Download or read book Bleachers written by John Grisham and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • High school all-American Neely Crenshaw was probably the best quarterback ever to play for the legendary Messina Spartans. Fifteen years have gone by since those glory days, and Neely has come home to Messina to bury Coach Eddie Rake, the man who molded the Spartans into an unbeatable football dynasty. Now, as Coach Rake’s “boys” sit in the bleachers waiting for the dimming field lights to signal his passing, they replay the old games, relive the old glories, and try to decide once and for all whether they love Eddie Rake – or hate him. For Neely Crenshaw, a man who must finally forgive his coach – and himself – before he can get on with his life, the stakes are especially high. Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!
Download or read book Revolution in the Bleachers written by Regan McMahon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-04-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journalist and mother of two athletic kids exposes the physical and emotional dangers of our over-the-top youth sports culture—and offers practical solutions for positive change. A decade ago, Joan Ryan’s exposé, Little Girls in Pretty Boxes, changed the way we look at elite sports, namely figure skating and gymnastics. Today, there is another crisis in youth sports. It may affect any child, from the kindergartner on the soccer field to the high school athlete competing for scarce scholarship money. Regan McMahon’s Revolution in the Bleachers is a wake-up call for parents who spend their lives shuttling their kids from one field and practice to the next and wonder what happened to family life. Have late weeknight practices made family meals a thing of the past? Do you spend hours in the car each week, driving to games across town (or across the state)? Do you worry that your kids will miss out (on competitive experiences, college scholarships, and other advantages) if they do not specialize in one sport early on? Do you feel pressured to have your kids join elite club teams with steep fees and demanding travel schedules? Do your kids get repetitive stress injuries that necessitate trips to orthopedic surgeons or physical therapists? Do you miss your non-sports-related vacations as a family? If so, the good news is, you are not alone. Other parents and kids (and even some coaches) are on your side. And you have a choice. Regan McMahon’s book began as a cover story for the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine. Titled "How Much is Too Much?" it got a tremendous response. Finally, someone had dared to say what many parents were thinking! Parents, kids and coaches responded, prompting McMahon to criss-cross the country, doing interviews and research to find out how deep the problem goes and how to fix it. In Revolution in the Bleachers, McMahon traces the evolution of the over-the- top youth culture and gives you a practical plan of action to bring balance back to kids’ lives and our families. McMahon’s rallying cry for a revolution in the bleachers could not be more timely or useful for parents trying to do the best for their kids.
Download or read book Under the Bleachers written by Seymour Butz and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 250 book titles that have never seen the light of day (and one haiku). Family-friendly fun for chronic quipsters and perpetual punsters! Guaranteed G-rated groans on every page."Managed to read it all in one sitting. For me, that's quite an accomplishment."Ivan Auflitch, author of Can't Sit Still."Took this along on our latest expedition and roared with laughter."Claude Yarmoff, author of The Lion Attacked."Captivating!"Barb Dweyer, author of Prison Security.
Download or read book Bleachers written by Lonnie Wheeler and published by McGraw-Hill/Contemporary. This book was released on 1988 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wrigley Regulars written by Holly Swyers and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holly Swyers turns to the bleachers of Chicago's iconic Wrigley Field in this unique exploration of the ways people craft a feeling of community under almost any conditions. Wrigley Regulars examines various components of community through the lens of "the regulars," a group of diehard Chicago Cubs fans who loyally populate the bleachers at Wrigley Field. In a time when many communities are perceived as either short-lived or disintegrating, the Wrigley regulars have formed their own thriving set of pregame rituals, ballpark traditions, and social hierarchies. Swyers examines the conditions, practices, and behaviors that help create and sustain the experience of community. At Wrigley Field, these practices can include the simple acts of scorecard-keeping and gathering at the same location before each game or insisting on elaborate rules of ticket distribution and seating arrangements, as well as more symbolic behaviors and superstitions that link the regulars to each other. A bleacher regular herself, Swyers uses a qualitative approach to define community as the ways in which people arrive at an awareness of themselves as a group with a particular relationship to the larger world. The case of the regulars offers a challenge to the claim that community is eroding in an increasingly fragmented and technologically driven culture, suggesting instead that our notions of where we find community and how we express it are changing.
