Make Your Own Exercise Equipment Wiley 1984 Submitter: This book was already weed-worthy just because of its age and lack of circulation; frankly, I’m not sure why anyone would want to make exercise equipment when you can buy almost-new equipment
Category: Sports, Games, and Exercise
Coaching, games, puzzles, sports, working out and training.
Fabulous Frisbee
Fabulous Frisbee Childers Schmitz 1978 Submitter: We JUST weeded it this week! Tube socks galore, and a listing of the 1977 Frisbee World Championship winners. Check out the barefoot guy in white jeans demonstrating catching stances. Holly: What the heck is
Are you ready for some football?
America’s First Football Game Swinburne 1978 Submitter: I don’t know what possessed anyone to buy this. There is not a single picture in the book that is well done. The jester playing football was my favorite. Oddly, this book has
Girls that kick butt
Self-Defense For Girls: A Secondary School and College Manual
Tegner & McGrath
1967
Submitter: Maybe not the most awful book, but the pictures are horribly outdated and I would feel embarrassed pulling it for a patron. Unless of course that patron was planning to have a rumble with the Jets and the Sharks. The author also offers this rather bitter sounding advice concerning the illusion of women kicking butt on tv shows: “Sad to say, the fights bear as little relationship to actual life as do the love scenes. Look not to the screen for guidance, girls.”
More Ovaltine, Please!
Big Book of Family Games Meyer 1967 This book is just too sickeningly sweet to be real! It’s old and lame. Wrong? No. Just outdated. There are a few games in it that require “a lady’s hankie” (when was the
Hanging Out
Hanging Out: The Upside Down Exercise Book Jay & Rappaport 1983 I’m not a doctor, and I’m not a trainer. Doing inversion exercises might just be the best thing ever. This book still has a ridiculous cover. You have to
I wonder what’s up with the “Juice” since 1977?
The Picture Life of O.J.Simpson Jameson 1977 I bet there are few pictures missing from this picture biography of O.J.’s life. I wonder if today’s kids remember that he was a football player? Biography is tough nut for me. I personally