Download or read book Jack and the Ball written by Michèle Dufresne and published by . This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only Daisy thinks that Jack's ball is the right size for fun!
Download or read book Wild Witches Ball written by Jack Prelutsky and published by HarperFestival. This book was released on 2004-09-07 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tall witch, a round witch, a silly witch, too. Some are spooky, some are cute, and one wears go-go boots! They have gathered for their ball. Why not try to count them all?
Download or read book Whacky Jack written by Jonathan London and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack learns to play baseball.
Download or read book Butcher Ball written by Jack Butcher and published by . This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book tells the story about the life of Jack Butcher, a high school coach who became a legend while coaching basketball in the state where basketball is king, Indiana! It tells the story of his early life as his family struggled to survive the depression after the accidental death of his father when he was 3 months old. It includes growing up in a small town and how he was saved by basketball. It contains real life stories about officials, sports writers and other stories from the hard wood. It is a fascinating story about the struggle to be recognized and accepted as the all time winningest basketball coach in the state.
Download or read book Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun written by Reginald F. Lewis and published by Black Classic Press. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiring story of Reginald Lewis: lawyer, Wall Street wizard, philanthropist--and the wealthiest black man in American history. Based on Lewis's unfinished autobiography, along with scores of interviews with family, friends, and colleagues, this book cuts through the myth and hype to reveal the man behind the legend.
Download or read book Dr Jack on Winning Basketball written by Jack Ramsay and published by . This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Jack Ramsay is well known to basketball fans around the country as a long time ESPN TV & Radio commentator, NBA coach (seventh all-time in wins) and as a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame. This book will take fans on a 55-year journey as Jack recounts an endless array of basketball tales, legends and lore. Students of the game as well as coaches will revel in Jack's insights on basketball and what it takes to be a winner.
Download or read book Chicken Soup for the Baseball Fan s Soul written by Jack Canfield and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play Ball! These words resonate with special meaning in the minds of anyone who has ever enjoyed a game of baseball. Every fan will be amused and touched by stories of sportsmanship and victory gathered from the clay diamonds of America.
Download or read book The Wizard of Odds written by Charley Rosen and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2002-12-03 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Wizard of Odds, renowned and best-selling basketball writer Charley Rosen brings us for the first time the full life story of Jack Molinas, one of the greatest basketball players of his era, a man whose gambling addiction and hubris caused his ultimate demise. Drawing on numerous, previously unavailable first-person accounts, including Jack Molinas’s own journal and trial transcripts, Rosen presents the true saga of a man who perhaps better than anyone around him understood the weaknesses of the system in which he lived—so much so that he convinced himself that he could manipulate that system to his advantage with total impunity, in a life’s journey that took him from NBA play to the Mafia and the pornographic film industry, and to an ultimate tragic destiny.
Download or read book A Big Day for Baseball written by Mary Pope Osborne and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Jackie Robinson and solve a mystery in the #1 bestselling Magic Tree House chapter book series! PLAY BALL! Jack and Annie aren’t great baseball players . . . yet! Then Morgan the librarian gives them magical baseball caps that will make them experts. They just need to wear the caps to a special ballgame in Brooklyn, New York. The magic tree house whisks them back to 1947! When they arrive, Jack and Annie find out that they will be batboys in the game—not ballplayers. What exactly does Morgan want them to learn? And what’s so special about this game? They only have nine innings to find out! Discover history, mystery, humor, and baseball in this one-of-a-kind adventure in Mary Pope Osborne’s New York Times bestselling Magic Tree House series lauded by parents and teachers as books that encourage reading. Magic Tree House books, with fiction and nonfiction titles, are perfect for parents and teachers using the Core Curriculum. With a blend of magic, adventure, history, science, danger, and cuteness, the topics range from kid pleasers (pirates, the Titanic, pandas) to curriculum perfect (rain forest, American Revolution, Abraham Lincoln) to seasonal shoo-ins (Halloween, Christmas, Thanksgiving). There is truly something for everyone here!
Download or read book The Perfect Game written by J. Sterling and published by Inspire Magic. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over half-a-million copies sold worldwide, come see why readers and authors alike all call this, "an unforgettable story that will stay with you for years," by New York Times Bestselling Author, J. Sterling. He's a game she never intended to play. And she's the game changer he never knew he needed. The Perfect Game tells the story of college juniors, Cassie Andrews & Jack Carter. When Cassie meets rising baseball hopeful Jack, she is determined to steer clear of him and his typical cocky attitude. But Jack has other things on his mind... like getting Cassie to give him the time of day. They're both damaged, filled with mistrust and guarded before they find one another (and themselves) in this emotional journey about love and forgiveness. Strap yourselves for a ride that will not only break your heart, but put it back together. Sometimes life gets ugly before it gets beautiful.
