Download or read book A View from the Mound My Father s Life in Baseball written by T. J. Lewis and published by Tim Lewis. This book was released on 2009-04-06 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tale of a man who made a lifetime contribution to the all American game. How he touched the lives of thousands of young men and friends in their words and memories from high school baseball through the major leagues.The Biography of my dad, Joe "Skippy" Lewis. Interviews with Johnny Pesky, Alan Trammell, Mark "The Bird" Fidrych and More!!!!

Download or read book The Bird The Life and Legacy of Mark Fidrych written by Doug Wilson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lanky, mop-topped, and nicknamed for his resemblance to Big Bird on Sesame Street, Fidrych exploded onto the national stage during the Bicentennial summer as a rookie with the Detroit Tigers. He won over fans nationwide with his wildly endearing antics, but quickly emerged as one of the best pitchers in the game. Fidrych was named starting pitcher in the All-Star Game as a rookie and became the first athlete to appear on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. Wilson recounts Fidrych's meteoric rise, his heartbreaking fall after a torn knee ligament and then rotator cuff, and captures Fidrych's post-baseball life to his death in a freak accident in 2009.

Download or read book Hardscrabble Diamonds written by Colin Howell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part history, part memoir, part statistical analysis, this book tells the remarkable and largely forgotten story of how the baseball hotbed of Canada's northeastern Maritime provinces evolved into "NCAA North" during the 1940s and 1950s. A summer training ground for players from leading U.S. college programs, the region attracted talented players seeking higher salaries than they could get in the American minor league system. Major league organizations came to scout blue-chip prospects. In this competitive environment, only the best were able to crack the rosters of town teams in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Maine. A Quality of Competition Index for various northeast leagues provides major league equivalencies for selected players.

Download or read book Boy the Window written by Donald Earl Collins and published by . This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a preteen Black male growing up in Mount Vernon, New York, there were a series of moments, incidents and wounds that caused me to retreat inward in despair and escape into a world of imagination. For five years I protected my family secrets from authority figures, affluent Whites and middle class Blacks while attending an unforgiving gifted-track magnet school program that itself was embroiled in suburban drama. It was my imagination that shielded me from the slights of others, that enabled my survival and academic success. It took everything I had to get myself into college and out to Pittsburgh, but more was in store before I could finally begin to break from my past. "Boy @ The Window" is a coming-of-age story about the universal search for understanding on how any one of us becomes the person they are despite-or because of-the odds. It's a memoir intertwined with my own search for redemption, trust, love, success-for a life worth living. "Boy @ The Window" is about one of the most important lessons of all: what it takes to overcome inhumanity in order to become whole and human again.

Download or read book Cleburne Baseball A Railroader History written by Scott Cain and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly after Cleburne landed the largest railroad shops west of the Mississippi, it set its sights on securing a professional baseball team. Against the odds, Cleburne became a Texas League town in 1906. After the first championship, the Railroaders loaded a train and left Cleburne. The town's professional teams would amass two championships, three pennants and several legendary major league players, including Tris Speaker, before disappearing. Despite lacking a professional club, the town continued to field teams at all levels, until the Railroaders made their triumphant return in 2017. Scott Cain shares a century of Cleburne baseball, including the cowboys who gunned down fly balls to intimidate umps, the pro team that played the Chicago White Sox and the city councilman who was a scorekeeper for the Negro Leagues in the 1950s.

Download or read book Letters and Life written by Bret Lott and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2013-06-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing lays bare the soul. All serious writers know that each word reveals something significant about themselves, granting outsiders a glimpse at their most cherished beliefs and foundational convictions. In this series of intimate reflections on life and writing, critically acclaimed and best-selling novelist Bret Lott explores the author’s craft through five letters covering a range of fascinating topics, from exploring the value of literary fiction to discussing the humility of Flannery O’Connor. In the final and longest letter, Lott contemplates the death of his father and his struggle to convey his complicated thoughts and inexplicable emotions in words. Intensely personal and yet universally relatable, this powerful collection of essays will encourage and enrich writers and aspiring writers everywhere.

