Download or read book The Old Man from Leftfield written by Neil McKee and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I was a kid in the late 1950s, while I was a student at Paoli Elementary School, I read the famous children's book that talks about the Kid from Leftfield. Also around that time, I always said to myself, "What is it going to be like in the year 2000? I'll be fifty years old!" I couldn't comprehend being that old; the thought of it scared me, and I'd probably be in a wheelchair or something worse. I bet a lot of people my age thought the same thing. This is the story of what that kid did when he reached the age of fifty.
Download or read book Left Field written by David Wilson and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Wilson has been a gaucho, a teacher, an artist's agent, a documentary filmmaker and playwright, but above all, he has been a lifelong political activist. In the 60s he marched to Aldermaston. In the 70s he protested against the Vietnam War and apartheid. In the 80s, with the Lesbian and Gay Liberation Front, he delivered food to striking miners. More recently, he has been active in the anti-war movement. As the co-founder of War Child, he was instrumental in bringing a mobile bakery into war-torn Bosnia. In 1995 the charity gained prominence with the release of the Help album. Contributors included David Bowie, Brian Eno, Paul McCartney and Sinéad O'Connor. Help captured the world’s attention and brought the healing power of music to young people whose lives had been devastated by war. Left Field is an engaging and humorous memoir which will inspire not only Wilson's generation, but also today's young people who are campaigning for a better, fairer world.
Download or read book Out of Left Field written by Stan Isaacs and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “My idol growing up, all I wanted to be, was Stan Isaacs.” --Tony Kornheiser “Stan Isaacs is directly responsible for my television career--and much of how I approached what I’ve said and whom I’ve said it about.” --Keith Olbermann Iconoclastic and irreverent, Stan Isaacs was part of a generation that bucked the sports establishment with a skepticism for authority, an appreciation for absurdity, and a gift for placing athletes and events within the context of their tumultuous times. Isaacs draws on his trademark wink-and-a-grin approach to tell the story of the long-ago Brooklyn that formed him and a career that placed him amidst the major sporting events of his era. Mixing reminiscences with column excerpts, Isaacs recalls antics like stealing a Brooklyn Dodgers pennant after the team moved to Los Angeles and his many writings on Paul Revere’s horse. But Isaacs also reveals the crusading and humanist instincts that gave Black athletes like Muhammad Ali a rare forum to express their views and celebrated the oddball, unsung Mets over the straitlaced Yankees. Insightful and hilarious, Out of Left Field is the long-awaited memoir of the influential sportswriter and his adventures in the era of Jim Brown, Arthur Ashe, and the Amazin’ Mets.
Download or read book From Left Field written by Mindy Klasky and published by Book View Cafe. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cocky baseball player and the girl next door move from friends to lovers in this sexy stand-alone baseball romance! Adam Sartain is the face of the Rockets baseball franchise, a long-time left fielder with an easy-going attitude and a reputation for helping out in the community. Haley Thurman and Adam grew up like siblings, raising hell and sneaking out for late-night hijinks at the neighboring Reeves Farm. Now, Haley dreams of buying the farm for her no-kill animal shelter. But Adam has other plans. His unscrupulous manager cleaned out his bank account, and the only way he can regain his fortune, save his reputation, and continue to fund a charity for underserved kids is to buy the farm and develop it as high-end condos. Sparks fly as Haley and Adam fight over the farm—and neither is prepared for the heat when they realize the girl next door has turned into something more. The Diamond Brides Baseball Series: Each volume can be read on its own, and the series can be read in any order. Perfect Pitch (DJ Thomas and Samantha Winger) Catching Hell (Zach Ormond and Anna Benson) Reaching First (Tyler Brock and Emily Holt) Second Thoughts (Nick Durban and Jamie Martin) Third Degree (Josh Cantor and Ashley Harris) Stopping Short (Drew Marshall and Jessica Barnes) From Left Field (Adam Sartain and Haley Thurman) Center Stage (Ryan Green and Lindsey Ormond) Always Right (Kyle Norton and Amanda Carter) If you like passionate stories that include a friends to lovers romance with a best friend’s little sister feel, featuring a bachelorette or bachelor auction to raise money for an animal shelter (along with outdoor education), major league baseball, athletes, sports, alpha males, a bad boy hero, a strong female lead, and a sexy, spicy, hot contemporary romance beach read, this is the book for you! 121922mfm
Download or read book Studies Out in Left Field written by Arnold M. Zwicky and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transformational Grammar's Underground Classic! Back in Print in the Nick of Time! (Just as the photocopies were getting too fuzzy to read!)Here is the complete and unexpurgated version of the legendary lost classic of porno- and scatolinguistic theory. Included are the seminal writings of Quang Phuc Dong (English Sentences Without Overt Grammatical Subject), Yuck Foo (A Selectional Restriction Involving Pronoun Choice), V. Anantalinguam ("Up Yours" and Related Constructions), Ebbing Craft (Up Against the Wall, Fascist Pig Critics!) and other lost eminences.
