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Ice Hockey Made Simple: A Spectator's Guide (4th Edition) (Spectator Guide Series)
A perennial favorite now in its third edition, Ice Hockey Made Simple: A Spectator's Guide helps guide viewers through the rules of the fast-moving and often confusing sport of ice hockey. This book helps answer the questions the growing number of people who would like to learn about hockey are afraid to ask!! This soft-covered handbook covers everything a new fan needs to know to understand and appreciate hockey. Short, easy-to-understand chapters along with diagrams and action photographs explain: *The object of hockey *The simplified rules of the game *Strategy *What viewers should look for during the game *Biographies of famous hockey personalities, past and present
The book also helps guide the reader through the confusing jumble of numbers and statistics published in the sports page every day. The existing hockey fan will also be attracted to this book for its coverage of the lates t National Hockey League (NHL) rule changes and updated statistics. With the growing popu larity of this sport all over the United States, especially in California, Florida, Texas and Colorado where newly established teams are flourishing, this book is a must. Follow the action with this handy reference guide. A complete glossary and index makes finding information a snap Makes a great gift Pocket-sized - take it to the game .
Price: $7.44
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Ultimate Wine Tasting Kit
The editors at the distinguished Wine Spectator, America’s definitive publication on wine, reveal the secrets to tasting wine like the experts do, utilizing the magazine’s well-established 100-point system. This Ultimate Wine Tasting Kit contains everything necessary to conduct more than 25 different tastings, in addition to fundamental information about buying, storing, and serving wine. The comprehensive book-plus kit, designed for holding at-home blind tastings of wine for up to six participants, contains Harvey Steiman’s Essentials of Wine, Wine Spectator’s Pocket Guide to Wine and Quick Guide to Wine Tasting, bottle bags, tasting checklists, stemware tags, and bottle tags. It’s an impressive package, and there’s nothing else this complete in bookstores anywhere. With new, more efficient, and buyer-friendly packaging, we are bringing this exceptional kit back into our frontlist and have the opportunity to emphasize the high quality of its combined elements. .
Price: $17.93
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Fan Fare: A Playbook of Great Recipes for Tailgating or Watching the Game at Home
When your favorite team is playing, Debbie Moose's Fan Fare is the only book you'll need to tailgate at the big game or throw a party for friends at home, with 100 classic and regional recipes--and the stories and traditions behind them. Fan Fare includes favorites from around the country, from Jo Ann's Campfire Onion Blossoms--popular at NASCAR races, where tailgating often turns into a days-long campout--to bratwurst prepared just the way Green Bay Packers fans like it. It's organized into five chapters that cover every party of the game day feast: Kickoff (appetizers and snacks), Bowl Games (soups, beans, and chili), Hot Streak (entrées), Pit Stops (salads, sides, breakfast, and brunch), and Overtime (desserts and drinks). Moose has also included all the important tips for an impromptu home party or a carefully planned on-site tailgate, with information on food transport and safety, outdoor cooking techniques, suggested menus, and a calendar of sporting events, so there s a great excuse for a tailgate party any time of the year..
Price: $4.98
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The Great Philadelphia Fan Book
Philadelphia sports fans have a reputation as the roughest, toughest, most vocal and unruly fans in sports. Philly fans booed Santa, cheered, as Michael Irvin lay motionless on the Vet’s hard Astroturf Sports radio personalities Glen Macnow and Anthony Gargano tell the story from the Philadelphia fan’s perspective. In part a Philadelphia sports memoir, The Great Philadelphia Fan Book is also a historical and anecdotal account of the nation’s passionate sports fans centering around Philadelphia’s four major league teams. The authors mount a sturdy apologia that will be sure to delight Philadelphia sports fans and remind them of their unique and unabashed dedication to their hometown teams..
Price: $8.25
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Football Made Simple: A Spectator's Guide (4th Edition) (Spectator Guide Series)
Understanding this popular sport is easy with Football Made Simple: A Spectator's Guide. This easy-to-read guide, filled with illustrations and action photographs, contains everything for the fan and non-fan alike to understand and enjoy the sport of football, including: * The rules of football simplified * What to look for during play * NFL teams and playoffs * College football rules and bowl games * Introduction of fantasy leagues * Stars and great teams - past and present
Each section stands alone, so it can be used as a handy reference guide. Discover why football is America's most popular team sport! A complete glossary and index makes finding information a snap Makes a great gift Pocket-sized - take it to the game.
