Download or read book Love s Home Run written by Judith Keim and published by Wild Quail Publishing. This book was released on 2025-02-03 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love isn’t a game… or is it? Melissa Hendrickson is tired of being a good sport, one of the guys. She wants to find love and settle down in Lilac Lake with the man of her dreams. She thinks she’s found the man, but he doesn’t know she exists. After she runs into Ross Roberts, her nextdoor neighbor and former professional baseball player, during a charity softball game, he requires her help. She’s more than eager to make amends for causing him to have knee surgery. Then, a fire destroys her family restaurant and her job as chef there. She’s forced to think about a lot of changes in her life, including finding the right man for her. A spinoff book from the Lilac Lake Inn series, a sweet second-chance, small-town romance. Another of Judith Keim’s books with strong women facing challenges and finding love and happiness along the way.
Download or read book Baseball Home Run Love written by Jill Di'lorenzi and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time, there was a young girl and a young man, each had intelligence and spirit, kindness and wit... God sighed as He remembered. He liked these two. When He planned their futures, He thought they'd be together for the lion's share of their lives, having many children, shared work and a partnership that would be a measure others would aspire to. He'd given them everything they needed for a good head start, a magnificent middle and a wonderful end. He didn't worry. But He should have. They parted from each other, one moving west, one staying east and while this altered the course of their lives it didn't mean second chances were out of reach forever. Twenty five years have passed. God has not forgotten them and neither have the four angels who love them. With a good deal of love and humor, they work together to set things right for Darcy and Luke. There exists one proviso however, a rather large one, 'meant to be's' must work in tandem with free will. Even God, who has His own desired ending in mind, doesn't know if Darcy and Luke will be able to rise from the dragons of fear and pride in order to say out loud all the words they've kept secret in their hearts because of their vulnerability to loss. And yes, this is the case even though they are past the fearsome learning curve of youth. Can each of them learn to see themselves as they really are and as the other is? And can they learn to tell the truth?
Download or read book Home Run written by Travis Thrasher and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball star Cory Brand knows how to win. But off the field, he’s spiraling out of control. Haunted by old wounds and regrets, his future seems as hopeless as his past. Until one moment—one mistake—changes everything. To save his career, Cory must go back to the town where it all began. His plan is simple: coach the local baseball team, complete a recovery program, and get out as fast as possible. Instead, he runs headfirst into memories he can’t escape ... and the love he left behind. Faced with a second chance he never expected, Cory embarks on a journey of faith, transformation and redemption. And along the way, he discovers a powerful truth: no one is beyond the healing of God. A novel based on the major motion picture starring Vivica A. Fox and Scott Elrod, Home Run is an inspirational story of the hope and freedom God offers each of us. www.HomeRunTheMovie.com
Download or read book Home Run written by Travis Thrasher and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professional baseball player Cory Brand returns to his hometown in an effort to get his life together, but instead runs into memories he can't escape and the love he left behind.
Download or read book Batting Order written by Mike Lupica and published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller From acclaimed author of the Home Team series Mike Lupica comes an inspiring novel about the heart and soul of baseball. On or off the field, Ben and Matt couldn’t be more different. Ben Roberson is an all-or-nothing player: he’s big, he’s bold, and he’s brash. Ben’s swing can hit a ball right out of the park—but that’s if he can get a hit at all. Matt Baker is small, and shy, and his stutter has him avoiding the spotlight—even if he’s the best all-rounder on the team. But while Matt knows he’s got the chops, a part of him has always envied “Big Ben” and his attention-grabbing charm. So it’s a total shock when Ben asks Matt to help him work on his swing. Because Ben can’t put the ball into play, and his showboating comes at the expense of the team. And even though Matt’s trying to help, Ben doesn’t seem to take him seriously, especially when it means toning things down. The end of the season is fast approaching—is there enough time for Ben to realize bigger isn’t always better? For Matt to understand that sometimes, being the bigger person means standing up for yourself? Or will they have to accept defeat?
Download or read book Love s Home Run written by Kate Kisset and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danica Vargas' boring, wine country life turns upside when she's hit by a baseball and lands in the hospital. When the gorgeous baseball player who accidently batted her with his ball, pays her a visit, she has no idea the sexy stranger is her former crush. He's about five feet taller than the last time she saw him. And a thousand times hotter.If she'd known there was ever a chance of him coming back, (crack in the head or not), Danica wouldn't have kissed his older brother last week.Now, she's caught between two of Napa's Valley's notorious Santino brothers. One of them wants everlasting love, the other is a player.In school, Luca Santino's best friend's older sister Danica was a knockout. She swatted his heart around like a ball¿ except when they were making out in her bedroom. Back in Napa Valley a decade later with his semi-pro baseball team, Luca rediscovers the girl he loved. As a woman, she's even more enchanting than he remembered. As a couple, their chemistry hits a home run every time¿and Luca wants to play for keeps.Older and wiser, maybe this time, they'll realize what started long ago wasn't a game.
