Download or read book Life Tried to Throw Me a Curveball written by Dave Caiazzo and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a junior college and major college All-American to one of the semi-professional's all-time great right handed pitchers, followed by a professional career, Dave Caiazzo has been recognized throughout the years as one of the Boston area's elite pitchers of all time. He lived an exceptional life off the field as well. Meeting people in his work after baseball throughout that time span along with befriending so many famous athletes, made his lifestyle that much more interesting. He struck out twenty hitters in just eight innings in a high school game and was Malden High School's first inductee into its Hall of Fame in 1983. After a very successful two-year career at Mass. Bay Community College where he was a combined junior college All-America selection as a pitcher/outfielder/designated hitter, Dave attended New Haven where he played for arguably college baseball's greatest coach of all time, Frank "Porky" Vieira. At New Haven, Dave won the opening game of the 1977 College World Series in Springfield, Illinois, and posted an amazing 22-2 record with six shutouts in just two seasons. In 1988, Dave was inducted into the University of New Haven's baseball-rich Hall of Fame. Cousin of one of baseball's most colorful and recognizable players, former New York Yankee first baseman Joe Pepitone, Dave holds the distinct record of eight championships in the then famous Intercity League with the Malden Merchants and Augustine's Athletics in just ten seasons. That is an all-time record. Dave Caiazzo's Greater Boston Baseball Camp was the most popular camp in the greater Boston area for twenty-eight years. After his playing career ended, Dave worked as a major league scout for the Cleveland Indians and the Anaheim and Los Angeles Angels for eighteen seasons helping many youngsters into pro baseball and giving them a start into the professional level. One player in particular he helped along the way was former Cy Young Award Winner Steve Bedrosian who recognizes Caiazzo as a key figure in his success. He has helped so many others through college getting them scholarships at top baseball universities. He has coached pitching at the AAU level, high school and college. He was the MIT pitching coach for seven seasons. Prior to that he worked at New Haven and Bridgeport University. He is currently with Bridgeport as well as Legion pitching coach in Malden, Massachusetts. Year round he works as a private pitching instructor at Strike One's Danvers location. All age groups from high school and older will enjoy this honestly interesting story of so many famous sports and film stars. It is interesting reading for pure baseball lovers as well as people who have serious ailments. You will read how Dave had face-to-face struggles with a deadly disease in diabetes. Many times it leaves you on the edge of your seat with so many scary encounters with close calls and near death situations. If anyone has diabetes or any medication-reliant handicap, you will appreciate how Dave came out of these battles winning most of the time. It will give everyone hope that they can say to themselves "I can do it like Dave Cai did."

Download or read book Life A Fickle Mistress written by Timothy Patrick and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Delisted

Download or read book Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Sneak Peek written by Jordan Sonnenblick and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book CURVEBALL written by Mariah Dietz and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare believed there was always humor in tragedy and tragedy in humor.My life proved his theory as fact.At eighteen I was a single parent moving to this small town to be with the man I loved. The one who was supposed to love and cherish me in return.Finding out he had a wife was tragic.Remaining in love with him in spite of her was more tragic.My mom and best friend setting me up on a long string of blind dates was an ongoing tragedy.Nine years later, I've learned to see the humor in most situations.My mom and best friend setting me up on disastrous blind dates.My son's jokes.The fire alarm going off each time I cook.My constant bright spot always adding to the humor is my son, Hayden. But when Hayden had a life-threatening allergic reaction, the man who came to help my little boy became my own savior. His laugh, his smile, and the way his eyes lit up when he spoke to my son made him a beacon of light in both our lives.But I wasn't the only one who noticed him.When I began having feelings for the man my best and only friend had fallen for, I knew following my heart would once again lead to a fresh round of heartbreak.Love led me to this town.Lies have kept me here.Will history repeat itself?Or has life just thrown me another Curveball?

Download or read book Castro s Curveball written by Tim Wendel and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2006-07-25 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an old scrapbook stirs memories, Billy Bryan looks back to the year 1947 when he was playing winter ball in Cuba, enjoying Havana's decadent nightlife, and dreaming of a major-league career.

Download or read book How to Hit a Curveball Grill the Perfect Steak and Become a Real Man written by Stephen James and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What guy doesn't need some pointers on how to be the man he wants to be? And we know that being a man is so much more than building a successful career and mastering the mechanics of daily life (like oil changes), those functional things are really important too. By addressing the basic, primal, and archetypal moments that all men experience, this book helps men become more invested in their passions, their families, their lives, and God.

