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    Nonfiction
    Amer­i­can Jews and Amer­i­ca’s Game
    Lar­ry Ruttman
    Nonfiction
    Embody­ing Hebrew Cul­ture: Aes­thet­ics, Ath­let­ics, and Dance in the Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ty of Man­date Palestine
    Nina S. Spiegel
    Nonfiction
    Hank Green­berg: The Hero of Heroes
    John Rosen­gren
    Nonfiction
    Ajax, the Dutch, the War: The Strange Tale of Soc­cer Dur­ing Europe’s Dark­est Hour
    Simon Kuper
    Nonfiction
    The Mag­nif­i­cent Sea­sons: How the Jets, Mets, and Knicks Made Sports His­to­ry and Uplift­ed a City and the Country
    Art Shamsky;Barry Zeman
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    God on the Start­ing Line: The Tri­umph of a Catholic School Run­ning Team and Its Jew­ish Coach
    Marc Bloom
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    Judais­m’s Encounter with Amer­i­can Sports
    Jef­frey S. Gurock
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    All Those Mornings..at the Post: The 20th Cen­tu­ry in Sports From Famed Wash­ing­ton Post Columnist
    Shirley Povich
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    Jew­ish Major Lea­guers in Their Own Words: Oral His­to­ries of 23 Players
    Peter Ephross with Mar­tin Abramowitz
    Children's
    The Match­less Six: The Sto­ry of Canada’s First Wom­an’s Olympic Team
    Ron Hotchkiss
    Nonfiction
    Full Swing: Hits, Runs and Errors in a Writer’s Life
    Ira Berkow
    Nonfiction
    Des­ig­nat­ed Hebrew: The Ron Blomberg Story
    Ron Blomberg, As Told To Dan Schlossberg
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    Jew­ish Jocks: An Unortho­dox Hall of Fame
    Franklin Foer and Marc Tra­cy , eds.
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    Road To Val­or: A True Sto­ry of WWII Italy, the Nazis, and the Cyclist Who Inspired a Nation
    Aili and Andres McConnon
    Nonfiction
    Jews, Sports, and the Rites of Citizenship
    Jack Kugel­mass, ed.
    Nonfiction
    Branch Rick­ey: Base­bal­l’s Fero­cious Gentleman
    Lee Lowen­fish
    Children's
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    Time-out: Sports Sto­ries as a Game Plan for Spir­i­tu­al Success
    Dov Moshe Lipman
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    Pass­ing Game: Ben­ny Fried­man and the Trans­for­ma­tion of Football
    Mur­ray Greenberg
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    The Echo­ing Green: The Untold Sto­ry of Bob­by Thom­son, Ralph Bran­ca and the Shot Heard Round the World
    Joshua Prager
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