Download or read book Rounding Third Heading Home written by David Aretha and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Easy-to-read, fast-paced, action-packed sports-themed stories will entice readers as they follow along with the main character in each story who faces, and then solves, interesting life challenges. Simultaneous.
Download or read book Joe written by Greg Hoard and published by . This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biography of Cincinnati Reds legendary pitcer, Joe Nuxhall who later became the beloved Reds announcer for over thirty years.
Download or read book Headed Home written by Glenn Wilson and published by Lucid Books. This book was released on 2011-11-12 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilson, a first-round draft pick of the Detroit Tigers in 1980, played 10 seasons in Major League Baseball. Injuries and disappointment shortened his career, and when investments soured causing business ventures to fail, he found himself living in pain and misery. In that pain, he came to know what it meant to truly have a relationship with God.
Download or read book Hitting the Curveballs written by Jay Myers and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hitting the Curveballs, small business owner Jay Myers coaches entrepreneurs to use crises to grow their business by inspiring them to embrace new strategies, including creative employee recruiting methods, niche marketing, using your book as a hook, and much more. Myers tells the story of how he led his own company to more than double its sales to $25 million from 2007 to 2011, when they lost 80% of their sales team and faced the worst economy in living memory. Buy this book if you want the encouraging voice of an experienced hitter behind you next time you step up to the plate.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1978 with total page 1686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Intentional Walk written by Hugh Poland and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring stories about Curt Schilling, Frank Pastore, Ted Williams, Rube Waddell, and Ty Cobb, and drawing spiritual insight from these modern parables, this volume of devotionals will appeal to fans of America's favorite pastime--baseball.
Download or read book Kenichi Zenimura Japanese American Baseball Pioneer written by Bill Staples, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the story of the Negro Leagues has been well documented, few baseball fans know about the Japanese American Nisei Leagues, or of their most influential figure, Kenichi Zenimura (1900-1968). A talented player who excelled at all nine positions, Zenimura was also a respected manager and would become the Japanese American community's baseball ambassador. He worked tirelessly to promote the game at home and abroad, leading goodwill trips to Asia, helping to negotiate tours of Japan by Negro League All-Stars and Babe Ruth, and establishing a 32-team league behind the barbed wire of Arizona's Gila River Internment Camp during World War II. This first biography of the "Father of Japanese-American Baseball" delivers a thorough and fascinating account of Zenimura's life.
Download or read book Kenichi Zenimura Japanese American Baseball Pioneer written by Bill Staples, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the story of the Negro Leagues has been well documented, few baseball fans know about the Japanese American Nisei Leagues, or of their most influential figure, Kenichi Zenimura (1900-1968). A talented player who excelled at all nine positions, Zenimura was also a respected manager and would become the Japanese American community's baseball ambassador. He worked tirelessly to promote the game at home and abroad, leading goodwill trips to Asia, helping to negotiate tours of Japan by Negro League All-Stars and Babe Ruth, and establishing a 32-team league behind the barbed wire of Arizona's Gila River Internment Camp during World War II. This first biography of the "Father of Japanese-American Baseball" delivers a thorough and fascinating account of Zenimura's life.
Download or read book As Sure as the Dawn written by Francine Rivers and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic series has inspired nearly 2 million readers. Both loyal fans and new readers will want the latest edition of this beloved series. This edition includes a foreword from the publisher, a preface from Francine Rivers and discussion questions suitable for personal and group use. #3 As Sure As the Dawn: Atretes. German warrior. Revered gladiator. He won his freedom through his fierceness . . . But his life is about to change forever.