Download or read book I Tried Too Hard written by K.B. Morrison and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-08-09 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Tried Too Hard is just that...a thorough, deep, and sometimes, troubling look into life that was supposed to go one way but inevitably created its own path and the destruction and rebuilding that moved on from it. Life lessons are in us all. Mine were meant to be shared. Adoption and abandonment, and growth through all the in-betweens. Read on to hear one woman's struggle to be everything to everyone but herself.

Download or read book When Life Throws You a Curveball Hit It written by Criswell Freeman and published by Walnut Grove Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If life has tossed you a curveball, this book was written with you in mind. It is my sincere hope that you will find the following stories and concepts helpful. Whatever you do, don't despair and don't give up. Simply keep reading, keep your spirits up, and above all, keep swinging. Your persistence and your courage will be rewarded.

Download or read book Knocked Down written by Aileen Weintraub and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A laugh-out-loud memoir about a free-spirited, commitment-phobic Brooklyn girl who, after a whirlwind romance, finds herself living in a rickety farmhouse, pregnant, and faced with five months of doctor-prescribed bed rest because of unusually large fibroids. Aileen Weintraub has been running away from commitment her entire life, hopping from one job and one relationship to the next. When her father suddenly dies, she flees her Jewish Brooklyn community for the wilds of the country, where she unexpectedly falls in love with a man who knows a lot about produce, tractors, and how to take a person down in one jiu-jitsu move. Within months of saying “I do” she’s pregnant, life is on track, and then wham! Her doctor slaps a high-risk label on her uterus and sends her to bed for five months. As her husband’s bucolic (and possibly haunted) farmhouse begins to collapse and her marriage starts to do the same, Weintraub finally confronts her grief for her father while fighting for the survival of her unborn baby. In her precarious situation, will she stay or will she once again run away from it all? Knocked Down is an emotionally charged, laugh-out-loud roller-coaster ride of survival and growth. It is a story about marriage, motherhood, and the risks we take.

Download or read book Big Hair and Plastic Grass written by Dan Epstein and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epstein takes readers on a funky ride through baseball and America in the swinging '70s in this wild pop-culture history of baseball's most colorful and controversial decade. Includes 8-page photo insert.

Download or read book Al Capone Throws Me a Curve written by Gennifer Choldenko and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return to Al Capone's Alcatraz with Newbery Honor-winning author Gennifer Choldenko in this charming addition to the beloved series about the son of a prison guard. Moose Flanagan's father is the assistant warden of Alcatraz--the roughest hard-time prison in America--so he and his family live on the island. It's the summer before high school, and he is desperate to get on the baseball team. The problem? The captain will only let Moose and his best friend on if they get him something from Alcatraz--something impossible. Meanwhile, Moose must keep an eye on his fragile older sister, Natalie, as well as the warden's two-faced, danger-loving daughter, Piper, who has a crush on him. He must learn to stand up to people: His parents. The warden. Piper. Even the most dangerous criminal in the country--Al Capone. And then Moose gets the pitch of a lifetime and delivers a hit no one on Alcatraz will ever forget. Don't miss the rest of the Tales from Alcatraz series! Al Capone Does My Shirts Al Capone Shines My Shoes Al Capone Does My Homework

Download or read book Nine Innings written by Lenny Silva and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-07-09 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine Innings: Life Lessons Learned, written for young student athletes and their parents, contains nine chapters, each referenced to coincide with nine innings of a baseball game. This guide provides practical advice from a father, and baseball coach, to help you and your child become mentally tougher, relying on confidence, courage, competitiveness, and continued improvement in order to achieve success in school, sports, and life. Learn how to find the inner strength to improve your life with a positive attitude and proper goal-setting techniques, while stepping out of your comfort zone. In order to achieve all that you want, it’s important to understand that the behavioral changes that you make today will improve who you are tomorrow. This is best accomplished by focusing your energy on the present. Nine Innings: Life Lessons Learned offers practical advice to help young student athletes—and their parents—become more confident, street-smart, mentally strong, positive, focused, and successful.

