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With the success of The Netherlands in the World Baseball Classic, baseball in Europe has begun to receive more attention. But few realize just how far back the sport's history stretches on the continent. Baseball has been played in Europe since the 1870s, and in several countries the players and devoted followers have included royalty, Hall of Famers from the U.S. major leagues, and captains of industry. Featuring approximately 80 new interviews and 70 new photos and images, this second edition builds extensively on the previous edition's country-by-country histories of more than 40 European nations. Also included are two new appendices on European players signed by MLB organizations and European countries' performance in worldwide rankings.

This lavishly illustrated book charts the history of European tractors from early farming, when the carthorse was being replaced by primitive machinery, through to today's sophisticated tractors that can almost compete with sports cars in terms of looks and performance. It will feature names now long-forgotten, as well as modern makes, and companies better known as car manufacturers such as Citrodn, Mercedes-Benz, Ford, Fiat, Renault and Lamborghini.

With the success of The Netherlands in the World Baseball Classic, baseball in Europe has begun to receive more attention. But few realize just how far back the sport's history stretches on the continent. Baseball has been played in Europe since the 1870s, and in several countries the players and devoted followers have included royalty, Hall of Famers from the U.S. major leagues, and captains of industry. Featuring approximately 80 new interviews and 70 new photos and images, this second edition builds extensively on the previous edition's country-by-country histories of more than 40 European nations. Also included are two new appendices on European players signed by MLB organizations and European countries' performance in worldwide rankings.

John MacGregor (1825-1892) John MacGregor, through his extremely popular books and magazine articles from 1865 to 1892, practically invented the sport of canoeing (or kayaking, we would call it today). One correspondent tells us MacGregor spent part of his youth in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where his father was stationed in the '30s in a fort. He may have picked up some canoeing experience there. He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, earned an M. A., and became a barrister-at-law in the Temple, London. He formed and became Captain of the Royal Canoe Club, England. From reading his books you will notice he carried in his canoe a number of religious tracts (in this movement called "Muscular Christianity") written in the local language and was always ready to hand them out. He did not travel on Sundays, but did lecture on his travels and gave much of the profits to charities, especially to boys in the inner cities. He published accounts of several other canoe cruises, including one to Scandinavia and another to Jordan and Egypt. We have seen the Baltic cruise book but haven't had time to scan it yet. The appendix to that book gives some construction details for his canoe designs.

When you talk about football in Europe, everybody thinks you mean soccer. American football is still a developing sport in Europe, despite having a centennial history behind it. Packed with game scores and interesting anecdotes, “Touchdown in Europe”, by Massimo Foglio and Mark L. Ford, tells the story of the first 85 years of American football in Europe from the very beginning : Thanksgiving Day, 1897, near Paris, France, when the gridiron game made its first appearance. During the 20th century there had been a few attempts to introduce Europeans to the game. For the most part, though, football had been confined inside American military bases, especially after World War Two, when American presence on European soil was at its greatest number. Finally, gridiron football in Europe developed as a local sport, thanks to some individuals in Austria, Finland, Germany, Italy and Norway in the late 1970s, and now the game is played throughout the entire continent with a multitude of championship, leagues, teams and competition. “Touchdown in Europe” isn't about the present status of the game in Europe. Instead, it's the little-known story of the first 80 years of trying to introduce the sport as something to be organized by, played by, and enjoyed by Europeans. At 276 pages, it's filled with stories and information never before published before in book form.

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"A Sport and a Pastime is as nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," Reynolds Price wrote of James Salter's 1967 novel that tells of the mismatched love affair between Phillip Dean, a Yale dropout adrift in Europe, and Anne-Marie Costallat, a young French shopgirl. An erotic tour de force, licentious yet pure, it is also a hymn to provincial France and has been admired and quoted from since its first publication. Its stunning knowledge and insight have the power to change lives.        It brings a kind of splendor to the life that refuses to bow to conven-tion or mores, and, like Cavafy's poems, evokes the illicit in a way that endows it with an astonishing beauty. Brilliantly written and overwhelming in its effect, it remains a triumph on every level.

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New. US edition. Expediting shipping for all USA and Europe orders excluding PO Box. Excellent Customer Service.

New. US edition. Expediting shipping for all USA and Europe orders excluding PO Box. Excellent Customer Service.

New. US edition. Expediting shipping for all USA and Europe orders excluding PO Box. Excellent Customer Service.

New. US edition. Expediting shipping for all USA and Europe orders excluding PO Box. Excellent Customer Service.

New. US edition. Expediting shipping for all USA and Europe orders excluding PO Box. Excellent Customer Service.

New. US edition. Expediting shipping for all USA and Europe orders excluding PO Box. Excellent Customer Service.

New. US edition. Expediting shipping for all USA and Europe orders excluding PO Box. Excellent Customer Service.

New. US edition. Expediting shipping for all USA and Europe orders excluding PO Box. Excellent Customer Service.

New. US edition. Expediting shipping for all USA and Europe orders excluding PO Box. Excellent Customer Service.

New. US edition. Expediting shipping for all USA and Europe orders excluding PO Box. Excellent Customer Service.

New. US edition. Expediting shipping for all USA and Europe orders excluding PO Box. Excellent Customer Service.

A biography of Annika Sorenstam which introduces her athletic childhood in Sweden, her scholarship to the University of Arizona, and her success as a professional golfer in Europe and the U.S.