Download or read book Bases to Bleachers written by Eric C. Gray and published by Palmetto Publishing Group. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One day during an afternoon at the ball park, author Eric Gray asked his wife, daughter, and friend to identify their favorite game that they had been to. Little did he know, that simple question would soon take on a life of its own. As the question made its way to family members, friends, friends of friends, strangers and beyond, it gave way to a surprising collection of incredibly diverse stories and perspectives. Thus, Bases to Bleachers was born. Much more than your average baseball book, the many special and unique stories shared with readers here, whether they're about watching or playing, either at the Major League level or Little League, represent a wide gamut of experiences. Some entail meeting the stars or attending famous games--and some offered are personal, intimate moments involving family connections and the importance of baseball in people's lives. Unlike most baseball books, this is not a biography, or a discussion of a team, or analysis of a season. Baseball here is a setting in which both astounding feats and some of the most beautifully touching moments in peoples' lives have happened. Whether it's the first game, falling in love at the park, or even a beloved baseball glove that survived World War II, these stories are about more than just baseball. They reflect the joys, triumphs, and disappointments of the human condition, and often illustrate what's truly important in life--those things we hold most dear in our hearts.
Download or read book 1 001 Days in the Bleachers written by Ted Cox and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loyal sports fans follow their teams through peaks and valleys, but in no other city have fans experienced the highs and lows of Chicagoans in the past generation. This collection of Ted Cox’s greatest hits writing "The Sports Section" for the Chicago Reader from 1983 to 2008 constitutes an intimate history of Chicago teams during these years. From the triumphs—the six titles won by the Bulls, the Super Bowl champion 1985 Bears, and the White Sox winning the World Series in 2005—to the regularly occurring collapses of the Cubs, Cox puts his audience on the scene. He evokes the fan’s experience with a level of vivid detail now nearly extinct from sports journalism. Cox writes like an ordinary observer who just happens to have excellent seats and easy access to the players and coaches. 1,001 Days in the Bleachers stands not only as a chronicle of Chicago’s teams but also as a portrait of the evolution of professional sports and their place in the life of the city.
Download or read book Bleachers in the Bedroom written by John J. Rooney and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Day In The Bleachers written by Arnold Hano and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2004-04-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the subway ride to the ballpark, through batting practice and warm-ups, to the game-winning home run, A Day in the Bleachers describes inning by inning the strategies, heroics, and ineluctable rhythms of the opening game of the 1954 World Series. Here are the spectacular exploits of the Indians and Giants, and of a young player named Willie Mays, who made the most-talked-about catch in baseball history.
Download or read book You re Grounded for Life Misguided Parenting Strategies That Sounded Good at the Time written by Tim Jones and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This humor book is a collection of hilarious essays on parenting in the era of Facebook and texting. If you're a parent - or just thinking about making arguably the biggest mistake of your life by starting a family - then YOU'RE GROUNDED FOR LIFE may make you a better parent. Probably not. In fact, I'm laying 10-to-1 odds it won't. But you never know. Whether you're the parent of a toddler, a middle schooler or a college sophomore, you'll find innovative parenting strategies the author has tried - all with hilariously disastrous results. If you're looking for a humor book that looks at the funny side of trying to parent children intent on driving you insane, you've found it. As the father of high-spirited, rambunctious daughters, Tim Jones, author of the popular humor blog View From The Bleachers, playfully shares pearls of parenting wisdom honed from futilely trying to understand the mysterious minds of kids. If you happen to have figured it out, could you give him a call? He'd really appreciate it.
Download or read book Bleachers Fifty Four Linked Fictions written by Joseph Mills and published by Press 53. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bleachers, the debut short fiction collection by award-winning poet Joseph Mills, fifty-four stories take place during two youth soccer games, capturing the thoughts, concerns, realizations, and perspectives of the parents on the sidelines and in the stands. As these spectators watch (or don't watch) the players on the field, their narratives interweave to form a portrait of community and of parenting--always unpredictable, often complicated, and rarely what it seems. From A to Z ("Aging" to "Zidane"), Bleachers can be read as a primer on parenting and family, as well as a paean to sports. If, as Dr. King said, Sunday morning is the most segregated hour in America, then Saturday morning may be the most integrated as families gather to experience the victories and losses, both great and small, of the game that brings them together, "forming, then breaking apart, then reforming . . . . temporarily cohering" as a team.
Download or read book The Anonymous Coach written by Anonymous Coach and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-21 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who has attended a youth sporting event, from Little League to AAU, has seen those parents. You know the ones. The yellers, the fighters, the "Ref, are you BLIND?" parents. Maybe you are one of those parents. Maybe you are sitting next to them on the bleachers. Or maybe, like the Anonymous Coach, you are walking up and down the edge of the court, trying to keep your cool and help your players get through the game. These are the stories of the parents and players the Anonymous Coach has encountered in his many years of coaching youth basketball. There have been plenty of those parents. There have also been parent cheerleaders and parents who never attended a single game. And there have been parents who truly believed that their children were God's gift to basketball and any evidence to the contrary was solely the coach's fault. All of these parents were good people who wanted the best for their kids. But they didn't always know how to make that happen, and the results were sometimes maddening, sometimes heartbreaking, and sometimes downright hilarious.
