Download or read book Scoring from Second written by Philip F. Deaver and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do accomplished writers (and grown-ups) like Ron Carlson, Rick Bass, and Michael Chabon (to name but a few of those represented here) still obsess over their baseball days? What is it about this green game of suspense that not only moves us but can also move us to flights of lyrical writing? In Scoring from Second: Writers on Baseball some of the literary lights of our day answer these questions with essays, reminiscences, and meditations on the sport that is America's game but also a deeply personal experience for player, observer, and fan alike. Here writers as different as Andre Dubus and Leslie Epstein, Chabon and Floyd Skloot, Michael Martone and William Least Heat-Moon reflect on the game they grew up with, the players who thrilled them, and the lessons that baseball holds for us all. From the one-season wonder to the long-haul heroes to the hall of fame, the game that has framed so many American summers-and lives-comes to quirky, instructive, and always entertaining life in these pages. Philip F. Deaver is the author of How Men Pray and Silent Retreats and winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. He is writer-in-residence and associate professor of English at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. Lee K. Abbott is the author of seven collections of short stories, including Wet Places at Noon and All Things, All at Once: New & Selected Stories. He is a professor of English at The Ohio State University in Columbus. Contributors: Jocelyn Bartkevicius, Rick Bass, Larry Blakely, Earl S. Braggs, Christopher Buckley, Rick Campbell, David Carkeet, Ron Carlson, Michael Chabon, Mick Cochrane, Hal Crowther, Andre Dubus, Leslie Epstein, Gary Forrester, Lee Gutkind, Jeffrey Hammond, Jeffrey Higa, Peter Ives, Richard Jackson, William Least Heat-Moon, Lee Martin, Michael Martone, Cris Mazza, Kyle Minor, Dan O'Neill, Susan Perabo, Rachael Perry, Kurt Rheinheimer, Louis D. Rubin Jr., Luke Salisbury, Floyd Skloot, Tom Stanton, Michael Steinberg, Tim D. Stone, and Robert Vivian.

Download or read book Singled Out written by Andrew Maraniss and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *"[An] excellent exercise in narrative nonfiction." --Booklist (starred review) From New York Times bestselling author Andrew Maraniss comes the remarkable true story of Glenn Burke, a "hidden figure" in the history of sports: the inventor of the high five and the first openly gay MLB player. Perfect for fans of Steve Sheinkin and Daniel James Brown. On October 2nd, 1977, Glenn Burke, outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers, made history without even swinging a bat. When his teammate Dusty Baker hit a historic home run, Glenn enthusiastically congratulated him with the first ever high five. But Glenn also made history in another way--he was the first openly gay MLB player. While he did not come out publicly until after his playing days were over, Glenn's sexuality was known to his teammates, family, and friends. His MLB career would be cut short after only three years, but his legacy and impact on the athletic and LGBTQIA+ community would resonate for years to come. New York Times bestselling author Andrew Maraniss tells the story of Glenn Burke: from his childhood growing up in Oakland, his journey to the MLB and the World Series, the joy in discovering who he really was, to more difficult times: facing injury, addiction, and the AIDS epidemic. Packed with black-and-white photographs and thoroughly researched, never-before-seen details about Glenn's life, Singled Out is the fascinating story of a trailblazer in sports--and the history and culture that shaped the world around him. Praise for Singled Out: "A compelling narrative . . . This is a meticulously researched history of the ways queer culture in the ’70s intersected with baseball, Blackness, and larger culture wars, with one man at their center." --Kirkus Reviews

Download or read book The Ninth Child written by Lucinda Perry and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ninth Child describes: 1. My family background dating back to the year 1870. 2. My life experiences as a Black child growing up in a family of 12 children, in Texas. 3. My experiences as a teacher and drug prevention counselor in the schools located in South Central Los Angeles and Gardena, CA. 4. The incidents that I witnessed, or was involved in, as a resident of South Central Los Angeles for 23 years. 5. My religious experiences

Download or read book The Other Four Letter Word written by Patti Palamidessi and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Other Four-Letter Word is an inspiring true story of one womans incredible journey in the game of life. From childhood, Patricias health has been quite the curve ball. All it took was for her to find her swing and follow through. Heart tugging, motivating, and victorious, this book is a home run. Steve Sax, writer, motivational speaker, and professional baseball player Life through Pattione of the most tortuous health curves one could ever imagine. From epilepsy through a litany of other serious challenges to her body and mind she held the course. This book is about a woman calling on her innate quality, character, and soul to survive. And then conquer! Patti shares with an intense openness that gives the readers a highly personal insight in which others facing life challenges can find immense value. As difficult as it often is in this book to witness what Patti endured the overriding impact is a story as warm and nurturing as a serving of her restaurants famous ravioli. Stan Atkinson, Sacramento Channel 3 (NBC), news anchor Now, now, I know what four-letter words you are thinking ofmy favorite words too! But my story is about a stronger four-letter word that can control all of our thoughts. This word cultivated and controlled a majority of my life. My goal is for you to learn how to be in charge of this four-letter word, believe in the goals of your life, and find happiness within yourself.

