Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Farewell to sport (books, many of them)

Madisonville's First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) is rummage selling Saturday. Christmas shoppers will find among the treasures outstanding gifts for the Louie Dampier and Butch Beard fans on their lists:

Basketball Stars of 1974
Pro Basketball '77-'78
All-Pro Basketball Stars 1978
Pro Basketball '74-'75
Basketball Stars of 1968
The Complete Handbook of Pro Basketball 1995
Basketball Stars of 1967
All-Pro Basketball Stars 1977
Basketball Stars of 1973
Basketball Stars of 1969
Major League Baseball 1975
Pro Basketball Superstars
All-Pro Basketball Stars 1976
Basketball Stars of 1971
Official Collegiate Basketball Record Book 1955
Basketball Stars of 1962
Baseball Stars of 1974
Bruce Weber's Inside Baseball 1991
1965 Official Baseball Almanac
Althea Gibson, I Always Wanted To Be Somebody
How to Play Cricket
The Golden Treasury of Chess
Sports Page
The Baseball Book 1990
NHL The World of Professional Ice Hockey
The Ice Men
Sports and Games in Art
The Great Sports Book
A Century of Sports
Sports in the Nation's Capital
Great Moments in American Sports
All-Pro Baseball Stars 1979
The Book of Sports Lists #2
Bartlett's World Golf Encyclopedia
The Official Associated Press Sports Almanac 1975
Baseball Stars of 1973
Hockey Stars of 1974
Hockey '75 Stars and Records
The Complete Handbook of Pro Hockey 1979 Edition
Pro Basketball Factbook 1972-1973
Pro Basketball Factbook 1973-1974
The Pocket Hockey Encyclopedia
A Sense of Where You Are, A Profile of Bill Bradley at Princeton
Guiness Book of Olympic Records
The New Encyclopedia of Sports
Profiles in Pennsylvania Sports
The Sports Encyclopedia Baseball
The XVII Olympic Winter Games Lillehammer 1994
Summer of '49
Tall Tales
Men at Work
The Breaks of the Game
Life on the Run
The Baseball Draft: 1965-1984
Biographical Dictionary of Anmerican Sports, Basketball and Other Indoor Sports
The Bill James Baseball Abstract 1985
Creative Sports Series, Track and Field
Ed Faulkner's Tennis
100 Great Moments in Sports
Ryan/Torre, Pitching & Hitting

5 comments:

  1. This is sad, but I've had to cut loose many similar books. I used to have every World Almanac back to 1976, and I had a complete set of all the ESPN Sports Almanacs back to when it was the Information Please Sports Almanacs -- but I had to let them all go.

    The one book I think you should keep is "A Sense of Where You Are." It doesn't take up very much space, and it's really good.

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  2. Upon further review, I will retain A Sense of Where You Are. You will not be charged a timeout.

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  3. Why did I give up the Lillehammer book? Why?!?

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    1. That's a shame -- Lillehammer was my favorite Winter Olympics ever.

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