Download or read book Baseball As I Have Known It written by Fred Lieb and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Honus Wagner to Johnny Bench, Baseball As I Have Known It covers sixty-six seasons of America’s national sport. Fred Lieb, the dean of baseball writers, tells about its heroes, rogues, controversies, and grand plays. He broke in as a sportswriter in the Polo Grounds press box in 1911. In 1933, in the midst of the Depression, Lieb was fired from the New York Post and began a freelance career writing about his beloved sport. Baseball As I Have Known It, first published in 1977 when Lieb was eighty-nine years old, remains a vital record of a glorious bygone era. In superb style, he comments on changes in baseball over the decades and tells inside stories about great events and immortal players.

Download or read book How Baseball Happened written by Thomas W. Gilbert and published by Godine+ORM. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of baseball’s nineteenth-century origins: “a delightful look at a young nation creating a pastime that was love from the first crack of the bat” (Paul Dickson, The Wall Street Journal). You may have heard that Abner Doubleday or Alexander Cartwright invented baseball. Neither did. You may have been told that a club called the Knickerbockers played the first baseball game in 1846. They didn’t. Perhaps you’ve read that baseball’s color line was first crossed by Jackie Robinson in 1947. Nope. Baseball’s true founders don’t have plaques in Cooperstown. They were hundreds of uncredited, ordinary people who played without gloves, facemasks, or performance incentives. Unlike today’s pro athletes, they lived full lives outside of sports. They worked, built businesses, and fought against the South in the Civil War. In this myth-busting history, Thomas W. Gilbert reveals the true beginnings of baseball. Through newspaper accounts, diaries, and other accounts, he explains how it evolved through the mid-nineteenth century into a modern sport of championships, media coverage, and famous stars—all before the first professional league was formed in 1871. Winner of the Casey Award: Best Baseball Book of the Year

Download or read book Still Speaking with the Stars written by Bob Benson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theyre back and theyre sharing! Now the second verbal dance with the stars features over 1250 of the best sounding quotes of all time. These are chosen with the ear in mind and designed to bridge the wide gap between yawn and smile or knowing nod. So talk on!

Download or read book Miracle Kid written by Zachary D. Gauvin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-02-25 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zach Gauvin was a junior in high school who had it allstar of the football team, a beautiful girlfriend he adored, and a terrible drinking problem. Miracle Kid tells the story of his near fatal accident and how, at the age of seventeen, he had to learn how to live all over again. A high school all-star athlete, Gauvin wakes one day to find that his world has been turned upside down. He has been involved in a serious car accident and has received a traumatic brain injury. He wakes after being in a coma for a month. Now, he must relearn how to do everyday things that most people take for granted. He must learn how to walk, talk, and use his left hand all over again. He beats all odds and recovers, fights through many hardships, and accomplishes things peopleincluding the doctorsnever thought would be possible. Along the way, he becomes an advocate for people with brain injuries, seeking to pass along the things that he has learned to others in similar situations. Miracle Kid hopes to inspire everyone to fight hard when things get toughagainst all odds.

Download or read book Sport and Physical Activity across the Lifespan written by Rylee A. Dionigi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection problematizes trajectories of health promotion across the lifespan. It provides a distinctive critical social science perspective of the various directions taken by dominant policies in their approach to promoting sport for all ages. It offers an array of theoretical and methodologically diverse perspectives on this topic, and highlights the intersections between different life stages and social, economic and cultural factors in the developed world, including class, gender, ability, family dynamics and/or race. Sport and Physical Activity across the Lifespan critically explores dominant policies of age-focussed sport promotion in order to highlight its implications within the context of particular life stages as they intersect with social, cultural and economic factors. This includes an examination of organised sport for pre-schoolers; ‘at-risk’ youth sport programmes; and the creation of sporting sub-cultures within the mid-life ‘market’. This book will be of interest to those wanting to learning more about how age and life stages affect the way people think about and participate in sport, and to better understand the impacts of sport across the lifespan.