Download or read book Old Songs in a New Caf written by Robert James Waller and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2001-06-21 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Robert James Waller comes a wonderful collection of 19 essays--all of them as romantic, reflective, and timeless as readers have come to expect from the author of The Bridges of Madison County--a celebration of life and loss, of what things still can be.

Download or read book Love on Trial written by Kris Perry and published by Roaring Forties Press. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told in their own voice, this is the story of two women who took their struggle for marriage equality all the way to the Supreme Court--and won. Kris Perry and Sandy Stier are the lead plaintiffs in the team that sued the state of California to restore marriage equality. By 2008, when Californians voted in Proposition 8, banning same-sex marriage, Kris and Sandy had been a couple raising their four sons for almost a decade. Living in Berkeley, they were a modern family, but without the protections of legal marriage. In alternating voices, Love on Trial tells the story of each woman’s journey from her 1960s all-American childhood to the US Supreme Court, sharing tales of growing up in rural America, coming out to bewildered parents, falling in love, and finally becoming a family. From wrangling teenagers and careers to hot flashes at the Supreme Court, this book provides an honest, amusing look at a family that landed in the middle of one of the most important civil rights battles of our era.

Download or read book Parish written by Matt Brown and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-11-07 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are unexpected, beatific moments when Rev. Elijah Lovejoy Parish is swept up by the divine intrusion into the ordinary. Yet, he knows he cannot tarry there, for his calling also compels him to resume his shift as the traffic cop down at the intersection of Pathological and Whine. Told from the perspective of a deceased brother, freed from life's bondage to autism, Parish introduces you to the family of a young pastor and invites you to laugh and cry through the seasons of a year laced with everything from a redneck funeral that becomes a DEA sting operation to a grandfather's honorable relinquishing of his mind to senescence to an act of violence that impales the community and challenges easy Easter answers. Dismayed by rock-star-skinny-jeaned preachers preening and self-righteous demagogues decreeing, Elijah Parish balks when strangers ask him what he does for a living. Yet, he keeps at it. Why? Grace: undeserved and unsurpassed, ineffable and irrepressible. Living with the sinners and saints of St. Martin Presbyterian Church in the North Carolina foothills community of Edinburgh, Elijah and his family keep stumbling into grace as the seasons pass and as chaos dances with mercy.

Download or read book Genesis Eventide Book 1 written by K.A. Poe and published by Frostbite Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen year old Alan de Quincey has always been a little different. Proper and meticulous, he was born into a wealthy family. Social hierarchy isn't the only thing that shaped his life, though, he was also born with a gift—he is a witch. After Alan’s parents are slain by werewolves, he takes up the family quest to discover what happened to his long lost sister. When he is bitten, he instead finds a curse. Forced to leave all remnants of his past behind in order to protect the ones he loves, Alan races against time to find Eventide, a mythical book said to contain the cure for Lycanthropy. Forced to ally with sworn enemies and trust those who would have him dead, little is certain. What is clear, is if Alan does not find the relic, he will not only lose his future, but also his past. Genesis is the first novel in the follow-up-series to K.A. Poe’s Forevermore, but can be read as a stand-alone series. This novel is approximately 70,000 words in length (300 pages). SUGGESTED READING ORDER Twin Souls (Nevermore, Book 1) Hybrid (Nevermore, Book 2) Sacrifice (Nevermore, Book 3) Destiny (Nevermore, Book 4) Kismet (Forevermore, Book 1) Catalyst (Forevermore, Book 2) Solstice (Forevermore, Book 3) Eventide (Forevermore, Book 4) Coalesce (Forevermore, Book 5) Restore (A Forevermore Novella) Genesis (Eventide, Book 1) Synergy (Eventide, Book 2) Anathema (Eventide, Book 3) Schism (Forevermore, Book 6) Fracture (Forevermore, Book 7) Eclipse (Forevermore, Book 8) Closure (A Forevermore Novella) MORE BY K.A. POE Twin Souls (Nevermore, Book 1) Hybrid (Nevermore, Book 2) Sacrifice (Nevermore, Book 3) Destiny (Nevermore, Book 4) Kismet (Forevermore, Book 1) Catalyst (Forevermore, Book 2) Solstice (Forevermore, Book 3) Eventide (Forevermore, Book 4) Coalesce (Forevermore, Book 5) Schism (Forevermore, Book 6) Fracture (Forevermore, Book 7) Eclipse (Forevermore, Book 8) Genesis (Eventide, Book 1) Synergy (Eventide, Book 2) Anathema (Eventide, Book 3) Restore (A Forevermore Novella) Closure (A Forevermore Novella) Salem (A Nevermore Novella) Ephemeral (Ani'mari, Book 1) Evanescent (Ani'mari, Book 2) Darius - Episode One (Through the Rift) The King's Hourglass (Avarial Trilogy, Book 1)

