Download or read book Fast Pitch written by Nic Stone and published by Crown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone comes a challenging and heartwarming coming-of-age story about a softball player looking to prove herself on and off the field. Shenice Lockwood, captain of the Fulton Firebirds, is hyper-focused when she steps up to the plate. Nothing can stop her from leading her team to the U12 fast-pitch softball regional championship. But life has thrown some curveballs her way. Strike one: As the sole team of all-brown faces, Shenice and the Firebirds have to work twice as hard to prove that Black girls belong at bat. Strike two: Shenice’s focus gets shaken when her great-uncle Jack reveals that a career-ending—and family-name-ruining—crime may have been a setup. Strike three: Broken focus means mistakes on the field. And Shenice’s teammates are beginning to wonder if she’s captain-qualified. It's up to Shenice to discover the truth about her family’s past—and fast—before secrets take the Firebirds out of the game forever.

Download or read book Andie Beth Steps written by Jan Shearouse Alexuk and published by Inspiring Voices. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All fifteen-year-old Andie Beth Nettles wants to do is play basketball and softball, attend the US Naval Academy, and fly jets. Her life is turned upside down, however, when she must adjust to a new school, friends, and lifestyle. Restrictions, Secret Service agents, and limited freedom all contribute to tension between her and her parents. Andie Beth: Steps, although fiction, can be adapted to book clubs, parent-teen conferences, workshops, retreats, and vacation Bible schools. "Andie Beth Nettles reminds me of Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye." -Judy Radiker Brenner, Crossville, Tennessee "After reading the first draft of this book, I always knew it would be published some day." -Traci Laine, Virginia City, Nevada

Download or read book Thoughts written by Charles E. and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains miscellaneous proverbs (taken from the Bible, in the book of Proverbs) and practical thoughts that could lead to practical living and building better relationships. Also, in the book, you will also find affirmation statements that will assure positive results, and nullification responses to negative thoughts, consequently ending in negative results. There is also a chapter containing humor. Laughter does wonders. The more we can find laughter, in all likelihood, the more our minds and spirits will be uplifted. In the book of Proverbs 17:22 (TLB), it says, “A cheerful heart does good like medicine, but a broken spirit makes one sick.” Unlike depression, which drains you and zaps all of your energy. We found that during some of our gloomy days, laughter really works. Although laughter will not remove the stressors, it will bring some relief to the stress. It’s merely impossible to laugh and be angry at the same time. One overrides the other, however, we are in control of which one prevails. To this day, laughter is the best medicine on the market. What’s so wonderful and unique about laughter is that it’s potent, costs nothing and can be refilled as often as you wish. We should make a valiant effort to complain less and laugh more. Thoughts is a book that is filled with many positive statements and provides solutions to diverse problems. If applied correctly, the thoughts and proverbs in this book will ensure a positive impact on one’s life. Also, after reading this book, an imprint will be left on your heart.

Download or read book Find a Way Or Make a Way written by William Edgar McCraney and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influence of these individuals left a lasting, positive influence in the life of a confused young man. Working at two jobs most of his adult life to keep the rent paid and food on the table and to provide clothing for his family, he and his wife worked together to create a viable home life. Professionally, he served as a firefighter and captain for twenty-seven years for the Los Angeles County Fire Department. About midway between his career, he was instrumental in creating a father son family business, Spacemaker Plumbing Products. While retaining his job with the fire department, with the help of his son, he became a successful business owner, developer, inventor, entrepreneur, and CEO for twenty-one years. He worked tirelessly in developing money-making opportunities and growing the business. Knowing you cannot blame anyone for the outcome of your life, if you do the finger-pointing at others, you will never grow up into adulthood and receive the gratification and knowledge that you are your own person. Thanks to my grandmothers, maternal grandfather, aunts, and uncles for showing me the side of life that could be mine if I worked long and hard enough to achieve the rewards. I hope that some young person who is having a hard life will somehow read this book and come away with even one thought that helps him or her to avoid the mistakes I made in my life. Though the communities mentioned are where the stories occurred, some of the names of the people in the stories have been changed to hide embarrassing situations for individuals still living.