Download or read book Now Batting Number written by Jack Looney and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike other baseball statistics books that reveal only information about the numbers players put on the board, this unique take on America's favorite pastime reveals the little-known facts and nuances behind the numbers players wear on their backs. In Now Batting, Number...baseball historian Jack Looney delves into every aspect of baseball uniform numbers. Here are topics including "Boyhood Idols" (players who chose numbers to honor heroes, fathers, grandfathers, and friends), "Birthday Babes" (players who have worn the same number as their day, month, or year of birth), "Caretakers" (inside stories on how numbers are distributed and the bartering of numbers among players), and "Early Innings" (the history of numbering in Major League baseball). At the center of Now Batting, Number...is a substantial section listing the complete rosters of all thirty Major League teams including each player's number and position. Other lists include every retired number listed by league and team, every retired number listed by position, and famous players' numbers and every other player who ever honored them by wearing that number (listed by number). In a controversial chapter called "Dream Teams," player from various eras, who wore the same number durin their careers, are selected to play together on the same Dream Team. Statistics for fifty teams are included. Also included are dozens of some of the toughest, number-related trivia questions that will have even the most knowledgeable fan scratching his or her head.
Download or read book Did you take the B from my ook Books That Drive Kids Crazy Book 2 written by Matt Stanton and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Witty, silly, and interactive ... A rollicking read for children and adults alike' - Kirkus Reviews For the Grown-Ups: OK. Two things you need to know. Firstly, your favourite thing in the whole world is the letter B. And secondly, you're about to sneeze and all the Bs are going to be blown out of the book. So until you can get your favourite letter back, you're about to sound really, really silly ... And the kids will love it! PRAISE FOR THE BOOKS THAT DRIVE KIDS CRAZY SERIES 'The kids are having a ball (whoops, having fun) and a discussion is born' -- 4 stars, Good Reading 'Funny, clever, deliciously dry ... this book encourages kids to think outside the square, and hopefully, somewhere deep in that unlimited subconscious, understand that what we see is all about perception. What a powerful thought' -- Kids' Book Review
Download or read book The Only Game written by Mike Lupica and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can a young baseball star maintain his love of the game after the loss of his brother? Find out in this start to the Home Team series about a small town with high hopes, from New York Times bestselling author and sportswriting legend Mike Lupica. Jack Callahan is the star of his baseball team and seventh grade is supposed to be his year. Undefeated season. Records shattered. Little League World Series. The works. That is, until he up and quits. Jack’s best friend Gus can’t understand how Jack could leave a game that means more to them than anything else. But Jack is done. It’s a year of change. Jack’s brother has passed away, and though his family and friends and the whole town of Walton thinks baseball is just the thing he needs to move on, Jack feels it’s anything but. In comes Cassie Bennett, star softball player, and the only person who seems to think Jack shouldn’t play if he doesn’t want to. As Jack and Cassie’s friendship deepens, their circle expands to include Teddy, a guy who’s been bullied because of his weight. Time spent with these new friends unlocks something within Jack, and with their help and the support of his family and his old friends, Jack discovers sometimes it’s more than just the love of the game that keeps us moving forward—and he might just be able to find his way back to The Only Game, after all.
Download or read book Jack Plus 5 written by Jack Alofs and published by . This book was released on 2005-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story involves the discovery of an incredible book, the powers of which allow the hero to travel from Earth to any of a hundred different worlds. But only one holds his interest, as it is to that world he must travel to find his grandfather, who had mysteriously disappeared. Arriving through time and space he is told by five "beings" he must fulfill a mission (about which he was supposed to have agreed to on Earth, but which he in fact knows nothing about) to end the "darkness" he will find himself in. He is not alone in his quest that takes him into battles in space and on alien planets, but to succeed, and to obtain the love he so desperately seeks, he must travel back and forth through the powers of the book, not knowing if "time" will continue to be his staunch ally or become his bitter enemy.
Download or read book Dr Jack s Leadership Lessons Learned From a Lifetime in Basketball written by Dr. Jack Ramsay and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-01-05 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can one of the most successful coaches in the history of professional basketball tell CEOs, executives, entrepreneurs, and managers about leadership? Everything! In this fascinating account of his nearly seven decades as a player, coach, general manager, goodwill ambassador, color commentator, and NBA analyst for ESPN, basketball legend Dr. Jack Ramsay reveals the guiding principles and best practices that make for outstanding leadership both on and off the court.
Download or read book Do You Want to Play with My Balls written by Christopher Cifaldi and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jack Plays Ball written by Rebecca Elgar and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More fun with Jack in a cute new noveity storybook filled with pull-the-tab and lift-the-flap fun Jack loves taking his ball into the garden for a kick-about. Pull the tab to see him score a goal and - LOOK OUT - watch the ball as it whooshes past Teddy right into the muddy flower-bed Jack gets so muddy as he looks for his ball that he has to get cleaned up... so it's time for a lovely, bubbly bubble bath