Download or read book Dibs on His Clubs written by Steve Moore and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Steve) Moore's work evokes the bizarre imagery of Gary Larson's The Far Side and Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes. --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Even the most golf-obsessed must admit it: Swatting that tiny dimpled ball around meticulously manicured landscaping makes for one hilarious game. For everyone who appreciates that humor--and especially for those too serious about golf to crack a smile--Dibs on His Clubs! parades the lighter side of this sport enjoyed by millions. Dibs on His Clubs! is AMP's first book with Steve Moore, the cartoonist and creative genius behind the In the Bleachers daily panel, now syndicated to newspapers throughout the U.S. Steve narrows his normal general sports focus to golf, a game that captivates everyone from avid amateurs to those who enjoy watching multimillionaire athletes at work. Steve brings his trademark wacky characters and outrageous situation comedy to every frame of this golf-guffawing collection. Dibs on His Clubs! comes richly illustrated in Moore's sparse but dead-on drawing style. His paunchy duffers are delightful. His players' expressions are outrageous. And no other cartoonist working today finds more ways to inject the timely and the totally-off-the-wall aspects of sports into his work. This book's a humor hole in one for everyone who ever picked up a club, or who simply appreciates seeing a great comedic mind at the top of his game.
Download or read book A View from the Bleachers written by Jerry Dale Jones and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-03-28 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I really enjoyed Dr. Jones book A view from the Bleachers, A great book for parents, kids, and any sports fans. I will utilize the book for my Sport Psychology class at UNCP and I know my students will enjoy great insight about parents and their kids involved in athletics Eldon Miller: Former Head Basketball coach at The Ohio State University: Big Ten coach of the year and Ohio Basketball Hall of Fame 2009. Coach Miller present assignment is at the University of North Carolina-Pembroke. The Book: A view from the Bleachers, where the real game of life is played is outstanding in relating to the journey of life that we all take. Sometimes it is like we are standing on the balcony looking down at life other times we are in the room. But the shadows of life are always changing and this has been captured in the book. Dr. Billy Escue: Former high school basketball coach, high school administrator, college professor and Administrator. His present assignment is an Executive and life Coach Certified by the Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara.
Download or read book The 1969 Cubs written by Fergie Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-19 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1969 at Wrigley Field, the lights didn't shine at night, but they did in the eyes of every hopeful Chicago Cubs fan. The team that didn't go all the way, but they did more for the franchise and the role of its fans than many teams before them. Hall-of-Fame legend Fergie Jenkins gives his first-hand accounts on that loved team and painful seaso
Download or read book If These Bleachers Could Talk written by Adia Middleton-James and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am the wife of an up and coming college football coach, who is making strides in his career and building a name for himself. But none of that means anything without the love and support of his family. As new opportunities arise for Jay , he must take in consideration how the kids and I are impacted. Will I be willing to pack up and move to support him , yet again or have I had enough and finally put my foot down? This could truthfully go either way, after all I haven't fully unpacked from our last move. While Jay loves coaching and the impact he is making on the lives of his players sometimes the line between family over everything and his lifelong dreams get blurry. Jay tells everyone that I am a spit fire, who seldom bites my tongue or opinion on anything. My mouth and antics, sometimes get the best of me but what no one can ever deny is my loyalty to Jay and the kids. For me, it's family over everything! This isn't your typical book about football ! Readers will enjoy reading about the up and downs of the Lewis family!
Download or read book Bleeding Pinstripes written by Filip Bondy and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2005-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bleeding Pinstripes is a unique, anthropological view of this most dedicated tribe of rooters?their rituals, their personal tribulations, their uncanny commitment to the Bronx ball clu . and to each other. You will meet an assortment of Bleacher Creatures, characters of a very different sort: Tina Lewis, the self-proclaimed Queen of the Bleachers, a spirited cancer survivor, and the chief lobbyist for Section 39; Donald Simpson, a 9/11 victim and the bleachers? only known millionaire; Milton Ousland, the only bleacher fan authorized to bang the cowbell during Yankee games; Bald Vinny, the ultimate T-shirt entrepreneur and a good-natured hustler who has made a living off his passion; and Luis Castillo, the Yankee clubhouse attendant and the insider who started out as just another Creature in the bleachers.