Download or read book Scouting written by and published by . This book was released on 1972-09 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by the Boy Scouts of America for all BSA registered adult volunteers and professionals, Scouting magazine offers editorial content that is a mixture of information, instruction, and inspiration, designed to strengthen readers' abilities to better perform their leadership roles in Scouting and also to assist them as parents in strengthening families.

Download or read book Ernie Banks written by Lew Freedman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-05-10 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernie Banks is perhaps the most popular ballplayer in the history of the Chicago Cubs--a man as famous for his personality and trademark phrases as for his accomplishments on the field. Nicknamed "Mr. Cub," Banks won two National League Most Valuable Player awards and slugged 512 home runs, all while battling discrimination and poverty. His conduct away from the field was so exemplary he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Based on extensive research and personal interviews conducted by the author, this biography details the life of the Texas-born shortstop and first baseman, from his childhood playing softball to his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame to his death in 2015.

Download or read book My Story written by William Tatem Tilden and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Professor Baseball written by Edwin Amenta and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It happens every summer: packs of beer-bellied men with gloves and aluminum bats, putting their middle-aged bodies to the test on the softball diamond. For some, this yearly ritual is driven by a simple desire to enjoy a good ballgame; for others, it’s a way to forge friendships—and rivalries. But for one short, wild-haired, bespectacled professor, playing softball in New York’s Central Park means a whole lot more. It's one last chance to heal the nagging wounds of Little League trauma before the rust of decline and the relentless responsibilities of fatherhood set in. Professor Baseball is the coming-of-middle-age story of New York University professor and Little League benchwarmer Edwin Amenta. As rookie manager of the Performing Arts Softball League’s doormat Sharkeys, he reverses softball’s usual brawn-over-brains formula. He coaxes his skeptical teammates to follow his sabermetric and sociological approach, based equally on Bill James and Max Weber, which in the heady days of early success he dubs “Eddy Ball.” But Amenta soon learns that his teammates’ attachments to favorite positions and time-honored (if ineffective) strategies are hard to break—especially when the team begins losing. And though he rejects the baseball-as-life metaphor, life keeps intruding on his softball season. Amenta here comes to grips with the humiliation of assisted reproduction, suffers mysterious ailments, and finds himself lingering at the sponsor’s bar, while his partner, a beautiful but baseball-challenged professor, second-guesses his book in the making. Can he turn his team—and his life—around? Packed with colorful personalities, dramatic games, and the bustle of New York life, Professor Baseball will charm anyone who has ever root, root, rooted for the underdog.

Download or read book My Summer as a Cub written by R. Rathbone Leonard and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lenny Puddock writes of his experiences as a Chicago Cub during the 2011 baseball season. Puddock is a 32-year-old physical therapist for the Indianapolis National Institute of Fitness and Health who attended Randy Hundleys Fantasy Camp. Part of the Fantasy Camp experience is his developing friendship with Gertrude Castellano, a waitress who becomes a singing star. They romance at a distance. Puddock is invited to the Cubs Spring Training after an outstanding performance at the Camp. The Cubs offer him a contract with the Daytona Class A team and he accepts. Puddock is moved up to Class AA Tennessee in mid-May and is called up to the Cubs in mid-July. He was batting .378. In mid-August Mike Quade resigns as manager. Ryne Sandberg, who had an escape clause in his contract with a Phillies Minor League team, becomes the Cubs manager. When Puddock joined the parent club, the Cubs were 10 games out of first place. By the end of August they are four from the Wild Card spot. In the waning days of August the roster was two short due to injuries. Sandberg did not want to disrupt the Iowa or Tennessee playoff-bound teams, so he activated Greg Maddux and himself, thinking the roster had to contain the maximum 25 players. Plans were to activate two players before the August 31 midnight deadline but due to an interns goof not recognizing the difference in Eastern Standard Time and Central Standard Time, the move came too late. In essence the Cubs would have only a 23-player Post-Season roster. The Cubs win their Division and League playoffs and enter World Series for the first time in 76 years. In an amazing ninth inning of the seventh game, the Cubs win the Series.