Download or read book The Baseball Codes written by Jason Turbow and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insider’s look at baseball’s unwritten rules, explained with examples from the game’s most fascinating characters and wildest historical moments. Everyone knows that baseball is a game of intricate regulations, but it turns out to be even more complicated than we realize. All aspects of baseball—hitting, pitching, and baserunning—are affected by the Code, a set of unwritten rules that governs the Major League game. Some of these rules are openly discussed (don’t steal a base with a big lead late in the game), while others are known only to a minority of players (don’t cross between the catcher and the pitcher on the way to the batter’s box). In The Baseball Codes, old-timers and all-time greats share their insights into the game’s most hallowed—and least known—traditions. For the learned and the casual baseball fan alike, the result is illuminating and thoroughly entertaining. At the heart of this book are incredible and often hilarious stories involving national heroes (like Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays) and notorious headhunters (like Bob Gibson and Don Drysdale) in a century-long series of confrontations over respect, honor, and the soul of the game. With The Baseball Codes, we see for the first time the game as it’s actually played, through the eyes of the players on the field. With rollicking stories from the past and new perspectives on baseball’s informal rulebook, The Baseball Codes is a must for every fan.

Download or read book Getting Filthy written by Perry Husband and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting Filthy - Implementing Effective Velocity When a pitcher of any level has great "Stuff", which means high velocity, good movement etc..... they are referred to as 'Nasty'. 'Filthy' is the term used when a 'Nasty' pitcher learns how to pitch. Teaching pitchers of all levels to get 'Filthy' is a process, just like all skill sets. This book is set up in a series of lessons to take on one element at a time. EV as a whole can seem very complex, although when you break each facet down into bite sized chunks, they are much easier to understand. 'Filthy' is a whole new chapter in the art of pitching. Getting 'Filthy' is a process that has steps and none of the steps are very complicated all by themselves. Step one is knowledge about gravity, but not the gravity that keeps your spikes firmly planted on the mound, rather the gravity that determines who wins the battle between the pitcher and the batter. This gravity is called Effective Velocity or EV for short. EV is timing and timing is what has determined the outcome of every at bat in the history of baseball and softball. And.....just as it does not matter whether you understand how gravity keeps you attached to the earth or not.......it also does not matter if you understand how EV works or not, it is still working all the time and in every at bat. Effective Velocity for pitchers is a complex subject that has a lot of layers. EV is a lot like math, in that you could not learn math in one day, at least not all of it. You can learn one aspect of math each day, such as addition or division or geometry, but when you try to learn math all at once, it's a cluttered mess. It becomes something like geovision or addometry, both of which are crazy versions of what was intended. And although you will see bits of the truth in addometry, it will never quite be exactly right. The same is true with EV. Most coaches or instructors read about EV and try to combine it with what they already 'know' about pitching, which usually turns into a watered down version of the truth. When you are ready to implement the most scientifically sound system in pitching, then it is time to start Getting Filthy.

Download or read book Line Drive Lonnie and the Louisville Lightning Bolts written by Tyler Dahlgren and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Line Drive Lonnie and the Louisville Lightning Bolts By: Tyler Dahlgren A passion for sports and a love for storytelling merged early on for author Tyler Dahlgren, who began writing at the age of twelve. After graduating from the University of Nebraska-Omaha, Dahlgren spent nearly three years working as sports editor for the newspaper in his hometown of Blair, Nebraska, where he met his future wife, Alyssa. Dahlgren continues to tell stories, travelling Nebraska and highlighting the great things happening in the state's public schools for Nebraska Public School Advantage. His family resides in Omaha. The Dahlgrens welcomed their first child into the world on May Day, a son, Micah, and already have a space reserved on his bookshelf for Lonnie and the Lightning Bolts.. Three summers in college coaching youth baseball and digesting colorful dugout dialogue inspired Dahlgren's first novel, Line Drive Lonnie and the Louisville Lightning Bolts, which, at its core, is a story of baseball, family, food and, most importantly, the power of friendship.

Download or read book Who We Are Is Why We Win written by Bailey Stenson and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no greater feeling than accomplishing a goal. A goal that took several people a little over a decade to accomplish. A goal that captured a city's heart. A goal that allowed you to be the first. Ever. In history. Seattle was starving for an athletic accomplishment. The University of Washington softball team was able to provide some of the nourishment. This book is a memoir and behind the scenes illustration of a season to remember. A season full of laughs, tears and hardware.

