Download or read book Big League Babble On written by John Gallagher and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2017-11-18 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many of John Gallagher’s broadcasting contemporaries went home to the suburbs at the end of the day, Gallagher threw himself fully into the kind of nightlife the average Joe could only dream of. He dishes dirt and names names in this salacious memoir of a career lived on the edge.

Download or read book Big League Babble On written by John Gallagher and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2017-11-18 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veteran radio and television personality John Gallagher’s salacious, voracious, and dangerously delicious memoirs of a life lived on the edge in the midst of some of the world’s biggest celebrities. Long-time sportscaster John Gallagher has had close to four decades of hosting some of the top-rated radio and TV shows in Canada and, while he was at it, doing enough drugs to wipe out a small village. Along the way there was plenty of drinking, cavorting, and gallivanting with some of the coolest, biggest, and baddest sports stars and Hollywood celebs around. In Big League Babble On, John spares no one, not even himself. Read about his nights boozing with the likes of Tony Curtis, Stevie Nicks, Colin Farrell, and Leafs head coach Pat Burns. Find out how partying with Gallagher saved Mark Wahlberg’s life. Or how he once came a little too close to Princess Di. And the time Muhammad Ali stole John’s Penthouse magazine ... for the articles. Gallagher is a pop culture Cuisinart and a walking — but mostly talking — sports almanac. From hot tubbing with Wendel Clark to his friendship and falling-out with Robbie Alomar, Gallagher has met (and often partied with) all of the greats. This book is your backstage pass.

Download or read book Lefty O the Big League written by Burt L. Standish and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Little Book of Big League Dreams written by T. K. Lynn and published by RICHER Press. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Little Book of Big League Dreams is full of baseball fundamentals and inspiring nuggets for players, parents and coaches. The small but hearty handbook explodes with a collection of cultivated, curated, and considered information that takes a unique look as some of the fundamentals of baseball and at some corresponding fundamentals of life.

Download or read book The Big League written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A baseball game between two neighborhood teams could mean membership in the Big League for one of them.

Download or read book Busting Em and Other Big League Stories written by Tyrus Raymond Cobb and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... escape route if he so desired. But the fear of fire was not his real reason for this attitude, as later developed. Jennings found his man looking heavy eyed and falling off in his batting one season, and began to suspect that he was not taking the best of care of himself. Therefore, he set a watch on him to see that he went to bed in good time. When Jennings kicked to him about his sluggishness, he complained that he was ill. "I believe," he said, "that I must have a touch of malaria, and it has taken all the 'pep' out of me." One night this particular player, who had been loafing around the lobby of a hotel talking to Jennings, finally rose, stretched, yawned, and said: "Well, me for the hay to see if I can't get back some of this old ' pep.'" "That's the stuff," answered "Hughie," heartily. The player walked to the elevator in full view of the manager and climbed aboard. After watching the elevator for a while, Jennings met some friends and went off to a quiet place where they fell to discussing baseball so vigorously that the meeting was not terminated until about four o'clock in the morning. While Jennings was waiting to ascend in the elevator in which the boy was sleeping while it was stopped at some upper story, he saw a familiar figure roll into the lobby. Jennings ducked behind one of those property palms that you find in every hotel lobby where the player could not see him. Then he waited until the wanderer had pushed the elevator button three or four times. At last, the boy was awakened, and the car appeared. Jennings slipped out from behind the palm and climbed into the elevator. "Do you walk in your sleep?" inquired "Hughie," sardonically. "I thought you were going to the feathers about half-past ten." "A friend of mine was...

Download or read book A Kid s Look at Big League Baseball written by Leslie Roberts and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-10 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book This book walks readers through the experience of going to a major league ball game, describing what the reader will see, hear, and smell, as well as a kid-friendly description of the action on the field. This is coupled with photographs of major league stadiums with an interesting fact about that stadium and an outline map of the U.S. with an arrow pointing to its location. This book aims to show kids- and remind their parents- what fun a trip to the ballpark can be! About the Author When Leslie Roberts was very young, she remembers walking home from school and finding her mother watching the Brooklyn Dodgers play in the World Series. She became a lifelong fan of all levels of baseball. Her three sons and their wives organized her 50th wedding anniversary celebration at a Triple-A baseball game--and she threw out the first pitch! Roberts spent over 30 years as a teacher and a principal and still volunteers regularly as a reading tutor in two local schools.

Download or read book Busting Em written by Tyrus Raymond Cobb and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Busting 'em: And Other Big League Stories Tyrus Raymond Cobb E.J. Clode, 1914 Baseball

Download or read book Frick written by John P. Carvalho and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-11-23 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ford Frick is best known as the baseball commissioner who put the "asterisk" next to Roger Maris's record. But his tenure as commissioner carried the game through pivotal changes--television, continued integration, West Coast expansion and labor unrest. During those 14 years, and 17 more as National League president, he witnessed baseball history from the perspective of a man who began as a sportswriter. This biography of Frick, whose tenure sparked lively debate about the commissioner's role, provides a detailed narrative of his career and the events and characters of mid-20th century baseball.

