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Philadelphia Eagles: Where Have You Gone?

An Original Six NHL member, the Broadway Blueshirts boast one of the most renowned histories in the last hundred years of North American professional hockey.

The Dallas Cowboys were dubbed Americas Team nearly forty years ago, and the label has stuck in the minds and hearts of football fans to this day.

This Day in Philadelphia Sports, first published in 2014 and now newly updated in paperback to cover events from the 201415 season, offers a concise 366-day approach to looking back at the history of Philadelphia sports.

For the first decade of the 21st century, the Baltimore Orioles were perpetual cellar dwellers, with losing seasons from 19982011fourteen straight years.

From 1991 through 2005, the Atlanta Braves did something no pro sports team can match, finishing in first place for fourteen consecutive seasons.

All parties seem to be in agreement that the rivalry between the University of Miami and the University of Florida is as nasty and historical as they come; going back to the thirties, its the state of Floridas oldest major rivalry.

From splitters to spitters; from a frozen rope to the suicide squeeze; from extra innings to no hitters, baseball is truly a great game.

Long before ';The Decision,' four MVP awards, and back-to-back NBA championships with the Miami Heat, LeBron James opened the 200304 season as an untested rookie with the Cleveland Cavaliers.

What do Mark Koenig, Red Rolfe, Frank Crosetti, Sandy Alomar, Bobby Murcer, Wayne Tolleson, and Derek Jeter all have in common?

Big league baseball would seem to have been a hard sell in 1942.

The Splendid Splinter, Teddy Ballgame, The Kidno matter the nickname, Ted Williams was one of the most accomplished hitters in baseball history.

In 2005, the National Hockey League adopted the shootout to settle ties in regular season games.

At age seventeen Joe Pepitone signed with the New York Yankees, and soon experts were predicting that he would be the teams next superstar.

The city of Columbus, Ohio, had always struggled to support any professional sports franchise.

It took me a day to learn [the knuckleball] and a lifetime to learn how to throw it for a strike.

During his twenty-four-year career, Ty Cobb was an MVP, Triple Crown-winner, twelve-time batting champion, and was elected in the inaugural ballot for the National Baseball Hall of Fame (along with Honus Wagner, Babe Ruth, Christy Mathewson, and Walter Johnson).

Former ESPN basketball commentator Digger Phelps is regarded as one of the most charismatic and opinionated analysts in the profession.

Virginia Techs Shayne Graham trots onto the field at West Virginia on November 6, 1999, with two thoughts in his mind.

The fever that is college basketball on Tobacco Road started from a small outbreak in Raleigh, North Carolina, when Indiana basketball legend Everett Case became the coach at N.

Legends of the Buffalo Bills, first published in 2003, is not only a story about a National Football League team.

Philadelphia Phillies fans are not casual about their favorite team or its players.

Ranking the best coaches in NFL history is no easy task.

Hank Aaron forever cemented his legacy in baseball when he surpassed the Babes home run record, but his impact reaches far beyond the diamond.

Phil Pepe spent years as the New York Daily News Yankee beat reporter, rubbing shoulders with countless Yankee greats, from Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra to Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera.

The annual NCAA Basketball Tournament, which has become known as ';March Madness' has emerged as a major sports event, matched only by the Super Bowl and the Olympics.

Hammerin Hank Greenberg was coming off a stellar season where hed hit 40 home runs and 184 RBIs, becoming only the thirteenth player to ever hit 40 or more homers (and one of only four players to have 40 or more home runs and 175 or more RBIs in a season).

How did an untrained former college football player end up in the middle of a ring, wrestling during the highest-rated segment during the WWEs acclaimed Attitude Era?

It was fitting that Alabama and Clemson put on one of college’s football’s greatest ever championship games on a magical January night in Glendale, Arizona, with a dazzling display of athleticism, power and heart.

More than a just a trivia book, So You Think Youre A Kentucky Basketball Fan challenges your knowledge of Wildcats basketball with stories behind each question and answer that brings the history of this legendary team to life.

So You Think Youre a Dallas Cowboys Fan?

Orange is a state of mind for fans of Syracuse University basketball.

The all-time roster of Michigan State University athletics reads like a whos who.

Bob Backlund began life as a poor farm boy in the little village of Princeton, Minnesota, with a population of just over 2,000 people.

One of the classic baseball stories, You Know Me Al, first published in 1914, tells the story of the fictional Jack Keefe, a bush league baseball player who earns a trip to the majors to pitch for the Chicago White Sox.

In Magnolias, Sweet Tea, and Exhaust, Carole Townsend goes to ground with NASCAR, following the races at Southern tracks from one to the next, learning about the sport and the culture of NASCAR as she goes.

Amazing Tales from the 2004 Boston Red Sox Dugout is a different kind of look back at the incredible championship seasonthrough the eyes of the players involved.

After an over 50-year drought, the New York Rangers defeated the Vancouver Canucks in a dramatic seven-game series to capture the Stanley Cup in 1994.

Longtime sportswriter and baseball fan Stan Fischler goes beyond the generic sports tale, recounting the funniest, most incredible stories from throughout the Great American Pastimes long history.

Bowl Full of Memories: 100 Years of Football at the Yale Bowl covers the Yale football from its inception in 1872 and pays tribute to the historic Yale Bowl, which celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2014.

From Art Modells founding of the Baltimore Ravens in 1996 to the decision to draft Ray Lewis and Jonathan Ogden, to victories in two Super Bowls in the past 15 years, the Baltimore Ravens short history has been full of highlights.

This Day in Philadelphia Sports offers a concise 366-day approach to looking back at the history of Philadelphia sports.

Basketball has evolved to one of the most commonly played sports worldwide.

In his forthright and honest autobiography, former St.

Five-Plus Tools is a scouting term that refers to a rare and elite type of amateur baseball prospect.

Who never heard of Johnny Vander Meers back-to-back no-hitters?

With five Division I national championships to its creditmost recently in 2012the mens hockey program at Boston College is a force to be reckoned with year after year.

On October 28, 1986, just one day after winning one of the most thrilling World Series in history, the New York Mets were feted by more than two million fans with a parade through the city.

'The story of an unforgettable season' Virgil van DijkThe definitive chronicle of Liverpool's footballing renaissance under Arne Slot, filled with exclusive interviews and unparalleled insightAn engrossing and inspiring account of a new manager's remarkable rise to prominence.