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Breaking the Color Line: 1940 to 1946

By Library of Congress

In 1945, the Jim Crow policies of baseball changed forever when Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson of the Negro League's Kansas City Monarchs agreed to a contract that would bring Robinson into the major leagues in 1947.

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Olympic Athletes Biles, Osaka Shift the Conversation on Mental Health | WSJ

Simone Biles’s withdrawal from competitions at the Tokyo Olympics has put renewed focus on mental health in sports. WSJ looks at how the stigma and treatment for athletes’ state of mind has shifted.

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Simone Biles
2021
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How this Sports Psychologist Trains NFL Players’ Brains | The Assist | GQ Sports

These days in the NFL, every team has a sports psychologist who looks out for the players’ mental health. Meet Mike Gervais, the sports psychologist for the Seattle Seahawks.

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2019
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This Is Your Brain on Sports: Beating Blocks, Slumps and Performance Anxiety for Good!

This book introduces the breakthrough concept of STSD (Sport Traumatic Stress Disorder). Grand and Goldberg have discovered that STSDs are the cause of most significant performance problems.

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David Grand, Alan Goldberg
2025
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The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Pure Performance

Michael Jordan credits George Mumford with transforming his on-court leadership of the Bulls, helping Jordan lead the team to six NBA championships. Mumford also helped Kobe Bryant, Andrew Bynum, and Lamar Odom and countless other NBA players turn around their games.

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George Mumford
2025
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Start Here: Master the Lifelong Habit of Wellbeing

Imagine being less stressed, more focused, and happier every day of your life. An instant New York Times bestseller, Start Here outlines a program designed to help you achieve emotional fitness by cross-training the skill of lifelong wellbeing.

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Eric Langshur, Nate Klemp
2017
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