Download or read book The Curse of Rocky Colavito written by Terry Pluto and published by Gray & Company. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since the ill-fated trade of Rocky Colavito to Detroit in 1960, Indians fans have watched their team stumble through an extraordinary array of misdeeds, misfortunes, and outright tragedies. This series of funny, fond, and irreverent vignettes captures the frustration, anger--and undying optimism--of baseball's worst team. Photos.

Download or read book Seasoned Greetings written by Tony Cobourn and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Saga of Sudden Sam written by Sam McDowell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-03-09 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The candid autobiography of all-star pitcher “Sudden Sam” McDowell, whose alcohol-fueled life quickly and famously spiraled out of control, and his ultimate redemption as a counselor for other athletes suffering from addiction. Sam McDowell seemed to have it all. Considered by many to be the next Sandy Koufax when he signed with the Cleveland Indians, Sam boasted one of the fastest arms in major league baseball. But on the inside, he was playing in an alcoholic fog, beset by addiction, depression, narcissism, and thoughts of suicide. The Saga of Sudden Sam: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of Sam McDowell is the captivatingly honest autobiography of the six-time American League all-star pitcher and self-admitted “worst drunk in baseball.” Sam holds nothing back, sharing the pressures he felt as a young baseball phenom, his frustrations over a lack of coaching to help develop his talent, the pitfalls of his dangerous alcoholic lifestyle, and his attempted suicide. When “Sudden Sam” finally hit rock bottom, certain he had been defeated by alcoholism, he instead found hope, rehabilitation, and sobriety. After extensive education and training, he emerged as the first successful counselor in major league baseball. Sam helped to turn around the lives of players who, just like him, had fallen into the abyss of addiction or faced psychological and emotional problems that were destroying their careers. With details of his own severe battles with depression and addiction told alongside the struggles of players who came to him for help, The Saga of Sudden Sam offers special insight into the longstanding addiction issues that plague Major League Baseball. It also provides understanding and hope to anyone struggling with addiction and shows that recovery is attainable.

Download or read book In a Twisted Mind 3 written by Larry R. Liberty and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Weather or Not: Finally, the government passes the Weather Forecasters Accountability Act. Meteorologists giving inaccurate forecasts will be punished on national TV. Accurate forecasts are soon normal except for one meteorologist. 2. Diner: New diners start popping up all over the East Coast. The service is so quick an investigative reporter wants answers as to how they can do this. He surprisingly finds out how and why to his demise. 3. The Blue Light: A National Security agent is accidentally given a top-secret document on the blue-light effect of flat-screen devices. After reading the report, he is left in a serious dilemma. 4. Drunken Ball: Bored with conventional ball games, a visionary and his brewery friends start new ball leagues with drunken players only. The games are hilarious and become popular with the spectators until his real agenda is exposed. 5. Behind Closed Doors: A high-tech private detective records secret meetings between major manufacturers and documents unbelievable secrets. He has to sequester himself in a remote South American country to avoid getting assassinated. 6. Hot Teeth: A mouth-borne disease is killing dentists, and soon they are almost extinct. Automobile mechanics start moonlighting repairing broken dentures, and the profit is so good criminals are stealing dentures right out of victims' mouths. 7. Camp Tawacko: Parents send the children to a camp in the Pocono's for a two-week vacation. Everything is great until they drive to the camp to pick up the children and find it doesn't exist. 8. Satan's Warning to You: Satan comes out of the furnace and boasts all his dirty deeds. 9. Tuco Tango: A Mexican federalist is diagnosed with a tapeworm. He finds the tapeworm is intelligent and starts telling him what to do. 10. Poly Wants a Cracker: A pet parrot has an extensive vocabulary and an agenda of his own. His owner is not playing with a full deck. 11. Bus to Paradise: A senior-citizen bus trip to a resort in Southern California is too good to be true, especially those tasty pork potpies. The bus driver gets suspicious when some of the seniors aren't returning from the round trip. 12. The Fat Veterinarian: When the economy tanks in a rural Southern state, food becomes scarce. A local veterinarian is forced to travel north to find work and food. After being hired at a vet hospital, he starts taking home some sample pets. 13. The Arboretum: A scientist is experimenting with advanced theories in life energy. He proves that trees have feelings and intelligence just like humans. He also finds that trees are plotting to destroy the human race.