Download or read book Nearing Home written by Billy Graham and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2013-05-06 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times best-seller and 2012 ECPA Book of the Year. Join Billy Graham as he reflects upon his life, recounts God's many gifts, and shares the challenges of fading bodily strength while still standing strong in his commitment to finish life well. Nearing Home—written by Reverend Billy Graham in his nineties—is a deeply personal memoir that explores how our strength can continually be found in the foundational truths of Scripture and inexhaustible love of Christ, despite the many trials of aging and the approaching end of our earthly time. Within these compassionate and restorative pages, you're invited to journey with Graham as he: Considers the golden years and the impact of the Gospel hope on his life. Encourages you to finish strong and keep the faith. Recounts the Bible's foundational truths, including death's ultimate defeat. Anticipates the hope of being reunited with loved ones in his heavenly home and finally seeing Christ face-to-face. "Explore with me not only the realities of life as we grow older but also the hope and fulfillment and even joy that can be ours once we learn to look at these years from God's point of view and discover His strength to sustain us every day." – BILLY GRAHAM
Download or read book Matty in the Goal written by Stuart A. P. Murray and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matty Wells loves soccer. Unfortunately, he isn't any good at it. And he certainly isn't the hero of his team, the Canyon Cannons, like the star player Gibb Moore. Matty volunteers to be the team's new goalie, but things don't get any better. Gibb scores the goals for the team and gets the glory, while Matty stands untested in the goal. Then Matty meets a new coach, Bobako, who helps him practice and improve his skills. Can Matty become the team's new superstar? Will he be able to make the big save in the team's final game? Follow Matty in this action-packed soccer fiction story as he learns to play goalie like a champion.
Download or read book Todd Goes for the Goal written by Stuart A. P. Murray and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fictional story, Todd can't believe it when he gets a chance to play for the Highfield High varsity soccer team. As a freshman, he will have to prove to the older players that he deserves his spot, but he hates how the bullies on the team cheat to win games. When Todd's family moves to a new town, Ross Corners, he must confront these bullies on the field. Even worse, he must score against his best friend, Will, the best goalie in the state. Can Todd lead his new team to victory?
Download or read book Batting Ninth written by Kris Rutherford and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chad Griffin can't hit a baseball to save his life. When he steps up to home plate, he usually leaves after the umpire shouts, "Strike Three." He always bats in the same spot for the Rangers, ninth, the worst hitter on the team. Even worse, he falls short of his dad's high expectations, but when the Rangers get a major-league all-star as their new coach, Chad's hitting begins to turn around, but hitting a baseball isn't Chad's only problem. As his team strives for the championship trophy, Chad learns the value of playing the game the right way in this fast-paced fiction adventure.
Download or read book Joe Nuxhall written by John Kiesewetter and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversations with Joe Nuxhall, the beloved announcer and pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds, about the Reds, baseball and broadcasting.
Download or read book The World Series written by Matt Christopher and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-12-19 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century, the World Series has captivated baseball fans. From Babe Ruth's Called Shot in 1932 and Reggie Jackson's three-in-a-row home runs in 1977, to the "reverse the curse" wins by Boston in 2004 and Chicago in 2005--this action-packed volume is sure to please. Quotes from the star athletes, photos of the best plays, and a complete list of results since the first series in 1903 round out the book that young baseball fans will find is an out-of-the park home run!
Download or read book An Acquired Taste Lifelong Optimism Skepticism and Darn Good Luck written by Jerrold Lee Shapiro Ph.D. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a kid from the streets of the Boston Ghetto end up spending his adult life in Hawaii and Northern California? This memoir was written for two reasons. The first and most important is to be better known by my children and grandchildren. The nature of my early life would seem inexplicable today. Not only are the years gone to the dustbin of history, but so is the neighborhood and lifestyle. Thus, it is also an attempt to comprehend better the trials, tribulations, missteps, great moments, and victories (large and small), as I approach my 9th decade of life. Throughout the book, I try to be transparent, while exploring motives and reasons for my becoming a transplant, far from my roots. I try to explore my journey primarily through the lens of several crucial junctures and transforming choices.
Download or read book Keep Swinging written by Jay Myers and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myers, founder of Interactive Solutions, Inc., had many days in his business early years when he thought he was going to end up just another statistic. As one of Americas fastest growing private companies, Myers shares his lessons on overcoming adversity and achieving small business success.