Download or read book Love s Home Run written by Thomas Green and published by Thomas Green. This book was released on 1997-02-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LOVE'S HOME RUN Set in Portland, Oregon, Love's Home Run is a contemporary romance where a young woman, DJUANA PIONEER, had given her heart, her love and her virginity to one man for seven years. When she told him about their pregnancy while out having dinner, he exploded in rage, striking Djuana and leaving her in the restaurant stunned and bewildered. Djuana started off on a long walk home just trying to clear her mind and deal with the real, turning down an offer from the Matrie D to pay her cab fare home. She was 26, still living at home and the thought of raising her baby alone and on a department store's salary was frightening. On the other side of the story is JACK NEWHOUSE, a major league baseball player, the best right fielder in the game, who has grown tired of easy women and wild sex. To the chagrin to his partying teammates, he wants to settle down and get married. Jack had proposed to a woman he was steady with and she laughed. She chose to marry someone else. Jack was speeding across the wet streets of downtown Portland, taking the long way home, with his window down allowing the damp air to cool his thoughts. These two hurting souls would cross paths that night almost tragically at the intersection of tenth and Main and their lives would never be the same. Jack fell in like immediately and pursued Djuana like a sharply hit fly ball in the bottom of the ninth with the bases loaded. He was set to go through a wall to be her man. Pregnant, heartbroken and depressed, the last thing Djuana expected to find was the man of her dreams.
Download or read book The Emerald Home Run written by Steven Andrew Janda and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you look for parallels in baseball and the Bible, you will find them! The Emerald Home Run is a true story which combines the Bible and a book author Steven A. Janda wrote about the parables of Christ in 2008 entitled Ready or Not, Here I Come. “Suddenly,” says Janda, “I began to notice many interesting parallels in Major League Baseball.” On April 15, 2009, Ken Griffey Jr. hit his 613th career home run, The Emerald Home Run, after returning to the Seattle Mariners from a nine-year absence with the Cincinnati Reds and briefly with the Chicago White Sox. As soon as Griffey hit the home run, Hall of Fame Announcer Dave Neihaus said this was Griffey’s 400th home run as a Mariner. “Instantly,” says Janda, “I remembered Moses, who delivered the children of Israel after 400 years of bondage to the Egyptians.” The author reveals numeric mysteries, including how Revelation appears in Genesis, how the tribes of Israel in the Law of Moses are joined numerically to Genesis and revealed in Major League Baseball by the Gregorian calendar. And children will love the secret formula for multiplying certain number patterns into millions without a calculator! The revelations in this book have never appeared in text books. The Emerald Home Run is truly an arithmetic lesson for the whole world to enjoy. Do not be left behind.
Download or read book Home Run written by Kevin Myers and published by FaithWords. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are invited to live life to the fullest. For five hard years Christian leader Kevin Myers struggled personally and professionally. But it was during that time that God pointed out where he was going wrong and showed him the biblical pattern for living. It proceeded to transform his life, leadership, ministry, and relationships. During that time John Maxwell also became his mentor. Together, using a baseball diamond as an analogy for following God's plan for life, Myers and Maxwell provide a clear path forward while helping you keep your priorities in order and your eyes on the prize. What is that pattern? Connection with God: Winning Dependence Character: Winning Within Community: Winning with Others Competence: Winning Results Challenging, heart-felt, and insightful, Myers' story will connect with anyone who feels their life is falling short of God's promises. The hard-won lessons Myers learned, along with insightful comments and on-point application from Maxwell, will make it possible for you to win in this performance-based culture without losing your soul. There are no shortcuts or steals in the spiritual journey of life. HOME RUN is a guidebook for living life and learning how to succeed God's way.
Download or read book The Church of Baseball written by Ron Shelton and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LA TIMES BESTSELLER • From the award-winning screenwriter and director of cult classic Bull Durham, the extremely entertaining behind-the-scenes story of the making of the film, and an insightful primer on the art and business of moviemaking. "This book tells you how to make a movie—the whole nine innings of it—out of nothing but sheer will.” —Tony Gilroy, writer/director of Michael Clayton and The Bourne Legacy "The only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the church of baseball."—Annie in Bull Durham Bull Durham, the breakthrough 1988 film about a minor league baseball team, is widely revered as the best sports movie of all time. But back in 1987, Ron Shelton was a first-time director and no one was willing to finance a movie about baseball—especially a story set in the minors. The jury was still out on Kevin Costner’s leading-man potential, while Susan Sarandon was already a has-been. There were doubts. But something miraculous happened, and The Church of Baseball attempts to capture why. From organizing a baseball camp for the actors and rewriting key scenes while on set, to dealing with a short production schedule and overcoming the challenge of filming the sport, Shelton brings to life the making of this beloved American movie. Shelton explains the rarely revealed ins and outs of moviemaking, from a film’s inception and financing, screenwriting, casting, the nuts and bolts of directing, the postproduction process, and even through its release. But this is also a book about baseball and its singular romance in the world of sports. Shelton spent six years in the minor leagues before making this film, and his experiences resonate throughout this book. Full of wry humor and insight, The Church of Baseball tells the remarkable story behind an iconic film.
