The Fishing Boat: Use the Secrets of the Pros to Select and Outfit Your Boat

The trailerable fishing boat is the single largest financial investment made by anglers in pursuit of their sport. Yet, despite a cascade of claims from sellers and manufacturers of boats and boating accessories, there’s little objective information about how to choose and outfit a boat for maximum fishing efficiency, satisfaction, and safety. With full-color photos throughout, this book gives plain-spoken and reliable advice, covering topics from rod holders to live wells, outboards to trolling motors. Every boating angler will benefit from this book by increased enjoyment of time on the water—and by getting more and bigger fish aboard.

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The Coolest Race on Earth: Mud, Madmen, Glaciers, and Grannies at the Antarctica Marathon

The Coolest Race on Earth is both Hanc’s story and the story of the Antarctica Marathon, first held in 1995 and now an annual event that sells out years in advance. It’s full of humor, adventure, and inspiring characters--including a wheelchair-bound competitor, three record-breaking grandmothers, and an ex-Marine who described the race as “the hardest thing I ever did in my life, next to Vietnam.”

Muddy, cold, hilly, the race is by all accounts horrible--up and down a melting glacier twice, past curious penguins and hostile skuas, and finally to a bleak finish line. Even the best runners take longer to run the Antarctica Marathon than any other.

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Bowled over: Big-Time College Football from the Sixties to the BCs Era

Former college and professional football player Oriard explores a wide range of trends that have changed the face of college football and transformed the role of the student-athlete. He gives close attention to decisions by the NCAA in the early 1970s that helped transform student-athletes into athlete-students and turned the college game into a virtual farm league for professional football. The relentless necessity to pursue revenue, he argues, undermines attempts to maintain academic standards, and it fosters a football culture in which athletes are both excessively entitled and exploited.

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Deep Drive

In 2007, Red Sox third baseman Mike Lowell triumphed over a lifetime of adversity when he led the world‚'s most zealously followed baseball team to the promised land, with their second World Series title in four years. But there was much more to the story than what happened on that October night.

From his family‚'s battle to escape Cuba and the Castro regime, to the ups and downs of his baseball career, to his battle with testicular cancer, this is the story of a man who overcame every challenge thrown at him to become one of the best third basemen in baseball‚ and a true role model for his millions of fans.

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Step by Step: A Pedestrian Memoir

Before Lawrence Block was the author of bestselling novels featuring unforgettable characters such as the hit man Keller, private investigator Matthew Scudder, burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, and time traveler Evan Tanner, he was a walker.

As a child, he walked home from school (mostly because he couldn't ride a bike). As a col-lege student, he walked until he was able to buy his first car (a deep blue 1950 Chevrolet coupe named Pamela, after the Samuel Richardson novel). As an adult, he ran marathons until he discovered what would become a lifelong obsession—never mind if some people didn't think it was a real sport—racewalking.

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Character Driven: Life, Lessons, and Basketball

A three-time NBA champion reveals the Christian faith and family values that shaped his successful career and personal life, describing his achievements, his decision not to play in the 2007 playoffs when his daughter required treatment for a rare form of eye cancer, and his return to the Los Angeles Lakers.

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Basic Trap and Skeet Shooting: All the Skills and Gear You Need to Get Started

The sport of trap and skeet shooting is described in detail for the beginning or experienced shooter. Includes instructions on how to safely handle firearms, load and unload shotguns, determine dominant eye, swing toward the target, follow through, and more. Hundreds of full-color photographs illustrate how to successfully participate in these traditional shotgun sports. Complete with a chapter on gear to get started, this easy-to-use guide covers everything from choosing and transporting a shotgun to setting a stance and ultimately breaking the clays.

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Harvard Beats Yale 29-29: The Story of the Most Famous Football Game Every Played in the Ivy League...as Told by the Players

Recounts the dramatic 1968 final-game showdown between the undefeated ivy-league contenders as remembered by athlete participants, describing the contributions of Doonesbury-satirized Yale quarterback Brian Dowling and Harvard lineman and future Hollywood star Tommy Lee Jones.

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Gridiron Gauntlet: The Story of the Men Who Integrated Pro Football, in Their Own Words

One year before Jackie Robinson broke the color line in major league baseball, four black players joined the Cleveland Browns and Los Angeles Rams to become the first African-American pro football players in the modern era. Players who began their careers from 1946 to 1955 reminisce about the violence they faced on and off the field, the world of segregation and the violence it brought, but also of white players and coaches who assisted and supported their careers.

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Spies In The Deer Woods: How to Hunt Game and Monitor Wildlife With a Scouting Camera

One of the hottest new tools for hunters, the scouting camera has become a deer hunter's best friend. Scouting cameras, triggered by heat and motion, provide clues to the habits and whereabouts of deer travelling through your favourite hunting area. Wildlife watchers and families are using these cameras, too, because they enjoy knowing what passes by when no one is around. The authors give advice on how to buy the right camera, how to set it up in the optimal location, how to encourage wildlife to visit, and how to interpret the photos you get. "Spies in the Deer Woods" is full of ideas on how to use these cameras to scout out your next big buck or bear.

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