Swim Speed Strokes for Swimmers and Triathletes: Master Butterfly, Backstroke, Breaststroke, and Freestyle for Your Fastest Swimming

In her best-selling book Swim Speed Secrets, 4-time Olympian and gold medalist Sheila Taormina revealed the freestyle swimming technique secret used by the world’s fastest swimmers. Now in Swim Speed Strokes, Taormina shows how swimmers can swim their fastest in all four competitive swimming strokes; backstroke, butterfly, breaststroke, and freestyle.

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Walking the Gallipoli Peninsula: Making the Most of Your Visit to the Battlefields

Tony Wright stuffed a copy of his great-uncle George's Gallipoli diary into his backpack and set out from Sydney to discover how and why thousands of young Australians and New Zealanders make the trek to the Gallipoli Peninsula every year. Walking on the Gallipoli Peninsula is the moving, inspiring and very practical resulta roadmap to the heart of the Gallipoli experience. Anyone who has ever dreamed of traveling to Turkey and walking the battlefields so seared in the Australian and New Zealand consciousness will find this a useful guide to making the most of their visit. It is likely that before you have reached the last chapter you will feel like packing your own bag, because this is a travel adventure so entertaining and informative that it wills the reader to follow the author's every footstep.

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101 Baseball Places to Visit Before You Strike Out

A collection of travel essays offers ardent baseball fans a definitive guide to must-see locales among the thousands of baseball shrines, attractions, gravesites, and more, including such landmarks as the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center, the Field of Dreams movie set, the Jackie Robinson Center, and Shoeless Joe Jackson Memorial Park.

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Ben Hogan: The Myths Everyone Knows, the Man No One Knew

Ben Hogan’s accomplishments on the golf course are the stuff of legends, but his life off it was exceedingly private. In this biography, author Tim Scott demonstrates why such public perception was not representative of Hogan’s personality, offering a firsthand glimpse into the famous golfer’s humor and sensitivity. Hogan wasn’t perfect, and many of his fine qualities were never made public until now, as Tim Scott shares his personal experience with Hogan as well as Hogan’s friends, family, and acquaintances. Along the way, a clearer picture emerges of Hogan as a man, a golfer, a friend, and a husband.

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Mr. America: The Tragic History of a Bodybuilding Icon

For most of the twentieth century, the “Mr. America” image epitomized muscular manhood. From humble beginnings in 1939 at a small gym in Schenectady, New York, the Mr. America Contest became the world’s premier bodybuilding event over the next thirty years. Rooted in ancient Greek virtues of health, fitness, beauty, and athleticism, it showcased some of the finest specimens of American masculinity. Interviewing nearly one hundred major figures in the physical culture movement (including twenty-five Mr. Americas) and incorporating copious printed and manuscript sources, John D. Fair has created the definitive study of this iconic phenomenon. Revealing the ways in which the contest provided a model of functional and fit manhood, Mr. America captures the event’s path to idealism and its slow descent into obscurity. As the 1960s marked a turbulent transition in American society—from the civil rights movement to the rise of feminism and increasing acceptance of homosexuality—Mr. America changed as well. Exploring the influence of other bodily displays, such as the Mr. Universe and Mr. Olympia contests and the Miss America Pageant, Fair focuses on commercialism, size obsession, and drugs that corrupted the competition’s original intent. Accessible and engaging, Mr. America is a compelling portrayal of the glory days of American muscle.

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