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Download or read book Out of My League written by George Plimpton and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This baseball classic that Ernest Hemingway called "beautifully observed and incredibly conceived" includes a foreword from Jane Leavy and never-before-seen content from the Plimpton archives. The first of Plimpton's remarkable forays into participatory journalism, Out of My League chronicles with wit, charm, and grace what happens when a self-professed amateur has the chance to answer every fan's question: could he strike out a major league star? Plimpton's inspired idea -- to get on the mound and pitch a few innings to the All-Stars of the American and National Leagues -- begins as a fun-filled stunt and comes to a deeply hellish, nearly humiliating end. This honest and hilarious tale features Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Whitey Ford, Ralph Houk, and other baseball greats and is "a baseball book such as no one else ever wrote, and one of the best ever."-New York Herald Tribune

Download or read book Newport Girl On The Balcony written by a.j. Lombardi and published by a.j Lombardi. This book was released on 2021-11-13 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love, mystery, and intrigue follow first-year law student Alan J. Roberts who enters Newport's world of the rich and famous finding the girl of his dreams and an unexpected path into a world of wealth and power. Behind the walls of the famous Branders Inn, young Alan becomes entangled with the mystery and intrigue of the lives of Newport’s rich and famous. His life-changing path is about to begin the day he enters the doors of the rich and famous at Brander's inn...

Download or read book Collected Plays 2009 2017 written by Horwitz, Allan Kolski and published by Botsotso Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-06 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contains five plays by the South African writer Allan Horwitz: The Pump Room; Comrade Babble; Boykie and Girlie; Jericho; and Book Marks. The plays explore the contradictions and dreams of the new and old South Africa, as well as universal themes that include the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and other moral dilemmas.

Download or read book The Best Pitcher in Baseball written by Robert C. Cottrell and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2001-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Rube Foster was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981, his rightful place alongside baseball's greatest black heroes was at last firmly established. A world-class pitcher, a formidable manager, and a brilliant administrator, Rube Foster was arguably more influential in breaking down the color barrier in major league baseball than the venerable Jackie Robinson. Born in 1879, Rube Foster pitched for the legendary black baseball teamsthe Cuban X-Giants and the Philadelphia Giants before becoming player-manager of the Leland Giants and the Chicago American Giants. Long a central figure in black baseball, he founded baseball's first black leaguethe Negro National League in 1920. From its inception, the Negro League served as a vehicle through which many of the finest black players could showcase their considerable talents. Challenging racial discrimination and stereotypes, it ultimately set the stage for future efforts to contest Jim Crow. Despite the long-standing success of the Negro National League as an influential black institution, Rube Foster was deeply embittered by organized baseball's unmitigated refusal to lift the color barrier. He died a broken man in 1930. The Best Pitcher in Baseball is the story of a man of unparalleled vision and organizational acumen whose passion for justice changed the face of baseball forever. It is a moving tribute to a man and his dream.

Download or read book Hal Trosky written by William H. Johnson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hal Trosky played first base (and was team captain) for the Cleveland Indians during the Great Depression. His career stretched from the heyday of Babe Ruth through the end of World War II. It was a time when the American League had perhaps the three greatest ever first basemen--Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx and Hank Greenberg--whose feats consigned Trosky to the footnotes of history. Yet at his peak he played comparably to other pros, leading the American League in RBIs in 1936. Trosky left baseball at 34, his career cut short by migraine headaches, and was elected to the Indians' All-Time team in 1969. Drawing on family archives and exhaustive research, this first ever biography covers his early years in Iowa, his Major League career and his post-baseball life.

Download or read book Stars of Major League Baseball written by Craig Calcaterra and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Action-packed profiles of twenty-eight of today’s most exciting big leaguers Step up to the plate with baseball’s top players, from mainstays like Mookie Betts and Gerrit Cole to rising stars like Shohei Ohtani and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Young fans will enjoy these lively profiles of the game’s biggest stars, which explore their life stories, their playing styles, and their greatest baseball moments. Stars of Major League Baseball is illustrated with colorful photos and includes key statistics for each player.

Download or read book Big League Dream written by Roy Berger and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chosen few who made it-and the many who only dreamed of it-find themselves as teammates and contemporaries. The result is golden.Entertaining, engaging, funny, and heartwarming, Big League Dream is Roy BergerÕs paean to a game he loves and grew up with in a time when heroes were untainted and true blue. Through his attempts to play ball again on the fantasy camp circuit, Berger met, talked to, and shared beers with players who had touched greatness and who had played with others now enshrined in Cooperstown.Big League Dream is the next-best thing to sitting down with Maury Wills, Bill Mazeroski, Mudcat Grant, and other greats of the game from the 1950s, '60s, '70s, and '80s, and hearing stories few-if any-have ever heard.A business executive by vocation but a writer by instinct, Berger has a talent for putting people at ease and letting them talk. Big League Dream is the result. Big League Dream, with the Foreword written by Yankees hero Bucky Dent, is the next-best thing to sitting down with Maury Wills, Bill Mazeroski, Mudcat Grant, and other greats of the game from the 1950s, ¿60s, ¿70s, and ¿80s, and hearing stories few¿if any¿have ever heard.