Download or read book Media Images of Alcohol written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Alcoholism and Narcotics and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book God in the Bullpen The Randy Lerch Story written by Randy Lerch and published by Word to the World Ministries. This book was released on 2019-08-16 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God in the Bullpen! How else would one describe the One who rescued a major league pitcher? Many professional athletes have experimented with drugs. When I was told by a respected veteran that I would never make it in the major leagues without amphetamines, I trusted him and took them. They gave me a feeling of invincibility, but they hurt my performance. Soon, the “greenies” became a habit, and eventually I washed them down with alcohol. Of course, that became a habit, too. Eventually, addiction led to failed rehabilitation efforts and an automobile accident while driving impaired that nearly took my life. When I reached the lowest point ever, the ultimate relief pitcher, God, came from the bullpen and saved my life. I was later diagnosed with cirrhosis. My liver was incurably damaged by the alcohol. With His help, I am battling this, but only God can know how much time I have left. I want to tell my story to help others avoid the pitfalls that brought me to a time of despair. I also want to tell you that the LORD can help you if you will give your life to Him: and, He will give you eternal life in Heaven.

Download or read book The Frozen Toe Guide to Real Alaskan Livin written by Brookelyn Bellinger and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Frozen Toe Guide to Real Alaskan Livin' both embraces and instructs readers on everything one needs to know to be a true Alaskan, or at least to look the part. Combining both handbook format with anecdotal bits about the author’s own experiences moving to the state, the book advises readers on such topics ranging from winter survival skills to regional fashion to Alaskan dating advice to extreme sports. Learn how to make ice cream from snow, or how to seek out a career in dog mushing. Find out where to travel for weekend trips, and what Alaskans do for entertainment.

Download or read book Negotiations to Solve Problems written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Eddie Mathews and the National Pastime written by Eddie Mathews and published by Douglas Amer Sports Publications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hall of Famer Mathews chronicles his life & baseball career, including anecdotes about Hank Aaron & Bob Uecker.

Download or read book The Athlete s Covenant written by Suzanne Stefanowski Hudd and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using everyday sporting experiences as a foundation, Suzanne Stefanowski Hudd lays out a set of informal rules that athletic team members learn to uphold. Prescribed within the “athlete’s covenant,” these guidelines support the transformation of the player’s individual commitment to hard work into a set of collective, role-related obligations that are applicable across time and sport. Hudd’s analysis highlights sportsmanship as it is practiced daily, flowing naturally from the mimicry and synchrony that players routinely use to perfect their talents. Working to turn star players into team players, the covenant encourages athletes to set their sights on goals that surpass what their individual talents alone can provide. Hudd theorizes our waning commitment to these important collectivistic properties of sport has contributed to the belief that sportsmanship is a thing of the past.

Download or read book Bulletin U S Coast Guard Academy Alumni Association written by United States Coast Guard Academy. Alumni Association and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gotham Baseball New York s All Time Team written by Mark C. Healey illustrations by and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball may be the great American pastime, but in New York, it is a religion. Names like Ruth, Mays, Gehrig, Wright and Robinson live in the hearts and minds of New York fans like apostles. From the street corner to the subway car, debates about which Yankee, Giant, Dodger or Met is better than another have raged on for more than one hundred years. Now, the best of the best are chosen for each position as New York's all-time greatest team is imagined. Shoo-ins like the Babe and Jackie have their stories told with a fresh perspective. The compelling case for Mike Piazza, not Yogi Berra, as catcher is sure to spark arguments. Sportswriter Mark Healey crafts the Gotham baseball team through captivating tales of the legends of the New York game.