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R.R. Knudson and May Swenson

A collection of poems on sports, ranging from solo running, hunting, and fighting, to football and baseball from the spectator's point of view.

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Alex Monnig

Learn about the key players, the highs and lows of their seasons, and the long team history of the San Francisco 49ers that goes back for decades. The team has won five Super Bowls, and has won at least ten games each season from 1983 to 1998.

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Paul Robert Walker

A biography of the baseball superstar from Puerto Rico who, before his untimely death in a 1972 airplane crash, was noted for his achievements on and off the baseball field.

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D.C. Beard

A nostalgic re-print of a practical manual for a boy's life around the turn of the 20th century. Sadly, many of the activities in this book are out of reach for the modern boy. The manual assumes the reader lives if not in utter wilderness, at least within walking distance of nature; which is no longer the case for most urban or even suburban boys. Also, a lot of the projects for building things assume the boy has access to items which are no longer commonly to be found; wooden barrel lids for one. The book is not for these reasons useless; several activities, such as knot-tying, are still practical skills to learn. In areas that get snow in the winter, the directions for building snow forts and playing winter games are clear and the designs work. As a practical how-to manual or as a social history of childhood in America, the Handy Book is an enjoyable and useful book.