<div><P>A new superstar appeared on the American sports landscape in the spring of 2006. Barbaro, a three-year-old racehorse, won the Kentucky Derby by the largest margin of victory in sixty years, stirring talk of a possible Triple Crown. But in the opening yards of the Preakness Stakes two weeks later, the magnificent animal suffered a catastrophic leg injury that ended his un-defeated career and left him fighting for his life.</P><P>One of the world's top jockeys, Edgar Prado rode Barbaro to glory and then stood beside him for months as the horse valiantly struggled to survive. <I>My Guy Barbaro</I> is the true story of the dream that carried Prado from an impoverished childhood in Lima, Peru, to the winner's circles of the world's greatest racetracks&#8212;and is the heartwarming account of his love for a beautiful, talented, irreplaceable teammate. </P></div>

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<div><P>The Great Match Race is a captivating account of America's first sports spectacle, a horse race that pitted North against South in three grueling heats. On a bright afternoon in May 1823, an unprecedented sixty thousand people showed up to watch two horses run the equivalent of nine Kentucky Derbys in a few hours' time. Eclipse was the majestic champion representing the North, and Henry, an equine arriviste, was the pride of the South. Their match race would come to represent a watershed moment in American history, crystallizing the differences that so fundamentally divided the country. The renowned sportswriter John Eisenberg captures all the pulse-pounding drama and behind-the-scenes tensions in a page-turning mix of history, horse racing, and pure entertainment.</P></div>

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<div><B>The story of a team, a town, and a leader: Vince Lombardi&rsquo;s first year as head coach of the Green Bay Packers, and how he turned them into a powerhouse.</B><BR />  <BR /> The once-vaunted Green Bay Packers were a laughingstock by the late 1950s. They hadn&rsquo;t fielded a winning team in more than a decade, and were close to losing their franchise to another city. They were in desperate need of a savior&mdash;and he arrived in a wood-paneled station wagon in the dead of winter from New York City.<BR />  <BR /> In a single year, Vince Lombardi&mdash;the grizzled coach who took no bull&mdash;transformed a team of underachievers into winners and resurrected a Wisconsin city known for its passion for sport. He would lead them to championship to championship, and bring out the best in players including Bart Starr, Jim Taylor, Willie Davis, Forrest Gregg, and many more. From an award-winning sportswriter, <I>That First Season</I> is &ldquo;a compelling read about perhaps the most compelling coach ever to stride an NFL sideline&rdquo; (<I>Washington Times</I>).<BR />  <BR /> &ldquo;Richly detailed in seamless prose, this is historical sportswriting at its finest.&rdquo;&mdash;Lars Anderson, <I>New York Times</I> bestselling author of <I>The Mannings: The Fall and Rise of a Football Family</I><BR />  </div>

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<div><B>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s every bit as fascinating to read about the battles between the Cowboys and the Texans as it is to follow today&rsquo;s never-ending NFL dramas.&rdquo; &mdash;Mike Florio, ProFootballTalk</B><BR /><BR /> In the 1960s, on the heels of the &ldquo;Greatest Game Ever Played,&rdquo; professional football began to flourish across the country&mdash;except in Texas, where college football was still the only game in town. But in an unlikely series of events, two young oil tycoons started their own professional football franchises in Dallas the very same year: the NFL&rsquo;s Dallas Cowboys, and, as part of a new upstart league designed to thwart the NFL&rsquo;s hold on the game, the Dallas Texans of the AFL. Almost overnight, a bitter feud was born.<BR />  <BR /> The team owners, Lamar Hunt and Clint Murchison, became Mad Men of the gridiron, locked in a battle for the hearts and minds of the Texas pigskin faithful. Their teams took each other to court, fought over players, undermined each other&rsquo;s promotions, and rooted like hell for the other guys to fail. A true visionary, Hunt of the Texans focused on the fans, putting together a team of local legends and hiring attractive women to drive around town in red convertibles selling tickets. Meanwhile, Murchison and his Cowboys focused on the game, hiring a young star, Tom Landry, in what would be his first-ever year as a head coach, and concentrating on holding their own against the more established teams in the NFL. Ultimately, both teams won the battle, but only one got to stay in Dallas and go on to become one of sports&rsquo; most quintessential franchises&mdash;&rdquo;America&rsquo;s Team.&rdquo;<BR />  <BR /> In this highly entertaining narrative, rich in colorful characters and unforgettable stunts, Eisenberg recounts the story of the birth of pro-football in Dallas&mdash;back when the game began to be part of this country&rsquo;s DNA.</div>

Ten-Gallon War

<div><P><B>&ldquo;A line-drive hit of a book&rdquo; about the Iron Horse and the Iron Man&mdash;two legends from two eras of baseball&mdash;and the nature of human endurance (<I>The Wall Street Journal</I>).</B></P><P>When Cal Ripken Jr. began his career with the Baltimore Orioles at age twenty-one, he had no idea he would someday beat the historic record of playing 2,130 games in a row, a record set forty-two years before by the fabled &ldquo;Iron Horse&rdquo; of the New York Yankees, Lou Gehrig. Ripken went on to surpass that record by 502 games, and the baseball world was floored. </P><P>Few feats in sports history have generated more acclaim. But the record spawns an array of questions. When did someone first think it was a good idea to play in so many games without taking a day off? Who owned the record before Gehrig? Whose streak&mdash;Gehrig&rsquo;s or Ripken&rsquo;s&mdash;was the more difficult achievement? Through probing research, meticulous analysis, and colorful parallel storytelling, <I>The Streak</I> delves into this impressive but controversial milestone, unraveling Gehrig&rsquo;s at-times unwitting pursuit of that goal (Babe Ruth used to think Gehrig crazy for wanting to play every game), and Ripken&rsquo;s fierce determination to stay in the lineup and continue to contribute whatever he could even as his skills diminished with age. So many factors contribute to the comparisons between the two men: the length of seasons, the number of teams in the major leagues, the inclusion of nonwhite players, travel, technology, medical advances, and even media are all part of the equation. This is a book that captures the deeply American appreciation&mdash;as seen in the sport itself&mdash;for a workaday mentality and that desire to be there for the game every time it called.</P>&ldquo;It tackles the allure of human endurance and the pitfalls of fame, but it is mostly a baseball book for baseball fans. It succeeds as both a thorough accounting and a love note to the game.&rdquo;&mdash;<I>The Washington Post</I></div>

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The Great Match Race

That First Season

Ten-Gallon War

The Streak

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