Download or read book I Set Before You Life and Death Blessings and Cursings written by Ronald Hoodenpyle and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-01-12 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I SET BEFORE YOU LIFE AND DEATH, BLESSINGS AND CURSINGS Within the Holy Scriptures of the Bible, you have no choice but to answer this question. No matter where you are at in your journey of life, this is the most important decision you will ever make. May you choose wisely and carefully. It matters not if you are rich or poor, educated or not; you are someone that is so special to the God who created the heavens and the earth that he provided you with his precious and only sacrifice that he will accept, the Lord Jesus Christ. As you journey with me through these pages and follow God's road map, you will see how the hand of God wants to deliver you from the many idols and distractions in life that send us down the wrong paths. In my pilgrimage, the Lord God has delivered me from a gang-infested neighborhood, a life-threatening disease, like cancer from asbestos, and has allowed me to see many miracles take place in my life. How he protected my family from a major drug ring that put a contract on us when they said, "Let's see if his God can protect him." Or has God given you a vision and assured you by his voice that you will not be tried, tested, or tempted any more than you can withstand, for the Lord your God shall make a way of escape for you"? Have you seen the Lord raise your wife or loved one from a brain aneurysm and was no longer breathing and did not have a heartbeat? He is no respecter of persons. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. As an ordinary man that has not been to college and does not have a degree or training in pastoral education but have been touched by the hand of the living God, "Woe is me!" I cried. "I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty" (Isaiah 6:5). The Lord is looking for a man or woman that is available to his call. May that be you.

Download or read book Small Town Heroes written by Hank Davis and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1993 successful psychologist and journalist Hank Davis undertook an epic journey exploring the atmosphere and culture of both minor league baseball and the small towns that embrace it. Davis shows us the warmth, quirkiness, and desperate energy of minor league ball, from encounters with future stars to those who would never make it to the ?show?; from the kids selling Cracker Jacks outside the park to the aging coaches who persevere out of sheer love for the game. As Davis says, ?the minor leagues are full of stories,? and he tells some of the best of them here. A new afterword by the author dis-cusses where the minor league players are now.

Download or read book Will You Die with Me written by Flores Alexander Forbes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid the social turmoil of the 1960s and ,70s, a young man in California found his purpose in the rise of the Black Panther Party, made a deadly mistake that cost him his freedom, and ultimately got his life back, having learned the true lessons of the Buddha Samurai. By the time Flores Forbes was twenty-five years old, he had just a GED and sixty college credits to his name. But he had gone far in his chosen profession as a revolutionary. In 1977, Forbes had been in the Black Panther Party for almost a decade and had become the youngest member of the organization's central committee. In this remarkable memoir, Forbes vividly describes his transformation from an angry youth into a powerful partisan in the ranks of the black liberation movement. Disillusioned in high school by the racism in his native San Diego, he began reading Black Panther literature. Drawn to the Panthers' mission of organizing resistance to police brutality, he eagerly joined and soon found himself immersed in a culture of Mao-inspired rigor. His dedication ultimately earned him a place in the Party's elite inner circle as assistant chief of staff, charged with heading up the "fold" -- the heavily armed military branch dubbed by Huey P. Newton the "Buddha Samurai." "My job was one of the most secretive in the party," writes Forbes, "and to this day most of the people who were in the Party over the years had not a clue as to what I really did..." With intimate portraits of such BPP leaders as Elaine Brown, Eldridge Cleaver, and Huey P. Newton, Will You Die with Me? is a riveting firsthand look at some of the most dramatic events of the last century and a brutally honest tale of one man's journey from rage to redemption.

Download or read book Bargaining with Baseball written by William B. Gould IV and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1995, William B. Gould IV, then chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, cast the deciding vote to obtain the injunction that ended the longest strike in baseball history. Sixteen years of peaceful relations between baseball labor and management have followed, as well as unprecedented prosperity in a relationship that had just endured 30 years of strikes and lockouts. This study, which clearly illustrates the practical impact of law on America's pastime, considers the 140-year sweep of labor-management relationships and conflict, exploring player-owner disputes, the development of free agency, the collective bargaining process, and the racial integration of baseball, among other topics. It concludes with a discussion of the "steroids era," the problem with maintaining Jackie Robinson's legacy in the 21st century, and globalization.

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Download or read book The Hall Ball written by Ralph Carhart and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rescued in 2010 from the small creek that runs next to Doubleday Field in Cooperstown, New York, a simple baseball launched an epic quest that spanned the United States and beyond. For eight years, "The Hall Ball" went on a journey to have its picture taken with every member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, both living and deceased. The goal? To enshrine the first crowd-sourced artifact ever donated to the Hall. Part travelogue, part baseball history, part photo journal, this book tells the full story for the first time. The narratives that accompany the ball's odyssey are as funny and moving as any in the history of the game.

