American Sports Heroes" | 1 edition (Northword Pr, September 1, 2002), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Presents the inspirational stories of great athletes and sports champions from the past seventy-five years who have been featured on Wheaties boxes.
9780756778248 | Diane Pub Co, April 30, 2002, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: In this exciting new book, award-winning sports writer and commentator Frank Deford captures the inspirational stories of many of the greatest athletes and teams to appear on a Wheaties box.

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Hardcover:

9781570717451 | Sourcebooks Inc, September 1, 2001, cover price $24.00

Paperback:

9781402200113 | Reprint edition (Sourcebooks Landmark, September 1, 2002), cover price $18.99

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Presents a multi-faceted anthology of profiles, commentary, essays, and reportage on the world's leading golfer, tracing Tiger Woods's golfing career in contributions by Gary Smith, Charles Pierce, Tom Boswell, Jim Murray, Maureen Dowd, Frank Deford, Ellen Goodman, and other notable writers. Original. 40,000 first printing.
By Frank Deford (editor) and Glenn Stout (editor)

Paperback:

9780306811241 | Da Capo Pr, April 3, 2002, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Presents a multi-faceted anthology of profiles, commentary, essays, and reportage on the world's leading golfer, tracing Tiger Woods's golfing career in contributions by Gary Smith, Charles Pierce, Tom Boswell, Jim Murray, Maureen Dowd, Frank Deford, Ellen Goodman, and other notable writers.

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Product Description: "I'm going to die," nine-year-old Christopher Dugan announced to his father one summer afternoon as they sat together on a hammock, eating popsicles and watching the loons floating on the nearby lake where they were vacationing.In obvious shock, Christopher's father replied incredulously, "What?""I'm going to die," Christopher repeated...read more
By Frank Deford (foreword by), Jeffrey S. Dugan and Mark J. Weisman (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9781581822397 | Cumberland House, October 1, 2001, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: "I'm going to die," nine-year-old Christopher Dugan announced to his father one summer afternoon as they sat together on a hammock, eating popsicles and watching the loons floating on the nearby lake where they were vacationing.

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Product Description: Whether Frank Deford is the voice you hear on National Public Radio's Morning Edition or the name you see in the Newsweek byline, you are sure to be highly entertained with the irreverent musings of this much-acclaimed sports mind...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9781572433601 | Triumph Books, May 1, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Profiles sports legends such as Bill Russell, Bobby Knight, and Dennis Rodman, and discusses with personal insight and humor issues such as soccer moms, team buses, and baseball caps.

Paperback:

9781572434363 | Reissue edition (Triumph Books, August 1, 2001), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Whether Frank Deford is the voice you hear on National Public Radio's Morning Edition or the name you see in the Newsweek byline, you are sure to be highly entertained with the irreverent musings of this much-acclaimed sports mind.

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A tribute to the many talented individuals who possess dignity, self-discipline, determination, bravery, and focus combines a spirited text with breathtaking personal photographs and includes famous people as well as lesser known individuals--all of whom inspire greatness.

Hardcover:

9781556709081 | Stewart Tabori & Chang, April 1, 1999, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A tribute to talented individuals who possess dignity, self-discipline, determination, bravery, and focus

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A father's account of his daughter's brief life details the extraordinary courage and spirit of his child, a victim of cystic fibrosis

Hardcover:

9780670111954 | Viking Pr, October 1, 1983, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: An account of his daughter's brief life details the extraordinary courage and spirit of his child, a victim of cystic fibrosis

Paperback:

9781558535527 | Rutledge Hill Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $13.98 | About this edition: A father's account of his daughter's brief life details the extraordinary courage and spirit of his child, a victim of cystic fibrosis
9780451151193 | Reissue edition (New Amer Library, May 1, 1987), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: An account of his daughter's brief life details the extraordinary courage and spirit of his child, a victim of cystic fibrosis

Raised as blood brothers, Cotton Drake, the son of American missionaries, and Japanese-born Kiyoshi Serikawa find their friendship shattered by war and the love of the beautiful Miyuki. Reprint.

Paperback:

9780786001224 | Reprint edition (Pinnacle Books, April 1, 1995), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Raised as blood brothers, Cotton Drake, the son of American missionaries, and Japanese-born Kiyoshi Serikawa find their friendship shattered by war and the love of the beautiful Miyuki.

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