Category: Sports, Games, and Exercise
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Leisure Suit Lotus
Yoga: The 8 steps to health and peace Hittleman 1975 Submitter: I have a submission for a book I just weeded from our collection. We are a suburban community college located outside of Philadelphia. I found this gem in the Nursing section of our library’s collection. The contents of the…
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Workout at the Office
Quick Workouts: Fitness Anytime, Anywhere Time-Life Books 1987 Submitter: This book is currently on the shelves at a local public library. Who knew people in the 1980’s were so busy that they had to fit in exercise while waiting for the commuter train or even an elevator? I guess I just assumed…
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The Sport of a Lifetime
Roller Skating: The Sport of a Lifetime Waugh and larsen 1979 Submitter: The chapters on the history of skating are interesting, but at this point the entire book is historical! This title has not checked out once in the past eight years. I doubt patrons will miss it from the…
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Serious Frisbee Only!
Frisbee A practitioner’s manual and definitive treatise Johnson 1975 This book purports to be “the” book on Frisbee. (Quick, run over to the 700s and check your Frisbee collection!) From my own faulty memory of the 1970s and early 80s, Frisbee started getting “serious” with the sporting aspects, including competitions…
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Cat Flexing
Cat Flexing A Catlover’s Guide to Weight Training, Aerobics and Stretching Jackson 1993 What’s not to love? Cats and exercise! I am trying to imagine ANY of the cats I know that would ALLOW this kind of human behavior and I am coming up empty. I am certain that there…
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Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack
Jump Rope Rhymes McGee 1968 Submitter: This was a donation, apparently removed from some other library many years ago, and someone thought we just might like it. It looks ancient and dirty (I had to majorly improve some of the images so they’re readable), smells very strongly (and not in…
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