Download or read book The Boy from Left Field written by Tom Henighan and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bullies, baseball, and kids who defy the odds. Hawk, a poor, half-Native boy who lives on the street, is eager to go back to school, to play baseball, and to please both his divorced parents. When Mr. Rizzuto, his baseball coach, tells him how the great Babe Ruth, playing on nearby Toronto Island in 1914, hit his first professional home run, the question arises: what happened to the baseball? Did it land in the waters of Lake Ontario and disintegrate over time? Or did someone fish it out? This is the story of a quest for a lost baseball treasure, and of a boy finding his own family roots and a place in the big city. A lively tale, it shows how kids who seem powerless can work together to take on some of life's daunting challenges as they deal with schoolroom bullies and street gangs.
Download or read book The Oberlin Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aromatherapy Scent and Psyche written by Peter Damian and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 1995-09 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a thorough exposition of the ancient practice of aromatics in China, India, Persia and Egypt and a modern scientific understanding of scent, this book provides a guide for mastering the use of essential oils.
Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1968-06-15 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
Download or read book The October Heroes written by Donald Honig and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1996-08-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Donald Honig points out in his introduction, “Every World Series in itself is a tale with beginning, middle, and end, and because there must be a winner, there must be a hero.” Tales of Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Sandy Koufax, and Willie Mays are related by the star players who knew them. Those players recall vivid moments from their World Series games, stretching from 1912 to 1974.
Download or read book Mr Mahoney Has Left The Building written by Louis Peddicord and published by Louis Peddicord. This book was released on 2011 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Champions of Naught Six The Story of the 1906 Cleburne Railroaders written by Wiley Whitten and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the Cleburne Railroaders and the 1906 Texas season. Tris Speaker was an 18 year old rookie that season on his way to Baseball's Hall of Fame. Ft. Worth and Dallas battled for the first half flag, but it was Cleburne at season's end that proved to be the best.
Download or read book The Grand Old Man of Baseball written by Norman L. Macht and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Grand Old Man of Baseball, Norman L. Macht chronicles Connie Mack's tumultuous final two decades in baseball. After Mack had built one of baseball's greatest teams, the 1929-31 Philadelphia Athletics, the Depression that followed the stock market crash fundamentally reshaped Mack's legacy as his team struggled on the field and at the gate. Among the challenges Mack faced: a sharp drop in attendance that forced him to sell his star players; the rise of the farm system, which he was slow to adopt; the opposition of other owners to night games, which he favored; the postwar integration of baseball, which he initially opposed; a split between the team's heirs (Mack's sons Roy and Earle on one side, their half brother Connie Jr. on the other) that tore apart the family and forced Mack to choose--unwisely--between them; and, finally, the disastrous 1951-54 seasons in which Roy and Earle ran the club to the brink of bankruptcy. By now aged and mentally infirm, Mack watched in bewilderment as the business he had built fell apart. Broke and in debt, Roy and Earle feuded over the sale of the team. In a never-before-revealed series of maneuvers, Roy double-crossed his father and brother and the team was sold and moved to Kansas City in 1954. In Macht's third volume of his trilogy on Mack, he describes the physical, mental, and financial decline of Mack's final years, which unfortunately became a classic American tragedy.
Download or read book Collier s written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recreation written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary Reference Book with CD ROM written by Cambridge University Press and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 1162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary defines the vocabulary students need to succeed in high school and beyond. Entries cover more than 2,000 content-area vocabulary items, as well as general academic vocabulary and full coverage of everyday words and phrases. The CD-ROM lets students search for vocabulary by subject area, includes audio of all entry words, offers word family and frequency information, and has a thesaurus and instant lookup feature. The CD-ROM is compatible with Windows XP/Vista and with Mac OSX 10.4 (32-bit only).
Download or read book Out of Left Field written by Jeffrey Lyons and published by Three Rivers Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an introduction by Bob Costas of NBC Sports, Out of Left Field is the perfect book for the baseball fan who has read it all. Jeffrey and Douglas Lyons's three years of research have dug out a diamond mine of fascinating, never-before-seen gems, such as: Themajor league team that broadcasts all of its games in London The mother and son who both played pro ball The .252 hitter who had an entire town named after him The only big-leaguer directed by Alfred Hitchcock With a question and answer format, Out of Left Field is the one book that diehard baseball fans will savor from cover to cover.