Download or read book The Polygrapher written by Dohn Jagster and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The backdrop for this tale is Iran and Irans quest for a nuclear weapon. Top Secret plans for developing such a weapon fall into Als hands; now its up to Al to convert the plans into cash. *** Greed? Yes, Al, a sharp guy born with a hump is a greedy man with a compulsive desire for money to quench his lust for a better lifeno, the best possible lifeand he feels he deserves it. After years of dedicated and loyal service to the CIA with only a pittance for a paycheck and no savings to speak of, Al feels its time for a payoff, and hes to be the recipient. But how is Al to realize his dream of retiring in comfort, luxury, and sufficient beer money to drink himself stupid on a regular basis? Al decides the only way to achieve his lofty goals are to go rogue. But how? As a polygrapher administering polygraphs to Agency employees, he has no access to classified material that could potentially, if sold to the highest bidder, be worth a kings ransom, but the individuals he runs through the polygraph do have clearances, do have access. If only he could just turn one into an unwitting accomplice, he might just be able to retire in the lifestyle he so richly deserves, and this is exactly what Al, our very clever polygrapher, does.

Download or read book Curveball written by V.K. Sykes and published by V.K. Sykes. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Three in the USA Today Bestselling Philadelphia Patriots Series Assistant GM Taylor Page is chasing the ultimate prize--General Manager of the Philadelphia Patriots. But most men in baseball still don't take a woman exec seriously, especially a thirty-year old blonde with no on-field experience. Fighting an injury, veteran outfielder Ryan Locke's career is teetering on the brink. A single parent with a troubled daughter, retirement is out of the question. Ryan's best hope is for a trade to a team as a designated hitter, allowing him several more years of play. When Taylor needs a replacement for an injured first baseman, she comes up with an innovative but risky plan to trade a reluctant Ryan into the position. With both their jobs on the line, Taylor would be nuts to acknowledge the white-hot sexual chemistry between them. But when Ryan embarks on a game of relentless seduction, Taylor finds her control--and all her carefully thought-out plans--slipping away. The award-winning Philadelphia Patriots Series Prequel: Fastball (Maddie & Jake) Book One: Hardball (Holly & Nate) Book Two: Bigger Than Beckham (Martha & Tony) Book Three: Curveball (Taylor & Ryan) Book Four: Payoff Pitch (Teddy & Noah) Book Five: Scoring Position (Kate & Nick)

Download or read book Candy Cummings written by Stephen Robert Katz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the greatest pitchers of his era, William Arthur "Candy" Cummings was born in 1848, when baseball was in its infancy. In the 1870s, Candy's invention, the curveball, played a transformative role and earned him a place in the Hall of Fame. Drawing on extensive research, this first full-length biography traces Candy's New England heritage and chronicles his rise to the top, from pitching for amateur teams in mid-1860s Brooklyn to playing in the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players--the first major league--and then the newly-formed National League. A critical examination of the evidence and competing claims reveals that Cummings was, indeed, the originator of the curveball.

Download or read book He s Making You Crazy written by Kristen Doute and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If there's one thing I know, it's crazy. A lot of people have called me crazy. Crazy Kristen! For a while there, it was practically my name. Women all over the world get called crazy every day. But we weren't born crazy—we were made crazy." Unpacking the ups and downs of Kristen's laugh-out-loud funny, sometimes cringe-worthy dating history, He's Making You Crazy will hold your hand through deep self-reflection—while giving you that push to put on your detective's hat and hack your man's email account if you need to. From trapping your boyfriend in ridiculous lies to gathering all your crush's security question answers on the first date, Kristen shares her no-holds-barred, hysterically funny, and hard-earned advice on men, love, and modern dating. He's Making You Crazy will give you the motivation you need to get out of an unhealthy relationship (the one that's making you crazy!), the wisdom to step up and admit when you're the one in the wrong, and the courage to keep your heart open through it all.

Download or read book Clean Your Cleats written by Dan Blewett and published by Dan Blewett. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Does it Take to Have a Great Baseball Career? You daydream about one day seeing your face on a baseball card. You live for pressure and the green grass beneath your cleats. But as your career progresses, the game gets harder. You slump and struggle. You get injured and overlooked. Your confidence plummets. Can you keep improving? Are your big dreams still within reach? A Handbook for the Dedicated Player Clean Your Cleats is filled with stories and advice learned the hard way, over a long career on the diamond. Develop better routines and improve your consistency. Handle the ups and downs with confidence and resolve. Strengthen relationships with teammates, parents and coaches. Learn mindset strategies to become the best version of you. Dan Blewett, in this practical guide, helps players understand all the little things in baseball that make a huge difference over a long career. Why clean your cleats? Because every detail matters.