Download or read book Focus On 100 Most Popular American League All Stars written by Wikipedia contributors and published by e-artnow sro. This book was released on with total page 1985 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Earth to Brockton written by Jay White and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is not written--and shared--may never exist after we are gone. We all have stories. There is something behind everything we do! Only we see it from our perspective, and what we don't say may never be recaptured. --Jay White Many of us go through life without writing down and sharing our stories. Once we are gone, the tales of our lives risk being lost to the ages. In his book Earth to Brockton, Jay White provides us with a memorable and entertaining narrative of a young man's exploits after leaving 1970s Brockton, moving to Maine, and launching sideways into adulthood. When Jay left for college in 1989, he wanted to pursue a life involved in baseball. He didn't cut it as a player. A few writing gigs and baseball statistical data entry positions and even graduation from professional umpire school bore no fruit. As it would be, life and plans do not always match. Instead, he had to regroup and find a recreated path (and a way to pay for his college degree). Jay ended up holding over forty mostly unrelated jobs in eight states and two countries. With very little money, much loneliness, and lots of adventure, he collected many stories worth sharing. During the global pandemic, while being restricted from friends and extended family and unable to share those stories in person, Jay produced this compilation to provide a healthy alternative to the daily news and the stressors endured by many. Jay entertains us with thoughtful, witty, and often humorous observations on his life's journey from the right field ball boy's stool at Fenway Park to the battlefields of the Middle East and beyond. He hopes to inspire you to write your own stories as he believes we can all learn from them. And he reminds you: your clock is ticking. Please enjoy!

Download or read book The Jewel of My Life written by Edward A. Nieto and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-01-26 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diana Nieto is a person of highest reputation as mother, educator and business woman. She had a degree in Biology and has a reputable record of accomplishments in the education field and self promoted business woman for more than 35 years. She married a Petroleum Engineer and had three wonderful sons and four beautiful grand-daughters. They enjoyed together a life plenty of excitement, adventure around the world and great interaction with outstanding people of different background and nationalities. She always has a positive and happy attitude, enjoyed life at the fullest, has fun while working or travelling, dedicated her life to her three sons, loved her four grandkids, surrounded by good and outstanding friends including her husband and always maintained a radian beautiful disposition toward everyone around her. In 2020, Diana's husband wrote her memories "The Jewel of my Life- Her Memoirs". The memoirs consist of stories of her post college time in Colombia, but focused primarily on her life in the USA and abroad. The writer main concern is to honor her legacy with love, care and appreciation. Diana's life has been an inspiration or exulting. It is a celebration to the author and to the graceful people surrounding her. For the writer it could not do it without being inspire and once he was inspired there was almost nothing he couldn't do.

Download or read book SO HELP ME GOD glimpses and glimmers of life written by Rosalind E. Frascona and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-06-23 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more information, please visit www.sohelpmegodrosalind.com YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7e4w6IA82E Rosalind is a survivor of sexual abuse as a child, vicious domestic violence, bigamy, and addiction. She candidly takes you to hospitals and courtrooms, through the passage ways of single parenting and care-giving simultaneously. In order to cope with the nightmare of choices taken from her, or foolish choices of her own, she travels down the road which leads to self-destruction. This memoir offers readers an intimate look into how one woman struggled with life’s seemingly unbearable hairpin curves, yet coped with them all through resilience and faith, finding redemption amid agony. Woven with love and craftily written, the author gives insight within the pages of SO HELP ME GOD, glimpses and glimmers of life. It is an honest account of one woman, who within her brokenness and solitude, searched for the courage to overcome life’s austerity. This is an inspiring true story that intertwines hope, forgiveness, healing and God’s perfect timing into one hard-to-put-down book

Download or read book Dick Enberg written by Dick Enberg and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2012-01-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the most recognizable voice in broadcasting get his start? By asking for a mop. In this humorous, poignant, and well written autobiography, Dick Enberg shares the stories behind the voice of sports in America. A tireless worker whose boyish enthusiasm for athletics has never diminished, Enberg ?rst walked into a radio station in 1956 to apply for a janitorial position. He wound up on the air instead and a legend was created. In the half-century that Enberg has been in the sportscasting business he has called everything from the World Series to the Super Bowl. Traveling across the country and around the world, Enberg has called football games in weather so frigid that his coffee froze before he could drink it, been challenged to a ?ght by an irate baseball player, led the Notre Dame band in a rendition of “The 1812 Overture,” and been threatened with ejection at Wimbledon because he was shouting too loudly into his microphone. Those stories and hundreds more are told in Dick Enberg: Oh My! with wit and candor, as Enberg not only relives some of sports’ greatest moments, but takes readers into the booth and behind the camera. “Sportscasting is a kid’s dream come true,” he says, “which is one of the reasons that I keep doing it. I can’t let my dream go. I’m still in love with what I do.”