Price: $6.62
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Man Does Not Live by Sports Alone: Devotions for Men
A GODLY GAME PLANFOR THE MANLY MAN OK, guys, this book's for you. It's designed especially for manly men who love sports -- guys who'd rather watch Peyton Manning and Kurt Schilling than some fluffy chick flick. You're into NFL receivers, the best arms in the Majors, the best guards in the NBA, and NASCAR drivers But you're also a guy who tries to spend time in God's Word and get your plays called by theCoach upstairs. Dennis "The Swan" Swanberg has you and your sports-minded buddies in mind in Man Does Not Live by Sports Alone, because this upbeat, humorous book isn't just about guy stuff; it's also about God stuff. Thirty personal devotionals double as springboards for accountability-group discussion with your friends about God's playbook. Each devotional contains: • A Word from the Coach in a key Bible text • Warmups questions to ponder and sports-related quotes • Going Deep thought and heart challenges • Recap summaries and reinforcing scriptures • In the Huddle discussion starters • Game Plan life applications • And Game Notes pages to record your thoughts and responses This book offers a game plan for tackling the tough issues in the game of life and will help you do more than just stay in the game -- it will give you strategies for being a winner! It's not enough to be a manly man who talks about manly stuff.You've also got to be a godly man who talks and thinks about God stuff. When you do, you'll be a winner in the game of life. -- The Swan .
Price: $7.33
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Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer: A Journey into the Heart of Fan Mania
"Fresh and funny… St. John has crafter a winner.” — Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the AtticIn the life of every sports fan, there comes a moment of reckoning. It may happen when your team wins on a last-second field goal and you suddenly find yourself clenched in a loving embrace with a large hairy man you’ve never met. . . . Or in the long, hormonally depleted days after a loss, when you’re felled by a sensation similar to the one you first experienced following the death of a pet. At such moments the fan is forced to confront the question others—spouses, friends, children, and colleagues—have asked for years: Why do I care? What is it about sports that turns otherwise sane, rational people into raving lunatics? Why does winning compel people to tear down goalposts, and losing, to drown themselves in bad keg beer? In short, why do fans care? In search of the answers to these questions, Warren St. John seeks out the roving community of RVers who follow the Alabama Crimson Tide from game to game across the South. A movable feast of Weber grills, Igloo coolers, and die-hard superstition, these are characters who arrive on Wednesday for Saturday’s game: Freeman and Betty Reese, who skipped their own daughter’s wedding because it coincided with a Bama game; Ray Pradat, the Episcopalian minister who watches the games on a television set beside his altar while performing weddings; John Ed (pronounced as three syllables, John Ay-ud), the wheeling and dealing ticket scalper whose access to good seats gives him power on par with the governor; and Paul Finebaum, the Anti-Fan, a wisecracking sports columnist and talk-radio host who makes his living mocking Alabama fans—and who has to live in a gated community for all the threats he receives in response. In no time at all, St. John himself is drawn into the world of full-immersion fandom: he buys an RV (a $5,500 beater called The Hawg) and joins the caravan for a football season, chronicling the world of the extreme fan and learning that in the shadow of the stadium, it can all begin to seem strangely normal. Along the way, St. John takes readers on illuminating forays into the deep roots of humanity’s sports mania (did you know that tailgaters could be found in eighth-century Greece?), the psychology of crowds, and the surprising neuroscience behind the thrill of victory. Reminiscent of Confederates in the Attic and the works of Bill Bryson, Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer is not only a travel story, but a cultural anthropology of fans that goes a long way toward demystifying the universal urge to take sides and to win..
Price: $5.95
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Devotions from the World of Sports
How can you reach an enthusiastic young sports fan—particularly boys—with biblical truth? Try this daily devotional that is full of sports history, heroes, and anecdotes that direct teen readers to scriptural principles. .
Price: $1.49
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