Download or read book HOMERUN written by VINCENT DAVID. and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Loving Sports When They Don t Love You Back written by Jessica Luther and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Triumphant wins, gut-wrenching losses, last-second shots, underdogs, competition, and loyalty—it’s fun to be a fan. But when a football player takes a hit to the head after yet another study has warned of the dangers of CTE, or when a team whose mascot was born in an era of racism and bigotry takes the field, or when a relief pitcher accused of domestic violence saves the game, how is one to cheer? Welcome to the club for sports fans who care too much. In Loving Sports When They Don’t Love You Back, acclaimed sports writers Jessica Luther and Kavitha A. Davidson tackle the most pressing issues in sports, why they matter, and how we can do better. For the authors, “sticking to sports” is not an option—not when our taxes are paying for the stadiums, and college athletes aren’t getting paid at all. But simply quitting a favorite team won’t change corrupt and deplorable practices, and the root causes of many of these problems are endemic in our wider society. An essential read for modern fans, Loving Sports When They Don’t Love You Back challenges the status quo and explores how we might begin to reconcile our conscience with our fandom.
Download or read book Home Run written by Heidi McLaughlin and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Forever My Girl comes a sports romance with "a hot, complex hero and a gutsy, multidimensional heroine" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). I've given up everything for the chance to play major league baseball. Everything. Now I'm so close I can practically hear the crowd chanting my name. There's nothing that could take my dream away from me . . . Unless I lose focus. And Ainsley Burke is the most beautiful, distracting woman I've ever met. When I'm with her, I can't think of anything else. But no matter how much I want Ainsley, there's no room for love in my game plan. I can give her a quick tour of the bases, but that's it. Then I have to let her go. If she wants to think I'm a love 'em and leave 'em player, fine. All dreams require sacrifice. I just wish this one didn't mean tearing out my own heart.
Download or read book McGwire and Sosa written by Welcome Rain Publishers and published by . This book was released on 1998-11 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the lives, on and off the baseball field, of two athletes whose battle for the home run record dominated sports headlines in 1998.
Download or read book Love s A Cookin written by R. John and published by Earl R. Dingman. This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Midwestern gal Stacey travels to Hollywood with one of her best friends on spring break. While there Stacey falls in love with a cook who works at a motion picture production studio. They share a torrid week making love and hate to separate, but she has to come back to finish her studies and graduate. After returning to home and family, she makes plans to go back to California, move in with the man she loves, forging a life with him cooking for the cast and crew at the studio. Disaster seems to strike when the studio is sold and dismantled, but with the help of friends, Stacey and her man begin what would become a multi-million-dollar cooking business that caters to the world. While this novel contains sexual material it is NOT “erotica,” but it is nonetheless intended for an open-minded adult audience.
Download or read book Home Run written by David Vincent and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The home run is indeed baseball's ultimate weapon. It can change a game in a heartbeat, making a tight game into a blowout or a seemingly easy win into a nail-biter. Homers are majestic, powerful, and awe inspiring. And sluggers are the sport's biggest stars, from the days of Babe Ruth through Barry Bonds. David Vincent, called "The Sultan of Swat Stats" by ESPN, delves into the long history of the home run with great detail and color. He starts when the rules of the game were highly unstable and sometimes the definition of a home run could change in a park from year to year; follows through the "Deadball Era," when the home run was rare; explores the explosion Babe Ruth brought to baseball in the 1920s; discusses how both world wars affected homer statistics; looks at great home run races such as Maris versus Mantle in 1961; assesses the effects of the juiced ball, juiced players, thin air, and smaller ballparks; and so much more. If there is something to know about home run history, look to David Vincent for the answer-Major League Baseball does. With Home Run: The Definitive History of Baseball's Ultimate Weapon, now you can know it too. A 1990s Nike commercial proclaimed that "chicks dig the long ball." In this thorough and colorful look at baseball's ultimate weapon, David Vincent shows you why.
Download or read book Home Run written by Jordan Marie and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Green Lucas doesn't know what's about to hit him. Complete Standalone Romance WantedA woman with grit and fire who will help me get my son's head out of his ass. You must be self-sufficient and not looking for a gravy train.Common sense is a plus, book smarts are optional.Cannot have red hair, as my son seems to go for that type and he needs something to shake him up.Must have a backbone, but be flexible enough to bend-and I'm not talking in the bedroom-some things a mother doesn't need to know.Bonus points if your name is Daisy, Lily, Bluebell, Jasmine, etc.But not Dahlia, that's an instant no.Must love kids, especially puberty-stricken boys who are discovering girls are more fun than video games.Also, and this is very important, you must hate all things baseball-bonus points if you've never seen a game either on television or in person.If this description is you, or fits someone you know, apply at the address below.P.S. You must also love cows. Sometimes a mother has to do what she has to do.Let the games begin.
