Search Results: Sport from KALAMOS BOOKS

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Wellness Central, 2008 Book. As New. Soft cover. ARC/Advance Reading Copy. In the Fall of 2006, Dean Karnazes, known as the 'Lance Armstrong of the running world', took on the ultimate challenge: running 50 marathons in 50 states in 50 consecutive days. Dean set off in a caravan packed with fellow runners, with nothing more than a roadmap and a determination that defied all physical limitations. 50/50 goes beyond the incredible story of these 50 marathons. It is a firsthand, fascinating story of what it's like to push the limits of strength under grueling conditions - and how Dean Karnazes pulled off the extraordinary. This book is also packed with Dean's secrets that runners everywhere will want to know. These include what to do when you hit a wall, how to adapt quickly to drastic terrain, how to get motivated after a really tough day, and the best diet and exercise tips to improve your own best time. Complete with Dean's practical tips on building… Read More

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1984 Book. Fine. 1st Canadian Edition.. When Alison Gordon started covering the Blue Jays for The Toronto Star in 1979, the club was an unlikely collection of cast-offs and hangers-on. The pitching roster ...read like an eye chart and often threw as if they needed glasses. Holding the opposition hitless through the playing of both national anthems was considered a good outing. Five years later the Toronto team is the toast of baseball. And here is the inside story on the Blue Jays' flight to the top. Included are revealing profiles of some of today's leading stars...along with sketches of the memorable athletes... who toiled for Toronto when the low-flying Jays were in last place. Gordon had almost as difficult a time as the Blue Jays during her early years covering the Blue Jays during her early years covering the team. The appearance of a woman reporter in a locker room in 1979 caused some baseball old-timers to choke on their tobacco. Despite the… Read More

Wheaton IL: Quest books/Theosophical Publishing House, 2003 Book. As New. Soft cover. First Thus. "The Olympic Odyssey takes the reader on a mythic journey from the ancient to the modern Games, telling tales of gods, athletes, and coaches in all their splendid pageantry. But their fabled gold medals are only half the story. Author and life-long athlete Phil Cousineau's real fascination is for what Olympian Jesse Owens called the athlete's "inner life," the mysterious source of the drive, deeper than the one to win, to excel for an ideal beyond the self - transcending gender, race, nationality, and perhaps even the line between the human and the divine.. 257p. illus bibliography. index..

London: Darf Publishers Ltd, 1988 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st UK Edition.. Seriously researched but light-hearted account of the unlikely combination of cricket and the Greeks at Corfu. The list of visiting International cricketers is also impressive. Generously illustrated. 400p. illus [9 copies found in WorldCat].

Toronto: Chimo Publishing, 1977 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st.Canadian Edition.. 149p..