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Books for the Sports Fan

Kelli Dean
Outreach Services Manager

Reading about sports can be almost as exciting as watching them.  Here are some of my favorites.

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100 yards of glory : the greatest moments in NFL history [1]
by Garner, Joe.

Length: 320 p. :

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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston : 2011.
[1]
by Garner, Joe.

Length: 320 p. :

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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston : 2011.
And the crowd goes wild : relive the most celebrated sporting events ever broadcast [2]
by Garner, Joe.

Length: xi, 179 p. :

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Publisher: Sourcebooks, Naperville, IL : c1999.
[2]
by Garner, Joe.

Length: xi, 179 p. :

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Publisher: Sourcebooks, Naperville, IL : c1999.
Bragging rights : a season inside the SEC football's toughest conference [3]
by Ernsberger, Richard.

Length: 344 p. :

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Publisher: M. Evans and Co., New York : 2000.
[3]
by Ernsberger, Richard.

Length: 344 p. :

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Publisher: M. Evans and Co., New York : 2000.
Dixieland delight : a football season on the road in the Southeastern Conference [4]
by Travis, Clay.

Length: viii, 367 p., [8] p. of plates :

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Publisher: Harper Entertainment, New York : c2007.
[4]
by Travis, Clay.

Length: viii, 367 p., [8] p. of plates :

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Publisher: Harper Entertainment, New York : c2007.
Seabiscuit [DVD] [5]

Length: 1 videodisc (2 hr. 21 min.) :

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Publisher: Universal, Universal City, CA : c2003.
[5]

Length: 1 videodisc (2 hr. 21 min.) :

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Publisher: Universal, Universal City, CA : c2003.
The horse God built : the untold story of Secretariat, the world's greatest racehorse [6]
by Scanlan, Lawrence.

Length: xii, 335 p. :

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Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, New York : 2007.
[6]
by Scanlan, Lawrence.

Length: xii, 335 p. :

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Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, New York : 2007.
The last great game : Duke vs. Kentucky and the 2.1 seconds that changed basketball [7]
by Wojciechowski, Gene.

Length: 310 p. :

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Publisher: ESPN Books/Blue Rider Press, New York : 2012.
[7]
by Wojciechowski, Gene.

Length: 310 p. :

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Publisher: ESPN Books/Blue Rider Press, New York : 2012.
Those guys have all the fun : inside the world of ESPN [8]
by Miller, James A.

Length: xv, 763 p. :

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Publisher: Little, Brown and Co., New York : 2011.
[8]
by Miller, James A.

Length: xv, 763 p. :

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Publisher: Little, Brown and Co., New York : 2011.
Through my eyes [9]
by Tebow, Tim

Length: xi, 260 p. :

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Publisher: HarperCollins, New York : c2011.
[9]
by Tebow, Tim

Length: xi, 260 p. :

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Publisher: HarperCollins, New York : c2011.
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