Download or read book Kings of the Diamond written by Robert T. Diamond and published by Robert Diamond. This book was released on 2008 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kings of the Diamond is based on historical events in Winnipeg in 1950, drawing on the city¿s great sporting heritage. The main storyline follows the 1950 season of the Northern Hotel team of the Twentieth Century Community Softball League, the powerhouse team that went on to play in the Western Canada Softball Championship that year under the direction of the story¿s chief protagonist ¿ author Robert Diamond¿s father, Lazar Diamond. That legacy is brought to life in this story of the Diamond family and the Northern Hotel and of many of the players and principals of the Twentieth Century Community Softball League. The entire narrative builds inexorably towards the final championship game, when 8,000 people crammed the Aberdeen School Grounds to watch it. Kings of the Diamond is the story of one of the most colourful chapters in the sporting and cultural history of Winnipeg, and of the legendary characters who were the main players on this stage. It is also a story of family and friendships that survive tests of emotional strength, love, and commitment, and of how they find final vindication. From Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz¿ foreword: ¿Winnipeg had its share of larger than life characters in those days. [The author] aptly and authentically describes them all in this tale of Winnipeg sports and other games ... Ex-pat Robert Diamond pays homage to his hometown, offering fascinating insights into how Winnipeg earned its moniker, the Chicago of the North, and to a very special era in softball history.¿

Download or read book All Hands written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Michigan Alumnus written by and published by UM Libraries. This book was released on 1978 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In volumes1-8: the final number consists of the Commencement annual.

Download or read book Crazy with the Papers to Prove it written by Dan Coughlin and published by Gray & Company, Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cleveland sports journalist Dan Coughlin shares stories of some of the more unique individuals and events he covered over the course of his forty-five-year career.

Download or read book San Diego Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Diego Magazine gives readers the insider information they need to experience San Diego-from the best places to dine and travel to the politics and people that shape the region. This is the magazine for San Diegans with a need to know.

Download or read book Brazen Virtue written by Nora Roberts and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes a novel that explores the dangerous side of desire, when a mystery writer in search of a little peace and quiet instead finds herself ensnared in the world of a real-life serial killer whose craving for murder stops at nothing . . . and no one. NOW THE NETFLIX FILM BRAZEN, STARRING ALYSSA MILANO After a demanding book tour, superstar mystery novelist Grace McCabe decides to visit her sister, Kathleen, who’s embroiled in a custody battle after a bitter divorce. Arriving in D.C., Grace is shocked to find Kathleen living in a run-down neighborhood and, hoping to afford a hotshot lawyer, supplementing her meager teacher’s salary by moonlighting as a phone sex operator. According to Kathleen, Fantasy, Inc., guarantees its employees ironclad anonymity. But Grace has her doubts—which are confirmed one horrifying cherry-blossom-scented night when one of Fantasy, Inc.’s operators is murdered. As Grace is drawn to help solve the crime, her life turns into a scene from one of her own books. Yet as one of her biggest fans, investigator Ed Jackson, warns her: This isn’t fiction. Real people die—and Grace could be next. For she’s hoping to trap a killer more twisted than anything she could imagine. And not even Ed may be able to protect her from a rendezvous with lust and death.

Download or read book 20 20 written by Michele Volansky and published by Smith & Kraus. This book was released on 1995 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of 20 one-act plays chosen from the Humana Festival.

Download or read book The Life and Times of a New York City Firefighter Fire Investigator written by Frederick Mercilliott and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The day-to-day activities of a New York City firefighter and, later, fire investigator as he deals with fires, fire-related deaths and criminals.