Download or read book My Life Adventure written by Sherwood H. Brock and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-10 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From mule drawn plows to wrenching on jet engines and WWII island hopping in the Pacific by way of California, the life adventures of a Texas sharecropper's son.

Download or read book Radio Daze written by Perry Stone and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who would have known that a young friendship and a passion for winning contests on the radio would turn into a life-long successful career. Perry Stone quickly rose to fame early in his radio broadcasting career, but the life of glamour he pictured was far from the truth of being a popular shock jock. Follow Perry's career and life in the cut-throat radio industry spanning a total of over forty years and meet some of Perry's most memorable fans, opponents, celebrities, and rock and roll stars! You've never seen a behind the scenes look of the disc jockey and radio universe quite like this! About the Author Perry Stone is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University with a BA in communications and over forty years’ experience across the nation in the radio and broadcasting industry. He has a wife and two grown children and is currently the host of a LIVE streamed and listener viewed interactive show every afternoon on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Twitch. He has a unique knowledge of every logo and team uniform change in sports, from Baseball to Football and Hockey. Stone is also featured in a chapter of the 2012 book, There’s Nothing Louder Than Dead Air.

Download or read book Hall of Name written by Diane Firstman and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographical profiles and fun factoids of 100 of the most memorable names in baseball history. The names I'm profiling here are divided into four groups (admittedly a few of these players could qualify for more than one category):?Baseball Poets/Men of (Few Different) Letters: Players with rhyming names and/or alliterative names.?Dirty Names Done Dirt Cheap: Players with scatological or otherwise naughty names.?Sounds Good to Me: Players with mellifluous/melodious names.?No Focus Group Convened: Players whose names don't fall into one of the prior three categories, or ones that might involve us questioning the intentions of the player's parents.Each player profile within has the following:?general demographic information (name they played under, their full name at birth, date of birth/death, years active in the majors, positions played, etc.)?etymology/definition of each part of their given name?baseball biography (generally, how they made it to the majors, what they did while they were there)?best day (a recap of a great day in their major league career)?the wonder of his name (why his name is memorable to me/us)?not to be confused with (names that sound and/or look like the player's name)?fun anagrams (anagrams of their given names, just because I can)?ephemera (factoids, tidbits, trivia about the player, details regarding their parents, their family and their life after baseball)

Download or read book Scared Fearless written by Kathryn Clark Childers and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The era: the 1970s. The location: an airplane en route to Washington, DC. Kathryn Clark Childers chats with a fellow passenger. “Are you visiting?” her seatmate asked. “No, I work there,” Childers said, pointing out the window to the White House, which had just come into view. “I’m a Secret Service agent.” “Really? I didn’t know they let girls pull that duty. I’m not really sure what you do.” “It’s a secret.” Recruited to the Secret Service as one of its first five female agents, Childers would surprise many people, including herself. Her duties included undercover work, protective details for John and Caroline Kennedy, children of Jacqueline Kennedy, and attending state dinners where she met world leaders, including Prince Juan Carlos of Spain. In addition, she had to figure out how to disguise the .357 Magnum revolver that she carried at all times, whether wearing jogging clothes, a business suit, or an evening gown. It was 1970, and the Secret Service, like most public and private organizations, struggled—sometimes unsuccessfully—with the challenges of incorporating a rising tide of women into government service and other professional workplaces. Written in a lighthearted but highly informative style, Scared Fearless details the obstacles and the joys, the moments of high adventure, and the laughable fashion dilemmas that were part of Childers’ groundbreaking role. Through everything that happened, Childers says, she followed her father’s admonition: “Just do it scared.”

Download or read book CAUGHT BETWEEN WORLDS written by Alison L. Perry and published by Alison L. Perry Books, LLC. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Balancing life as a vampire and human is harder than she thought… Ever since Sadie decided to hide her vampirism by masquerading as a normal sixteen-year-old high school student, her world has plunged into chaos. Still a clumsy mess who attracts trouble and embarrassment like bees to honey, she’s navigating a slew of challenges: the fallout from an explosive Homecoming queen showdown, knocking out the school’s newly returned golden girl in gym class, and falling head-over-heels in love with Cam, the supposed bad boy of the school. As a test subject in a secret experimental vampire program gone wrong, Sadie also has a target on her back. To erase all traces of the failed program, the elite vampire First Families want her dead and have gone to extreme measures to make it happen. Now Sadie must deal with a shadowy stalker who seems to relish the hunt, using her and her loved ones as pawns in a sinister game of his own making. Can she survive his schemes and protect her friends and family at the same time?